NotAnInsider

Honestly that article is a wild ride. Wasn't expecting the sudden mention of measles at all. All the talk of water bottles then BAM measles in the next paragraph left me feeling bewildered.

Met office have touched on Glastonbury in their 10 day trend. Also provide a far better explainer of the Box & Whisker chart than I ever could. Gist is showers early next week, increasing sign of drier weather into the weekend of the festival itself. Generally warm, especially at night.

The met office say... It's too early...

Still bags of uncertainty at the moment around the specifics of what will happen. Latest Meteograms are showing a higher chance of rain Monday/Tuesday, with classic sunshine and showers Wed-Sat and Sunday likely to be dry. Temperatures are looking to be low to mid 20s throughout. Whilst 50% or so of the model runs are showing some light rain, with the odd outlier for something heavier, quite a few are showing none at all. It really is all to play for at the moment; the next few days may start to trend toward a drier regime (as has happened frequently the last few weeks) or stick with sunshine & showers.

We've had models suggest lows coming in from the east over the medium term a few times in recent weeks only for them to get squashed out further west closer to the time. It wouldn't be a shock for that to happen again and the suggested breakdown over the start of next week to fail to come to fruition. Or it may all go totally to sh*t for real this time. It'll be interesting to see what the Met Office long range is saying when it updates later this afternoon. Those are written properly based of multiple models. So far they've been pretty well stuck to the dry and fine conditions train - their deep dive and 10 day trend vids will be on YouTube Tuesday/Wed and will likely touch on Glastonbury.

You can get a Vodafone PAYG esim - I did a week or so ago. You first need to get a physical PAYG sim and set it up. Wait a few days then go here: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/webcenter/portal/myvodafone/simswap Follow the instructions and it seems to work fine. If you wait another few days you can then port that esim to Voxi, like I have, and have a Voxi esim.

The GFS tends to really struggle with the type of pattern we have at the moment. It always tends to show it breaking down in the medium term whereas the ECMWF and Met Office models have handled it quite a bit better. Personally going to wait until they're both in range.

Charts are useless at the moment. We don't even know what flavour of weather we are set to get, let alone when and where that weather will occur. For the last ever we've had a blocked pattern leading to calm, mostly pleasant weather (well, for those of us in the East). From mid festival week the ECMWF is suggesting a bit of uncertainty and a potential for wetter but still warm conditions. For what it's worth, this has happened a few times in recent weeks only for it to never materialise. The Met Office seem to reckon we'll keep pretty constant: So yeah, I don't bloody know.

The ECMWF box and whisker things are starting to cover the first few days of the festival. These are the result of multiple runs of the model, each with slightly different variables, that try to produce a more of a probabilistic forecast (these things could happen) rather than a deterministic forecast (this thing will happen). At this sort of range the models are chopping and changing, so this is quite useful right now. On the plot the thickest box is the 50% likely outcome, with the thin lines representing the 10% extremes. When the different model runs are in agreement, normally close in time, you won't see any whiskers, just box. So it's basically warmer than average and a slight chance of rain, for now. But the range is too great to say for sure.

If you look at the postage stamps there is still shed loads of uncertainty around rain at the moment. Pretty much all the models are suggesting a high to the southwest with a low to the north of it. If that's the case it's likely to be average temperatures with a mix of sunshine and showers depending on exactly where that high and low sit. If that comes true we'll struggle to predict with any accuracy the detail of any showers and precisely where they'll fall, even on the day. There was one morning last year where I got a text from a mate at Bath and West saying it was chucking it down, and it did for an hour or so, but over on the main site it stayed dry with a nice rainbow.

QOTSA aren't afraid of stupid stuff like that. Back in 2017 they played Reading & Leeds on the same day. It's not impossible that Josh pulls the same trick to get to Cardiff in time. Not hugely likely, but not impossible. I could see a mini Taylor Hawkins tribute rather than the Foos - leaves them more clear to come back and headline in the next couple of years.

I want it to be precisely 19.7 degrees with light showers between 8 and 10am to keep the dust down. Bit of sun to keep the solar topped up, but not too much that it gets warm or anything silly like that. No other conditions are acceptable.

Normally they arrive with your festival tickets, but if you got Campervan passes in the resale they are sent separately (and I think that's what the second progress bar on See is about). My CV tickets last year were sent really late - 15th June - and a good three weeks after by festival tickets.

Yeah, mine did. Showed as at Nottingham on Wed, arrived Friday morning. Started moving on the tracking overnight Thus. Other intel from my Postie is that everyone in a certain area will receive theirs at the same time. See pre sort them as it saves money on the postage but the order they do that is probably determined by ‘some clever software’.

Mine started showing on the Royal Mail tracker yesterday as 'Item received at Nottingham MC' and 'our service guarantee is to attempt delivery by 1.00pm the next working day' ...and no more updates or tickets. So obviously the completely unreasonable paranoia that the Royal Mail have lost then is starting to set in...

It's a really oddly specific mistake to make though, isn't it? And Mikey Shoes turned up in the Rabbit Hole last year...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Vodafone deal is more a branding one than anything else - we may find that the 'new' app is built by the same people as the EE one, but just red & white rather than blue and yellow.. Anyway, for those who are on a main network that doesn't support esim, it turns out Vodafone will let you convert a Pay As You Go sim to esim. Follow this link and request it https://www.vodafone.co.uk/webcenter/portal/myvodafone/simswap. You can then, if you want, port that new esim to Voxi.

There's a general admission form live as well... https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2023/worthy-farm/2575665

I think they are trying to remove the advantages of pre knowledge and being in a big group. I understand why when some people have succeeded every time in the last 10 years when others haven't got a sniff despite their best efforts. I wouldn't be surprised if they make more changes for the '24 general sale to tighten it up further and make it even more of a lottery, as much as the previous system has worked for me. In november I saw someone suggest a staged system where at 9am you would submit your registration groups (max of six per group, each reg only in one group) and 30 min later those groups would be randomly balloted into getting a ticket or not with 24 hours to pay their deposit. Struck me as a half decent approach to a ballot; you still have to be there on ticket day and put a bit of effort in, but can't assemble on mass to abuse it. It's funny how the resale was half of that system.. Some will win some will loose and we'll argue forever about it.

I doubt QOTSA would want to clash - Elton has guested on their albums and asked Josh to sing goodbye yellow brick road at the Taylor Hawkins tribute. I can see Queens wanting to sub if they had the choice.

Josh getting full custody of the kids despite the accusations (and his history of alcohol and drug consumption) with Brody only being granted supervised visits to the youngest speaks volumes as to which side of the tail is most likely closest to the truth. Some of the stuff in that statement is wild and hopefully now the kids get some stability. Also hope we can get the Queens back on the bill, or even better, Them Crooked Vultures.

EE put in two permanent 4/5g masts around Worthy Farm and bring in another 7 temporary ones for the festival itself. I think that network is used for a lot of the production and stalls comms, so Vodafone will have to do something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being the same infrastructure by the same people, but just a bit more red and with more bandwidth for Voda rather than EE. App might be the same as well.

I reckon a few will be underwhelmed if boygenius are announced as headliners. But there is no doubt that Phoebe could headline on her own & there is a real chance that boygenius could become huge once their album is out. Green man has a habit of putting a lot of weight behind fairly unknown acts - they booked Courtney Barnett quite high on the bill in similar circumstances and were early to Wet Leg as well (who were there for most of settlers being anonymous, no chance of that happening these days) Might just pay off.

The 2023 ticket info page mentions large motorhome pitches which have always been B&W only so i think we can be pretty confident it's back.

The beer situation at Glasto this year was a real disappointment. Really struggled to find anything vaugely drinkable; the odd bar had Shipyard IPA which was ok, but compared to the likes of Green Man and Bluedot which all have a cracking range available it was terrible. Glasto in the past has had a decent range, so its clearly a result of whatever crappy deal they have with Carlsberg - the guys at the Bimble Inn said someone from the bar team came and made them turn the Guiness taps around so they couldn't be seen as Carlsberg weren't happy - and they had to fight to be able to serve it in the first place. If Green Man can get a Brecon Brewing to supply a range of ales for a festival of 20k, i see no reason why Glasto can't get a handful of semi local breweries to at least provide an alternative to the dross that is carlsberg.