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Ticketmaster are not even trying to hide their price gouging tactics anymore and any artists who allow their tours to have dynamic pricing need to get in the bin!
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1 hour ago, chickenfire said:
Good to see that they have already announced this is going ahead again next year.
I was there on Friday and it was VERY quiet. Made driving out the site a breeze though! The site overall was a good layout and considering this was the first edition on this site, thought they done a good job. Idles were great as always and Jon Hopkins was exceptional.
Been trying to think of who they could announce early(ish) to try and maximise ticket sales as this year, a lot of the bands playing were announced to play elsewhere in the UK/Europe months before Connect announced.
I would've said Arcade Fire but given recent events, probably not. Hoping for Pulp personally!
I think it was a combination of it being...
1. A "new" festival (even though it was based on the old 2007/2008 Connect festival).
2. Massive Attack pulling out from their Friday Headline slot.
3. Friday.
I was working on site from 10:30am onwards and it never really got busy until after 6pm. I think a lot of people treated it as an Idles and Jon Hopkins gig. Saturday was noticeably different if crowd size, but still had a nice chilled atmosphere about it.
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I never went this year, but I did swing by to get some shots of the site on the Sunday evening.
(Click to see it full size)
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On 7/13/2022 at 10:47 PM, briddj said:
It's actually coach tickets that are first, the first Thursday in October. And the main sale the following Sunday. So 6th and 9th.
Ahhh, I never thought about the fact that the Coach tickets would then be on sale in Sept, if it was 2nd October!
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It's usually the first Sunday in October and it always clashes with the Great Scottish Run later on that morning (which means I'm either on cloud nine and loving life for 13 miles or absolutely pissed off that I never got a ticket).
I reckon it'll be the 2nd October this year.
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1 minute ago, Acid Loafers said:
My signal on 3 was terrible, had a nightmare trying to find my friends car as I just couldn't get any signal & W3W was saying I was about two towns across 😂. Luckily I had the dot on the map, so then cross referenced the map with a stewards map of the car park & managed to find it.
EE have to sort something out though, it's directly affecting many traders, on Sunday about 1/4 of food stalls I walked past had set up "Cash Only" signs.
Considering getting two a pay as you go from EE if we go again.
EE don't have to sort anything out. Their network is brilliant at the festival site and thats the point. They want people to get PAYG sims for the weekend or permanently move to their service.
I have dual sim slots in my phone and stick an EE sim in for the weekend. Its night and day different to any other network on site.
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6 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:
nice 🙂
and they are happy for you to put that over the tents at WV?
As happy as they are for people to decorate them with solar lights and flags. So long as you take it home afterwards, they're not bothered.
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53 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:
Interesting....wonder if they will ever go for Fresh and Black up there given their popularity these days.
Having been converted to Fresh and Black years ago, but also wanting the convenience of WV, we picked up one of these F&B tarps.
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-tarp-tarp-fresh/_/R-p-312174?mc=8572388&c=WHITE
It doesn't have to be suspended over the tent to work. It's just as effective, when it's thrown over the top of one of the WV Scout tents and secured down. It was a lifesaver in 2019!
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20 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:
They exited just next to where the new path ends and started behind where the food village is now situated . Pity as there was a great view and seats at the top of the old steps.
I didn't make it this year, but that is gutting to hear they've got rid of the view. We loved that feeling of walking round the corner on Wednesday to see the site for the first time and always tried to finish the festival with the sun rising over it on the Monday morning.
(Monday morning sunrise back in 2019)
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58 minutes ago, paulo-84 said:
How easy was it to get a ticket for WV last year? We tried for the tipi village an that had sold out in minutes. Keen to up the luxury levels for 2020
Its pretty easy to get a 2 man scout tent, but the other more limited options, sell out very quickly.
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Primal Scream on the Pyramid in 2005. Bobby Gillespie didn't have a clue what planet he was on and was constantly trolling the crowd throughout the set ""Do you want to hear the Stone Roses? Well you should have been here 15 years ago, you fucking lazy bastards!"
They ended up cutting his mic, when he tried to play another song at the end of their set
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12 minutes ago, Jimmerz95 said:
How easy/difficult will it be to make 2 or more trips to the car on Wednesday?
Your question should be... is it really worth the effort to do it all in one trip on the Wednesday?
Take your backpack with you when you go to get your wristband and then nip back out as many times as need be. You'll be able to avoid the ticket queue and its no more than 400-500yds walking.
Its night and day difference to having to do a second run from the main campsite!
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34 minutes ago, Homer said:
The Park is a pretty crap place to watch a band isn't it? It's kind of decent for sitting around and chilling in, but I can't imagine watching a headliner there (closest I've done was MGMT subbing - and I couldn't see a thing).
Depends where you are in the crowd... The Flaming Lips headlining in 2017 was one of the weekend highlights for me!
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On 5/14/2019 at 12:25 PM, duke88 said:
I've always thought it must be a right pain in the arse having to lug the thing round all day. Standing there holding a massive pole while you're watching a band. What enjoyment do people get out of it?
It's not any enjoyment thing, it's a practical thing.
We have a 2.7m flagpole that collapses down to 40cm and fits in a backpack. It's used for meeting up before a band starts. No matter where you walk into the field, it's easy to spot the group. Once everyone meets up, the flag goes down. If anyone nips to the toilet, the flag gets popped backup until they get back.
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You should be able to get a taxi to take you to the entrance to the WV carpark... possibly even to the gate if the stewards are nice. Either way, its not much of a walk from the road to the gate.
The carpark is in the red field and worthy view is in yellow. You can see where the entrance is, from the tracks in the grass.
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This is the info they sent out in 2016 regarding arrivals...
"Group Arrival / Arriving at Different Times
Firstly, you the Lead Booker must ensure that your group can access the festival easily..
If you are arriving together as a group, it helps us if you can enter the same wristband lane as one party.
If you know that some of your group will be arriving at a different time to you, please ensure they have a copy of your booking confirmation email, some photo ID and that you have either listed all the names of the people in your group when making your booking with See Tickets OR you have emailed us directly to let us know the names or your fellow campers. If we don’t know them yet please tell us now as if you do not give us the heads up about them arriving at a different time to you, then they will not be allowed on site and no one wants that!"
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5 minutes ago, stu_kent said:
All bottles sold on site will be banned - cans or cartons only
Are we taking bets now that the price of a 330ml can this year, equals the price of a 500ml bottle in 2017?
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40 minutes ago, jfaragher said:
They were quite easy to spot though (once they were identified) though, as they all had the same number on them and genuine EPO's were individually numbered and registered to specific people, and the colour was a bit off.
Don't doubt that there will be some changes if it was identified as a problem though. Quite a lot of places do scan in and out nowadays - would be tough to do with everyone (just too many people) but you could do it for the subset of EPO's, which are just a few '000s
So that explains the extra interest in our Worthy View bands, as we passed in/out of the site after the first day or two!
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Best - It's a toss up between Block 9 / The Common. I could happily spend every evening wandering around there.
Worst - The Truth Stage in Shangri-la, or more specifically the choke point/traffic jam at the back of it*, as everyone tries to filter past. I've had a few really uncomfortable moments passing there. The sort of moments where if you fall, you'd have to fight your way back to your feet before you ended up at the bottom of a pile-up.
*yet if you 20ft closer to the stage and there is usually much more space to walk through.
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Every year after the deposit is paid I always say to myself, "stick away some each month and forget about the balance date". Well this is the first time I've actually done that and not only do I not have to think about the balance, but any spending money should be covered too.
I'm definitely doing this in future!
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20 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:
yep of course they will ... stupid moment ... but im sure they will charge the same price for 330ml cans as 500ml bottles
That was my first thought too. I'm all for the festival banning single use plastic bottles, but I'd also be for them banning vendors using the exchange rate of... £2.50 bottle of coke = £2.50 can of coke!
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18 minutes ago, Superscally said:
She won't do three shows in three days with the effort that goes into her shows. Don't get your friend's hopes up. Not happening.
Make it four, as she is playing Rock Werchter on the Thursday night.
JUNE 27, 2019 Rock Werchter Werchter
JUNE 29, 2019 Wembley Stadium London
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1 hour ago, crocodiles said:
It's not going down in the morning it is coming back of a night . If u leave pyramid after headliner I reckon it's 40 mins due to crowds by se corner and other stages etc emptying out
The flip side of that is its a 20 min walk home from the SE Corner afterwards, rather than a 45 min walk back over to somewhere like Hitchin Hill
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Why would See Tickets want to change their current system? They sold over 100,000 tickets in 36 mins, processing £5M worth of transactions in real time.
They must have been refining the ticketing process for this year too, as historically they would capture your card details and then post-process them at some point that day. That would lead to a horrible delay between "buying your tickets" and the confirmation email coming through. I've had friends enter the wrong digit on their card details and get a horrible email hours later, telling them they didn't in fact have tickets.
Everyone talks of moving to a ballot system, but there is a ballot in place at present... ie do you make a request to the booking page, at the exact moment the load balancer has a space available on one of the processing servers.
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Worthyview / sticklinch 2023
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I didn't make it to the festival this year (instead I sat watching it at home with my 7 week old son). However in years gone past, this has been a game changer when we've stayed in the scout tents at WV
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-tarp-tarp-fresh/_/R-p-312174?mc=8572388&c=WHITE
It is the perfect size to throw over the top of them and ties down on either side. It is not as good as a blackout tent, but it'll buy you a few extra hours in the morning, once the sun comes up (and it makes your tent really easy to spot).