We didn’t go.We’re not bitter.
Update 22/10/09: Here’s a couple of Guardian articles about Castlemorton etc: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jul/11/castlemorton-free-party-scene-spiral-tribe?showallcomments=true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/90s-spiral-tribe-free-parties
A couple of contributors remembered some tunes they heard at Castlemorton and here they are (see this post for details: http://freepartypeople.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/some-hardcore-mixes/ )
UPDATE 24/10/08: Here are a couple of videos, the first one’s been online for ages, the second one’s newer and includes some footage taken near the spiral rig-
My old friend Atomic Robot Man was there, and he sent me this page from his diary, thanks man 
I missed Castlemorton partly ‘cos I was a bit battered after Lechlade 
But I believe everyone who says it was wicked. Interesting that dr_box mentioned the police herding him onto the common, people often forget that.
UPDATE 21/04/08: I just found this Flickr pool with some unseen pics of Castlemorton:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/castlemorton/pool/
The following pics are from Atomic Robot Man- thanks dude!
By the way, if anyone has exact dates for this please let me know, I know it’s quoted as going on for 6 days, but need some sort-of-facts! Thanks!
This lucky lucky person was there too:
dr_box wrote:
Castle Morton was an experience.. I’d been visiting a mates place in East London and he was coming over to mine in the depths of West Wales afterwards. we’d heard that there was a festi down near Bristol that weekend, so set off on the hunt along the M4. At one of the service stations along the M4 we got a lift from a Green godess fire engine that was loaded down with kit and Hippies, it was one of the vehicles spiral tribe was using to get to the festival. As we got close we found out that the festival might not be on, so set off on a hunt. the police herded us up to Castle Morton, by the time we got close there were several miles of trucks and busses full of people. At one point the line stopped and a guy with us got out and started counting vehicles as he walked towards the front. when the line started moving again, he waited for us to catch up. he’d counted over seven hundred vehicles, and he hadn’t reached the front of the line.
When we got there, the sun was setting and from the hills overlooking the site you could see the site starting to pulse with light and hear blasts of sound as things were set up. Travelling off all the way to the horizon there was a ribbon of headlights delivering more people to the festival.
Blinding weekend, my mate had his first E experience, Watched the police try and drive through the centre of the crowd. they got stopped in the middle, and a nameless longhair got passed over the crowd, and started selling Acid off the bonnet of the police car. after futilely attempting to get out of the car the plod ended up just laughing at the sheer balls of him.
Nighttime had more than its fair quota of low flying helicopters with spotlights. (although someone did take a potshot at them with a firework)
Last of the truly fun free festivals.
