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9 hours ago, amyren said:
hi all, been following this thread for a while, sadly missed out this morning but will keep checking 🤞🏻 does anyone know how strict Oxfam are about getting there on the Tuesday? I'm going to struggle getting the Tuesday off work but can get the other days no problem. Well done to everyone who got places this morning 💖
Glasto isn’t like any of the other festivals in that all of the volunteers and other working crews have strict deadlines to be on site due to traffic management etc. the festival licensing dictates that we all need to be in place before the gates open.
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4 hours ago, Sheffield Steve said:
Every month this year has been warm or very warm, and May is well above average so far too…. Global warming at its finest… and June is expected to follow suit…
Bloody hell, not where I live, the grass has only just started growing properly and we had frosts up till last week, it’s been a long winter
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Quite happy with the job I seem to have…even though it doesn’t have a title!
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On 4/29/2023 at 3:47 PM, eatmorebeans said:
Hi guys, I'm volunteering for the first time this year, festaff. A couple of questions please....
Can volunteers come and go as they please on Tuesday, I'd like to visit friends who will be in the campervan field?
Does each crew have their own campsite or will we be all in one (Tom's field?)
Thanks Tony
Not 100% sure yet but expect we’ll be up the hill from Gate B like last year.
Tuesday you should be fine, you’ll be done with any admin and training/gate familiarity during the day so you’ll be able to get across to the East CV fields easily enough.
Bear in mind that if you’re on an early shift on the Wednesday then you’ll probably be starting at 5am!
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Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:
We were up the Tor this afternoon , a bit of light rain and some wind but the site was well visible.
Was the bloody drummer there?
You could see across the Bristol Channel so I think that’s far enough
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Been round the corner all weekend and was up the Tor earlier. Visibility a bloody long way. Ground conditions no worse than damp grass. Tracks not in the slightest bit dusty but I wouldn’t be needing studs if I was playing footy put it that way.
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Loaded the car, heading to Somerset in the morning and on site Monday!
it’s happening!
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1 minute ago, Brad2434 said:
I own a pizza business and just had to shut our restaurant and go mobile due to the ridiculous rise in overheads. Frying oil for fries etc was £20 for 20L in december and now its £40. The cheese we buy from our italian distributor has gone up from £50 for 12kg to £75. Really hard time for the food industry so i'm more than expecting to pay more this year.
Our local pizza van can’t take any more orders most weekends and it’s bloody great gear! Good luck with the mobile matey!
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1 hour ago, waynewdk said:
Was speaking to someone today and they said at Park Life it was £17 for a burger and chips
Parklife were making traders buy the gear from them to sell. one trader at NBHD said he bought a slab of waters for £5 from Bookers but for PL he had to buy it for £19! Also no tap water available at PL from what I was told.
At NBHD it was about 12-15 quid for a main, they were told what price to sell at.
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On 4/10/2022 at 7:27 PM, tigertoo said:
Thursday night outside cinema. Back in the 90s that was just about the only official entertainment on the Thursday night. The most memorable one for me was Ghostbusters, the crowd were so chilled and happy singing along. It's still one of my happiest memories of my first few Glastonburys.
It used to be in Kidney Mead back in the early 90s where I camped. You had the bizarre post sun up of sitting there listening to the sound but couldn’t see the images!
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On 4/10/2022 at 11:09 AM, Neil said:
mutant cars driving through the site, mad-max style.
Got to be early 90s that?
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20 minutes ago, stuie said:
There will be some open, there's already thousands of people there by Monday and they need feeding!
That’s what I thought. We can always pile back out to the pub 😂
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We’re on site Monday lunch with Festaff, what’s the crack with food stalls etc? Plenty open?
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13 hours ago, deebeedoobee said:
9th June
T-13
The current weather and ground conditions in Pilton are :
* HFH records 15.3 degrees at 0833 with humidity at 83%. Consequent tent conditions - armpit stench and fetid feet. Slightly moist and slippy
* RAM jam jar is currently dry. Todays duckometer reading is 0.0 mm, from the last 24 hours. As dry as a dead dingo's donger.
* Diver suffering from rubbery chub rub and his helmet stinks.
* The Buddha refuses to comment.
* Current wind condition - light breeze. Miss Pat steadfast, reading Brown cow farm. St, 8 okta.
* sticky stick's tip getting sore. Well now looking for new employment as a sink hole. Ground conditions are shredded wheat with a splash of oat milk.
* Digger has drawn his interpretation of a science forecast
Oh how I’ve missed this for the last 3 years!
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Festaff crew in from Monday morning…lots coming straight from the IoW. We’re staying round the corner near Pylle from Saturday so probably see you up the Tor on Sunday
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9 hours ago, BluePaul said:
Just back from a great few days at Bearded Theory which was a great starter before the main course to come, but oh my, the food prices!
I totally get it's been a crap couple of years for all the food vendors who have every right to charge what they need to earn a decent crust, but it feels a bit like a tipping point might have been reached for many.
At BT, the price for a 'standard' meal was typically £10 or £12 - and up to £14 for some premium offerings.
Is this sustainable or will it push loads of people into bringing their own or getting a meal deal from the Co-op?
Just been on the Festaff crew at NBHD. Same sort of food prices and 6quid plus a pint, 2.50 for a can of pop.
Vendors had been given a minimum cost to charge. Needless to say the clown asking a fiver for a coffee wasn’t exactly rushed off his feet.
One told me that at Parklife they have to buy slabs of drinks off the festival first.
Dig deep peasants…
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Probably a few times but deffo twice with the Manics.
My (now ex) wife was unknowingly pregnant with our daughter in early 96 when we saw the MSP in Leeds. The gig was broadcast on Boxing Day that year and she was born to Design for Life on the radio.
Manics headlined in 99, I was down the front in the mayhem and cracked up when they played it. I then went with my daughter in 2003 and she got to hear it live. She knew it was her song and I picked her up and cried as they played it.
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On 4/8/2022 at 3:07 PM, BlackZeppelin said:
Ed Sheeran over anybody else
I think we went to see what the fuss was about, and regretted it, ended up at Justice at WH
Let my Mrs drag me to Ed Sheeran, dire. We left after half an hour.
Ended up having to physically fight our way OUT of the field, people simply wouldn’t let us past!
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On 4/8/2022 at 2:44 PM, t0paz said:
2000 when I didn’t see Bowie. Can’t even remember what I was watching instead…
I did that…I must have been mad
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2 hours ago, tigertoo said:
Thursday night outside cinema. Back in the 90s that was just about the only official entertainment on the Thursday night. The most memorable one for me was Ghostbusters, the crowd were so chilled and happy singing along. It's still one of my happiest memories of my first few Glastonburys.
I always camped in Kidney Mead in the 90s. Outdoor Cinema was there. Vaguely recall one year, poss 92, sitting up all night watching films and they were still playing when it got light so all you got was the sound!
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5 hours ago, gooner1990 said:
Although I didn’t go pre-super fence that video really reminds me of my early years at Reading in the late 90s/early 2000s and my first few Glastonbury’s and it’s certainly something I miss now at modern festivals.
92 at Reading it was cold and wet on the Sunday, upended the bins and built bonfires in the Arena to keep warm waiting for Kurt
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9 hours ago, dogeggs said:
Didnt there used to be a hefty pile of (presumably free) firewood logs stashed at the side of the railway track - that everyone used to help themselves to?
Yep and generally gone by Weds lunch
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Mate of mine doesn’t do festivals and went in 2007 by coach (he uses public transport everywhere even now). Apparently it was chaos getting picked up and he arrived back in Sheffield to find the city flooded out, without power and couldn’t even get a shower when he got home!
Needless to say…😂
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Volunteering 2023
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I’d ask them, looks like a good idea and if it’s free time you can do what you want