Glastonbury

If I DAS you I expect you to slide in a puddle of cider...

Make it lager and i will abide.

camping, mud, no bathroom. ew. give me ATP with a chalet any day ;)

The last time I went to Glastonbury was in 1992, a small group of us hired a Winnebago type thing. This meant hot showers in the morning, bacon sarnies and bubbly for breakfast, while we watched crusty hippies struggling out of semi-collapsed tents into rain and mud.

Can't decide... its festivals or holiday....been the last 3 years had an amazing time every one.

(Also done ATP, and glasto wins sorry)

Number 6 for me. I have a better time each year.

Sorry to brag but I have a lovely three week period this summer involving a week riding in the mountains around Gerona, Glastonbury and my ride up north. I can hardly wait.

The last time I went to Glastonbury was in 1992, a small group of us hired a Winnebago type thing. This meant hot showers in the morning, bacon sarnies and bubbly for breakfast, while we watched crusty hippies struggling out of semi-collapsed tents into rain and mud.

Did that make you feel superior?

Did that make you feel superior?

I went in 1990, the last year of the traveller free entry,
it was well hardcore i tell ya. well superior

I spent a bit of time talking to some proper veterans last year. You know, the sort of chaps who've been every year bar one or two. Universally they say on balance it is better now. Apparently for the 80s and 90s, there were no go areas on site where you likely to get mugged (where the cider bus is now was worst they said). Sounds to me that for long periods in the history of the festival you couldn't truly relax and let go like you can now. There was always an edge of there are people here who aren't entering into the spirit of things.

I'm sure things have gone downhill in other ways but I'm glad that element has pretty much gone.

The edge is what made it. The bridge crossings 'black 'ash for cash' - people driving into the crowd - gangs of scallies roaming around trying to sell you shit they just stole.

Ok maybe not the last bit. But it was hugely better. And NOTHING to do with the line up.

I wasn't there so I have no frame of reference. I'll take your word for it.

However, I completely agree that the lineup makes no difference. I'm there for the music but there is ALWAYS something to enjoy whether it be music or something else.

Ive been for the last 5ish years and have loved every one of them, the atmosphere is amazing and the ammount of effort that goes into it is incredable.

Line-up now available on the site
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/

I don't think I'm going to go this year (the re-sale is Sunday) as I doubt anything will be able to top last year for me- beautiful weather, finding out I got a first on my degree, and general new-found sense of well-being, as well as some great bands.
I've also got a stag do the week after, so can't really afford it anyway.

The journey home last time I went was one of the worst things I've ever had done to me, and I've had a camera stuck up my arse.

DO NOT USE THE COACHES

Word!
I took the bus down there in 2007 I think, and swore never again. It left Earls Court at 4.30pm, just in time for rush hour, 90 minutes later we passed within 6 minutes walk of my then home in Sheen. The toilet was out of order, the back seat was taken up by lairy, irritating Austalians and we stopped once, on the M4 to use the toilets. The sodding thing never went above 45mph, I remember eventually seeing Stonehenge and announcing to my friends that we were around 45minutes to an hour away. Two hours later we rolled into Glastonbury, around 1.30am.
My friends I went with returned to London by Coach, muddy and wet and said it was the worst experience of their lives. I had the foresight to beg a mate to squeeze me into the back of his Peugeot 106 with 2 other friends and a pile of muddy bags, and was infinitely more comfortable than I would have been on a bus full of dickheads.
Every time I go now, I drive. Leave at 5am, there by 9. No traffic FTW. Way home, leave around 4am, clear the bottlenecks, kip at the services on the Motorway for a bit, home for a bath a few hours after.
Except last year, slept through my alarm. Leave 9am, sit in traffic on the A303 for two hours. Friends all asleep. FML.

Heavy! I got the train there but the coach back, 2007 too, so on the Monday morning it was pissing it down and grey, cold, all my clothes were wet and stank, and all summery so I felt totally exposed, I'd run out of fags, food and booze, and the queue was perhaps 5 hours long, all the while with a cracking hangover, no entertainment and that sore thing you get in your throat after a big weekend. The coach driver said we might be able to stop at Reading services for food and toilets, MIGHT... fortunately we did, and seriously an entire KFC family bucket meal to myself has never and will never taste so sweet.

A highlight for me is the service station toilets on the way back.
My record was not going from wednesday till sunday (not advised).

[QUOTE=Stonehedge;2072024]I'm going...already can't wait. Was thinking about riding there actually...

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I've had the same thought. Will be leaving my job around 16th so will have a good amount of time to ride down, stopping on sofas at strategically placed towns...

[QUOTE=Stonehedge;2072024]I'm going...already can't wait. Was thinking about riding there actually...

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I've had the same thought. Will be leaving my job around 16th so will have a good amount of time to ride down, stopping on sofas at strategically placed towns...

not a bad idea, if someone else can carry my tent! - are there places to lock bikes up safely?

I know people have cycled there before, in fact the last few years Glastonbury has encouraged it. Think they do organised rides from Bath and Bristol.

I emailed the site office last year about doing it, and they basically said: good luck, but we wouldn't necessarily advise it as traffic near the site can be dense/dangerous. I believe someone was knocked down and seriously injured or killed (not necessarily a cyclist) a year or two back.

Might be worth emailing the site office to ask about safe lock ups...and get friends in a car to take your tent, and beer!

Camp next to a tree!

Hmm to go or not to go... line up is pretty meh

I have had a twinge of wanting to be standing in a field with thousands of strangers for the express purpose of hearing some pumping atmospheric music this summer-
but I wont do it at Glasto again
Beautiful days was good and corporate free, Shambala is good and full of bikie hippies too,
anywhere else that puts a wing in your ding and a glide in your stride????

If you liked those... have you been to WOMAD?

It's very expensive, and it's not totally my thing. But amazing acts. Also Latitude perhaps.

Summer Sundae in the grounds of Leicester De Montfort hall - is it still going? (very 6 music)

Miro, thx yep good choice but cant do that date
looks like it but the only name I know is Toots and the Maytals-
(old bastard)
that weekend could be good though