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Anyone been in a van and know the answer to this? I emailed the info email address but no reply.

It is coming to BD but will be a long way short of finished. We’ll have some of the electrical components including lights and fridge, and a working toilet, but the shower and kitchen won’t be running and it obviously won’t have finishing touches. After BD we have 3-4 days then off to Worthy Pastures, hence slogging my guts out atm! And all this on the back of very little sleep as baby-Blutarsky has decided she doesn’t need more than an hour or two on one go…!

Thanks. Another good day today: - the benches have hinges seats on them and are properly supported with noggins. - noggins added to the bathroom studwork. - a cupboard/wardrobe built on the end of the bathroom. - constructed the footprint of the kitchen worktop. - fuse box arrived so we can have a working power supply. - Fiamma vent extension kit arrived so I can finish connecting it and we can have electrical ventilation.

@crazyfool1 My concession still stands, but I did notch my first kill this morning. The gap has closed slightly. How many are you on?

JPT: The Go! Team 55 Bright Eyes 80 Hot Chip 84 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 40 Biffy Clyro 40 The National 35 Doves 55 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 60 Jamie T 35 Ash 60 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 64 Hurts 55 Phoenix 65 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 61 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 65 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 0 (-10) No change here ☠️ George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 80 Chic ft. Nile Rodgers 85 Public Enemy 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 80 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 94 Earth, Wind and Fire 80 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 232 Janelle Monae 100 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Iver 120 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 40 Metronomy 60 Mogwai 51 James Blake 55 Super Furry Animals 50 Jon Hopkins 45 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 40 Grimes 61 The Flaming Lips 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

Line up timings

Build has started

Will it have started by now? Anyone local and driven by? If so, got any pics?

More progress today. Battery connected up to solar and I was able to charge my phone in the van! Also built bench seats (not quite finished - some temporary spacers in place in the photo) and wired up our fridge (65L Chinese knock off of a Waeco). A lot of faff with the benches as I initially built them too deep and too high, until my aunt, who’d popped by for a cuppa, suggested measuring a dining chair and copying the measurements. So basically I built them twice.

Does anyone know whether camper vans with an electric provided pitch need to take a cable to connect up or is it a pull out type job?

JPT: The Go! Team 55 Bright Eyes 80 Hot Chip 74 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 30 Biffy Clyro 50 The National 35 Doves 55 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 60 Jamie T 45 Ash 60 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 64 Hurts 55 Phoenix 65 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 61 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 65 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 30 George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 80 Chic ft. Nile Rodgers 85 Public Enemy 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 80 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 94 Earth, Wind and Fire 80 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 222 Janelle Monae 90 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Iver 120 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 40 (-10) Metronomy 60 Mogwai 51 James Blake 55 Super Furry Animals 50 Jon Hopkins 45 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 40 Grimes 61 The Flaming Lips 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

11. You didn’t spot them all…

Yesterday I started to build a bathroom

JPT: The No! Team 55 Bright Eyes 70 Hot Tits 74 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 30 Biffy Clyro 50 The National 50 Doves 52 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 60 Jamie T 45 Ash 60 DJ Shadow 50 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 60 Hertz 50 Phoenix 65 Kaiser Chiefs 30 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 61 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 65 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 40 George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 70 Chic ft. Niles Crane 85 Public NME 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 80 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 91 Earth, Wind and Fire 80 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 212 Janelle Monae 90 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Ivor 110 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 50 Metronomy 60 Mogwai 50 James Blake 51 Super Furry Cup 50 Jon Hopkins 50 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 40 (-10) Grimes 61 The Flaming Tits 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

I would have thought so. I’m not feeling overly hopeful if I’m honest.

JPT The Go! Team 55 Bright Eyes 60 Hot Chip 72 The Twang 40 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 35 Biffy Clyro 50 The National 50 Doves 52 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 56 Jamie T 49 Ash 60 DJ Shadow 50 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 60 Hurts 50 Phoenix 64 Kaiser Chiefs 50 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 57 Annie Mac 40 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 64 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 50 George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 70 Chic ft. Nile Rodgers 80 Public Enemy 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 75 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 81 Earth, Wind and Fire 75 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 203 Janelle Monae 70 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Iver 100 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Midlake 30 -10 Wild Beasts 30 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 50 Metronomy 60 Mogwai 50 James Blake 51 Super Furry Animals 50 Jon Hopkins 51 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 50 Grimes 61 The Flaming Lips 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

Progress!

They did arrive on Saturday, and all in one envelope, none of the Glasto bollocks of campervan/car park ticket one day and actual tickets days later.

Anyone still able to find the sandwiches in co-op? My local appears to have stopped doing them.

Something like this? They are so cool. Would you rather have one that had the living space contained within the vehicle for security though?

Managed to watch about 50 minutes of it while Baby-Blutarsky was napping this afternoon. Will I be able to watch the rest tomorrow or is it gone now?

Some of you will know I became a dad last year, and am now just 4 weeks away from taking our now 10-month-old mini-Blutarsky to her first festival, which will be Beautiful Days. As a result I’m seeking your advice on how best to go about taking little ones to festivals and maximise everyone in the family’s enjoyment. For example, Mini-B’s bedtime is 6-7pm so how do Mrs B and I get to see any headliners? (We didn’t hit on the idea of inviting our parents so they can babysit until after tickets sold out). We have a trolley that I’m turning into a mobile bed, but how’s it best to utilise this? Your top tips for getting babies to sleep in a campervan? Recommendations for infant ear defenders? I want to hear it all! One piece of advice I did get was from Rob Beckett and Josh Widdecombe’s Parenting Hell podcast, when Doc Brown recommended going with parent friends so you can take it in turns to have a night with the kids and a night on the lash. Good advice or no? I had a good search and couldn’t find a thread devoted to this.

I have always been a sucker for brass - any band with a horn section is a hit with me. I got into ska when I was a teenager attending anti-capitalist and anti-Iraq war rallies circa 2001-2003 and came across Capdown, who I loved. There was a whole stable of third wave ska punk bands on Household Name Records / Good Clean Fun / Fierce Panda and others at the time and a thriving UK scene which I saw a lot of at the Cavern in Exeter. This led me into listening to first wave ska (Desmond Dekker, Skatalites, Lord Tanamo etc) and 2-tone from the 80s (Madness, Specials, Selecter, beat etc) and also to American 3rd wave like Mad Caddies, Catch 22 (who I went and saw on my own at Universal Studios in 2004 when I was on holiday with my family, aged 16) Streetlight Manifesto, The Pietasters, Slackers (who I saw in Berlin a few years ago)and (to a lesser extent) Less Than Jake and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Long story short I realised I love more or less any music with horns - as songs like Destination Calabria by Alex Gaudino really hit home despite being outside of my musical wheelhouse at the time it was released. More recently the likes of Badcore Horns and the Brass Funkeys have really tickled my fancy. Anyway, what are your top recommendations for songs with brass in them? I bet someone will say Baker Street on the first page.

So, Mrs Blutarsky and I are pulling the trigger on a van in the very near future and I thought it might be a good idea to draw on the wisdom of the eFests hive mind to help us do so. I thought it would be a nice thread to have for all the van owners to share their set ups and how it works for them at Glasto and elsewhere. Apologies if it’s not appropriate Neil @eFestivals. Mrs B and I are now a trio with Mini-Blutarsky so decided it’s the right time to get one, to make Glastonbury a little more comfortable with a little one in tow. It’s also a lifestyle decision, as we live near the coast and would get good use out of a camper throughout the winter and even on weekday evenings. We’re fortunate to live in a beautiful part of the country. I’m also a teacher so we’re eyeing up six weeks of cruising Europe each summer. We’re settled on buying a panel van and converting it ourselves so we can configure it to our needs. Ideally we’re looking for a Mercedes Sprinter, VW Crafter or Fiat Ducato (which I know is the same as a Peugeot Boxer or Citroen Relay but Mrs B is prejudiced against French vehicles because she owned a crap 206 once). We want a LWB (want extra room as we want a shower for freedom camping), high roof (I can’t face having to stoop), low-mileage, good nick van. And the moon on a stick. With the market as it is at the moment we’re finding it a bit difficult. Frustratingly we had a Sprinter lined up through a friend of a friend who runs a greengrocers with a fleet of 12, but he’s had to keep it in service due to lockdown. We’ve got an eye on a few which are up for auction this evening, so hopefully we’ll have some success. I guess what I wanted to ask is whether there’s anything in particular we should look out for, ask about or know before buying? It’d also be great to hear what vans people have, how you’ve got them set up and any pearls of wisdom when it comes to converting.