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Am I right in thinking there are no Twickets on sale on the day … all sales are pulled the night before?

😂 That deserved more attention

These were the beers last year. The bar was next to BMW Play

It’s the day before Gorillaz now and nothing on the seat fillers so sadly I agree with you. From a long term perspective that’s probably a sensible business decision: kill off the expectation of last minute cheapies this year and fewer people will hold off from buying next year. 2-4-1s and Amex deals are far less corrosive for the brand than dumping freebies on the market. I’m only interested in next weekend so I decided to bite the bullet last night and bought a VIP View for The National for £85 which looked amazing value (even tho it’s about £80 more than I was hoping to pay 😆) Think I will wait til the day before for Tame Impala tho - I’m sure that’s sold badly and maybe they’ll make an exception for it!

Twickets now has a pair for Gorillaz at 39.95 each so it's happening ...

Also the one with the fewest dumped on Twickets. Not sure why that would be - it’s still not a sell out so has to be a function of fewer ticket holders changing their mind about going rather than there being more interest in buying them on Twickets. I doubt any have sold on Twickets so far

Wow. I’d not thought to look on there until now. Dozens! None of them will sell if it doesn’t sell out. They’ll be flogging them for 20 quid a pop soon

This year I stayed at a pub – which shall remain nameless in the interests of discretion - during the festival. Apparently the Drift team stayed there during the shoot last year and were complete wasters. They spent most of their time sitting round in the bar just hanging, with no obvious sign of any work being done. The landlord felt they were just taking the piss and nobody seemed to be managing them properly. They were also pretty rude and disrespectful to the staff. Maybe if they’d spent a bit more time on the coding and less in the bar the Livestream might have gone a bit more smoothly

I'm not that fussed watching videos of live either but there was something about this for me that took it out of the genre. For a start it wasn't - strictly speaking - live. Each performance was, but they were all separate works - some with quite a creative take on the production - woven together to produce something more like a movie. And, for me, the fact that it's a time capsule of the year the pandemic stopped the festival - and a reminder of how much we missed it - lifts it above the sum of its parts.

The Amex deal isn’t for VIP View - just for the backstage VIP area. It’s nice and chilled with better loos. But you need View to get a better view!

Can't believe this was never released on Blu-Ray

I want both. Even greedier

Worth 40 quid so a pretty good deal tbf for any day likely to be full enough not to need seat fillers in the final week. Field Day for example you could wait til 2 days before to see if there are any freebies/cheapies before buying (assuming the upgrades aren't limited and sell out in the meantime). I wouldn't do it for Tame Impala as it looks almost certain there'll be some better deals. But I might get one for The National if no cheapies appear by the closing date

https://www.axs.com/uk/series/15503/luno-presents-all-points-east-2022-american-expresslast-minute-tickets-tickets?skin=amexuk

I’d only go for The Smile so not worth it unless they’re cheapies

Also the Kingston gigs are almost always 40mins to an hour. Hence cheap, and generally geared towards flogging vinyl and CDs and promoting a new album

For the last 20 years we’ve stayed in Croscombe (north of the festival) and getting there via Shepton has always been traffic free. So if I were you I’d go: Shepton, Croscombe, Wells, Glastonbury, A361 -> Pilton. The other (much quicker) option is to cheekily ignore the ‘No access to festival’ sign at the junction of Shepton Old Rd/Old St and Old Wells Rd and head to wards The Crossways, and on til you hit the 361 at Steanbow. Ignore the stewards who never approach you and turn right - you’re heading to the East car parks now.

That’s disappointing. Not for the golden showers, but she seems to be the heart (and kidneys) of the band’s performance.

Quite a diuretic, coffee, I find

It’s them alright.

I can’t wait to see them. Their version of Killing In The Name is even more intense than the original. And quite a live act - the lead singer is on a warning not to get overly carried away on stage. She was subject to a police investigation after a gig in the States. If you don’t know the story Google it. It’s quite shocking 💦

I've done that too. I'm convinced it's because Guy Garvey and Jimi Goodwin look like the most unlikely frontmen for an Indy band. They's look much more at home wearing a hard hat and hi viz for work

No he's not. Just very judgemental about other people's taste, like a lot of folk on here. Being judge doth not make a troll.

And if you're at the older end of the spectrum (like me) 'Spit of you' is really affecting. Gets me every time. Not that it'll be easy to hear cos it's the kind of song that the less engaged talk throughout

I honestly think for those who are on the hill 12:45 Sunday for Ukraine's Dakhabrakha, that is going to be the emotional high point of the festival. If you don't know the band watch this. They play a weird fusion of world, trance, folk and blues that in tracks like Vesna and Yanky is like nothing else and incredibly contemporary. They look great too - traditional Ukrainian outfits. Part of the performance uses video of the war as a backdrop. It's not impossible to imagine that Zelensky might even speak by zoom. Pray the sun shines on Ukraine Sunday lunchtime.