Episode 192 - Festivals

Warm Jaffa Cakes and Festival Filth

This week’s podcast is being recorded several times simultaneously because apparently one functioning recording is now too much to ask.

Conor has backups of the backups, David has installed a tape recorder, somebody is transcribing the transcriber, a photographer has arrived and a woman called Wendy is painting the entire thing from the corner of the room. Despite these precautions, the recording software crashes anyway. Also, before we’ve even reached the topic, a four-year-old has produced a poo so enormous that several members of the family gather around it like they’ve discovered a new archaeological site.

David remembers paying £33 for Reading, sleeping in a car after his tent gave up on being a tent and falling into a ditch containing things no human should ever fall into. Conor remembers being ill and sober at Reading, destroying a freshly cleaned Brownstock toilet, lying in the sunshine listening to Hozier at V Festival and being collected afterwards wearing an air freshener around his neck. There are also warm Jaffa Cakes, cooked pizza pockets, Tom Jones singing Sex Bomb, ABBA tribute acts, Oasis disappearing, Woodstock going horribly wrong and the remarkable revelation that Glastonbury once came with free milk.

Then David sings The Festival and presents a quiz involving people riding ten-ton logs down mountains, men jumping over newborn babies, monkeys eating 4,000kg of fruit and ice cream, somebody throwing their mum’s ashes at Pink and an appearance from the Wombles.

Somewhere underneath all that, there may be a podcast.