Junglist1981

Wow That's a crazy lineup!

How many campers will Sticklinch hold?

Playing devils advocate for a second... was perhaps a bit of a silly gamble to stick a whopping great big crane up in the middle of a Somerset field without planning permission. Must be kicking themselves. I'm sure the festival would take most of the financial hit though right?

They must of spent a good deal of time working on concepts for that crane, would love to see some one day.

West Holts is always my most anticipated! If the festival was just that stage I'd still go every year, love it there so much.

Completely agree. Hope they get the chance to show off how inventive they can be with something new next year.

Where was the DJ for the crane? I can't remember. Were they just on the floor underneath it?

Could put the legs on upside down and have them spinning around like it's breakdancing. With fire coming out of it.

Spinning spider legs ftw

Yeah it's strange that they don't say it explicitly, I can only guess they want to discourage people using Bath & West in their satnav due to the road closures etc. It's definitely there though, we've used it many times to get our kids dropped off on the Saturday. There are always loads of friendly stewards about at the gate A bus station to point you the right way 🙂

Everything you need to know: https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/getting-here/2592-2/ The drop and collect point as referred to there is the Bath & West. I think the frequency of shuttles depends on demand, we've always had to wait a little bit but never too long (aside from Sunday night when you will wait absolutely ages) 👍

Wonder if they'll be able to repurpose the various parts of the crane into something more easily removable. I guess it's probably very heavy which might be problematic. Whilst it clearly can't be said to have been successful it was very unique and it'd be a shame not to further explore the idea of having something that tall doing stuff.

If in doubt just follow the pylons toward the festival 🙂👍

We've done this a few times, it's pretty easy but always feels very weird going out of the festival! Keep in mind it'll be at least an hour round trip with the walk out to gate A, waiting for the bus at either end, and the ten minute journey each way. There'll be stewards everywhere along the way to ask for help if you need it 👍

It's the Marvel thread...

Spoilers Nah I got that, it felt cheap. Maybe a little more time exploring the Darkhold turning her into Scarlett Witch and her good side fighting it at least a little bit would of helped, but there was like 60 seconds of normal Wanda before she was revealed to have become entirely evil since WandaVision. Don't forget that WandaVision explored at length how she overcame her dark side, accepted her reality and let her kids go. But apparently no that was all bullshit and she's just entirely bad now. Quick redemption at the end didn't cut it for me. And it wasn't really a redemption anyway, she just stopped murdering and then maybe died. Meanwhile Doctor Strange used the Darkhold, and yet aside from his dodgy third eye he's completely fine? Hmmmm. To be fair I have a hangover today which brings out my super negative pick everything to pieces side. I'll look forward to rewatching it in a few months.

Each movie is of its own, but from the very beginning they've always seeded elements of their grand design. Introducing and hinting at various characters is a big part of that, and in particular the infinity stones were central to the plot of many of the films from the very start. The reason Infinity War and Endgame were so unbelievably successful is that they spectacularly paid off that 10 years of gradual build up. It's genuinely remarkable, nothing remotely like that has been done before. Question now is can they do it again. Signs aren't great for me, but there's a long way to go. Entire movies don't have to focus on the overarching plot, but they do have to play into it (like they always have done). I certainly don't want cliff hangers either, I just wanna feel justified in continuing to be invested in the ongoing story and I worry that they might be about to muff it all up. Spoilers How they used Wanda just felt cheap to me. After they brought her back from the brink and gave her some redemption in WandaVision, to then turn around and go "ahhhh not really, that lady who felt really bad about hypnotising a bunch of people has decided in the interim that she's happy to go full on brutal murderer nutcase after all". Felt like they just threw her away after years of building her up, made a very sympathetic character completely hateful. Perhaps Elizabeth Olsen has decided she wants out so they just burnt Wanda down? Dunno.

😁 Could be that I was just in a bad mood when I went... Look forward to seeing how I feel about it when it comes to Disney+

The new Doctor Strange is very different to the first and tbh it's left me a little concerned about the overall direction the MCU is heading in. The narrative of the film itself suffers as it tries to cram too much in. It's all very Sam Raimi, and I'm kinda here for that, but the tone felt jarring compared to the original and most of the previous MCU films. It's certainly not suitable for under 12s, some bits reminded of The Boys (which I have no time for at all). Many of the alternate realities in the multiverse felt too contrived, I think the success of the first 3 phases lay in grounding the stories in our reality and that's in danger of being lost with everything getting too fantastical. What's interesting to me about the concept of the multiverse is how another reality can be almost exactly like ours but with subtle changes that cause profound differences. Realities made of paint - not so much. Also worried that they're introducing too many new characters too quickly, some of whom feel a little superfluous, or poorly realised, a bit pantomime, and very throwaway. Also very displeased at the treatment of one character in particular who deserved much better. Most importantly for the grand story arc over the next 5/6 years I'm concerned that they seem to have changed what an incursion is from the comics. That entire concept is quite hard to explain as it is, especially as compared to the infinity stones & gauntlet. If they're leading up to doing Secret Wars they really need to establish the ground rules very clearly in the mind of the audience. They didn't do that here, and also seemed to break the logic of why incursions happen which made the build up to secret wars so compelling. Hopefully this is a blip and they can pull it all together again. Oh and they need to fix that eye, it looks shit. I'd probably give it 5/10. Might revise up on repeat viewing. Might not.

Thats kinda true I guess… It’s something they would of been keeping a very close eye on though and couldn’t of taken them completely by surprise. If any Ash in that area were discovered to be affected they could be very quickly removed. Recently loads of roads in my area were shut for a week at a time for preemptive felling and the amount they took down in that time is scary. Preemptive felling is very much taking place where falling trees could endanger life. Besides which the main trees in the glade are apparently Poplar, thus unaffected. Also the glade is still showing as an area in use on the map, hence ash dieback can’t be a dangerous problem there.

Course yeah, but they've had years to do it. They've done it to The Woods, they definitely could of done the Glade too if needs be. FWIW I reckon a good reason that the Glade stage might be moved would be to introduce an additional shaded and sheltered chillout area. On roasting hot days anywhere shady is absolutely rammed, it's definitely a problem that needs solving.

Says here that trees in the Glade are Poplar https://glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/the-glade/the-glade-history/ (I'm sure we can all agree that they're very poplar indeed etc etc)

Sure but if those trees have ash dieback that wouldn't in itself mean the stage would need to move. It would be a few days work for tree surgeons at most to fell any that are affected. All trees with dieback will have to go anyway if the area is to be used at all, be that as a stage or just a shady shelter. Any trees removed will likely be replaced with other breeds to grow over the next 20/30 years. Despite my attempts otherwise I'm still no good at identifying Ash, is that definitely the only breed of tree in the Glade?

I like it. Some alternatives if that doesn't work out: Crap Suzette - mircowaved ready made supermarket value pancakes served with cheap marmalade and squirty cream. Crepes Shoezette - flambéd pancakes cut into the shape of classic Air Jordans. They come with a dip for dunking. Ape Suzette - Just like normal crepes suzette, only the fancy waiter is dressed as a monkey. Edit - just realised that I may be pronouncing Crepes wrong lol. 2 of them still work at least...