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  1. ManLj

    Celebrities

    Turned round during Foo’s to find Louis Theroux stood behind me. Tom from blossoms walked past us with his girlfriend near San Remo about 2hrs after his set with Rick Astley in Woodsies on Sat evening. Saw Craig Charles getting food near San Remo / BBC introducing. Favourite one of the weekend though was looking to my right during Elton John and stood next to me was Emily Eavis and a friend, just as he played Are You Ready For Love. We had a great singsong!
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    The churnups

    10% fruit juice
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    The churnups

    If you search “the churnups open their” on twitter you get a tweet from the Glastobation account. Sadly just a fan account hoping for the Foo’s, not evidence.
  4. Surprised not to see: Wet leg Yard Act Warmduscher Gretel Hanlyn Always thought it’s a shame they’ve never been booked: Rufus Du Sol
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    Secret Sets 2023

    Why wouldn’t they have just announced M83? Deffo not the pyramid, doesn’t feel right on the park but potentially Woodsies, I just don’t understand why they’d be listed as a tba instead of just being named.
  6. Wind up I reckon, they've just edited the page in their browser.
  7. What's this all about then? https://twitter.com/bluedotfestival/status/1663485680897359873?s=20 Bluedot festival: "So excited for the Glastonbury announce "
  8. There's definitely some work going on, the lineup 2022 page is broken for me currently. Used to (last week) show the full list of stages with set times etc, now just showing the page headline. I reckon they're tinkering away getting the 2023 lineup page ready and have inadvertently broken 2022.
  9. Not sure if we already suspected this or not, and I know you can't always predict based on previous lineups, but I think we're missing at least 1 more park stage act. 2023 Fri - ? acts Sat - ? acts Sun - ? acts Total - 25 2022 Fri - 9 acts Sat - 9 acts Sun - 8 acts Total - 26 2019 Fri - 9 acts Sat - 9 acts Sun - 9 acts Total - 27 2017 Fri - 10 acts Sat - 10 acts Sun - 9 acts Total - 29
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    The Park 2023

    Not sure if we already suspected this or not, and I know you can't always predict based on previous lineups, but I think we're missing at least 1 park stage act. 2023 Fri - ? acts Sat - ? acts Sun - ? acts Total - 25 2022 Fri - 9 acts Sat - 9 acts Sun - 8 acts Total - 26 2019 Fri - 9 acts Sat - 9 acts Sun - 9 acts Total - 27 2017 Fri - 10 acts Sat - 10 acts Sun - 9 acts Total - 29
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    The Park 2023

    They played the park stage last year
  12. Felt rough on Monday but no worse than I'd normally feel on a festival comedown after a week of boozing fun with my mates. Woke up Tuesday with a groggy throat, hadn't cleared by Tuesday lunchtime so I did a test and it was instantly positive, went downhill pretty quickly that afternoon and by Tuesday evening had the full experience of high temperature, shivering, sweating, aches etc. Just noticed this thread, wasn't planning to test again today as I assumed i'd still be positive and there would be no point. Tested and although still positive, it's a very faint line, getting there!
  13. I have some thoughts on this, tried to break it up into different sections for clarity and ordered top to bottom by impact on feeling of overcrowding but essentially lots of factors at play. People holding on to their tickets - as a result of the last 2 years being written off, demand was stronger than ever with people wanting to let their hair down. Not only did people hold on to tickets but they made sure they turned up too because of how much they’ve looked forward to Glasto this year. This also applies to locals with Sunday only tickets. Poor scheduling - lots of acts on stages simply too small for the crowd they pull / misplaced or up against weak competition so there’s no real clash to split the crowd. Examples - anything on Thursday afternoon (see train strikes point here too), Wet Leg on the Park, TLC on West Holts, Diana Ross up against Fontaines DC and with empty stages (Other, Park, John Peel) for at least 30mins of her set. Weaker lineup than previous years - as a group of music fans the majority of us weren’t bothered by a lot of the lineup this year, we’ve all done at least 3/4 Glasto’s and commented that we’ve not stomped about so much this year to see a wider variety of acts. Rather, most of the group strolled into the festival around 2pm to catch a handful of the bigger, popular acts who would naturally draw a bigger crowd. Weather - we had another great year weather wise, people stayed on site longer and didn’t leave early after being put off by rain. Another aspect of this is that the heat forces people to sit outside when the shaded spots are full, whereas in damp conditions people want shelter and so you lose people from walkways into dry tents. You also can’t sit down when it’s wet so from a general space perspective, people take up more room when lounging about on the floor, for example, outside John Peel or in the Park. Train Strikes - train cancellations on Thursday and Saturday will have caused people to change their plans. Almost half our group (10 of us) who were coming from London on Thursday changed plans to arrive by car on Weds instead. These people would have been on site anyway but I think this is a direct contributor to Thursday feeling so busy. Extra tickets sold - we know there were 7000 extra tickets this year, some reports say this was split between punters and workers. I don’t believe anything people say about rumours the festival sold 30 or 50k extra tickets to make up for covid losses etc. That kind of gross negligence could get people killed and would land people in Jail if it ever got out. There are plenty of operational constraints and licensing issues that would prevent this too. We’ve not been in crowds that big for nearly 3 years - there are pinch points on site every year and I do think we have in part just forgotten how busy it can get (think: arcadia, south east corner, Thursday, the railway line, anywhere there’s a secret set) Fence jumpers / Security staffing problems - lots of documented comments about people jumping the fence or being able to get in via weaker / less patrolled areas like Sticklinch and Worthy View. I saw a group of at least 15 people in the park on Thursday without any kind of wristband on. We all still had a great time and I think the feeling of overcrowding this year is a complex nuanced issue. I’ve tried to give a summary of my thoughts ☺️
  14. I'm the exact opposite of this. Went to Bicep and don't regret it because it was amazing but I really wished I could have seen Pet Shop Boys with the rest of my gang
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