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".

:-(

Obviously "quite good" is an extremely relative phrase when it comes to holidaying with a small child.

I know of people who attend such events at Butlins at least once a year.

accept its not 1950 or that they are not american ?

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.

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.

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.

Safe to say the bed was not slept in for a minute

Fell in to a deep k hole for most of it :-(

happy days

We didn't even have a f**king shower ffs.

Last festival I went to actually was in Butlins just outside Dublin.

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

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.

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:

Not enough effort going into using that phrase so far, unfortunately.

I don't wish to be intrusive, but do you mind me asking how much you paid per night for the privilege?

know the rest :-)

Which started about two years before the act itself.

Happy days, and yes they were much better

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.

Six of us stuck in a caravan, in a campstite in Kilkee, with no hot water

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.

pipe, slippers and cookery programmes.

i was disapointed there for a minute..the irish of couse knew no better but I hoped more from you :-)

Jeff Mills?????

Outrageous wee man on the decks.

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

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.

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

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.

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 :-)

Last saw Mills at Lost in London 2012 I think.

:-)