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Ah i love the band kylie minogue

This is a great one, 90mb! https://storage.googleapis.com/p-oaf-ibe-back-00e-strapi-uploads/.ImageGallery/2023/Pléiades Neo - Glastonbury festival.jpg?fbclid=IwAR1Mr-JUooclt-p43B8oBkAWFL87vg46Rc8QkPeqKsFayNlC4Ae_e9NKOvY

I bought these in 2007 from Ian Gill Sculpture in The Greenfields. One is a stork and the other is an acorn leaf bird bath. My mum died in 2006 and my dad gave me her secret money stash he found in her purse. These both represent my mum, the stork being the carrier of babies and she carried me. And one of her sayings was "From Little Acorns, Mighty Oak Trees Grow". They always make me think of her even after all this time! 💗

Would remind people that most competitions haven't closed yet, so not the time to be giving up. With at least a couple (BBC/WaterAid still to come). Specifically - Vodafone Social Media - 5 winners of 2 tickets via Prize Draw - Enter via comment on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram - Closes 21st April - https://xd.wayin.com/display/container/dc/728bb45f-f701-454b-bfcc-f743c2dcab04/details Vodafone VeryMe - 100 winners of 2 tickets via Instant Win. - Vodafone customers only, enter via MyVodafone / VeryMe app. - Closes 21st April - Details at https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/press-release/veryme-rewards-customers-can-win-tickets-glastonbury/ Co-op / Worthy Farm Cheddar - 10 winners of 2 tickets via Prize Draw. - Automatic entry when purchasing pack from a Co-op Group Store and scanning membership card. - Closes 23rd April - Details at https://www.coop.co.uk/competitions/glastonbury-ticket-competition Co-op / Brooklyn Pilsner - 6 winners of 2 tickets via Prize Draw. - Automatic entry when purchasing pack from a Co-op Group Store and scanning membership card. - Closes 23rd April - Details at https://www.coop.co.uk/competitions/brooklyn-buy-scan-win The Guardian - 10 winners of 2 tickets via Prize Draw in a "nominate a friend" format. - Enter via online form - Closes 28th April - Details at https://www.theguardian.com/info/2024/apr/15/nominate-a-friend-to-go-to-glastonbury-festival-2024 White Claw - 1 winner of 2 tickets via Prize Draw. - Enter via online form - Closes 8th May - Details at https://uk.whiteclaw.com/pages/glastonbury TimeOut / Brothers Cider - 1 winner of 2 tickets via Prize Draw - Enter via online form - Closes 11th May - Details at https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/win-a-pair-of-tickets-to-glastonbury-festival Brothers Cider - 10 winners of 2 tickets via Instant Win. - Enter via online form using code from marked cans, available at "most major supermarkets". - Closes 31st May - Details at https://brotherscider.co.uk/blogs/blog/win-glastonbury-festival-tickets Hunter Boots - 1 winner of 2 tickets via Prize Draw. - Enter via following them on Instagram, and commenting. Additional entry by doing the same on TikTok. - Closes 31st May - Details at https://www.instagram.com/hunterbootsuk/p/C5RA668IpoQ/ Co-op / Clipper Teas - 5 winners of 2 tickets via Prize Draw. - Enter via online form using code from marked pack, available at Co-op. - Closes 31st May - Details at https://www.clipper-teas.com/prize-draw/ Oxfam / Tony's Chocolonely - 5 winners of 2 tickets via Instant Win - Golden Tickets hidden in marked bars sold via Oxfam - Closes 21st June or when 5 tickets found - Details at https://tonyschocolonely.com/uk/en/glastonbury

No Grimes DJ set. Gutted.

I am in! Thanks to a lovely Efests user! 😭

There's something perversely fair about the Glastonbury ticket drama in my opinion. Those who really want a ticket will generally hang around longer to try and get one. While those who are half-arsed just "trying" will drop out after half an hour or so. I don't know, I'm sure it will change one day, but I personally don't have any complaints.

Excellent! In 2017 we were passing back through the Unfair Ground late on Friday night when one of the “carney” girls ushered us over to her fair game. The game was to throw a crushed can into a tiny slot which surprisingly I managed to get it in (in my state). She quickly rummaged through a draw then pulled me over the counter and softly whispered in my ear “here’s your prize, it’s a cast of Michael Eavis’s asshole”

I'm in lads! Inject that techno in my veeeeeeeins!!!!

This is a really important issue. The world is looking in disgust at a state which is currently killing women and children by the tens of thousands and weaponising the term 'antisemitism' to try to silence any principled criticism of it. It's incredibly depressing to see how effective this tactic has been - the world has been cowed in its criticism of Israel's barbarous acts for fear of being branded antisemite. Even on this forum, you can see the tactic working: the cowards that spend their lives in the political discussion section have long been falling over themselves to brand anyone who asks 'surely we can criticise the actions of a state without being called racist?' as racists. It's not just Paul Currie - there are many highly-principled, decent people who've been taken down by these false claims of antisemitism. One of the most outrageous is the Guardian's political cartoonist, Steve Bell, who for many years has been an outspoken critic of tyrants and butcherers, and someone who no sane person would ever accuse of racism. Yet, when the heat was applied, The Guardian backed down and sacked him. I'll support any pressure on Glastonbury to rethink this cowardly and wrong decision. It's tempting to just duck out of this debate for fear of also being called racist. The following video, which I've linked to before on here, explains why keeping quiet about this issue might give you an easy life, but is, in fact, just displaying cowardice in the face of the real right-wing bigots:

Blimey Neil. Someone asked for a quote and I posted it. I don't care about the downvote (but thanks to those who have upvoted me) but this is a bit of an odd response to a fairly innocuous post. Let's just be clear - I couldn't disagree more with Frank Turner's comments there.

I swear my expectations were low and they still managed to underwhelm.

Well you could keep a lenor bottle by the side of your bed. Or wake up needing a pee but wait till the last moment and then rush to get dressed, with wellies and run to your bathroom. Buy some expensive food and pop it in a small cardboard container and believe it's a proper meal. Leave some cans out to warm up then drink them at 11 in the morning. Find a set you want to see on TV then get some mates around to take a load of coke and talk all the way through it Neck some laxatives then go somewhere crowded and try and get to a toilet. Arrange to be somewhere great, but actually be somewhere not so good and remember the good thing nearly when finishes. Get a branch from nearby tree and whittle a spoon. Buy old forks then spend an hour fashioning them into a mobile. Get friends to link hands and keep walking past you whilst some stand on your feet. Pop to the park and mutter w*nkers under your breath to anyone on a blanket. Get a friend to dress in a leotard and recite crap poetry Monday find a car tailback and join the end Walk around your house muttering it's not as good as it used to be.

I've heard this before but, as a Scouser who's been four times in a row (with my fifth upcoming 🥳) I think this is just copium from people who fail to get tickets. The reason you see (or you think you see) loads of Scousers round the site is a combination of: Glastonbury having semi-mythic status amongst Scousers. I was always told this was because the security firms all came from Liverpool in the 00s (presumably ex-gangland/door staff?) and spread the word about how great it was back home. Simply put, it just seems to mean more to people in Liverpool, and we're a bunch who like to follow the trends of others. Scousers stand out. The accent plus the uniform mixing sportswear with hippy chic makes us clearly identifiable. I'm sure there's also thousands of Londoners, for instance, but they're less sartorially homogeneous, so stand out less. Plus, being the trendsetters we are, it's caught on outside of Liverpool too - so a good chunk of the people you visually clock as Scousers may well not be, but it makes you think there's more of us than there are. Possibly linked to point 1, I think Scousers (especially the young ones) have fewer qualms about getting in via unorthodox methods. Liverpool is a little village, and the odds of you knowing someone who knows someone who can get you in the back of a van are pretty high. Linked to point 3, a lot of Scousers are quite happy to put down hundreds, if not thousands to get hold of a VIP ticket or to buy a ticket off someone who looks like a bit like them. Our flash-the-cash culture, being (unfortunately!) the credit capital of Britain and the legion of young Scouse men who seem to carry wads of cash for reasons I couldn't possibly speculate on all engender this. So I'd say all of the above in combination are probably the reason you see more Scousers on site rather than a sinister cabal hoarding all the tickets.

Got straight in for Thursday tickets from my Dublin hotel room at 5.59. Bring on the guinness!

So one of my friends won the Chilly’s competition! Her + 5 friends. Her and her partner already had tickets but her other 4 guests didn’t so she’s done well there!

Loving my dinner tonight 🥰😂😩

I'm relatively new here, and this might make me unpopular, but here goes: As a left-wing Jew one concern I have about this year's Glastonbury is the likelihood that I'll be exposed to the combination of ignorance and antisemitism that has been allowed into the open, particularly on the British left, in the last six months. That's not to say that Israel's government, military, settlement policies etc etc don't deserve strong criticism and Palestinians strong support, and I am expecting to see both, but people have to be very careful with their language if they want to avoid causing offense. At Coachella for example towards the end of Young Fathers' set Graham Hastings shouted "Ceasefire now!" and "Free Palestine!". I don't really have an issue with that, but I'd say that ideally it should be something like: Ceasefire now - Free the hostages - Overthrow Hamas - Free Palestine. Hastings didn't say anything that suggests he supports Hamas or that he does not support innocent Israelis, but I did find the omissions curious (and I find the perception among some on the left that Hamas are defending the oppressed rather than another means of oppression completely bizarre). Really I think if someone with a significant public profile wants to state their opinion they should ideally make the effort to actually form one, something cohesive and suggestive of independent thought and genuine conviction, rather than just say a couple of random slogans. With Paul Currie, I think he clearly handled that moment poorly, but nothing I have read has remotely convinced me it demonstrated that he is an antisemite. I also have very profound issues with the Campaign Against Antisemitism's methodology. "We have contacted Paul Currie for comment", as they put it in their initial release about the incident, is nowhere near good enough, given the potential (and actual) impact of that release on Currie's career. There is real and rational fear of rising antisemitism in the British Jewish community, and while intending to protect them from the antisemitism the CAA also sometimes seem willing to weaponise the fear. Finally, I hope people avoid the temptation to make inflammatory and unnecessary comments, such as the one I've quoted above. It isn't necessarily antisemitic, but there was no need in the context of the rest of the post to make it at all and it seems, at best, wilfully provocative. Happy to discuss any of this either online or over a pint on the farm.

aaaaah yes... the first of many posters that list 99.9% that i never heard of!

Thanks guys! I really, REALLY want to get @Lucy92there. We are long overdue finally meeting and enjoying a cider. I think I'm going to go for it guys 🤪

Nothing will ever top my sheer shock when Macca said "and from the East coast of America.. Bruce Springsteen!" Hadn't even considered it as a possibility and we basically cried.

Look at me go................. I might be on holiday but here is the updated clashfinder. Extra act every day on The Meadow so guessing it opens earlier. Woodland also has an extra act Fri and Sun so times taken from Saturday. CODA is total guesswork apart from the comedy. As and when I get more info I will update it. https://clashfinder.com/s/beardedtheory2024

So are we leaving Naked Sunday as a surprise then

It would certainly make me more comfortable if you did, as so much of the “peace” coalition has people who very much support Hamas, and who very much do not care about what happens to the Jews of Israel, and who are very much anti-Semitic. So, yes, mentioning you support Israel’s right to exist, that you are against Hamas, that you are not for the murder of Jews living in Israel, yes I would personally appreciate that. (But with your use of the phrase, “open air prison,” I won’t hold my breath.) I’m fairly nervous about Glastonbury this year. There’s a real carelessness in leftist statements on the war, they seem to be completley unaware about anti-semistism, both within their coalition and within themselves. I’m probably going to completely avoid Shangri-La and the newly named “Peace” stage, as I quite like Glastonbury, but am fairly certain some areas of the fest and the acts on it will be drifting into anti-Semitic rhetoric this year as I’ve been watching the whole left do this, and I’d be trepidatious wearing or showing anything that identified myself as Jewish in those areas for fear of being “confronted” by a stranger about “how I feel” about Israel, which, by the way, is anti-Semitic - to see someone recognizably Jewish (wearing a Star of David necklace, for example). and starting an aggressive conversation about Israel with them (which is happening a lot to people in leftist spaces that dare show themselves like that, by the way). I followed the Corbin movie last year and was happy it got reinstated (or was never removed, seemed like it may have just been some confusion). I’m all for these things being discussed, but yes the flags and slogans and even some of these posts and their language do make me a bit uncomfortable and nervous (though I also appreciate the posts here in support). I was, however sad about that Russian DJ (Nina Kraviz) being removed from Arcadia in 2022, though. Because of a whisper campaign about her views. Everyone here seemed fine with that, which I thought was unfortunate. And while I’m also against this man being cancelled for this incident, I’m also fairly nervous about acts making Jewish people very uncomfortable or even feel unsafe with carelessly aggressive rhetoric, which makes it hard for me to want to petition the festival to get him back.

I’m in!!!! Mate of ours got through pretty quickly. I was still trying for some of the E and D team and didn’t get a sniff. Including full sale and resales I think I’ve attempted about 13-14 times now and secured tickets once. Luckily I have friends with a better strike rate. Glasto number 10, here we go!

I had about 30 chrome windows refreshing every 2.1 seconds. Got in about 9:09. Absolutely buzzing, its the first time I've managed to get tickets since 2017

Just typed 126 shortcodes into Mac … 2 of those spaces … let’s go get some green gang

One better! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FEH1pkzjE8Cy1AlQSHAtQPC80cgnRjfVr5QYWJETJH4/edit?usp=sharing all help appreciated :)

I've got one of these in my garden

Glastonbury, like all good socialist organisations, rewards hard work, charges you a fortune to get in, and builds a big wall around itself to keep out undesirables.

There's no point in having a mind if you can't change it. We'd all do well to acknowledge when people do it for the better. ☺️ Ben

3rd sale in a row where I didn't need a ticket and I managed to get some for others. I was done and dusted by 18:02 tonight. Hoping my karma points are full for the next time I'm in need

Managed to get myself a Thursday coach ticket! Going solo at the moment but trying for 4 in the general resale on Sunday so fingers crossed. Totally avoided this part of the site for the last 6 months. Good to be back!

Arlo Parks confirms for Friday. There's been a few confirmations and other new dates recently so I've updated the Clashfinder to suit.

Unpopular opinion. I'm old and I love Kylie, she's a national treasure. Can't wait to see her at Sziget. But, I would still have preferred The Killers, No Doubt, RHCP, Maneskin, even Catfish and the Bottlemen. Because live music is all about music being played live, by musicians who laboured for months to write the perfect song and are now getting the chance to share it with thousands of people, who are in awe of the skill and ability on display that they don't possess themselves. There are JUST enough acts announced across all stages to ensure I'll have a pretty decent Sziget. But it is absolutely the last time I buy tickets without seeing the line-up first.

Okay, I have nothing against Kiley, but I cannot stress that enough, that we don’t have any bands as headliner. More so, not even as a subheadliner. Looking at all the bands touring around in August, it’s a disgrace.

I prefer to live in a land of make believe where I can day dream about how I'd deal with minor little clashes only to be crushed by the harsh reality of choosing between my 2 favourite acts when the real timetable is actually announced.

Hi there. We got Oxfam places in 2019 and again last year having failed to get tickets in the main sale and resale. Both years we got them long after the first spots went up. In 2019 (and this is no exaggeration) we literally had the Oxfam Festivals page open on our PCs all day during working hours for about 4 weeks in the May, just constantly refreshing the page. We managed to get 6 spaces during those 4 weeks. Last year Oxfam announced on their socials on 28th April (I checked back over my groups whatsapp messages :)) that they would be releasing some more stewarding places on the following Tuesday. The following Tuesday rolled around and they were gone within about 45 seconds. We refreshed the page constantly for the rest of the day and we finally got the 2 spaces we needed at about 3pm. So ... check their socials daily for announcements, you never know. And if there is another release of spaces be very prepared and even if there is a sold out message DON'T GIVE UP !!!! Failed payments can and do happen and the spaces will become available again. Best of luck .... I really hope it happens for you. Having been in your shoes those 2 times I feel your pain but persevere and be prepared to lose hours / days to this and hopefully it will pay off for you.

Get out of here with your facts, we need 300 pages of speculation and theories to decide if it's going to be muddy or not.

He dreamed of going, would watch it on tv every year and never got to (we were going to do it the year I didn’t get tickets but he passed away before we could go/get them in the resale) so I thought maybe doing a plant or something means in some way he’s always there.

Re Chinese bots. Did that definitely happen? I've seen no evidence that happened. Is that just random speculation? genuine question. Re. being allocated a place in a queue - will that be less fair, as in people will utilise bots/vpns to have a million devices attempting to join a queue at the same time? (forgive my lack of technical speak/knowledge) Re. it favouring big groups - yes, but that's part of the determination/effort surely? None of us actually know 70 people who are going, but spending time connecting with friends of friends, joining facebook groups/forums to increase your group size....yeah that's a huge ballache to do, but that's part of why the current system is the least worst, no? It rewards ballache!

I understand why you would feel more comfortable with that but the reality is that's not how it works. You can see that clearly from the fact that it doesn't cut both ways. There are many Israelis who don't care at all about what happens to the people of Palestine, and are very much Islamophobic. Yet in the immediate aftermath of 7 October, very few people were saying "this is a travesty, but we need to acknowledge Palestine deserves to exist and Gaza has been treated very badly by Israel." And those that did were (rightly I think at that point) called out, it really not being the time. Because generally, most people who just don't want people dying, will deal with the immediate tragedy in front of them. Right now, that's the genocide happening in Gaza. On 7 October, it was the terrorist attack in Israel. That people want these things to stop, or are reacting to them, doesn't mean they don't acknowledge the overall situation is more complicated than that. (And there will also be people there who absolutely don't believe in Israel's right to exist, and that doesn't mean they hate Jewish people either)

Ran the marathon.

For most of the conflicts in the world during much of my life I tend to think I'd like to ask for a ceasefire. Everything else comes once folks aren't killing each other. I appreciate I'm a simplistic old hippy, although to be honest that's always been quite consistent with going to this festival.

Almost the opposite for me. Gave my white top hat (that I've had for ages) to the youngster sitting on her dad's shoulders towards the end of Elton last year. Didn't see that I'd need it again and she was enamored. The beaming smile (once her mom said is was OK to take it) will be my keepsake.

Thank you! It was smoother than expected, hopefully the rest of the group (myself included) can get tickets on Sunday

I'm available to help on Thursday, happy to pay with my own card in the interest of speed and speak to whoever I'm successful for separately to sort the money afterwards. I have some friends I am trying for in general sale. Haven't added them to any spreadsheets as in honesty - as it's their first time even trying for tickets - I think the ticket process is blowing their minds enough before I even try and explain any of our spreadsheets. If we manage to get them tickets early on in the Sunday sale though I'm happy to try for any spreadsheets here then too.

Need Blur to realise they shouldn't end the tour at Coachella and do a quick Churnup at Glasto.