Dick move of your festival......

[MACDrob]

I think the worst thing I saw was the behaviour of the camp next to us, they did nothing majorly wrong but they treated their camp like a landfill and it was a right state from the first night onwards, the girls clearly a bit embarrassed out the state of their camp were so passive and did nothing to want to upset the boys in the camp, only attempting to tidy things up while they were passed out, sexist jokes from the boys about giving the boys Viagra so they could still get laid while at the festival. Oh they will be fine as long as they see the odd band, get supplied drugs and have the pleasure of getting laid.

I had a few self important types barge into me, one doing a full 360 spin to find their mate, slam into me and not even apologise. Had a few people walk past me in the crowd with elbows out which isn't the way to do it.

Generally though people were lovely that I spoke to, many in great spirits, few self important types roaming around but that's the same at any festival.

[shoptildrop]

2 hours ago, RyanS said:

Unfortunately, we had things stolen from our tent as we slept on the Thursday night.  I've heard about that happening before but hasn't happened to me until now.

I usually sleep with anything valuable inside my sleeping bag but, for some reason, I'd opted to put my wallet under my pillow (inside the pillowcase).  Woke up to find the tent open, my wallet gone.  Girlfriend's money, cigarettes and alcohol also taken.

Bit of a grim start to the Friday.  Felt responsible for having not hidden things properly, for somehow not hearing this happen and waking up but the worst feeling was knowing that somebody had been climbing over our sleeping bodies to rummage under our pillows while we were sleeping.  Felt a bit uncomfortable after that.

Fortunately, we had a debit card hidden elsewhere that wasn't taken so had access to additional cash.  We decided to very quickly draw a line under it and refuse to let it ruin our weekend.  We had a beer and headed off to Hacienda Classical which cheered us up very quickly!

I'm so sorry to hear that, we had the same last year - so this year for the first 3 days I put everything in the lock ups on the way back to the tents for peace of mind... personally I was more bothered that someone had been so close to my person tan the stolen items

Glad it didn't ruin your weekend

[FakeEmpire]

2 minutes ago, shoptildrop said:

I'm so sorry to hear that, we had the same last year - so this year for the first 3 days I put everything in the lock ups on the way back to the tents for peace of mind... personally I was more bothered that someone had been so close to my person tan the stolen items

Glad it didn't ruin your weekend

Thank you   Sorry to hear that it had happened to you previously.

We'll definitely be using the lock ups in future.  I feel a bit silly for having not done so before but, as I say, I always put everything in my sleeping bag or pillow case and tend to be a light sleeper so didn't really think I'd ever have an issue.  Agree that the real concern is how close they were to us rather than the theft.

Fortunately, we just focused on the fact that the majority of people at Glastonbury are friendly and we'd been excited for too long to let someone like that ruin our favourite weekend of the year!  

[quilani]

Also not one particular person's dick move but the queuing system for the temple on saturday night was a disgrace.

No crowd control whatsoever for the "queue" to get into the actual queue, everybody completely crushed against each other. Security shouting at those at the front to stop pushing, not realising we had hundreds of people behind crushing us. Was worth the queue though 

Edited June 28, 2017 by quilani

[quilani]

During The Four Owls on Thursday night, stood on the ledge at the side, my friend felt a warm liquid trickle down his leg. Guy next to him was trying to piss in a can and missing. Managed to keep our cool but told him very firmly where to go and he ended up promising he wasn't to piss anywhere but the toilets for the rest of the weekend. He even tried offer me his pissy hand as he trudged away tail between legs!

[karl3]

1 hour ago, Copperface said:

Yep. However, the counterfeit ones had small differences/mistakes, which made it all the harder to check. That looks like a genuine one.

I was shown a fake EPO one by a lady from Oxfam on my Wednesday night shift and I have to say it was a very good copy. The only differences I could spot were the font was slightly smaller and they didn't have individual numbers on them but the colouring and pattern looked to be spot on. 

[Matt87]

Even if you have a fake EPO you still need a ticket to get into the site in the first place, right? Or, are the same people using fake tickets?

[nikkic]

There was a total idiot of a guy during The Killers who gave a couple of girls a bit of a dressing down. 

The girls were about 18-19 and clearly very excited to see The Killers and had been talking about it for 30 minutes or so before the gig. You could see the guy was annoyed as he kept looking around, they weren't doing anything wrong at all, just perhaps a little screechy and excitable for his middle aged liking. 

They were having fun and bobbing away until about 3-4 songs in when they had a chat of about 20s about how much they were loving it and couldn't wait for Mr Rightside. 

The guy then turned around and started having a go telling them to "fucking keep it down" and that "the youth of today don't know how to enjoy themselves". 

Totally ovestepped the mark. 

They were visibly upset and left not long after. 

[amfy]

4 minutes ago, Matt87 said:

Even if you have a fake EPO you still need a ticket to get into the site in the first place, right? Or, are the same people using fake tickets?

EPOs are issued in your worker campsite or worker coach into the festival, not on the gate. You're the only ones who don't need to do the 'pass out' thing with your ticket every time you go in and out.

The fact that the EPO wristbands were the ones with an issue this year creates a few problems for festival staff, because we intermittently kept being funnelled into the main queues so we had to wait behind people who were being given pass outs and having tickets re-checked. This meant you had to allow alot of extra time to get to a shift.

sometimes they created another lane for us, but the checking was much more thorough than anything I've experienced on customer wristbands or tickets. They were really checking them thoroughly. No problem with this - mine was real!

[Matt87]

6 minutes ago, amfy said:

EPOs are issued in your worker campsite or worker coach into the festival, not on the gate. You're the only ones who don't need to do the 'pass out' thing with your ticket every time you go in and out.

The fact that the EPO wristbands were the ones with an issue this year creates a few problems for festival staff, because we intermittently kept being funnelled into the main queues so we had to wait behind people who were being given pass outs and having tickets re-checked. This meant you had to allow alot of extra time to get to a shift.

sometimes they created another lane for us, but the checking was much more thorough than anything I've experienced on customer wristbands or tickets. They were really checking them thoroughly. No problem with this - mine was real!

Ah I see. My friend had a real EPO wristband, but I didn't know about the 'pass out' rule for them. I must say that I seemed to see a LOT of orange wristbands though. Didn't Worthy View also have orange?

[_x_]

thanks to the c*nt who was walking past behind me who gave me a cigarette burn on my elbow didn't say sorry or anything and they'd already gone by the time i realised what it was... still really sore

Edited June 28, 2017 by _x_

[amfy]

There is a lot of genuine EPOs. Oxfam, Shelter, Festaff, Recycling crew.....

I was with Shelter and we had had about 15 bars with 3 shifts a day of at least 6 staff (my bar at The Glade was 18 per shift) - That's a lot of staff. Oxfam were staff all the gates - directing in car parks, staffing roadblocks, checking wristbands. 

I don't know about Worthy view but I would be surprised because the EPOs give you access to crew bars, and I can't see how that would apply to Worthy View. Aren't the numbers of staff around 30-40,000? That's around a quarter of the people on site so it would seem a lot!

[BambooShanks]

12 minutes ago, Matt87 said:

Ah I see. My friend had a real EPO wristband, but I didn't know about the 'pass out' rule for them. I must say that I seemed to see a LOT of orange wristbands though. Didn't Worthy View also have orange?

Yeah I remember seeing a few worthy view guys with the orange epo as well.

The story I heard is that this guy got hold of an epo band, flew straight to China or Singapore, got 2000 of them made and came back to sell them on Thursday. If nothing else, you've got to respect the entrepreneurial spirit. 

I had a dick free festival, the worst I saw was some guy getting chased down by security for pulling down the security guards pants

[polgara]

Worthy view definitely had EPOs (I spent three shifts up there checking them) - the main difference was a WV at the top

[comagirl]

My only real gripe was chatterers during Radiohead. Of course I don't expect people to stand in silence for a festival headliner but was standing next to a group who were just shamelessly talking non-stop through every song. Someone told them to shut up, there was a small confrontation and they carried on. I managed to squeeze my way slightly deeper into the crowd to get away from them, only to end up next to another group doing lines of coke off their sunglasses and talking non stop. Didn't totally ruin the experience but definitely stopped the set being a real highlight for me.

[Arkady]

20 minutes ago, Kinkyinuit said:

dick free festival, the worst I saw was some guy getting chased down by security for pulling down the security guards pants

Make your own jokes

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Both dicks I encountered swiftly recognised their dickitude and all was well. I'm sort of fond of them.

The first was on Thur evening on the railway near The Common.  A guy had just stuck his wee chap through the wooden fence to pee.  As I went by I adopted my best schoolmarm tone and said "Really?! There ARE toilets, you know!" and carried on.  At which point his mate took up my cause and they bickered all the way along to the next longdrops with his mate just repeating "she's right though" over and over.  As he scurried to the loo his mate thanked me for checking him.

Second was a glittery girl who came bursting through the crowd during Radiohead bellowing into her phone.  It was during the quiet bit of Exit Music. She stopped smack bang in the middle of our group. She got more seconds than I'd normally give before I asked snappily if she was staying or going and moving aside for her in order to make that an appealing notion.  She began to argue her case but she got stereo Paddington Hard Stare (RIP) from us and just wandered off mid-sentence.  I was grateful cos I really didn't want to go off on her and I didn't have to.  Thanks chick!

[Jackmypie]

Probably the only thing I thought was dickish was the guy pissing on the fence on the other side of the west holts stage at about 4:00am Sunday when there were empty long drops about a 10 second walk down the track.

[mandolin]

I was going to post the same sort of stuff about those who feel they are more entitled to a good spot than the rest of us and then I remembered that I've actually seen that sort of behaviour at every festival and gig I've been to in the last 10 years.

The one thing that really irritated me though we two mid-twenties couples right at the front of Bimble Inn for Rodney Brannigan.  Had no problem with them being at the front, they got there before anyone else so fair play to them.  BUT they each spent the entire set on their phones facebooking or similar.  Didn't notice one of them look towards the stage at any point.  It was the rudeness towards the act that got me more than anything.

[Clareno7]

 

1 hour ago, polgara said:

Worthy view definitely had EPOs (I spent three shifts up there checking them) - the main difference was a WV at the top

I was at Worthy View and we had orange EPOs...and we were informed by the person who gave us our wristband that we could access crew bars.  We didn't try though, not with so much other stuff going on!

[amfy]

You should have - they were really nice, great facilities, atmosphere and music! Much better than I expected!

[pie_and_a_pint]

2 hours ago, Matt87 said:

Even if you have a fake EPO you still need a ticket to get into the site in the first place, right? Or, are the same people using fake tickets?

Nope. Litterpickers, for example, don't have a ticket. We swap a letter for our EPO on our first entry, then we can (if we wish) come and go as we please.

[char90]

5 hours ago, Drabod said:

One from me (I still feel bad about this) Hammered night, walking out of a busy crowd at night next minute i was face down on the floor. Turns out i had kneed a poor girl who was sat down in the face. Checked she was ok but she was in tears. My knees bruised. So i expect her face to be. Sorry again if your reading this!.

Also the absolute  weirdo we stumbled across at 6am who decided that he needed to inform us all later in the morning. That he use to "play" with his sister when they were younger... I hope you get the jist.... You weirdo. 

Was the kneeing near Arcadia? If so we saw this and went to help her afterwards. She was sore and a bit cried up but she was ok after a bit! 

[Drabod]

13 minutes ago, char90 said:

Was the kneeing near Arcadia? If so we saw this and went to help her afterwards. She was sore and a bit cried up but she was ok after a bit! 

No it was Coming out of West Holts i think.. Glad the other kneeing situation is ok too!

[D-Low]

Big crowd at The blues Thursday night. Group of about 4 lads ramming their way through the crowd and one of them physically pushes my shoulder out the way, I obviously react and push my shoulder back and then actively stand my ground to not let him through (all he had to do was ask nicely/say excuse me or lightly tap me as any normal person would do). His friend then squares up to me and says "is there a problem here" before another in the group shouts to him leave it mate it's Glastonbury. At least one of them had sense.

Also people who throw things in the crowd. Never liked it. Please answer me, what is the actual fucking point in throwing anything in the crowd? What do you gain from it? Does it really enjoy your enjoyment? I'm genuinely interested. Someone lobbed a can or bottle (I presume) during the Courteeners and it hit the girl directly behind me square in the head. Fell over. We all turned around and her head is pissing blood. We quickly made a path to the barrier and security helped her over. Completely ruined her festival I'd assume. And all for what? I genuinely don't get what you're gaining from it. Even at gigs when they throw piss etc. Piss in a cup by all means but why not just put it on the floor and kick it over if you really really must go. Throwing it just dumbfounds me. Absolute scumbags.