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minus-squareSeagoon_OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoIn the 80s and 90s I used to help organise and run Confests.
minus-squareCEOofmyhouse56linkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 months agoWhat are Confests? I just googled it. That’s pretty cool!
minus-squareSeagoon_OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoVery big hippie festivals , like thousands of people would turn up https://www.dte.org.au/news/Sept83.PDF newsletter written by George , I remember him!! old dutch guy who smoked bidis all the time most my mates from that time ended up in byron bay
minus-squareCEOofmyhouse56linkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoWhat was the smell like? A mixture of BO and incense or something else?
minus-squareSeagoon_OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agolike a sweet cigar oh, you mean the festival? It was outdoors, so just the smell of gum trees and heat the food avenues would always smell of delicious Indian street food
minus-squareCatfishlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoPit toilets are pit toilets. You cope. Otherwise it mostly smells like dust and campfire.
minus-squareBakulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoI’d never heard of it either, but I kinda want to go to one now. I’m not very hipster, but it still sounds fun
minus-squareCatfishlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI’m not even remotely hipster and had fun there. Be prepared for plenty of crunchy type persons though, many of them naked.
In the 80s and 90s I used to help organise and run Confests.
What are Confests?
I just googled it. That’s pretty cool!
Very big hippie festivals , like thousands of people would turn up
https://www.dte.org.au/news/Sept83.PDF newsletter written by George , I remember him!! old dutch guy who smoked bidis all the time
most my mates from that time ended up in byron bay
What was the smell like? A mixture of BO and incense or something else?
like a sweet cigar
oh, you mean the festival?
It was outdoors, so just the smell of gum trees and heat
the food avenues would always smell of delicious Indian street food
Pit toilets are pit toilets. You cope. Otherwise it mostly smells like dust and campfire.
ha ha, we had use of real club house loos.
I’d never heard of it either, but I kinda want to go to one now. I’m not very hipster, but it still sounds fun
I’m not even remotely hipster and had fun there. Be prepared for plenty of crunchy type persons though, many of them naked.