Latest Festival Flyer update from Greenbelt
[ad_1]
We’re asking some of those folk who helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their memories.
This month it’s the turn of Dot Reid and Nick Welsh to take
us back to the 1990s, a decade that almost saw the death – and, in another way, the rebirth – of Greenbelt.Read Dot and Nick’s blog here: https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/decades-1990s/
#GB50 #Greenbelt50 #GreenbeltFestival #Artistry #Activism #Belief
Thu 24 – Sun 27 August 2023, Boughton House
[ad_2]
Greenbelt Festival
Source
11 Responses
I remember that Moby gig. Didn’t it chuck it down and we all ended sheltering in tent doorways to watch him?
Great writing Nick and Dot. Thank you!
I remember it well !! All too well.
I took that Moby picture, and many others for Greenbelt back then. That Moby picture is still one of my favourites. Catches him in the moment.
Thank you Dot and Nick. Well written and well said. It was difficult. But it was oh so important for so many of us.
Move to Deene park was 93 not 92
Midnight oil was 94 the year before moby!
Chumbawumba were asked not to play, due to lyrical content. If they were on the Line-up now, the show would go on!
Moby in ‘95 is still one of the best live gigs I’ve ever seen. His return in ‘96 less so. Memories of a dance tent called “the womb”?! Also, I’m not really a lover of all things CCM, but I do have a recollection of DC Talk playing? Maybe ‘95 again? They completely nailed it – against all my preconceptions. In fact, ‘95 was an absolute cracker of a year.
Give me a Time Machine
Some really great memories there.
Personally I’d like to get back to the ethos of the 80s and early 90s – I find it a bit too hard to find acts at GB nowadays who are unashamedly Christian. Maybe the scales have tipped too far.