The Retirement Thread

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mikeIow

Legendary Member
Location
Leicester
Are you a lot younger than most of us on this thread or have you had a very sheltered life ? I think I first experienced festival toilets at Donington Park in 1983 . I think Meatloaf and ZZ top were on the bill, ( maybe Whitesnake too ) but it’s the toilets made such an impression on me that I never went back to a festival ever again 😂😀. I have been back to Donington park , to see motor racing a few times and the Sterophonics in 2001 and I have seen concerts in stadiums since , but 1983 put me off festivals for life . 😂

There must be people on this thread whos first music festival was a lot earlier than 83 . Come on folks when was your first festival?
1970s or 1960s ? 😀😀

Well…having been born on the IOW, I lived through the festivals of 1968, 69 & the crazy 1970 one.
‘69 was in Wootton, literally about a mile down the road from our house….but being *cough* of primary school age, I didn’t get to go 🤣
We could hear the music from our house, especially up on the flat garage roof…& I do remember hippies traipsing past our house (it was an un-made-up road at the time!) on their way there & back 😜
Ashamed to admit my first actual festival wasn’t really until we started going to Latitude less than 10 years ago.
 
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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
A snack to keep me going. Home made chicken balti, chips and naan bread.
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PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Location
Hamtun
Snooze snoozed 👌💤
 

Poacher

Gravitationally challenged member
Location
Nottingham
Sorry - have I mention previously that I regard cheese as the food of demons and the most disgusting thing on the planet???

You may want to avoid the Dewdrop Inn in Ilkeston, then. They sell superb cheese and onion cobs for a bargain £3.50, mmmm, delicious!
Achieved national coverage last year; journo's even travelled up from that there London to marvel at them!
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