Jelly Belly
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Apologies if this has been asked a million times previously but I don't get on too regularly but what is the likelihood of being allowed to have a look around the site when the festival isn't on?
Myself and my wife are taking our 20 month old Daughter to Cornwall in July and looking for a one night stop off in the Glastonbury area to break the journey up from the North West and thought it would be nice to take her down there for a stroll about. Are they really strict when it comes to who they allow into the fields?
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I haven't been since 2011 after going each time from 1997 (technically was there last year but turned out my tickets were fake and didn't get in) But this is the one year I have not been bothered at all by the fact I am not going. The festival is bigger than it's ever been and with the cost thrown in I just don't think that it's worth it anymore especially with the line up as poor as it is this year.
Also like a previous person said, the crowd demographic has changed a lot since the BBC got on board. It used to be quite an Alternative scene but these days the type of person attending would not have been seen dead there during the 1990's. They were more likely to be seen on an 18-30's holiday in Benidorm getting smashed on cheap Alcopops.
Green Man and End of The Road look quality so i'll personally be looking to choose between one of those two.
I do hope that everyone who goes has an amazing time though.
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It used to be.
I'd definitely have to agree with you on this.
My first Glastonbury was 1997 and went annually (pretty much) up to 2011. Before the use of mobile phones you were unaware of any outside news and it took a couple of days before you caught up when you returned home. It was as close to being in the Big Brother House that you could get without having to be a fame hungry stain on humanity.
Had Michael Jackson died pre-2000 it would have been passed off as the annual Glastonbury celebrity death rumour and pretty much ignored until you returned home.
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I pre-ordered the Vinyl and trying to resist listening to the streams so apart from the two singles which I love I haven't heard the rest of the album.
I have tickets for the Manchester show in February at Manchester Albert Hall which for anyone who hasn't been is a fantastic new venue. I saw Tame Impala play there and it's an atmospheric, intimate venue which will be a superb setting for a band like Interpol.
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Got in easily, didn't look like the original ticket holder in the slightest. He was 21 with jet black hair I'm 43 with quite a lot of grey... Was near the front of the queue at 8am Wednesday for the initial rush, being tall I can see who is looking at the tickets closely from a bit of a distance so the people I went too didn't even look at the PIC. Paid face value for the ticket, wouldn't pay more and if I hadn't got in would have hung around until another method presented itself.
OP, it was obviously tempting, if there is ever another time there are always people selling tickets at face value after the return deadline, I've known a fair few people who have used others tickets with no problem, not that that is any guarantee of course. You just need to wait until the tickets are being delivered to people.
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I've done the campervan thing about three times now and once you get used to having to go slightly off site each night to the van and tackle the beastly hill it's absolutely fine. 2007 was our turning point, the luxury of having somewhere to sit in the dry, sleep on a real mattress and not have to carry tents, drinks bags etc from the car park far out weighs the negatives. The issue of the Campervan ticket isn't too bad when you split it between those staying in the campervan and you also get a fair bit of room around the campervan where a couple of mates can erect their tents to sleep in so everyone's a winner really.
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Awful story but a little disappointed, considering there were other victims of the same scam, that Glastonbury didn't let you in as a gesture of goodwill. I suspect of Eavis had caught wind of the situation, he would have got you access rather than sending you away.
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That's terrible, but I have to ask what the hell were you thinking?
I've started a thread about it just to warn others from being tempted in future years. It all seemed legit(ish) and we put trust in someone it now appears that we shouldn't have, we were idiots but desperate to go, took the gamble and lost. It's safe to say that we won't be making the same mistake twice.
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Fair enough if your doing this to warn people but I would have thought dont trust anyone who says "I know a guy who can get you into Glastonbury, just give me money, meet me there and your in" would be common knowledge now.
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Not being funny but I dont have much sympathy for you.
If someone offered me Glastonbury festival tickets (that are probably the hardest tickets in the county to get) in same way he did for you then Id of laughed in his face, I mean there are a load of questions with that post
- Did you just say yes and hand cash over without checking anything? - No, I trusted his word, more fool me.
- Did you ask anything in writing for the tickets or just took his word for it? See above
- Hes got you on the guest list for gigs before but this time he just casually wanted £1700 off you? They were guest list, this was 'supposedly' Hospitality, a different thing
- did you not think to ask on here where to go for hospitality tickets? I saw about 10 different threads before the festival that said if you are picking a ticket up on the gate you need to go to gate A (where the offices are) - I did exactly that and it all appeared to be above board as my fears were put to rest.
This is the main sentence that stands out for me
You wernt 100% sure yet you parted with over £1700 quid! if i wasnt 200% sure I wouldnt have parted with £1.
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So sorry to hear that. It must have been absolutely gutting for you. I know it won't make up for it but I hope you at least get your money back. In 2011 when I missed out on tickets somebody told me about hospitality tickets through various channels and I was always too scared to go for them. Looks like my fear may have been well founded.
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1000%...
100% is without doubt... does doubt come back somewhere after 100%, and maybe disappear again...
Yes
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Sorry if this is a bit too long, it was an eventful weekend.
Having been attending Glastonbury on and off since 1997 we decided that we weren't going to go this year for various reasons, the stress of missing out when the tickets go on sale and having to put your life on hold on the off chance we could be successful in the re-sale, money, family issues, lack of holidays available at work, just got back from a very expensive Honeymoon and so on.
Once the line up was announced there were tinges of regret but we were still making other plans like going camping the weekend Glastonbury was taking place just so that we could bury our heads in the sand and pretend it wasn't going on even though we had made the choice not to apply this year.
This was until they announced that Metallica were headlining the Saturday night, it was a punch in the stomach, I had grown up listening to their music and the one thing I had always maintained was that for as good as Glastonbury always is, it was always missing a few decent heavier bands on the line up.
When they announced Metallica, it was like realising that your Football team had got to a Wembley Cup Final and you didn't have a ticket to be there, sure they were playing Sonisphere the week after but it's like saying 'well, I'll be missing out on a trip to see the lads play at Wembley but at least I can see them play someone useless like Middlesbrough the following week'?
With this we started to look at different options on the possibility of getting in despite it being sold out for months, competitions, hospitality, working there and so on.
As chance would have it, I played in a post season Football game at the new Chesterfield FC Stadium, one of the lads on the same side as myself has been working in Music Management for years and has fixed me up with Guest List access to a few gigs over the past couple of years and has regularly had hospitality access to Glastonbury in years gone by. I mentioned to him that we were looking at different ways we may be able to get into this year’s Glastonbury Festival, it transpired that a contact through his Music Management company had five spare spaces on his hospitality quota and it was 100% legit because he had previously gained access to the festival in this way.
Taking him for his word (even though I was still not 100% sure) I parted with £1750 for five Hospitality tickets. Needless to say, you probably know where I am going with this? Even though Glastonbury did put some warnings out regarding a ticket scam going around, we still went ahead because we were confident that wouldn't affect us because we were a shoe in for definite entry.
Thursday morning and we all get on our way to meet at Pedestrian Gate C which was the gate we were told to take ourselves and our different forms of ID, Gate C is where it all started to unravel, any Hospitality tickets dished out on the day are always done so at the Wicket Gate, Pedestrian gate A. We were stuck, we were faced with a 7 ½ mile round trip around the perimeter fence to even get close to Gate A. Thankfully, we were saved by an amazing Steward who allowed myself armed with everyone else’s ID to walk through the site, passed the Pyramid and John Peel Stage and up to Gate A so that I could get my ticket and wrist bands and pick up the others tickets and get back to Gate C to get them all in where they could be issued with their wrist bands.
I got there and my contact was there, the lad from my Football match, waiting for his contact to turn up with the Hospitality tickets which we needed to exchange for our wrist bands at the SeeTickets Box Office. Well, to cut a very long story (sorry) short this contact went off the radar, we were waiting, with around 50 other victims of the same scam who had travelled from Southampton, Manchester and Liverpool for about four hours in total. We had it confirmed by a kind fellow called Rob, the Entertainments Director (or a title like that?) from Glastonbury Festivals who searched every Hospitality database to see if there was a mix up, there wasn’t. We had to accept that we had been well and truly fleeced. By the time the realisation had kicked in so had the torrential down pour, our spirits had taken a real kicking along with out pride, how could we be so stupid? Who knows? But we were. We eventually all got reunited back at our cars in the Purple Car Parks and made the slow and painful journey home knowing that not only were we £350 each down which we are never likely to see again, we were also going to have to accept the painful realisation that after weeks of excitement and build up, we were not after all going to be attending the festival, falling at literally the final fence.
The matter is now being dealt with by the Police and it gained some exposure in the local Manchester Press ( http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/glastonbury-manchester-music-fans-tricked-7339680 ) but even the small chance that we could recover any of the cash would be of little consolation having missed the main event.
The moral of the story is this, don’t be fools like we were, we let our hearts rule our heads and paid the price.
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We got ripped off, purchased £350 Hospitality 'tickets' only to find out they didn't exist and were turned away at the gate on Thursday morning and had to go home and watch it on the TV, this thread has cheered me right up because I am a bitter old git, thanks
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She mimed 1000% and any denial from her managment is on a parr with Suarez saying that he 'fell' into the Italian lads shoulder.
My wife works with a lass who used to look after booking at the Manchester Evening News Arena, the way artists get around it is that to call it a 'Live' performance they must sing at least one song Live, Dolly did this by singing the 'Mud, Mud, Mud' song live.
At the end of the day, she's 68 and her voice is most likely not as on form as years gone by but I wish they wouldn't try and make the punter out to be stupid by talking bollocks and bare faced lying to cover the fact that she mimmed.
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My mate is currently having a Tattoo designed by Pete Fowler, PF is curating The Crows Nest and has told my mate that the TBA is massive but is sworn to secrecy and gave no clues apart from that. The Sun are today hinting that it could be Prince and as unreal as that sounds, it would be in keeping with his recent tour of surprise gigs around the UK
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I remember people actually went up to the park on Sunday night expecting something after the last act at 9pm.
The secret gigs in 2011 were horrendous and actually pissed on the bands playing on the main stages as well.
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A friend of a friend is curating one of the smaller stages and he has basically said that the TBA is a huge band but won't go any further than that, they have all been sworn to secrecy but it sounds like that it will be well worth the walk down there for a nose plus Blondie coming on straight after is no bad thing either.
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Someone I work with is stewarding at Glastonbury at The Park. He's been told at a stewards' meeting that on the Friday there will be a "big act", but they weren't told who, when, or how big. Literally all he's been told is "Friday". Looking at Clashfinder there aren't many big gaps, (unless it's after Metronomy, which is unlikely), so my bet (if he's been told the truth) is that it's not just Jimi Goodwin; it's Doves.
Thoughts/anyone heard anything similar?
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Congrats! What great news!
The hospitality camping area is near the dance area. The good points are the showers and toilets AND you get to park (if you have a car) VERY near the campsite, so you don't have to carry stuff very far. You can get to your car in a matter of minutes so you can bring more booze in if that is your thing.
Also, it is not busy at all. Coming in on Thursday/Friday won't be stressful. You'll find more than enough space.
Also, your wristband should allow you to use shortcuts to/from stages. I've also known people who were able to get into the photographers pit and backstage at some stages. But they might have blagged their way. Its always worth asking. I was able to go with a friend who had hospitality into the backstage areas in the Park. I just really needed the loo and they had a nice bar there to boot.
I have also known people to use their wristbands to avoid queuing for things and going through "crew" entrances (i.e. into the naughty corner and into the silent disco).
But if you are like the rest of us, your friends won't have these magic wristbands so you might end up hanging with the plebs anyhow!
Hope you have an amazing festival!
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Over on facebook on the Glastonbury chat page there was a Glastonbury security guard who reckoned he was taking screen shots of tickets being offered.
Following day someone reckoned they had been called by the Glastonbury office and threatened?
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when are there ever queues at the bars anyway?
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Great spot, just printed it off at work, that's the next hour or so sorted until home time, thanks for that Dec
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What is the traffic like on a Thursday morning getting into the site? We will be setting off from Wells at about 8am.
In the past I've come down at peak times and it's taken a couple of hours (although nothing could beat 2009, left Manchester at 11am and finally got our camper van parked up at 2am the next day on site with one stop off at the Asda in Bristol on the M5, longest day of my life)
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We went down yesterday and it was absolutely fine, the staff were so laid back and friendly. We didn't catch a glimpse of the main man but first off we had a wander up to the Pyramid and took a few pictures then made our way up to the Stone Circle where they were setting up for Emily Eavis's birthday party happening tonight, my 2 year old is obsessed with diggers and tractors so the fella setting up let her have a little sit in that which made her day. Haven't been to the festival itself since 2011 due to being unable to get tickets, having a kid etc but we're now buzzing to get back on the horse as soon as we can.