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Looks nicer without the green. It’s a good year to be a volunteer. No cant-miss names there for me, but plenty to see and look forward to if I’m off shift. Maybe a bit gutted there’s no Chaka on there tho.

Surely releasing the stage-by-stage version straight away would take too much of the wind from all the individual stage poster releases? I’d lean towards a fake.

I’m sure there was a mention in the Avalon terms. Something along the lines of ‘making your way to and from the coach park’, which implies we’re being dumped at Yellow on Tuesday.

Incase anyone else forgot too, or didn’t know; I was also reminded that requests for buddies/groups etc and bar preferences all get handled around training time - which I think should be in April.

Yep, you get an approval email saying you’ve been accepted. You can then log back into Avalon and the ‘awaiting approval’ notice will have changed to ‘pay deposit’.

We were over at The Cockmill (next to Acoustic Tent). Nice bar, you get more of the senior crowd...lots of ale and gin drinkers! Loved it - I'd go back there happily, or maybe try a new bar!?. I worked Bar Henge (what was Williams Green) one night too. Thing is - I love the daytime just as much as the night, so I'm easy as to when my shifts are - but I'm aware the shifts we got wouldn't be everyones cup of tea. Maybe we'll get more of a mix of shifts this year, who knows....right now we're just super-excited to be heading back once more.

Our shifts weren't good - but I'd still take that over not going at all. Three late shifts - Thursday & Saturday 6:30pm - 2:30am, and Sunday 4:30 - 12:30am. I know some others in our team kicked off a bit for being given triple lates, but I couldn't really see anything coming from it...so we just sucked it up.

Based on the mess things became with pick-ups last year, I can understand transport arrangements needing to change.

Similar story here. Reg's entered, then some form of server error - clicked back and it took me onto ol' bluey. Gutted.

Bummer!

Jury's out for me - but I do get to find out first hand if its for me or not this year. Here's how I currently see it: If you exclude the Monday/Tuesday, that's 120 hours of festival time from Wednesday morning to Sunday night. I'll be working a total of 24 hours, 3 shifts over those 5 days. That's...20% of the festival period working. I could afford a ticket, but I'll also enjoy the fact that I'm donating my time to a charity - and I get the rub of doing what I like for the other 80%, and with no ticket cost (so long as I do my shifts). Granted, some of that time will be asleep....but I still think it's still worth a shot, especially as it's my only way in this year!

Sad if true, but Mik is still on the Croissant Neuf poster 🤷‍♂️

Having the power to decide who does and doesn't get a ticket is huge - and that's what being able to transfer tickets about would enable. I doubt the festival want to start handing that power over to the ticket holders. It's way too risky. The system is harsh, but it was harsh to me and millions of others on T-day too. All I know is when October comes around again, I don't want that scramble to include touts too. If Glastonbury relax the rules on transferring, the touts would be straight back to bulk-buying tickets again. I'm old enough to remember how much it sucked the last time round.

Yep it looks to be Bristol only. Have you not had the email from Hana at Avalon Bars yet?

Sounds just as brutal as back in Feb. Gutted for everyone who missed out. I see the options are all still blocked out on the Oxfam reg form, so here's hoping there's a chance of a few more dropping back on in the hours to come?

Info for Shelter volunteers, you should’ve received an email today.

Wife & I will be first time Shelterers too this year. I sent off an email to Shelter last week asking for any hints of when we’ll start to get some details through from Avalon Bars, but no reply yet. I don’t know if there are any social groups! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Don’t forget to stay hydrated

Don’t forget to alternate the chocolate with the WF cheese

Jeez, I dream of wearing a bucket hat....the buggers are always too small to fit over my stupid cranium.

I have faith in Emily, can't see her taking it too far from the festival we know today. She gets it better than all of us I suspect.

Thanks! The pick-up location for the Shelter bus might decide what our options are. If we can get away with a short walk from hotel to bus, we'll usually take it.... If Shelter pick up near the harbour, I'd take a look for sure

Any Shelter volunteer veterans out there who can advise on when we ought to hear from the them (or Avalon Bars) about the 'next steps' alluded to in the confirmation email? I wouldn't mind getting stuff like hotel and travel booked - but little idea where in the city we need to be, or when for atm.

Today we (re)bagged a couple of vacant volunteering places with Shelter. After being promptly dumped by them last time around, they've totally redeemed themselves and offered us a couple of places early this morning. SO happy! Part of me is curious to see how we might've fared in the resale next week....but,to heck with it - we're in.

Maybe, I sent a brief reply just to acknowledge their email and confirm we're obviously gutted to have been cut from their list. Their response appears to be mostly about having zero tolerance for hate speech - so not sure what happened there but sounds unlikely we'll be offered any form of priority on anything.