Excellent - sounds like you had a fabulous and rewarding time.

I’m curious about your experience. Mine was straightforward, but I’ll share it.

I saw the printers from the Private Press when I was in Shangri-La on Saturday afternoon and said I’d seen people with prints walking around. They were the ones pasted up on the walls outside their unit. They told me to come back that evening around 11.30 if I wanted a free Donwood print. Logistics worked in my favour as I had intended to see the Dead Kennedys literally next door and as they were Biafraless it wasn’t good, so I got there around 11. There were already about 10 people in the queue.

A kind chap in the queue told me that they had given away a Paul Insect print and I should ask in case they still have some left. When the hatch opened and I got to the front, the chap dispensing the prints remembered me and offered me the Donwood or the option of having a Dan Hillier signed and numbered print. Dan was giving away his prints in person and I had a brief chat with him as the print image was familiar and he described it as a “remix”. I asked if there were any Paul Insect’s left and he went off and had a rummage and came back with one for me. It’s a variation of “Liberty” A3 size printed on quite thick card (as has been posted).

On Sunday after the Pure Evil giveaway they cleared their general stock and I picked up a black and white Paul Insect / Bast poster.

Well done to the Private Press and the artists for the initiative a nice bonus. I suspect unless you came prepared it would have been difficult but not impossible to protect the prints. I hope given the effort that went into the printing that prints survived.


I will try and post some general pics later.

This was my first ever time at Glastonbury and we were walking around seeing all the sights and sounds with some regulars from about 11am Sunday - 3am Monday. Just so happened to arrive at the giveaway as they opened the hatch, so got in the queue. Between the four of us in our group we got all three colours of the Pure Evil print (red, white, and grey). I offered to look after them all and have managed to get them home with no damage whatsoever. I didn't even know about the giveaway until we got to the hatch, so it was a nice surprise!

Thoroughly enjoyed my Glastonbury experience. The highlight has to be Arcadia... and the night views from the (Hollywood style) Glastonbury sign.

They were also giving out a Darren Cullen 'Tory Petrol Bomb' print when I was in the queue but don't think there were many as the last one was handed out to someone a few places in front of me.

Some random pics

Anyone see Toots and the Maytels?

That Cashman smiley will be available as a smaller version soon via the shangrilART store.

I want the full size one

I can't imagine they will be miniture, just more manageable in the home environment and a bit more refined

Great to hear your tale - mine was similar but just a little twisted. I didn't find out about the giveaway till Sunday, which was a pity as I'd have loved a chance at a Paul Insect or the Donwood (what was the Donwood image?) But I was working the whole time till I finally got a day off on Sunday, when I went for a wander and stopped by the Free Press at the bottom of the theatre field. Bought the B&W Donwood Keep Your Cool there and picked up a copy of the Free Press, which featured a tiny line about the Shangri La print shop. I wandered down there and had a chat about art with the very kind and helpful woman there, who told us to stop by about 11 if we wanted a chance at the freebies. I could see all the Cullen Petrol Bombs hanging behind her, and she said they'd be giving those away along with the signed Pure Evil edition - if they could find him to get him to sign them. She showed us the print and my friend fell for it big time.

We headed down to SL again about 10 and had a good look around and took some photos, and about 10.45 a queue began to form at the print shop so we joined it, I guess at this stage we were a dozen or 15 places from the front. We waited for a good while as the queue grew, until eventually a 'steward' turned up with blue flashing lights on his head and began going down the line telling everyone that the shop was closed for the night and they were wasting their time queuing. Unbelievably, a few people at the front walked away, but we stayed put and waited some more. Then a crusty looking bloke turned up and started saying that he was bezzie mates with the organiser and knew for a fact that he'd had to go off site and there would be no giveaway that night. More people left, and by now we were virtually at the front. The crusty feller disappeared and a while after that the people at the very front atarted squealing with excitement. A print had appeared, pushed through the crack between the hatch and its frame. It was taken - a Petrol Bomb - to be followd a minute or two later by a Pure Evil, also collected. A couple more followed, and then I found myself at the very front.

A Pure Evil appeared through the crack and I tried to take it, but it was held fast on the other side and I couldn't extract it. I paused then tried a couple more times, but it was stuck fast. Then it was withdrawn and all went still.

Silence.

Mutterings began in the crowd. Was that it? Was it over already? What was happening?

After a minute or two of this, the hatch began to shake a little, and then it started to open, really really slowly. I saw three bodies appear in the gap, and when their faces were finally revealed one of them tirned out to be Darren Cullen, who I know a little. We shook hands and had a little chat and he handed me a petrol bomb while one of the other guys handed my friend the Pure Evil she really wanted - it might have been Pure Evil himself who handed it over, I honestly have no idea.

We left happy.

The whole thing was brilliantly done, and I loved the banter in the queue, with everyone debating whether it was all a wind up, whether to stay, whether the plants were genuine or not - and randoms coming up the whole time and asking what we were all queuing for. Even my friends at one point started to talk about givig up, but I wasn't going anywhere and in the end they were glad they stuck it out with me. The ones who left must be feeling gutted.

A brilliant giveaway and huge respect to all concerned. I'll try and take photos of the prints and post them tomorrow. My head is still melted tonight.

rockbeer I missed all that but there did feel like more of an element of a tease on Sunday in the friendliest possible way. I saw the aftermath of a successful marriage proposal in the queue which was totally random!

Charlie (Pure Evil) was indeed at the hatch handing out his prints. A red one of the Lenin's would have been fun. The prints must have gone quickly as the queue was bigger than for the previous night and then as if by way of appeasement for the stragglers they produced masses of posters and placed them on the front. There was a Pork Pies poster of Theresa May and some Bast and Paul Insect ones and lots to do with Earache Records (the grindcore and death metal label) who took over part of Shangri-La.

I’ll take some pics once they’ve flattened. The Donwood print was of his billboard at the Truth stage – see my post above with pic in "If You're A Proper F****** Thief .....

I'm glad for you that your perseverance paid off.

Thanks for the reference to Debord.

Ah mega news!

At last, a photo - this is the Pure Evil given away on Sunday night...