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Hi and welcome to he Pukkelpop thread. Late and night there are no trains, so I think that the best idea is to try to find a room for friday night in Hasselt and then move on saturday morning to Brussels. There is a free shuttle bus from the festival to Hasselt that works perfectly at night. Besides, your train journey will be free with the Pukkelpop ticket (you will receive in early summer a link from you can download your train tickets). Maybe will be cheaper a room in Hasselt than the taxi trip + the hotel night in Brussels. Feel free to ask everything you need. Here there are really nice people as @Semprini, @DDave, @Trufflehound... that have attended the festival lot of times.

The middle day is ridiculously good value.

Seetickets / Gigsandtours is excellent i think. By far my preferred ticket site - maybe its not technically great or something but for user experience its great! way better than TM I'm not on about glastonbury - thats 0.5% of their business if that

True, let's keep hope alive...

They'll look at the photos of the people who haven't paid their balance yet to decide if they should drop Avalon or SH 😂

As @Semprini says, there is a whole fleet of buses that leaves after the festival each night, but they only cover towns and villages in the local Belgian Limburg area. Places like Genk, Tongeren and Sint-Truiden are covered, but they don't go as far as Brussels. This is the list of routes they put on for last year's festival: https://2023.pukkelpop.be/nl/info/transport/met-de-bus/ The late-night trains do cover Brussels, but as @gigi21has already pointed out, they only run after the festival has ended on the Sunday night - they don't run the other days. If you can't find a place to stay in Hasselt, and don't want to fork out for a taxi to Brussels, then Genk, Tongeren or Sint-Truiden might be places to look for cheapish accommodation, then get the relevant night bus there. All three towns have railway stations for getting you to Brussels the next day.

Looking back at my photos of 2013, makes me appreciate what a truly special place Glastonbury is. I've posted some previously of Chrissie Hynde & Johnny Marr, etc but the one of Paul Carrick is my favourite.

All is calm. We don't hold with this science stuff really. All guessery and computer posturing. It rains, it doesnt rain, all the same really. Wait until the start of June and we will see what really is happening. There will be weather whatever we do. Keep the faith.

I'm sure they put on extra night buses after the main stages finish each day (2:30am or so) but don't know whether that's just to places relatively local? They don't tend to announce those until nearer the time though so for peace of mind you might be better off looking now at hotel options closer to the site. You're going to have an amazing, and no doubt long and heavy, day at the festival so you'll thank yourself at 2/3/4am when you're tucked up in bed 30 mins after leaving the festival site! Last thing you want to be doing at that time of the morning is navigating your way to Brussels...

Tomorrow according to their Facebook page.

Taken at my 1st Glasto last year - not the best pics but so many memories

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Managed to lay from my holiday without any hitches. The wife and I are officially going to our first ever Glastonbury Festival!

Very true missed out in the ballot in 2011 and found the way in via recycling and thanks the recycling gods we did. Plus I'm retired now so work after festival so am on site from Sunday before to Friday after an amazing experience and people in every way.

Everyone knows how much I adore the festival, but losing Williams Green still really hurts. There was and is no other venue that had/has that identity and curated line-up. It was like a small version of the 'New Bands Tent' that JPT was once and for many of us was a key part of our daily line-up schedule. Yes, the big bookings, especially on Thursday with so much less on around the site, became untenable. Fine. Stop booking those bands. But, that combination of upcoming bands and also daytime sets by more established artists who were playing elsewhere during the weekend (Everything Everything, Courtney Barnett etc) was unique to Glastonbury, and its passing is one small step towards the Farm feeling more like 'all the other festivals'. And that's a huge shame. With the loss of The Rabbit Hole, the only vaguely comparable daytime venue (though I do understand the reasons for its end), that type of experience at Glastonbury has taken another huge hit for those of us less interested in chart popular stuff and nostalgia acts. I truly hope they knock it out of The Park with a replacement for the ol' Hole. Ben

https://kimaltheagordon.com/#tour-dates now she has 3 consecutive dates booked in France so she is almost to be excluded...

Ah. Well I think I've done it now, whilst trying to undo something I didn't do! Doh!

Bands touring on those dates : The National, The Smile, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age,

Except the quality of the lineups...

We stay in a nearby campsite on Monday night, that gives you the opportunity to fill up before you leave for the festival!

I had problems with it this morning but it worked fine when I used the link in the email instead of going through the Ticketmaster app, site or the O2 priority app. So odd but alls well that ends well. £52 for a gig ticket even seems semi good value in a world of £120+ Arena gigs

Vodaphone incoming also … it’s all go on the competition front

Avalon and Silver Hayes tend to be the earlier ones I believe, had a quick look at The Thingy and that appears to be the case anyway.

Jesus & Mary Chain have self-confirmed for Friday, which means I'd say, huge surprise permitting, the Mountain headliners and (Thursday aside) subs and Far Out pre-midnight headliners are pretty much set for what's on the clashfinder through confirmations, available days and supposition.

Just checked that Best for Britain Survation poll and it predicts a massive Labour win in Bristol Central!

One of the paths near where I walk is covered in frogs at the moment. In the dark I have to be very careful not to squish any.

Not sure the rain is going to stop feels like it's been constant for a year

Where were they found last year? I remember one was in Didsbury in Manchester - wonder if lightning will strike twice in the same place?

they were great on west holts about ten years back I've seen them a few other times they normally only do a medley of Handsworth Revolution tracks. with a selection of other tracks of theirs - very good, and normally very slick, which they should be as they've been around for about 40 years.

As long as we get a few good weeks we'll be fine especially when temperatures start to improve but I've never wanted weather to improve so much I am seriously sick of walking in mud and rain just at home let alone on the farm. It feels like the last seriously good weeks weather we had was last years Glastonbury.

But to be on the safe side let's hope it does an about turn sooner rather than later mainly just because I am already sick of rain and mud!!

Never known them to sell out.

Hi Lisa, Full disclosure, my preference would be to just buy a ticket but cannot face the idea of watching Glastonbury on the tv so needs must and when I've missed out on a ticket I've volunteered for Oxfam in 2019, WaterAid 2023 and Avalon this year! I'm pretty squeamish when it comes to public toilets but is wasn't that bad, breath through your mouth, wear the gloves provided and never look down! Campsite is in a great spot, behind the Eavis's farmhouse, with hot showers and great catering in the next field with a subsidised bar (shared with the recycling crew) though the camping field does have quite a slope and you're packed in but everyone was friendly and respectful, but take ear plugs. Our Loo crew Shifts were 4x 6 hours, but spread over the 24 hour clock and five days so as an example we worked: Wed. 6pm - midnight, Thu. midnight to Friday 6am, Sat. 6am - noon and Sunday 6pm - midnight. But has been mentioned 'travel time' is included, so on early shift you could roll out of bed fifteen minutes before you start, sign in in the camping field and then walk to your starting point, we were SE Corner that took at least forty minutes to walk there, longer if it was crowded and then the same going home, so if you're volunteering at a far point the shift ends up being closer to four hours rather than six. You also get reasonable breaks during your shift and as been mentioned you can be in the middle of the action as you walk around the site and people are SO grateful for what you're doing, imagine the SE Corner loos at 4am, quite the spot, but tens if not hundreds of people thanked us for the cleanish loos! Of course Oxfam has it's advantages, parking next to the campsite, more space etc., I had eight hour shifts on a quiet vehicle gate that did drag, but I could breath through my nose... Either way you're in the fields and not watching on the tv, good luck! Steve

im also heading in solo this year. looking forward to being free to experiance the festival in my own way, but it would be nice to find a group of solo/just nice people to camp around.

They headlined during the swamps that were 2005, 2011 and 2016. It stopped raining after they played in 2011, Sunday was great weather. They did headline in 2002 but they were a late replacement so the weather gods didn’t have time to prepare the ground for them.

Primavera Sound is next month!

I'm going solo again this year, a friend turned down the opportunity to come over volunteering to try and get his new misses in with him....bit mad if you ask me but hey. May well make an appearance at the ridge and furrow if I make it past the brothers bar.

The 90's were pretty cool though. Culminating in 1999 when all the big films, fight club, office space, The matrix, American Beauty all effectivley having the same theme. When life is so stable it becomes boring, you go mad and do something to sabotage it.

Yes, but only if it's expired

It’s almost like Glastonbury don’t have an infinite budget and some acts won’t budge on their appearance fees. Not every act thinks the festival is as important as we do!

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They do but its not the same level there is a big, big gulf in stature between playing the emerging talent comp and being booked low down on woodsies or park Panic shack for example played truth stage last year, and would have been a perfect candidate for a williams green show. The smaller stages dont book the same way WG did. Grove played greenpeace, same applies. Both were on the thursday which got them a good crowd which was nice. but neither stage does specifically what WG did. it was the place you caught amyl and the sniffers or yard act before they made the step up.

Happy to endorse all those suggestions. Alvvays are my favourite band and their third record really was quite something.

Not acts which I've learned from the poster but some smaller names that are really worth checking out.. - Soccer Mommy - She has done several albums 90's american indie rock sound. Supported The National at Ally Pally last year FFO Phoebe Bridgers. - Bar Italia - released debut last year I think. Post punk indie - FFO Fontaines DC/Idles - NewDad - I think they they have one album and some ep's - dream pop/Indie - FFO big thief, lush, wolf alice - Mannequin Pussy - new album was out a couple of weeks ago. Punky but then also shoegazy as well. FFO Idles, Ride - Barry can't swim - Debut album was out last year. sort of "lofi" Dance music, in a similar vibe to Fred again. FFO Fred Again -Alvvays - On about album 3 I think. Jangly indie pop FFO c86 bands I know lot's of indie there but I do listen to a lot of indie 🙂 also, I know people like Squid have been around a while but they are great post punk indie and Lankum was one of the albums of last year, dark folk I guess. I know I bang on about Nia Archives a bit but she really is fantastic. Jungle music very 90's influenced.

Yeah, but he's nowhere near as popular since he's stopped playing dubstep

#nofilter