Quotes of the week

Got up this morning and was almost sick because of the exam results. Finally got to school and was nearly sick again til i got them at last. Phew! Travelled to Birmingham by train and then caught the train from New Street to Leeds. It was PACKED with festival goers. We went and sat in the cheapest seats, only to be told half-way through the journey that we were first class!! Bye bye, snotty woman sitting by us! Over the tannoy, the announcer said, 'Please try not to block the doorways'. I've never heard so many teenagers laugh at the same time- the doorways were the only place to stand! They couldn't move at all, poor things. In the end we sat next to an old bloke circling things in the '1999 UK Guide to Massage Parlours which had pics of naked girlies in.

After struggling with our camp stuff, we set up camp on Yellow Site (To anyone who wants to go to Leeds next year, Yellow Camp rocks!!). After a few botched attempts at putting up the tent, we're finally in it. There's loads of drunk people already! Word of the week is definitely 'TIMMY!' (pronounced 'TIMMAAAAAY!'). It's being shouted all the while! Dawn phoned, we went to look for her. Conversation ran thus:
"Where are you?"
"Yellow campsite" [I resisted the urge to say, 'in a field']
"What can you see? [Uh... tents...]
"An orange tent, can you see that?"
"Yes!!! Can you see the Union Jack?"
"No. Two England flags, a 'Bonnie Scotland" flag and two Welsh flags."
"Can see the Scottish one, not the others!"
And so the conversation went until we met by a burger bar. Fascinating, no? We then all walked back to our tent. Someone handed us a sheet of paper. He said, 'try it, you might like it.'. Thinking it was drugs, i told Dawn to lick it. She didn't. It wasn't drugs. It was a flyer. Pah. Not that i do drugs!

"TIMMAAAAAAAY!!!!!"
Urgh. 12:45 am. People are climbing poles. Names of less -than - desirable celebrities are being flung around our end of the site.
"John Major!" [I like him... Will i be shot for that...?]
"Maggie Thatcher!"
"Anne Robinson!" [That was mine]
"Jimmy Hill..."
"...And his chin!"

Going outside now.

Woke up early and washed with wipes. As soon as we were dressed we went into Leeds for food. Came back and went to the Main Stage to see Hed (Planet Earth). After that it was Fear Factory. I'm not a fan of FF, but the gig was a lot of fun! Dino (The large, cuddly guitarist) said, 'Hey, I haven't heard you shouting 'You Fat Bastard' yet! Come on, I wanna hear you say it!" So everyone said it. I didn't. I felt bad. He's not that big. Honest. Someone chucked a fake pair of blow-up boobs and Dino caught them. He said. "Has someone lost their tits? Mine are bigger though!". Poor guy!
After FF, it was System of a Down. Again, not a fan, but a lot of fun. The guitarist's mental, i swear...
gODHEAD after that! They were ace, seen them before so we knew what to expect. The singer has a great stage presence and strong voice. It was so hot in there that steam was coming off his bald head! Hee! They had a few technical problems but carried on anyway.
"If this is a circus tent, are we the circus freaks?"
These bands have downers on themselves...
Travelled back to Main Stage to see Marilyn Manson. But had to see Papa Roach... who I despise. So i can't say how good they were. It was a good performance (I think it was, it wasn't bad), but I hate their songs and what they're about. At the end of Broken Home, they had a tape of parents arguing. *Sigh*. Like people don't know what arguing sounds like.
After that (and 15 mins late thanks to Papa Roach...) Manson came on! The band first, then Manson himself. Was a great performance. We were standing stage-left (again!) in front of Pogo and John5. It was fun to see them again. Only one complaint. To the film crew. NOT ENOUGH SHOTS OF GINGER!!!
After MM, everyone lit fires around the Main Stage 'cos it was freezing and quite late. Eminem came on next, with D12. We didn't stay long, just long enough to get a picture of Eminem for my Step-sister and listened to the rest from our tent.

More madness on the second night! 3 severely pissed lads rolled down the hill and were play-moshing. Our neighbours (our 'neighbouritos') and us were laughing at them as we tried to light our fire. They came up to us said hi and asked if were were laughing a them (yes). So they shook our hands, had a pile-on and crawled off again! We stayed outside and gave our neighbouritos some food. They're really nice guys, about our age. Mark (Who we met last night) was drunk (again) but he's really friendly. He has a nice Glaswegian accent and looks like a 25 year old Jeremy Spake from Airport.
Still more TIMMAAAAAAY! shouting going on!

Saturday! Off to see easyworld and King Adora.

Sitting in tent, tired and hungry. we have no food, but Holly's asleep so we can't go to Leeds.
Just seen easyworld! They were great! Dav was wearing eyeliner. Yum! Waiting for 5:15 for King Adora (Shall I keep my eyes shut for that?) and after that, Amen and Ash.
Someone's listening to Tom Jones and the Stereophonics. Please God, I hope it's not the whole Reload album...
Manics tomorrow. Min's texting me if Nicky (or Sean and James...) wears THAT shirt. Green Day later. Should be fun.
We're infested with tiny sodding spiders.
Last night all the Mansonites came out to play. Tonight it's Green Day and King Adora fans.

First band we saw today was easyworld. Wow!! [I'm aware I'd already written this. Just shows what hunger can do...]. Dav was wearing eyeliner and a suit and looked VERY nice! After that, King Adora. Never thought I'd see them... Great performance though, they did Suffocate, my fave KA song. We moshed like mad to Bionic.
...Then it was Amen. By some miracle we were at the front!! Sonny kept flashing the devil horns and going, 'Waaarrrgh!!' and generally being friendly, speaking to fans from the stage. Casey was going mad! He said they weren't getting paid for this gig since he'd been told he wasn't to perform. And they said they were asked to play the Main Stage but asked to play this little tent instead cos the atmosphere's better. Casey went to the front of the crowd and everyone went mad! At the end, he said, 'See these security guards? They came out here just for you! So I want to see you work them to the bone!' Security laughed. Probably wanted to cry. Everyone dived for the stage. One brave (and strong) girl legged it to the stage and stayed there even though 3 security guards had her by the leg! Another lad jumped on, grabbed a mic and he and Casey sang Price Of Reality together!
After that, went to the Main Stage to see Green Day. FANTASTIC! They said, 'we're going to make a band on stage. Have we got any drummers?' So they picked a drummer (Security tried to drag him back. Billie-Joe: 'No, we need him!!) and he took over Tré's beat. Everyone cheered like mad! Then they wanted a bassist. We weren't near the stage, dammit! I could've played it, it was easy to play... having said that i'd probably frozen on the spot. Anyway, the bassist got up and took over from Mike. Then they wanted a guitarist. 'It's only three chords!!' Someone sticks up 4 fingers. 'You know four chords?? Oh, you've been playing four years!' So he gets up and then the new band play together really well! Billie kept squirting us with a large water gun. At the end, Tré trashed his kit and lit it!! It was burning away, then they dragged another (smaller) kit on and played Macy's Day Parade. Ace!!
Saw a bit of Travis and Ash. Ash had to stop 'cos Tim (TIMMAAAAY!!) said the mosh pit had collapsed. People packed to see Ash, not like the Strokes who the media reckoned everyone wanted to see.
Tomorrow: Vex Red and MSP.

Sunday. Urgh. Woke up early 'cos someone was playing Coal Chamber's Loco. So we came out of the tent and tidied up. Not that many bands we want to see today. It's too hot to think or write. So bye. One of our neighbouritos is poking my foot. :)

Just seen Feeder! And I realised I have sunburn... Feeder were cool. In Buck Rogers, on the words, 'Drink cider from a lemon' everyone chucked half-lemons!
Earlier we saw Vex Red who were pretty good. Like a heavier Silverchair.
Our neighbours burned our free McDonalds Sooty! They asked if they could (we said yes) and i got a pic of it!
Made a sign for our tent. It has our tag on and the words, 'NEW ART RIOT'. And little pictures and stuff.
Right now we can hear Supergrass. Going to see the Fun Lovin' Criminals soon. Holly's not coming. I want to hear them play Loco and also get my place for the Manics! Holly wants me to chuck bog roll. I will too. She doesn't like them, she's seeing Lost Prophets and Backyard Babies. Was that Shari at the front of Feeder?? How does she get to the front? Must have been there hours to get to the front, and another few hours til the stage shut! I'm sure it was her. If it wasn't, it was a lookalike.
Last night (or the night before...) a drunk lady asked us about 4 times if we were here for the weekend. She was telling us that she didn't pay to get in, and didn't even pay for the booze! She said people just freely give it to them. Even the drunk people are so friendly! A young couple came up to us and said hi, where are you from, who you here to see and they were lovely! Everyone's like that! I've never been anywhere like that, where people talk to you like that, where people aren't prejudiced. We set up a campaign for lady-boys to talk to us. Hee. It was a lads 18th birthday. His friend told Holly that he has to get 60 people to kiss him on the cheek. She did and he played a little bouncy number on his guitar and we all stood around doing flamenco dancing!

Manics rocked. Sean trashed kit. I'm fucked. Moore tomorrow.

Riiiight then, Manics!! I was about 3 people back next to a rabid James fan (AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!! I LOOOOOOVE YOOOOOOOU JAAAAAAAAAAMES!!!!). Started off stage -right in front of Nick Nasmyth (I know better than to stand in front of the Wire where i'd been standing for all the other gigs) but ended up in the centre in front of James. It was a great gig, I had to jump higher than i've ever jumped before to see Sean! But it was worth coming scarily close to having an asthma attack to see him. Hee! The beret!! They covered G 'N' Rs' It's So Easy (James fan: 'This is Guns 'N' Roses!' Nooo! really?). JDB said something derogatory about the English cricket team resulting in the nasty big rugby-player-types next to me shouting racist remarks. Bastards. He dedicated Archives of pain to 'The sick little monkeys down the front with their feather boas'. He intro.d Sean, Nicky and Nick but i couldn't hear. I waited til it was quiet, til the band weren't playing or speaking and shouted , 'SEAN!!!' whenever possible. I had my own little chant which noone took up. But i didn't care cos i loved being there for Sean fans!! He looked a bit embarrassed. He heard me. Hehe... I got funny looks from the other fans, but fuck them. I was getting a bit peed off near the end cos i couldn't see much. But I couldn't go back to get out and see properly. Then this lad (Who looked scarily like Stef from Placebo) asked me if i wanted a leg up, and so i went crowd surfing during Ocean Spray. I felt awful doing it, cos crowdsurfers are so annoying, when they drop on your head. But it was the only way to get out (and my sunburn had stabbing pains too). Some drunk lads were standing on the sideline doing JD Bradfield impressions during tolerate, jumping around on one foot with their air guitars! Phoned Lyns during Design . Felt a bit of a prat standing there with a phone in the air! She heard me yelling the lyrics (I don't always sing like that, honest.). Shame! Sean trashed his kit good and proper. I've never seen him trash before, not even on TV. So i was well chuffed. Nicky grabbed the snare and was beating it before lobbing it back on the pile of wrecked drums.
Wow. I've written a lot! But they ~are~ my fave band!! :D

Early tomorrow (today?). The annual Toilet Torching took place. But they got the riot police out. They wouldn't let us torch the last loos. They used rubber bullets and all. No-one was hurt until the police stepped in. The fires didn't spread, no one was in danger until the police stepped in, provoked a reaction and then they ran over someone!! That's when the riot started. Bastard police. ("Capitalist pigs" i heard someone shout!). Holly said we needed a dictator. Someone went, 'Spud'll do it!'. So we hid for a while in the forest, led by the amazing Spud. 'Forward comrades, there is strength in numbers!' We went ahead into the riot, but they got those big hoolie vans out and Spud went, 'TO THE RED CAMP!!!!' So we followed him through the forest and he led us all back to our camp. Then he took us to watch the riot from the top of a hill. Eventually, we all won and the loos were lit! We went to bed at 3am but the riots carried on through the morning.

Packed stuff up. Dragged it to the bus. Got on train. Went home. Had a fantastic weekend! Best weekend ever!! Sorry this diary is hard to understand. But that's how I wrote it, that's how it's staying! Bye!! xxx

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"Forward Comrades, there is strength in numbers!"

- The amazing Spud

"I don't like camping."

- Holly

"Trust me, I know how to put up a tent"

- me. 3 hours before we get the tent up...

[Mobile rings]

"Hello? I'm in a field. IN A FIELD!"

- Nearly everyone, a lá Trigger Happy TV

"Da Festival crew, comin' atchyoo!'

- Holly.

"WHERE THE FUCK'S THE TENT???"

- Me and Holly, walking off the train with no tent. Oops...

"That's shit-hot, that"

- Me an uh... just about everyone else with the same idea while watching the Toilet Torching.

"The bogs, the bogs, the bogs are on fire
We don't need no water let the motherfuckers burn
Burn motherfuckers burn"

- Holly and some cuddly guy changing the lyrics to Coal Chamber's 'Sway' to fit the occasion.

"TIMMAAAAAAAAAAAY!!"

- EVERYONE!

US: Have you stolen our Captain Pugwash?

NEIGHBOURITOS: No, I love Captain Pugwash, me

US: All the more reason for you to steal him

NEIGHBOURITOS: I wouldn't though 'cos I love him! Can we burn your Sooty?

US: Yes.

"Spam and ham"

- Some other neighbours.

Lad 1 "Are you Welsh? Swear in Welsh."

Lad 2 "No, there's no swear words."

Lad 1 "Liar, swear!"

Lad 2 "Fuck Off!"

Lad 1 "That's English!"

- Two lads close to our tent. Incidentally, i found Lad 2's address on the floor.

"I'm afraid I'm very drunk and I've lost my tent. Will you two girls help me look for it?"

"Sure. What does it look like?"

"It's blue!"

"Like that one?"

"Yes! But it might not be... if it's not, i'm in trouble."

- Mark, the lovely man from Glasgow, talking to us.

"Bring out your dead!"

- Girl with shopping trolley.

"HELLO!!!"

- Me and Holly, during our campaign to get ladyboys to talk to us. It worked.

"Show us your arse!"

- Holly. *ahem*

"PUT THE REEFERS AWAY!"

- Me, Holly as the hoolie vans drive past.

More soon. Oh yes, they will be quality, just like the ones above.

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