Categories: greenbelt
Tags: Greenbelt
Date: 30 August 2005 22:54:41
Wow – Greenbelt was so amazing!!!!!
As you can probably gather, i intend to do a series of posts on the weekend, which will probably be posted fairly frequently over the next few days. Photos will hopefully follow, but some patience will be needed for them, whiles i figure out the technology!
I was, of course, excited on the train journey to Cheltenham on Friday, but the excitement really kicked in when we arrived at Cheltenham Spa station and I could see lots of other Greenbelters, some of which I knew, getting off trains and making their way to the racecourse! The fact that I was carrying a big rucksack on my back didn’t prevent me from jumping up and down in the middle of the station!! (Apologises to Sarah and Alice for any embarrassment caused!)
One of the things I love about Greenbelt is when you are stood in the middle of the racecourse, surrounded by thousands of tents. It reminds me of the thousands of people who travelled with Moses from Egypt to the Holy Land – seeing such numbers, camping, with similar beliefs and intentions in mind. The main different being, that our journey is spiritual and theres was more physically moving from A to B.
After settling in on the campsite, we went into the village and the highlight for Friday night has to be seeing Jim Moray. He was good, though I’m not entirely sure I would classify him as folk. I suppose ‘folk’ covers a wide range of styles and just because his music seemed different to most other folkies, doesn’t mean it can’t still be classed as folk.
I was slightly annoyed with myself though, because I spent a lot of time reading up on the Greenbelt website about artists who were making an appearance this year, and I made a note of those I wanted to see. I took the piece of paper with me, bit forgot to refer to it when deciding how I would spend my time. I know, just a bit silly! As well as Jim Moray, I had also noted Martha Tilston and Iain Archer for the Friday night stage one line up, and I missed them. But never mind, we spent the time looking around the site, familiarising ourselves with the layout. It was really confusing because so much had moved, in comparison to last year – I kept on saying “but that used to be there and this used to be here”! I can see how this isn’t particularly helpful for people who are Greenbelt virgins and are trying to simply figure out where things are this year – sorry guys! It was, however, obvious that although physically many tents had moved around, the unique, Greenbelt atmosphere was most definitely still there.
Quote of the Day:
Jo: “Turn right at the Jesus flag and carry on, if you get to the tomato flag you have gone too far”
Great direction giving there from Jo! It did get us to the SCM crowd, eventually!