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Barney McGrew

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  2. Crowd Etiquette

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    To the young guy behind us at Macca, singing along, well, shouting horribly and purposely out of tune to Hey Jude you're a dick and it took some serious self control on my part not to have word.

    Tosser.

     

  4. Best Food / Worst Food 2022

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    Best - 4 Samosas, all the sauces £5 near The Other Stage.

    Honourable mention for the Cornish pasties at the top of the hill going into CV East.

    Worst (of the weekend though not on site) - Dog shit burger from Maccy D's at 03:00 this morning, gonna complain. 

  6. Tent theft is it a thing?

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    Pre the mega fence maybe as people used to just rock up with nowt, sneak in and steal all they required for a good time (we got robbed in 98), but since the fence it's a lot better; there are always opportunists about so leaving valuables about isn't a good idea (use lock-ups as already suggested) but your tent is unlikely to go walkabout.

  8. The "I'm not going this year" thread!

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    It ain't all bad, my last few visits have been Sunday only so what I do is sit down on Friday afternoon with a load of cider, load up the BBC website on my big TV, select a stage, crank it up and crack on!

    Cider's cheap, food's good, bog's don't smell and the weather doesn't matter.

    Last time around I think it was 5 stages streaming live (Pyramid, Other, JP, WH and BBC Intro - website not red button).

    Get on it!

  9. Sunday Ticket Confusion!

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    16 minutes ago, t0paz said:

    Not that I’ve got a Sunday ticket, but what time can you get in from? I presume it’s not 00:01?

    I've known people get in previously at 00:01 but my last Sunday ticket stated valid from 11:00 (or maybe 10). 

  10. Sunday Ticket Confusion!

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    We've done Sunday loads of times, we've come back on the last bus (00:30ish), we've also bought a parking ticket and just driven and left as we liked or been dropped off and cadged a lift home with friends; last time we parked in Ashcombe and booked a car for the last viewing in Cinerarmageddon (sp?) and got a couple hours kip before heading off.

    The last 'Sunday ticket bus' maybe 00:30 but I think you could get a bus up until about 02:30 for a coupla quid, or party 'till 06:00/06:30 when the normal busses start again.

    Prior to the festival I got a quote for an emergency taxi from Pilton to Glastonbury at 04:00 and was told plenty availability, cost ~£25 (2019).

    Sunday tickets are awesome, no stress - rock-in, rock-on, rock-out.!

     

  13. First Gig Back

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    9 minutes ago, cidy said:

    Have the church changed there set much ?

    Hey up buddy!

    Yeah, they were a girl down (the lovely Sister Mary Joy was absent), not sure why, nothing was said? I think there was only one song without the Reverend (Bang Bang), can't remember much else but it was still crazily uplifting and joyful but definitely a different set to the last time I (we?) saw them. Half of our group had never heard of them before but definitely came away thoroughly cleansed.

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  15. When will this shit end?

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    30 minutes ago, Dog Burger said:

    Don't want to spam the thread, but I don't suppose anyone knows whether Bath Racecourse or Avonmouth vaccination centre are offering Pfizer walk-ins for over 40s at the moment? The information online is entirely contradictory. One part of the NHS website says both are offering walk-ins to anyone over 18 for first or second jab, another part of the site says only people with booked appointments should turn up.  

    I'm already booked in for the mass vaccination site in Bristol next Tuesday – nine weeks after my first, but we're going on holiday the following morning and would prefer to avoid running the risk of having flu symptoms for the holiday, if it's fine for me to go to a walk-in centre. At the same time, don't want to do an hour's round trip and add to their workload unnecessarily if I shouldn't be going there.

     

     

     

    Taunton Racecourse and B & W might be:

     

     

  16. The worst sets at Glastonbury

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    Arcade Fire 2007 - Having blagged my mates that it would be the set of the weekend, I begrudgingly followed them when they left half way through to go see Kasabian (I think) as it was boring.

    Oasis  2004 - Not bad as such, musically it was there but the attitude wasn't, a workman like performance that should have been awesome.

    The Killers 2007 - Not the band's fault, we just couldn't hear 'em.

    Arctic Monkeys 2007 - They were not a headline band at this time, I'm sure I remember Alex asking "Glastonbury, are you still with us?" or something like it, really underwhelming... don't believe the hype! 

    Watching from home, Kanye's set seemed beyond rubbish, especially when he appeared to be hanging on for dear life in the cherry picker, started off pretty good though.

     

  22. When will this shit end?

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    4 minutes ago, onthebeach said:

    Please enlighten me - I’ve tried to find the reasoning why, with finite resources, using more of the health service capacity with more patients via more infections would free up capacity for non Covid patients. I do understand that some non Covid patients are reluctant to seek treatment when infections are high for fear of catching Covid in a hospital environment but wouldn’t they be even less willing in a non lockdown situation as infections would be higher? 

    I think some people may fear being an unnecessary burden when the NHS is under pressure. 

  23. Who saw Pulp’s legendary 1995 Pyramid Stage set?

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    I was there, having gone under a fence that afternoon, I was a mess it was awesome.

    Memories are vague because I was a Glasto virgin and the whole thing was way beyond my expectations. My mate got sketchy in the dance tent earlier so we found ourselves at the main stage by accident (no programme, map or owt) then I got my own sketch on because there was a fight just in front of us (not sure if before or during) and in my addled state I became convinced it was because somebody was there without a ticket. 

    I loved the set; I only knew Common People from the radio but it lead to a long time love of Pulp as a band.

    About all I've got to say really, apart from one more thing... the singalong for Common People gave me a buzz that I've been trying to repeat ever since leading to loads of gigs and festys, my first proper (non-pub) gig was Pink Floyd the year before which was amazing but a world away from that show so in that respect it is not unreasonable to say that Pulp at Glasto in 95 literally changed my life!

     

     

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