Ayrshire Chris
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Glastocam!
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25 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:Get Michael in charge of uk infastructure projects
Yes, reroute HS2 straight into Castle Carey
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Glastocam!
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5 minutes ago, deadponyclub said:
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1 hour ago, Drew3232 said:
I'm hoping AC DC, Kings of Leon and Pearl Jam.
Bet as a kid your Xmas list for Santa was big and expensive 😊😉
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Glastocam!
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Generators arriving at pyramid?
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There are charging facilities but queues can be long. We’ve got a couple of power banks that keeps the phones charged. Might be worth investing in them. You might notice that the festival is busier than you remember. I think that but it might just be an age thing!
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Camping warden just inside gate A usually has info where there is space available.
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Must be good, I recognise quite a few on there😊
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Just now, northernangel said:
Where be this?
Hills overlooking Isle of Cumbrae and Arran, a regular walk for me . Photo taken from an Iron Age hill fort.
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8 minutes ago, Ryan1984 said:
I’ve made peace that I’ll be missing this year. Do you think we’ll ever get to a stage where it doesn’t instantly sell out?
I think the chances of that happening is remote to non existent. Every year whilst more people want to go, those who have been many times continue to go, the tickets will always be in demand. The mud of 2016 had no affect on the tickets the following year.,
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28 minutes ago, tmcintosh said:
I've heard this before but, as a Scouser who's been four times in a row (with my fifth upcoming 🥳) I think this is just copium from people who fail to get tickets.
The reason you see (or you think you see) loads of Scousers round the site is a combination of:
- Glastonbury having semi-mythic status amongst Scousers. I was always told this was because the security firms all came from Liverpool in the 00s (presumably ex-gangland/door staff?) and spread the word about how great it was back home. Simply put, it just seems to mean more to people in Liverpool, and we're a bunch who like to follow the trends of others.
- Scousers stand out. The accent plus the uniform mixing sportswear with hippy chic makes us clearly identifiable. I'm sure there's also thousands of Londoners, for instance, but they're less sartorially homogeneous, so stand out less. Plus, being the trendsetters we are, it's caught on outside of Liverpool too - so a good chunk of the people you visually clock as Scousers may well not be, but it makes you think there's more of us than there are.
- Possibly linked to point 1, I think Scousers (especially the young ones) have fewer qualms about getting in via unorthodox methods. Liverpool is a little village, and the odds of you knowing someone who knows someone who can get you in the back of a van are pretty high.
- Linked to point 3, a lot of Scousers are quite happy to put down hundreds, if not thousands to get hold of a VIP ticket or to buy a ticket off someone who looks like a bit like them. Our flash-the-cash culture, being (unfortunately!) the credit capital of Britain and the legion of young Scouse men who seem to carry wads of cash for reasons I couldn't possibly speculate on all engender this.
So I'd say all of the above in combination are probably the reason you see more Scousers on site rather than a sinister cabal hoarding all the tickets.
I’d agree with that, was in the middle of the Avalon crowd seeing Jamie Webster, absolutely manic, but brilliant patter!
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2 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:
think you made the right choice of not going to resale ... bit deflated today
Yes, glad we took the chance of the hospitality tickets, resale seemed brutal, as predicted.
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4 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:
Are you in the woodsies camping ? Might bump into you sometime as I’m in that neck of the woodsies
Not sure yet, got the chance of ziggu and that would mean no tent setting up etc.
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5 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:
I’ll ask and see what they’ve got this year, sometimes you have to combine it with a hospitality package which makes it a lot more pricey
That’s right, hospitality tickets have to be sold at face value, 2 k won’t be far off the mark. Thing is to those who havnt a corporate contact and don’t camp in the hospitality camping near Woodsies these tickets are usually combined with luxury glamping elsewhere which really ups the price.
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On 4/18/2024 at 1:11 PM, AtomsForPizza said:
As Nigel Clough didn't say, I wouldn't say music is the best thing about Glastonbury...but it's in the top one
Was it not Brian Clough that didn’t say that? 😊😉
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1 hour ago, nikkic said:
After securing tickets this morning, we can start planning our trip.
First on the agenda, a new tent!
So recommendations please for a 4-man black out tent.
Will only be used once per year for a the festival.
What should we go for?
If you’ve a go outdoors close by pay them a visit. Ours have a large camping area with tents set up. Good to assess space, weight, black out and ease to set up.
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The bar steward sons of Va Doonican, appearing on the Avalon this year, have a song dedicated to festival peeing, called Walking in Manpiss. Well worth a listen!
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1 hour ago, kemosabe said:
On behalf of one of our group I'm what are our next steps after today?
- Are there secret resales these days? Is it worth monitoring the page etc.
- Can we acquire a corporate ticket for a price? (Please DM me if you know someone I guess)
- Is volunteering an option?
As others have mentioned havnt seen Secret resales for a while, volunteering may still be an option, I’ve seen wateraid having a few places last minute. Corporate hospitality is extremely expensive if you don’t have a contact. A few areas offer camping and hospitality packages, usually in farms adjacent to the festival, posh tents , catering on site entertainment etc, But obscenely expensive.
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Congrats to those who were successful but real sympathy for those who missed out, it’s a devastating feeling. Hope come November they get lucky for next year.
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12 hours ago, Mardy said:
My cousin shat in a lad's sleeping bag in Kidney Mead in 1995, cos he'd sold us sh*t drugs that didn't work.
Sounds fair justice to me
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2 hours ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:
Being wider than a standard soft drink bottle opening is not much of a boast!
It was the 900ml I was thinking about! Problem with a lucozade bottle is that it’s easy to confuse a bottle of the real stuff with a bottle of pish.
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Just now, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:
You used to be able to get Lucozade in a wide neck 900ml bottle. Haven't been able to find the wide neck bottle for a couple of years though.
Boaster 😊😉
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The Weather Thread 2024
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Last week I walked up into the hills around my area, just after the rain had finally relented. it’s been a really wet winter and ground was boggy. We’ve just had three dry but cold days and some sunshine. Upon the same hills again this morning and ground solid, lambs everywhere and walking shoes mudless! Not worth worrying about the ground conditions yet but it is fun😊. Meanwhile I climbed up these this morning as part of the Glasto fitness training!
