William of Walworth
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I'm Info Crew, but very embarassingly, I'm finding that the camper tickets aspect is pretty damned hard to find out about despite us being crew ourselves, who get on site early (with van).
Does anyone have any reliable information about camper tickets being sold independently of general tickets in April's resale? Or otherwise?
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think they've realised that some acts get ginormous crowds on the Other Stage now. Also helps with directing people away from the Pyramid if there's a stage equally as big?
You're right.
People should have a general glance at the acts and scheduling for this year.
Other Stage is massively important for attracting some parts of Glastonbury away from the Pyramid.
However big the Pyamid act at the time may be, something else big/important/distracting will be on Other -- or West Holts! --to help you disperse yourself.
And also, don't forget the 'what's going on in that tent over there'-type acts -- over towards the (much more) Obscure Stage(s).
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Alright everybody.
Been a long long time since I've been anywhere near all this marvellous efests Glasto Weather chat malarkey,
I get on the Netweather forums so that (most of) you don't have to.
My brief summary of general synoptic/technical discussion over there since early June is this :
Conditions are pretty unlikely to be looking anywhere near a washout in SW England for the final third of this month.
Check J10's (aka JackOne's) Glasto weather blog on the Netweather forums (warning : all very technical!)
He'll be adding further updates next week.
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Is this the weather for Glastonbury thread, or the random gossip thread then?
Just out of hibernation. With luck the legendary weather technician and forecaster JACKONE will be happy to do his Glasto Forecast thang this year -- has anyone contacted him yet?
Will send a polite request to him myself tomorrow, if no-one else has.
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Plenty all over the schedules for me -- all about strength in breadth and depth. Whether or not I;want to see Pyramid headliners never particularly bothers me one way or t'other. As lots have said, getting your kicks at Glastonbury as a whole is all about wandering around all over the place and catching quality wherever you bump into it -- the 'what's going on in that tent over there?' factor
And in any case I have a select but carefully chosen 'must see' list. may catch around 10% of those, what with randomness, cider, bumping into mates, all the usual unpredictables.
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Bring boots (I bought new ones on Wednesday) and waterproofs anyway,but make even more damned sure to bring shorts and sunbloc and sunhat as well, I'm currently thinking ....
And no, Glastonbury is NEVER too hot. Not for 1997/1998/2007/part of 2011 survivors!!!!! My sympathy with 'too hot' complaints is limited after a few mudbaths!
But this year, mudbath likelihood looking low, thankfully. Dry weather, no mud? If that verifies, there's inevitable swings and roundabouts. Just after Solstice, when the sun is highest in the sky. That means at least warm, and on current forecasts, possibly hot. Them's the breaks.
You can shelter/protect yourself from the sun ..... but you can't sit down in the mud (unless you're a freak ......oh, OK then)
(Don't forget loads of Glastonbury happens as the sun's lower down, and after dark, anyway ... )
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This morning's updates over on Netweather model output discussion thread, are only just starting to be discussed, but even the worst (= least good, to be honest) of them, from ECM, now seems to show any rain next Saturday more less confined to the North of England and Northern Ireland/Scotland. Even with that, decline in High Pressure should on current projections remain relative for our corner. Also, that model shows lots of High Pressure strong in the SW before and probably after Saturday anyway.
And another set of models (GFS) shows HP dominating throughout.
Yes, I agree, this LOOKS better than 2010. Stick!
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I've been following the general Netweather model updates (posted over the whole of today) over the last 45 minutes. Hey! I do these things so you don't have to!
And I'm left ....
.... feeling neutrally, albeit still a bit faintly, positive.
But that's only because I'm massively, Worthy (and other) Farms sized, paranoid. My paranoia is bigger than Glastonbury Festival's actual site!!!
Objectively speaking though .... if that's at all possible .... a lot (not all) of today's technical updates are looking pretty benign for next week ....
Back tomorrow ...
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All the model updates are really transient, and ever changing </usual legal caveat>
But I have semi-realistic! hopes, as of RIGHT NOW ONLY!! folks! that JACKONE will be able to post a better update tomorrow. Basing this on some models from the 6 pm (18z) run from both GFS and ECM, which do seem to favour, even confirm, the prospect of a High Pressure build from the SW next week.
JACKONE hasn't incorporated those yet. The more important updates will be midnight anyway, these I believe incorporate a wider spread of data.
We'll be in Glastonbury (town) Friday and Saturday nights coming up, aiming to head on site on Sunday. I have no smartphone and can't post, but I will try and work something out re texts from my dimphone ..
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Printed out 2 copies of clashfinder (well OK festivaldeb did that). We don't have smartphones, so these could be key ahead of getting our copies of the programme
She had to enlarge the CF to A3 paper though. Still takes a bit of close staring to read all the details!
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Oh I completely agree, and we'll only get near to really knowing well into/towards the end of next week. It's all about what happens to the models over coming days.
My default hope, short of mega warm HP and wall to sunshine as likely in the above GFS 06Hz, would be simply a N/S divide, or at least a NW/SE one far North enough to keep Pilton within the 'SE' sector. In other words, Scotland and Northern Ireland, can you both please do us a favour and have a wet late June and draw up any wet weather and Low Pressure away from the festival!
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Haven't slept on a thin mattress at Glastonbury since 2002 I don't think.
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Luckily for Info people, since last time (2015) we can now get CV passes a bit more easily than previously. If I'd had a van before 2014, I'd have had to attempt other crew routes for an onsite VP
My enquiry above was on behalf of a punter who has a fest ticket, but not a CV one, so your reassurance that the latter might be obtainable separately (with added luck) is useful. Other posts in this thread have also been helpful. Thanks, all.