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[danvb]

Just any idiots standing at any stage talking all the way through any band/s and not once even paying any bother to bands,if you wana talk stay away from the stages!.

[sisterofmercy]

The idiots near me in the crowd for Elbow. They were there to see Coldplay I think and were drinking Scrumpy and shouting out football chants and saying that the music was shit. They also tried (badly) to chat up the girls in front which was rather amusing. If you don't like the music then go elsewhere, don't ruin it for the rest of us. Idiots.

[Couchy]

Did anyone start queuing behind someone at the taps/toilets only to find that that person wasn't in the queue in the first place?

I won't say your stupid for doing this as I have seen it many many times, but it would be helpful if people don't linger around & stand staring at the water tap when they don't need to use it.

Saw someone texting his friend about how good a band was & about 5 people just queued up behind him for no reason.

Why when people are cleaning there teeth at the taps, can't they stand aside for a couple of minutes & let the closest person with a water bottle needing filling use their tap??? I understand not wanting to get toothpaste everywhere but if you are standing next to a basin I see no problem.

I suggested this every time I went for my morning/mid afternoon brush to either blank faces or veterans turning round & cheering as we are all stood in this inefficient queue whilst someone hogs a basin (& not usually a female in her late teens/early twenties but older ones too).

I always off my free tap to the person behind, unless his got one of those huuuuuuuge & takes forever to fill up water carriers. Then I'll just offer it to the person behind.

[Festival Liam]

The people on the bus to a Shuttle bus pick up point as we got off - "Is this the train station?". We had stewards yelling at us which queue to be in. We also checked with the steward by the coach. It said on the coach where it was going. They were not happy!

[rischbrit]

Sorry if it's been said before but if has to be to people who shouted 'Alan'

It was funny in 2009, mildly amusing 2010 but this year pretty dull!!!!

[geebus]

KirstyJ, on 30 June 2011 - 11:17 PM, said:

at paul simon we decided to sit down as i had sprained my ankle and there was plenty of space. the girls next to us were lying down and moaning whenever someone stood over them and it wasnt till i stood up i saw one was LISTENING TO AN IPOD this was so ridiculous in my opinion, why go to a festival to the main stage with live music and listen to your own music?!!?!?!?!!

Perhaps she didn't like the music on that stage and was trying out some previously-downloaded music for acts on other stages?
Ok, unlikely, but not impossible

Oh and on exiting Paul Simon I saw just two people on chairs at the pinch-point.  Maybe someone had done something about it by the time I got there .

[formed a band]

It's a real retard that takes an ipod to glasto , there is no reason not to find music or make your own

[dmillburn]

Keef, on 30 June 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

Everyone who took an iPhone - you can't swap batteries and have to recharge!  

Just buy one of those cheap cases with built in battery - I did this, used the phone all weekend to meet up with people and still left the festival with loads of battery spare. I'd also bought a battery powered portable charger with me just in case but didn't need to use it at all.

Edited by dmillburn, 01 July 2011 - 09:20 AM.

[beodeejay]

LusciousLucy, on 30 June 2011 - 10:02 PM, said:

I wasnt the only one to encounter the dick family with 2 of their daughters sat very determinedly on camping chairs by the exit near Mandela as the entire Paul Simon crowd emptied. The looks of determination not to move on their faces was priceless. Not making eye contact with anyone pushing past/falling over them!

Defies belief.

At Cropredy, there is a rule of no chairs / rugs between the mixing desk & stage.  This works really well, is easy to steward and cannot be misunderstood.  Glastonbury should do this at each stage.  Just a couple of signs ( and maybe messages on screen where present)

Chairs, rugs, blankets are fine.....but not any closer than the mixing desk.  I fereely admit ( being 45 ) that if we are at the Pyramid at night ( Fri & Sat this year - until about 11 when its off to Avalon....we like to get a little base camp sorted out on the hill, then anyone who wants to go forward goes off, leaving the rest up on the hill.  This works fine, and means there aren't 6 chairs in the way down where its busy.

The Acoustic and Avalon tents do this, in effect, by not allowing chairs within the tent....so by all means sit down and listen.....but from a distance, leaving safe space ( and more of it) at the fron where people want a better view.

Simple.  So in 2013, chairs and rugs should be behind the desk/speaker towers ( incluing tarps with 8 bags, a five course meal and a pram on 3 x 3m of protected space)

[G1T]

My glasto was mercifully pretty idiot free.

Did see someone down the front in Arcadia with an umbrella up when it wasn't raining. I pointed out to her it wasn't raining, but she said it might start again  . I pointed out it was blocking loads of people's views, so she took it down, then put it up again a minute later.

Also saw someone near the front during radiohead bashing people around with a huge telephoto camera hidden in a carrier bag as he took photos, and only a public wristband on. He then told the person he was with that he was off for some closer photos, before coming back 5 minutes later happily joking 'I didn't make myself any friends down there, had to push loads of people out of the way'.

I had a radio and earpiece on at the time, so told him if he carried on doing it i'd radio through to security and tell them there was an unregistered professional photographer on site they'd probably like to talk to. He stopped.

[abdoujaparov]

beodeejay, on 01 July 2011 - 09:45 AM, said:

The Acoustic and Avalon tents do this, in effect, by not allowing chairs within the tent....so by all means sit down and listen.....but from a distance, leaving safe space ( and more of it) at the fron where people want a better view.

Not quite right. Acoustic doesnt allow chairs i the tent, but Avalon does. I asked the stewards about it at Avalon and got a "nothing we can do about it..." response, which is nonsense because there clearly is

[ethereal]

Festival idiot awards. Where to start. . .

[pinback]

Keef, on 30 June 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

Everyone who took an iPhone - you can't swap batteries and have to recharge!  

No.

dmillburn, on 01 July 2011 - 09:19 AM, said:

Just buy one of those cheap cases with built in battery - I did this, used the phone all weekend to meet up with people and still left the festival with loads of battery spare. I'd also bought a battery powered portable charger with me just in case but didn't need to use it at all.

I took a portable charger that ran off AAA batteries and my phone was still 50% charged on monday morning with no hassle whatsoever.  In fact, many of my group relied on me for meetups etc. as everyone was running low on power, and I was the one who found out who the special guests were at the park using Twitter, so I don't think I was an idiot at all.

[Pinhead]

Lucyferrr, on 30 June 2011 - 06:40 PM, said:

Not so much stupid but ignorant.

Middle of the crowd for Pulp on Saturday. Everyone was awesome. Respecting each others space, laughing joking etc. Some Hooray Henry pushes through with his obnoxious girlfriend and proceeds to lean his entire 6ft body against my 5ft frame and repeatedly elbow the girl in front of him in the head. So, I politely say "Babe? Can you stop pushing me so much because it hurts and I can't move anywhere!" he responds with "ok yah here's the thing though we are like at a festival yar and people are going to touch you yar..." I politely reminded him that out of thousands of people HE was the only one touching me and elbowing people...his response?

Well you are just an ignorant c**t!

Que gasps of horror from everyone around us and him being totally blocked from standing next to me by this awesome girl who was like "yeah...I might look little but I'm dead burley when I want to be!"  

There were f**king loads of these pubescent coked up little media w*nkers this year, usually sporting interstage wristbands, 9 o'clock shadows, shirts off, hound’s-tooth hats, and insisting on their own space in the crowds standing before stages so that they could all constantly high-five one another in a self-congratulatory orgy of arrogance. Saw a group of five of these twats whilst watching Kaiser Chiefs. Expect they ran off back to the safety of their hospitality compound afterwards, but had absolutely no respect or awareness of any of the crowd around them and how annoying they were being to them whatsoever.

[Craigston]

Keef, on 30 June 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

Everyone who took an iPhone - you can't swap batteries and have to recharge!  

You've obviously never seen the external battery packs you can get to recharge them! No need for chill and charge then...

The official app even reminded me the 808 state were on 3am Monday morning! - good job

As for the festival idiot award, it would have to be the guy in our party who did too many mushrooms (3 bags) on Friday and decided to head off to watch coldplay at 10 AM Saturday morning- how we laughed when he returned with a sheepish look on his face!

[Monkismo]

Couple of nominations from me...

1. The girl who told me that she wasn't "being funny but don't go in the crowd if you want to get out" during U2. That I had just been whacked in the chest winding me meaning that I had to get out to breathe meant nothing to her (also I'm a human being and therefore I can do what I want including getting past a U2 fan to get out to the open space). In my winded state I still had time to turn her and say "I'm not being funny but f*ck you!". Beautiful day my arse.

2. The fella on Saturday night who in a state of extreme drunkeness decided to remove his welly cos he had a stone in it. He then stumbled planting his ice white sock directly into a pool of mud. The idiotic part came when he decided to put his boot back on over his newly caked foot. I have a feeling he regretted that in the morning when he put his boots on to go for a morning dump!

3. The scouse girls stood next to me at Coldplay who danced to Fix You like they were at the Chemical Brothers set!

[Ed209]

Not really an idiot as I'm not sure what he was supposed to do, but special mention to the man in the dance village urinals on saturday night, who when walking past the urinal slipped over and was going to face plant into the piss-mud, only to save himself by putting his hand into the urinal.

Edited by Ed209, 01 July 2011 - 10:52 AM.

[LusciousLucy]

abdoujaparov, on 01 July 2011 - 09:59 AM, said:

Not quite right. Acoustic doesnt allow chairs i the tent, but Avalon does. I asked the stewards about it at Avalon and got a "nothing we can do about it..." response, which is nonsense because there clearly is

If the Acoustic doesnt allow chairs then why were there over 40 all together in one spot just in front of the mixing desk (and no staff doing anything about it?) Signs everywhere too. Luckily it wasnt a particularly busy time but even so.

[G1T]

Pinhead, on 01 July 2011 - 10:28 AM, said:

There were f**king loads of these pubescent coked up little media w*nkers this year, usually sporting interstage wristbands, 9 o'clock shadows, shirts off, hound’s-tooth hats, and insisting on their own space in the crowds standing before stages so that they could all constantly high-five one another in a self-congratulatory orgy of arrogance. Saw a group of five of these twats whilst watching Kaiser Chiefs. Expect they ran off back to the safety of their hospitality compound afterwards

I strongly suspect the reason the interstage hospitality compound is now as nice as it is is to keep these sort of people in there for as long as possible, and away from the actual festival  

[airwaves]

Saturday night, rear of the inner enclosure, dead centre, in front of my (adult) son and I

the group, including 3 / 4 women, who took it in turns to pee onto the floor - asking that we turn our backs so that we weren't seeing!!

Urghh