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The Gate A lockup queue can easily go past an hour around that time. I've been caught in it before and would suggest avoiding it. The ones further from the gate shouldn't be as bad.

Good point, had totally forgotten that change.

I think that it won't preclude you from being selected for pre-festival shifts. But obviously, if you were to be selected, then you would be too late to get a refund on the bus, and you would still need to be able to make your own way to site on the Saturday.

As a food store, for sure. Generally less useful for Glastonbury competitions though.

Fair enough, in that case probably best to check the website on a store-by-store basis then. Crazy really.

F&B is two things - the blackout aspect, and the reflective coating. I'm not aware of anyone else combining the two factors yet, which in all honesty baffles me given how much better it is. Certainly blackout on its own just doesn't do enough of the job.

What does it say if you look it up on the Store Finder? Again speaking locally, but when I go to click on "More about this store", the non main group stores have a note on the page saying "Part of XYZ Cooperative" (example). Whereas the pages for the main Co-op Group stores don't have anything like that.

Hmm. They don't make it easy.

Sure, it's possible. But I think probably shouldn't be taken as guaranteed, at least not past the cancellation deadline next week, and especially the later you get.

Around here, there's 2 different types: Co-op Group are the ones that are useful for the various competitions, and look like this: There's also "Central Co-op", which don't participate in any competitions, and look like this: I think the general rule of thumb is look for the Blue branding, combined with the "square" logo.

I would be very confident that, with persistence, you'll be able to get a spot for her. Where I would sound a note of caution is - there's a reasonable chance that you get the second spot after profiles have locked or after the rostering has been done - so you may not end up on the same shift pattern.

Officially, with a crew band you should only be camping in the assigned crew field. Practically, there's not much to stop you camping in the General Public fields, as the Festival can't realistically enforce that and once gates are open make only a token effort (if you pitch up in a public field on the Tuesday, they likely will remove the tent). But the H fields do have people checking bands on the way in and should challenge someone without the correct accreditation - which in this case would probably mean a Hospitality festival (primary) wristband, a Hospitality paper wristband in conjunction with any other festival wristband, or an AAA/BAA laminate.

It's basically the big-ish stage next door. If you find one, then you'd struggle not to find the other.

Very much during the festival, and far higher res than this.

Yeah, it's definitely not Friday onwards. Just looking at the Pyramid field, the NHS message hasn't had a chance to fade, and the build work on the Pyramid sound system is still ongoing - so the stage hadn't opened yet. There's crowds at some of the smaller stages around T&C, which suggests to me that it's probably Thursday. I reckon probably about noon-ish.

The "official" build doesn't start until May. Anything done prior to that is just the farm hands doing a bit of prep work.

Yes, there's no limit. Can use the same details and photo on each without issue.

In terms of public areas inside the fence, about 17-20 years ago. Though obviously they still exist outside the fence, and in some non-public areas where low volume provision is needed.

I'd assume most people have more than one registration number though. I'd certainly give them a different one.

I reckon that competitions closing prior to the cancellation deadline are certainly fair game - get your ticket for free (minus the cancellation fees), and can bring in a friend who doesn't have a ticket yet. Not bothering with anything after that.

It's not viable advice for general public, though. Aside from the fact that enforcement increases tenfold on show days, the public are heavily discouraged from getting anywhere near the area.

There is. The quickest/cheapest bus to a local town is the hourly shuttle to Shepton Mallet, and it stops right outside Tesco (which I've never been in, but I've heard stocks up especially for the Festival).

There's always a problem with this kind of question in that it depends on personal preferences - which specific parts of Glastonbury you (and they) would enjoy, and also how much weight do you give to your preferences against theirs? Age will be a factor as well. Personally I tend to think that if I had kids, the first festival I'd take them to would be Shambala because of the amount of creativity, variety, and sheer colourfulness on display. Also because I think that while it's not specifically a festival designed for "kids" in the way that Camp Bestival and Latitude are, it does feel very safe (with the natural and pretty much universal caveats of things can get wilder after hours) and it's certainly less manic / so much easier than Glastonbury. For my taste it's got the balance spot on of being very kid friendly, while not detracting from the experience for adults at all - you can go with kids, or you can go as a group of adult friends and both work equally well. On the other hand, Shambala does sometimes put people off because of the relatively high ticket price versus a lineup that (for the most part) is largely unknown so if big name acts are important then it may not be for you.

Your understanding is correct on both counts.