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I’d be stoked if Chemical Brothers do play a DJ set since they didn’t make Glasto. Bonobo and Grove A were a fine replacement though! Great night that. I haven’t been to SGP in so long - my memory is that it’s like glasto and the stages and camping aren’t security separated but I’m not 100% on that. can’t wait to jump in the lake for a swim on Thursday

Glasto is such a non-essential. It’s a five-day mega holiday. If you have ‘mouths to feed’ and paying for your glasto ticket would mean you can’t make rent/food payments the I’d seriously question your priorities. Going to a field for 5 days to listen to music is hugely selfish if your family is going hungry. A payment plan isn’t going to help that, the money is still gone.

I’m hopeful for a nego test tomorrow. Started feeling under the weather (in retrospect) on Saturday night, cough developed Monday. Tested Tuesday and BAM red line super strong super quick. Have felt like shit all week but am on the mend now. Bored of watching TV which is a good sign and did a half decent day of work today.

Not very green though, throwing away plastic bags of solidified piss. A reusable Lenore or other plastic bottle will do you many, many camping trips if you wash it out well afterwards. I use a she wee with it so no issues with the opening or a mess.

Agreed, really surprised by how few people wear ear plugs. I used to have some custom ones but now just wear decent foam ones. Might look into those loop ones. I would like to see more encouragement of ear plugs by festivals/clubs

We have the decathalon inflatable camp beds. Super amazing to sleep on. Be aware you need quite a big pump to get them to 6psi. They are essentially air beam tent technology.

Glad to hear they now open the showers 24/7. That’s the reason why we didn’t book WV - the showers were only meant to be open 6am-2pm or something stupid and I like to shower on returning home at night and my other half probably won’t be up for his shower by 2 ! 24/7 showers would make me more likely to book WV in future. With different members of the group arriving at different times it’s preferable to have designated space. We used to be the monkeys who took everyone’s tents and did the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning queue and camp spot tent mission, but f that for a game of soldiers. No one else ever sorted it out and I’d rather pay a bit of extra cash, be next to each other no matter what arrival time and have showers.

We saw someone run through the wide load re-entry / EPO lane at gate C. They just strolled up, then put a sprint on and we’re in and away.

That is hilarious!

I hadn’t been bothered about flags before, ‘part of the experience’ and all that. But this year for DiRo I couldn’t even see the screens as they were obscured by flags from where I was standing. Now THAT was annoying.

I was lucky enough not to be caught in any of the crushes but echo the observations of many on this thread. - site felt noticeably busier this year - Thursday needs some more music on, crowds at the park listening to Stonebridge being on of the few places with music on was mental - longer queues for toilets and food, felt like fewer toilets and urinals as well. Sometimes the urinal queues were longer than the long drop queues. - pinch points need addressing - whenever we were early for a set and got a good spot near the front, we had loads of room. The ‘crowd crust’ further back with an outer layer of packed-ness that people can’t get through is defo a thing. - chair and picnic blanket w*nkers need to do one. So many people with huge encampments of chairs near us for Macca and DiRo which stop flows of people through the crowd. And they never even collapsed the chairs! Just stood up and left the chairs and blankets in place. So annoying. One girl sitting on a blanket a few mins before Macca was getting really pissed off with people trying to step over to move though. It was literally 5 mins before he was about to start, in the middle of the pyramid field, get up! People do need to be able to move in and out of the stages and those impermeable barriers of chairs/people sitting on blankets is an issue. - generally encountered less knobbish behaviour re people pushing through aggressively than last times I have been, think this one is just luck re who you are near. - felt under marshalled I got to Arcadia super early on Friday night before it opened so had an amazing spot under the DJ for the entire night. Was pretty packed but now awful. Tried to go to the toilet and get some water during Carl Cox and it was a MISSION! So hard getting out and back in. People were pretty good about letting be through but the outer layer was ramo. WTF with half the bars being cash only. Total joke. Food prices were insane. London restaurant prices for tiny street food portions.

Oh I’m envious of the camper van people! Being there an extra day 🙂

I like Nike Air Max you just need something with decent cushioning and support

I thought in dry years you could drive to your pitch to unload at love fields?