That is "yesh tesh sponyowee"
= 'you are a beautiful human person"
better than a boring hello !!
One of the 'must does' for me a geebee 2002 is the Polish Theatre Company which performed a couple of years ago and I reviewed on my website www.pipwilson.com in 19**?
Fantasic/ emotional/ spiritual /social justice/ feeling/ drama with wonder-ful music and with all the performering people on stilts!
So much to see, to taste,........to kiss.
I want to kiss life at Greenbelt and.............
be kissed
I am in need
bhp
Well first I should say a little something about myself I guess.
The three CDs rotating in my stereo as I type are Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Doves and DJ Shadow.
The three publications I get delivered by the newsagent are NME, Heat and The Guardian.
And following Paul’s lead, the three things that are always in my boot are a Hard Hat, an umbrella and the HSE Event Safety Guide (on balance I’d suggest thieves go for his car first!)
The first item relates to my day job as a Civil Engineer managing major environmental improvement schemes to clean up the rivers and coasts. The second probably gives away my location of Manchester, where I live and love. It’s also where I’m involved in various youth and community development work. The third item is my link with a certain festival where I work as an Operations Manager.
And for those who know me of old, the three colours my hair has been since you saw me last are: bright red with blonde bits, bright blonde with red bits and bright blonde with dark bits (what do you mean roots? ;-)
I have trousers. That is all.
Just done training session for 50 young teens/twentys....all leaders on a holiday programme here for 7 weeks..........150 kids every day and we love it.
..........and we are all going to Greenbelt. I just showed the videos to the crowd.You know there is a 'youth' video of 5 minutes and the one I lurrve the best,the 'adult' video! Fantastic music and tone and momentum.You can get free from geebee !!
News rolls in all the time re Festival......just been asked to do the late night ,every night,closure again on stage one.That is the moments after the last band.Will call it "Epi-snog"
There will be God in it as with the whole Festival but I will tune the input to the mood at the moment.
Lots more to share but they will dribble from the corners of my mouth over the coming days as we lead up to the festival.....hey hey hey
Pip Wilson here – just joking about the ‘broken’ – but it’s always a bit
true. Bruised, knocked about, tender……hmmmm
This is my first post I will do one daily.
1. Because I’m a Greenbelt lover
2. Because I’m a Greenbelt maker not just a taker
3. I’m Vice Chair – I wonder if the G.B. Board will want me to step
aside after 14 years – I’m always on offer.!
4. I’m listening to NERD CD (No-one Ever Really Dies) I saw their
first and only live gig at Shepherds Bush a couple of weeks ago – anyone
there?
5. I’m on the Board/Management Group and excited about the fantastic
line-up this year.
6. Loads of YMCA people will be at Greenbelt from the world-wide
YMCA.
7. Loads from here where I live and have my being too
www.romfordymca.org including:
Alexandar Watr from Polish YMCA
Gerri Dimanova from Bulgaria YMCA
Tzevti Krastevas from Bulgaria YMCA
Silvia Toteva also from Bulgaria YMCA
Shohei Kamenosono from Japan YMCA
Ben McCandless from Alaska YMCA USA
Angelo Marian from Romania YMCA
Jonathan Gracey from Malta YMCA
Desir Christina from USA Go Global YMCA
Anna Ischmaeva from Russia YMCA
Lydie Valerie Tending from Senegal YMCA
Anna Sobotka from Polish YMCA
8. Plus I will be doing stuff and ‘kissing life’ like crazy.
Greenbelt 02 is approaching so fast. There's so much that has to be done between now and the end of next month. Mostly, practical things must be procured. Thus, I present Drew's GB02 Procurement List!
Well I've been kindly nominated as someone from the Greenbelt office to share my thoughts, feelings about the festival etc.... so here goes for the first time!! Been working in the office for what feels like a lifetime but is infact only two weeks. Time seems to be flying by and it's scarey (but exciting!) to realise how few days there really are between now and Greenbelt.... Beki keeps counting them down for us here, so we are all well aware!
And now it's the home time and having spent the day answering people's questions about Greenbelt and booking tickets I can find no further words to write tonight!
So here are my first words. And they are going to be sad ones, it looks like I won't be able to afford to get to Greenbelt this year. Most of my friends here in Belfast are busy trying to book flights, hire cars and organise tents (doing Greenbelt from Belfast seems to take on a larger scale when you have to fly there). Me, I'm looking on and wondering, is there any way that I can get the money together for this, the lottery maybe, a second job, a bank loan?? A couple of other friends who might not be able to make it this year have suggested that we hold an alternative weekend amongst ourselves, set up a main stage in our back garden, a Tiny Tea Tray, we could all be headline artists. Small consolation if I can't be at the real thing. I was hoping to take my Girlfriend who is here all the way from the States, it would have been her first Greenbelt, I know she wants to go, but.............
What will happen, maybe I'll find a briefcase full of cash today, maybe, maybe.....
Tomorrow is a special day in my Greenbelt year / life. Although I never thought I'd become one of them, tomorrow is the day my padded folding seat arrives. We've all seen them, those folk who on Greenbelt Friday look totally stupid sat on their ground-level chairs or even, heaven forbid, deck chairs in seminars. They're not real 'belters, they're big softies, we all sneer.
Come Sunday morning, however, when the rain has been falling, the grass has churned, and after two nights in a tent there just aren't any more possibly-comfy-is-it-no positions you can sit in ... those folk on the chairs don't look so silly. In fact, they begin to look rather tasty. And as your arse aches and your elbows - now permanently scarred with the imprints of soggy grass - wobble and falter, you can imagine spit-roasting those kindly folk back on the campsite. Pimms in one hand, turning the spit with the other, and gently reclining in their chair.
So, this year I'm joining them. I'm throwing in the towel. If I'm gunna go to this festival, I might as well enjoy it. Tomorrow is the day the padded folding seat things arrive, and by heck I'm going to love it.
Hello! I know that Gb 2002 cannot be far away now, if I'm starting a Festival Diary about it. At the moment, I've not been giving it much thought, as I've presently got a head that's full of Estate Agents, landlords, deposits and the like. BUT it's warm and sunny out - at least it is here in Southend! - and so I know that it's not far away now and being July, I've still found myself doing what I tend to do at around this time every year, in that I mentally start thinking about what I need to remember for the Festival, and also find myself looking back to the same time, roughly, before each previous Gb that I've attended, and look back on how I geared up, in fact often waited with baited breath for, Greenbelt....it's amazing how many mundane events/times/places that I recall from years ago, simply because they happened in the run up to the Festival....eg, getting up early to go for a haircut one Saturday in July 1990, and taking the copy of the Greenbelt magazine, ' Strait ', that had just been delivered that morning, with me to read in the barber's and finding myself almost unable to contain the excitement that I felt, reading about the, then forthcoming line-up......it's a bit SAD that I can still remember that and look back on it, so fondly!!!! Or not?