rottencrotch

I've bought a Saturday ticket; I've not been to Connect since the first one! It's a solid line up, I'm excited to see YF again who were far and away my highlight of Glastonbury.

No worries at all - happy to share. They are ran by various different charities from across England/Wales. I volunteer for one of the CND's, and I think the others are Brighton Peace, and Friends of the Earth. I got on the crew through a friend being invited and taking me as her plus one. We were both based in Glasgow although she'd lived in Manchester for years previously, and it was one of her pals who worked with Manchester CND who asked if she was free and said she could take a pal. 16 years later and I'm still doing it (she attended a few, but had kids so stopped volunteering). So in my specific case it was really just down to luck and an invite. Now that I've been there a while, it's a lot of the same faces each year although there are often new people who I'd imagine are given spaces as they work/volunteer with the specific groups on each lock up. Essentially (probably like a lot of Glastonbury) it's a mix of who you know, and what you do. By getting involved with the charities you exponentially increase your chances of supporting their work at Glastonbury. I don't do much outwith of Glasto; pay my membership dues and keep in touch with the crew!

Lock Up volunteer - I've been doing every year it's been on since I was 25...and I'm 41 this year. Wild. We can get on site from the Sunday, and have the benefit of a short stay car pass made available to us which is an absolute godsend for driving onsite with all your kit. Way back when we camped on Tom's Field, which then moved to Paines. Past two years we've been shifted further out each time and this year it was Rivermead/Pylon. A couple of times we've had shower tokens, but this year it was as many as you liked, with zero queues. The dream! The compost loo's were excellent as well. I think this was due to us being next to security, who had their own showers etc in their compound. We used to get meal tickets but these stopped years ago. However one of the peace orgs who also provide a lock up offer a pay in advance meal situation, whereby you pay a daily rate and get breakfast/lunch/dinner. This is based in our wee area only. I didn't use it so can't speak to how good it was, but it looked great! Shift patterns - we start work on Wednesday, and some unlucky rota's have a Monday AM shift. It's 4 hours at a time and runs as such 8am-12pm, 12-4, 4-8, 8-12 and then one night is an 8 hour nightshift from 12 till 8am. So you do work every day. Depending where you are, it can be REALLY busy but it makes the shift fly past. You are also looking after peoples valuables, so really need to be on the ball. It's a brilliant gig and all donations go towards excellent organisations. Every year I say it's my last....and then I'm booking annual leave a few weeks later.

We were saying the exact same thing the whole weekend. Last year just felt completely aggro/aggy, but it was a noticeable shift. I’ve been working it for the past 15 years and 2023 felt like a classic.

Easily my performance of the day - that set was incredible. Took two of my friends who’d never heard of them and both were blown away.

I heard the opposite 😂 apparently their TM confirmed to one of our crew that it’s happening. Who knows 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’ve been onsite for a few days and no one is talking about Pulp and we’ll be meeting up with our roadie friend. If I hear even a sniff of a different story I’ll post here, I promise!

He might be keeping it on the quiet, but I doubt it!

A friend is a roadie for Pulp - he’s onsite on a hospitality ticket and said they aren’t playing.

Pennards Lock Up worker here! Your trolley is absolutely fine to check in/check out as and when you need it and we are open 24/7 throughout the festival 🙂

Last year we went to one of the smoothie stalls that had slushie machines. Buy a big one, add your own rum. You are welcome.

You are 100% spot on. It's the kind of thing I put on Spotify steaming at 4am and it fucks up your whole algorithm in the best way. Not like Scooter or Bonkers *side-eyes my husband*

Does Cher still tour?

Only heard one story of thefts at the lock up, and it was from a group of young girls who'd heard that their neighbour was robbed (Pennards) so were putting their stuff in.

Every single year I say 'it's my last....' I do dilly dally between applying for punter tickets for what would, I imagine, be a really different festival but as I've always worked it I'm just too used to the benefits (crew bars are an absolute godsend, driving on site etc). 7 days ago I was 100% not returning, this morning I was working out my annual leave for next year 🙂