New Banksy at Glastonbury

[discoduster]

buddings said:

im also tempted for the drive. i think ill wait and hope it survives the festival

I hate that bastard M5 at the best of times!

CBL is thinkin of goin too, that'll be 2 of you missing the POW release then ;D

Seriously, if youre planning going, go Tuesday before the festi traffic on Wed.

DD

discoduster said:

johnas said:

i'm assuming this new piece is on site... if so, i can't see how you'd get a look in without a ticket. I live 20 mins or so from Pilton and drove through there several times last week. Security have been on all the main access points for over a week and from today, the old bill will be blocking all the small back roads aropund the site. If I was you CBL and i didn't have a ticket, i wouldn't bother!

It's in Glastonbury Town NOT the Festival.

From what I can gather it's a stones throw from the Rifes pub.

On the main road to Shepton.

I may be wrong but will have a look on me way to work.

DD

ahhh, i see... in that case, pub crawl anyone?

Just come back from taking some photographs of the new Banksy I'm just about to upload and I'll post shortly.

thought u were supposed to be working cbl

[stuey09]

Busy day at the office then

[buddings]

ooh, i think you made the journey not only to see the bansky but to try and break the 100 respect mark when posting your photos! haha, only 2 to go

how long did the journey take? an hourish from exeter im guessing??

Also for those around London is that a bif f**k off Eine saying VANDALISM in Shorditch!

[Run Pig Run]

finsburyparkranger said:

This is simply Banksy standing up for the rights of the festival going community. For years the police have been given special licenses to search people contrary to normal rules that request an element of suspicion. At Glastonbury in particular they get to set up road blocks on the motorway and siphon traffic in to side lanes and then use the threat of dogs and strip vans to find a bag of weed and secure our DNA forever. Once at the green gathering everyone was so incensed at the police bullying at the entrance that hundreds of people acted a naked protest and went and frisked the coppers back. The truth is that if the police used their bully boy tactics at the proms they would no doubt find allot of cocaine and if they looked harder they would find shed loads of white collar crime in the form of insider dealing and tax fraud to name but a few. Banksy here is showing his root's and standing up for a community that has always been victimised..... This is so f**king refreshing to see the man is back !

warning.......if you own a camper van and are travelling on the a303 at glastonbury time the police will always stop you at chicklade.

Here we go, was half an hour on the M5 from Exeter (at 90mph) and nearly half an hour on a winding road behind a hippy bus to Glastonbury, but was worth the trip, and beats working ;D

Nice pictures, where did you get that T-shirt?

[buddings]

cheers cbl!! some wicked good photos cant wait to go and see it in a few weeks (ill be going up on the 5th july) boy oh boy i hope it isnt buffed or painted over

[John]

mammal2 said:

Also for those around London is that a bif f**k off Eine saying VANDALISM in Shorditch!

Where?

slowmo said:

Nice pictures, where did you get that T-shirt?

www.akomplice-clothing.com/
make the tee's but don't sell direct, but there are links to suppliers on the site.

[John]

Hmmmmm why isnt it tagged.. and why didnt he paint the coppers leg properly?

I looked all over for a tag but couldn't find one.

But it's got Banksy written all over it, I'd be very very surprised if it wasn't a genuine Banksy.

[stuey09]

Nice pics CBL, now get back to work

It definitely was fresh, pink spray paint on the tips of the grass and weeds, it's in a very obvious location on the main A361 road to Shepton Mallet between The Riflemans pub and the Chalice Well.

If you want to find it on a map use multimap and the postcode BA6 D .

stuey09 said:

Nice pics CBL, now get back to work

Oh, would you look at that now! it's 5:00! end of work day

[dotdot]

nice work - will check it out when i'm over in glast in a couple of weeks....


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corblimeylimey said:

I looked all over for a tag but couldn't find one.

But it's got Banksy written all over it, I'd be very very surprised if it wasn't a genuine Banksy.

Banksy has discussed the use of his tag before. If my memery serves me correctly he says he no longer uses it unless he feels it can add something to the piece.

Crisp pics CBL thanks! Going off your last photo...looks like your already cuffed :-)

[Run Pig Run]

corblimeylimey said:

It definitely was fresh, pink spray paint on the tips of the grass and weeds, it's in a very obvious location on the main A361 road to Shepton Mallet between The Riflemans pub and the Chalice Well.

If you want to find it on a map use multimap and the postcode BA6 D .

you fool! you could of picked that pink banksy grass and sold it on ebay.

I reckon this won't last very long - it's bad publicity for the police and micheal eavis

[reados]

well done cbl youll soon reach the 200 mark, your like the official roving reporter, great pictures.

great job on the piccies mr corblimey!

[discoduster]

Nice work fella.

Didn't get chance to get a glimpse myself as Work are determined to run me ragged as I have a few days off for the festival.

However, the missus went over there this morning to get some pics and was told by the local postie "the blokes that did that go in the Rifes every night".

DD

bombhugger said:

corblimeylimey said:

It definitely was fresh, pink spray paint on the tips of the grass and weeds, it's in a very obvious location on the main A361 road to Shepton Mallet between The Riflemans pub and the Chalice Well.

If you want to find it on a map use multimap and the postcode BA6 D .

you fool! you could of picked that pink banksy grass and sold it on ebay.

I reckon this won't last very long - it's bad publicity for the police and micheal eavis

Damn, I didn't think of that, original hand sprayed grass by Banksy, I had it in my hands too ;D

A lot of people just walked by without noticing it, a few only noticed it cos I was photographing it, and some seemed very knowledgeable, the nice guy who took my photo recognised it as a Banksy, he had just come from the Pilton site where he was working as a steward.

Also a nice old lady from Bristol (over 60 she said but didn't look it!) was really interested in it and got her camera out, in fact I gave her this web site address so I wouldn't be surprised if she joins this forum!

discoduster said:

Nice work fella.

Didn't get chance to get a glimpse myself as Work are determined to run me ragged as I have a few days off for the festival.

However, the missus went over there this morning to get some pics and was told by the local postie "the blokes that did that go in the Rifes every night".

DD

Banksy & his mates drink in The Riflemans?

I had a couple of dodgy dealings in that pub (or at least the car park) when I was younger, has it's reputation improved?

What do you think she did wrong?

But I'm sure it hurts the cop just as much as it hurts the girl

dgb133 said:

What do you think she did wrong?

But I'm sure it hurts the cop just as much as it hurts the girl ;-)

In the words of the copper, "have you anything on you you shouldn't have? I'm sure you wouldn't mind me just checking, only doing my job, stop resisting, right you're nicked"

She got nabbed for wearing a backpack. For a while in my area in the US, you weren't allowed to use backpacks in school at all. You had to put all your books in your locker and carry 1 at a time.

Great image.

Thanks for sharing it.