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Afternoon AWIMB. I was meaning to tell all of you wrinklies that I spent the weekend at Butlins.
Is this what you were all subjected to during your youth? I mean, jesus, it was worse than we all thought it would be. A proper toilet.
Whilst in Pizza Hut (:-() I heard a Northern man (:-() say that "like the food's proper good everywhere here, quality like, but it's not 8 quid good is it".
:-(
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I've never been, j. What on earth possessed you?

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I've heard centreparks is actually quite good
Obviously "quite good" is an extremely relative phrase when it comes to holidaying with a small child.
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Wasn't a music festival then?
I know of people who attend such events at Butlins at least once a year.
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northern soul odd ball types with half mast trousers, talc and greased hair who cant
accept its not 1950 or that they are not american ?
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Don't be a snob, Jake. There's a good chap. You might find thon gritty northerner next to you in the
trenches one day, sharing his tin of bully beef and watching your back, and then you'll appreciate his sort.
I went to a Pontins in Devon in my infanthood. A more up-market Butlins, I gather. Stayed in a chalet next to the pool. Great, it were.
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Good God. I need to go for a lie down

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Northern Soul just tends to be all-nighters.
Which I have attended quite a few of.
The all weekend festivals are more ATP which are held in Butlins Minehead, or a Stockport Soul Weekend.
http://www.southportweekender.co.uk/
Actuall had a chat with a few like minded folk just recently about heading over to this:
http://www.bigweekends.com/splash-pages/shiiine-weekender.as px
It was decided to be a terrible idea.
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What?! It wasn't 8 quid good
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Was. A techno festival. Picture it: techno in bingo halls.

A particularly digusting fat f**ker had the front to attempt to take our drugs from the car.
Imagine going to Butlins without chemically anesthetising yourself, imagine.
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Yeah, I went to a trance one of those once
Safe to say the bed was not slept in for a minute
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i would need a lot of drugs imo ..cheap dirty drugs at that

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I think I did ATP once
Fell in to a deep k hole for most of it :-(
happy days
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I couldn't help it a, it really was bad. Our "chalet" rooms looked like witness protection.
We didn't even have a f**king shower ffs.
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Caister too
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Good man.
Last festival I went to actually was in Butlins just outside Dublin.
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i think its best to accept that I was there at the time and not to sully the memories by attending
such horrible things surronded by old, messed up gurning goons ..now over 40..would bev fecking horrible tbh and ruin my old images viewed through rose****ed spectacles imo.. best keep moving forward SW ..those days are gone as is our youth
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They are generally great fun.
You convince yourself before going that it is a much better idea than a conventional festival because you have a bed, then proceed to barely use it for the entire duration.
Win win.
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i was part of the early in crowd who only went to free raves with spiral tribe and DiY etc..anything
at a holiday camp or even an organsied rave was unhip and for normals and beer heads who came into scene too late :-) i looked down my e'd up nose at such events imo ..castle morton was last nig thing i went too...a rave hipster so to speak :****er:
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rosecunted spectacles

Not enough effort going into using that phrase so far, unfortunately.
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You didn't have a shower? How is one supposed to maintain personal hygiene?
I don't wish to be intrusive, but do you mind me asking how much you paid per night for the privilege?
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it was the perfect fit imo.. as I was c**ted back then and look back it through rose..well you
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I had about 18 months of that pre Criminal Justice Act enforcement
Which started about two years before the act itself.
Happy days, and yes they were much better
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Age should be no barrier to fun.
You simply adjust and compensate for being older.
That is to say you stand at the sides and shuffle your feet slowly while, and this is hugely important, you keep your t-shirt on at all times.
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These are not concerns for the sort of people who go to Butlins, one assumes

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Pontins! Bah! You were lucky
Six of us stuck in a caravan, in a campstite in Kilkee, with no hot water
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I had a bubble bath.
Nothing, obviously.
Why the f**k would I actively pay to go to Butlins?
The drugs and **** food obviously put me back a bit though. Still, character building eh.
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Steady now, sw. This is AWIMB. Once you've hit 40 one is allowed nothing more exciting in life than
pipe, slippers and cookery programmes.
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good man J..I couldnt believe you would have missed out on the early hipster side
i was disapointed there for a minute..the irish of couse knew no better but I hoped more from you :-)
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Bloc I assume?
Jeff Mills?????
Outrageous wee man on the decks.
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no non im happy to be out at De Club or wherever..shuffling etc..just not at a re-creation of my
past / youth..i will not abide any kind of Rewindtype behaviour except in the sanctity of my own car or perhaps with one or two chums battered in a living room..but wholesale orgnasing and paying to attend..f**k that. i d rather go out get drunk n charlied up and hang around young ****s tbh
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Listen Welsher.
I was in London from 87, knee deep in that ****.
As a 'scene' I found the illegal venues to be not as cool or as much fun as they are looked back on with nostalgic eyes, largely due to a very sinister undercurrent which I found to run through them.
I would have been sat in a field in Somerset at a music festival while you were at home dreaming of becoming JPR Williams.
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ahh the dark undercurrent was how i earnt my...petrol money..crust
in fact we used to get a lot of our wholesale stock supplies from some lovely republican types for speed / goldsealin north london and some lovely uda type chaps just off the new kings road for e's :-) so yes you oirish were there from the stat and I was messing with cha
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The lineup was serious but slightly disturbing to the senses owing to the differing odors and carpeting in each stage.
For example I'll forever smell athletes foot and feel marshmallow floor when I listen to Dean Blunt.
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mad dog or close connected with if i remember correctly..and yes very sinister

it was nicer in 88 - 89 i agree in fields really by 91 indeed it was getting very dark ..being out by oxford i always found coming into the arches / london bridge ngihts much less fun than being under the m40 somewhere :-)
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Right. Most of the illegal raves I went to were filthy, smelly and crawling with psychotic criminals
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Last saw Mills at Lost in London 2012 I think.
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we may have met before then
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The man doesn't age imo.