Pap, D_P and Intiniki on tour.
makes you wonder why they didn’t invite the rest of us?
While the mess is crazy, I thought they had full recycling facilities and everything gets cleaned up this week, unlike your average UK street?
It’s a bit like showing a shot of the interior of Goat’s van after a blind date but before he’s had the bleach and scrubbing brush out.
I just checked my post not too many errors considering I’d had lots of neat rum, was knackered and could barely focus. A snorer came out as another.
Have been expecting the usual photos of all the rubbish. They do clean up quickly but I do wish people would just put their rubbish in a bin. Or near it.
I want my bed and a large breakfast.
Wow that was AMAZING.
It also hurt like fuco. Knee now totalled.
Left mates place at 5:24am unloaded and Full English in Salisbury at 7:35 shower & some zzzzs now at Gatwivk for a well needed few days to recover.
Yes there is always a mess and it means some 10000 people get free tickets for working as the volunteers & clean up crews.
Final thought - strange sights on M3 today - Clean campervans!
I am back from the festival. Not only the best one yet. It also felt like my first time. I know I’ve been twice before, but I’ve been doing it all wrong, as is anyone fucking about with a campervan, caravan or glamping spot. General camping was the first real factor in making this one so enjoyable. The relatively clement weather was another.
We joined the queue nice and early, although it took us five hours to get in. We had a couple of spots in mind, but knew they’d go quickly. When we saw the glacial pace of the queue, we were gutted. We were never going to get Row Mead, our first choice. A lot of the peeps in the queue told us that Big Ground was almost as good, and about ten times as big.
After we finally get in, we spy a hole in the hedge on our way to the campsite. I pop my head through. What campsite is this? “Big Ground”. Sweet. We were pitched within 30 minutes and were enjoying a commanding view of the festival. Nearly all our neighbours were excellent, or at least cordial. The only exceptions were some posh kids from Bath behind us, who were noisy and annoying. I was amused to learn that some of them had camped without groundsheets, something for which they later paid 
To our left, we had four lovely med grads, all bright and knowing their music. In front of us, we had a crew from Kent; we got on very well. Similar festival interests. We were up until four this morning tending a campfire and fending off the scurrilous “out of control” claims from the bloke in the fire tower. We’re all joining a FB group to co-ordinate for future festivals.
The combination of a decent perch in general camping and nice weather made everything easier. When we stayed outside the festival, going in can be a chore, walking time dictating how many times you go in, the amount of crap you have to take. With general camping, you just nip back to the tent and get what you need.
You need to be committed to get a good spot, but a good spot in general shits all over glamping or campervanning. I saw and heard more of this festival than any other, with less effort. I caught both Bootleg Beatles sets, one from my tent and another at the Acoustic Stage. I saw so many acts from the tent that I wasn’t intending to, but just caught during my downtime. Royal Blood, Biffy Clyro, even the twat Ed Sheeran whilst I was tidying up.
This’ll be the first of many Glasto reports, but before signing off, I’d like to say that you can’t lay the mess on the left. The place is full of Tories. They don’t give a fuck and are rude little cunts. Fuckers don’t even say please. They’ll be responsible for littering the place up, but to borrow a Corbynism, do you know what? I’m glad the fuckers have to suffer a hugely left wing festival to get their kicks. And do you know what? A right wing version of Glastonbury would be terrifying.
That says to me Glastonbury has lost its way, don’t get me wrong me and the wife will be trying to get tickets at the next one but I’m looking forward to Reading this year more as now it does feel like the real rock festival.
They should limit the over 30’s to a max of say 25%, it needs to be angry, questioning and political, Eavis was right it does need to be younger but it’ll be so difficult to do.
Loads of working class young kids there, Bazza. Shitloads of scousers, who according to the fire steward that approached our bonfire last night, were responsible for most of the festival crime. Loads of fake notes, tons of drugs. There were three girls staying in a tent that were just finishing their A levels.
And I reckon your quota system will never pass a real world test. All that’ll happen is shitloads more young Tories get tickets.
Remember that while there are 127,000 tickets sold, there are 250,000 on site. There are a legion of volunteers, many representing pressure groups like Oxfam, Water Aid or Greenpeace. They do five hour shifts, and have plenty of time to revel. Not only is that a way in for kids not rocking £250 notes to enjoy Glastonbury, but it also ensures that the festival stays pretty left-wing overall.
I would advise visiting the place to work out the mechanics before armchair punditry.
Glastonbury isn’t cutting edge though, its totally mainstream, I’ve have been in 99 and it was mainstream or getting there then albeit far less than now.
Pap its comfy, middleaged and that is its charm, its worked its way into the national audience that way.
It has certainly lost it origins with glamping, yurts and the like, it is a commercial enterprise not a political one or even a music festival in what it originally was, I agree with Eavis, you don’t seem to and if he can’t change it who can?
Got back at 3.30 this morning after another amazing Glastonbury. Being able to sit down and rest once in a while certainly made an improvement on last year! Managed to squeeze in more acts than last year as it took about half the time to get around which was a bonus. Didn’t even make it over to The Park last year, it was good to explore some new areas of the site.
Would agree with @pap that security was a total mess going in - we were at the top of the hill down to gate C for an hour and moved 5 metres. You could see 1 gazebo with 4 security staff checking the bags of everyone entering the festival from the east side. Bizarre. Eventually they gave up and did it all at the standard entrance.
We too camped in the Big Ground - the same place we camped last year. Perfect to take in early acts from the Pyramid and the slope means less of a mudbath risk than on flatter ground if the rain hits.
Highlights for me were Royal Blood, George Ezra, Maggie Rogers and Foo Fighters. Also managed to hold on to Katy Perry as she crowdsurfed into us which was an unexpected bonus! Will PM @dubai_phil for more in-depth information…
I typed it Pap, I’ll typed it again, in 1999.
And this was 10 years ago! Relevant but again people only want to see what they want to see.
I went to the Park for the first time this year. This is probably the first year I know where everything is,
I swerved Radiohead. ms pap tells me there were a few protests, and I should have done that instead, but I’m genuinely glad I swerved them. The Park was excellent.
They had Elbow there as a secret gig, who were playing their last couple of songs when I arrived. Not many Elbow fans stayed on for Sleaford Mods, and even less did so for Flaming Lips.
Sleaford Mods’ set was introduced by Lord Buckethead, who offered to sell everyone a laser. I was amenable to it for the first few songs, and pretty much onto it for the rest. Lively crowd. Bouncing all over the shoip. A great gig.
The stage virtually emptied when Sleaford Mods cleared out. I ended up on the second row for Flaming Lips. Don’t know many of their songs, but it was a fantastic show, full of invention and the perfect way to end the first night of gigs.
That is not an encouraging foundation for your point, @barry-sanchez .
That’s eighteen years ago, dude. To give it a sense of perspective, you could have raised a sprog to adulthood in that time. Do you really know the modern Glastonbury, or is this just eighteen years of cumulative angst at not getting tickets?
Oh theres angst I give you that but that sort of proves my point, people continuing to go when they should let it go. How about Eavis’s own view, surely your not going to disagree with him?