the elemental tent

While we’re packing our stuff for the Elemental venue check out this general piece about Glastonbury 2009 from Sky News – including some snapshots from the (currently) pristine festive site!

carl [c++] & his sleeveface crew off to latitude festival

left riverside just now..

see what nic saw..

with the possible exception of backyard barry

all the festival goers should be back in the

real world [?] resting & triple-washing their clothes.

once they re-surface watch this space for heart-warming

stories & eye-stewing photos from the front.

hope you had a brilliant time!

maybe let us know- email elemental[at] zoom.co.uk

love, x elemental team

ps- here’s some pics from bbc while u wait for ours..

our glasto correspondant nic w says the elemental tent is friendlier than ever

rang me on a walk to the ‘park’ area, massive attack later

our piano hero colin (see pic below somewhere – if u witnessed his genius

u won’t forget) was being airlifted in despite much legal wrangling & shedding of tears

holy luck to all the festival this sunday – hope u have some spiritual moments

amid the mud & the mayhem..

mud wind rain & a big crackly fire

nic said the ‘elemental’ sign was blown off last night

& they lit a nice big fire to warm the punters

who queued to dry off round it

let’s hope they all get huddled together & cosy tonight

& ready themselves for shaky on stage tomorrow

or something

x

just chatted wiv NicW – on a 2am-8am shift tonight,heh-heh

says all is well – electrics plugged in, tent lookin good, team all chipper

hope/pray for good weather! tho there’s always Barry’s mudsurfin to enjoy

if it gets slippy

look out for the lo-cost tea n coffee here & see dinky flyer for wots on & way out

mjb

Come and visit Elemental at Glastonbury 2008. We have a marquee in the rather more blissful Green Fields, not too far from Jazz World stage.

lounge (comfy sofas, cushions & chairs)

cheap caff (teas/coffees= 60p)

art gallery (this is a high-brow venue yer know)

in-house salon (massage/hair straightening/nail biting)

zappy team (overworked/underachieving – needing hugs)

music (honky-tonk pianist/disco-jocks/acoustic crooners)

curious blend of faith & fallibility (is this how u spell fallibility?)

we hope that you enjoy your stay..

We are busy preparing for Glastonbury 2008…

So here are some random photos from in and around the Elemental tent during Glastonbury 2007.

(Photos by Mark Shinn and Georgie Everard.)

some of the elemental team are scrubbin down their tents & wibbling their wellies, readying themselves for another Somerset shindig, this time the Big Green Gathering, 1st-5th August.

Barry, Clare & Greg have been before – they say it’s a brilliant festival, like Glasto without the big stages/traffic jams/toilet queues etc.

Have a mighty good time out there..

1 month on & i’m still scrubbin english mud off my record bags

 mjb

i noticed some fun things bobbing in the skies above the human chaos. i thought it must be nice to be up so high, watching Shirley Bassey, brilliant view, plenty of room to dance…. i tried to imagine what it would look like if everybody had brought a ‘thing on a stick’ , an animated crowd in the sky, while us humans moved, at best, like living statues, hemmed in by mud, gravity and TALLER people. the weirdest thing i saw was a stuffed bird, a pigeon actually, maybe it wasn’t real but it was very lifelike…..