Chilled Out
Grrrboooaaaaggghhhh! The Big Chill website is down. We’ve been waiting for it to be back up so we can buy our tickets for about a week. We’ve given up. I’m calling their phone booking line tomorrow morning. Whoop-de-whoop for days off.
Anybody know any more than me about this badness? I hope it doesn’t mean the website collapsed under the weight of demand for tickets, although I doubt that would be the case. It’s not as if it’s as manic as Glastonbury.
April 20th, 2005 at 5:00 am
Although with Glasto sold out people are shopping around for alternatives. So book now to avoid dissapointment! I haven’t booked anything yet because I’m a bit underwhelmed by the line up so far. Emiliana’s playing but I’m not wild about too much else. Still there’s time…
April 20th, 2005 at 7:09 am
Hmm… I nearly bought mine ages ago but if you guys are having second thoughts I’m glad I didn’t. Keep me updated anyway – I’m going if you guys are!
If for whatever reason we end up not going, would anyone be interested in having a long weekendy holiday anyway? :)
April 20th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Right-oh. I just rang up the Big Chill office and some friendly bloke helped me out. Two tickets are on their way to my parent’s place.
As I can’t see the website, I can’t see what the line-up is. Anyone care to copy’n'paste it into an email for me? I remember Tiniarwen and the Earlies are booked, and Emiliana Torriani, from the sound of James’ comment.
Ben and Ros sound up for it, from what James has told me.
April 21st, 2005 at 1:39 am
Can I have a copy of the details as well please? By the time I got round to checking last year they had sold out!
April 21st, 2005 at 2:24 am
Yes, we’re up for it. In fact, this summer seems to be the summer of festivals; Glastonbury, Bill Chig (that’s how it came out my fingers, and, yes, I am sober, but I wonder why? can you have dyslexic fingers but not a dyslexic brain?), and Reading. Oh, and some terrible thing in Leicester to which I’m being dragged – I think it might be sponsored by Radio One. I don’t know. Anyone else up for any of them?
Liam, given Kelvin isn’t coming, who else that reads this website (other than James who knows we BCing) will have any idea who either Ben or Ros are?
And when am I supposed to buy the tickets for BC? And from where?
R xxx
April 21st, 2005 at 4:53 am
Hey Ros! I know who you are!
Are you coming to Glastonbury, then? If so, see you there! We’ll have to try and meet up at some point during the proceedings :)
April 21st, 2005 at 6:01 am
OK, so when I booked mine and Courtney’s tickets the bloke I was speaking to said the website wasn’t down. Obviously the department of Homeland Security has started censoring the website. Anything as decadent (by God, people smoke drugs!) as Bill Chig is clearly unGodly ™.
http://www.bigchill.net
That’s the place to go for tickets. It’s also got dates, the line-up info, everything, and it’s perfectly viewable within the UK, apparently.
Ros, you’re more infamous than you know. ;-)
April 21st, 2005 at 9:20 am
It was me. I decided that if I can’t have fun, neither can you, so I hacked the site in an attempt to stop you getting tickets, so you’d be forced to stay here and listen to country and western instead of monging out in a field to light jazz and progressive trance. Alas, I failed.
April 25th, 2005 at 1:53 am
Hi-di-ho mes amis! How’s life working out for y’all?
Last time I tried to sneak-a-peek at this site it didn’t exist. Che?
H & I will be at the Chill fest, again. The line up isn’t quite the dog’s bollocks, but I’m looking forward to Nouvelle Vague.
Kelvin, when are you and the missus coming over??
April 28th, 2005 at 6:54 am
Dave:
I will see you wherever you want to be seen at Glasto. (so as not to clutter Lig’s site further with my irrelevant gossip: rosred79atyahoofullstopcofullstopuk)
Davenport:
Bloody hell! Alex! How r u? Meet me for a large glass of red wine somewhere? Use address above. No is not acceptable.
Liam:
I am not infamous, I am magic. I am writing the shortest proposal in the longest time ever.
All:
I have just heard they are phasing out the flashing green man on crossings. This means the end to the truly fabulous joke about the little green man loosing his towel. I am sad.
April 28th, 2005 at 9:00 am
But… what are they going to replace the green man with? Not an obnoxious Yankee style sign, I hope.
Ye gods, the green man is part of our cultural and mythical heritage. Fuckers!
April 29th, 2005 at 1:22 am
They are replacing it with blank space, just blackness.
Apparently more threatening than a little green man’s pecker.
April 29th, 2005 at 1:25 am
Ah, just realised what you meant, they are not replacing the green man himself, just the bit where he flashes to incidate that you may continue crossing, but not begin crossing.
More sensical now?
April 29th, 2005 at 9:04 am
Well… that’s all right then.
But surely it serves an evolutionary purpose? If you’re too thick to know what the flashing green man signifies, then perhaps you deserve to be crushed under the wheels of an Eddie Stobart 18-wheeler, so that you cannot transfer your dimwittery into the gene pool?
April 30th, 2005 at 6:23 am
I suspect the non-flashing green man might somehow save energy.