Post by Ali p on Jun 17, 2004 14:29:08 GMT -5
This is a bit of a tale, that now spans several years of festival fun....
It a started back in 2001, when my then uni housemate Peter came to reading . One night (i forget which) he found a large traffic cone and ended up in the next ring of tents over from ours singing and generally abusing people using the cone as a loudhailer. Then at some point, in the drunken haze, he came up with the idea of singing loudly that '(insert name) is a haemaphrodite', to the tune of 'we all live in a yellow submarine' and hence the song was born.
The next night, armed with a guitar we ended up busking our way around the site, singing the song to anyone who would care to listen.......
Roll on to 2002, and the haemaphrodite song returned (after drinking a lot of cider). but this time we had 2 guitars, and myself and davey C set off again on a mini adventure around the berkshire fields. Within an hour we had not only 2 guitars and 2 vocals but also a backing choir and a bunch of followers/groupies! We wandered everywhere and even starting playing the song in the all-night breakfast bar by the arena, before the security violently ejected us!
At somepoint in the proceedings our group gained a name, and hence Weekend Cactus was born, suddenly we were sounding scarily like a real band......!
Move on another year and fuelled on an explosive mix of beer, greek whiskey and far too much pro-plus we have a blinding sunday night, where i played my guitar so much my fingers bled.
Davey C had access to the studio at Anglia Uni so we've even managed to record a proper version of the haemaphrodite song as well a couple of other tracks. Enough infact to fill a small EP. Not that it with every see the light of day, ever.
Anyhow that's the tale of Weekend Cactus, which will almost certainly make another appearence this year, so if you find us or we find you, please join us in a round of singing about the misfortune of having more genitial than god originally wished......
It a started back in 2001, when my then uni housemate Peter came to reading . One night (i forget which) he found a large traffic cone and ended up in the next ring of tents over from ours singing and generally abusing people using the cone as a loudhailer. Then at some point, in the drunken haze, he came up with the idea of singing loudly that '(insert name) is a haemaphrodite', to the tune of 'we all live in a yellow submarine' and hence the song was born.
The next night, armed with a guitar we ended up busking our way around the site, singing the song to anyone who would care to listen.......
Roll on to 2002, and the haemaphrodite song returned (after drinking a lot of cider). but this time we had 2 guitars, and myself and davey C set off again on a mini adventure around the berkshire fields. Within an hour we had not only 2 guitars and 2 vocals but also a backing choir and a bunch of followers/groupies! We wandered everywhere and even starting playing the song in the all-night breakfast bar by the arena, before the security violently ejected us!
At somepoint in the proceedings our group gained a name, and hence Weekend Cactus was born, suddenly we were sounding scarily like a real band......!
Move on another year and fuelled on an explosive mix of beer, greek whiskey and far too much pro-plus we have a blinding sunday night, where i played my guitar so much my fingers bled.
Davey C had access to the studio at Anglia Uni so we've even managed to record a proper version of the haemaphrodite song as well a couple of other tracks. Enough infact to fill a small EP. Not that it with every see the light of day, ever.
Anyhow that's the tale of Weekend Cactus, which will almost certainly make another appearence this year, so if you find us or we find you, please join us in a round of singing about the misfortune of having more genitial than god originally wished......