gooner1990

I went on a site visit with some friends at the end of April 2016 and it was like nothing was going on, Pyramid had no dress, no fence being started...was just like it was at any other time of the year, amazing how quick they put it together after that.

Surely you're on a wind up?!

I guessed you might know them or something...seems like they all have a good career/life doing what they do!

A mate of mine ate one on the Thursday in 2009 and lost a couple of hours lying on the floor next to the Other Stage in a stodge coma!

Do you think this will mean a revamp for Silver Hayes? I watched a ton of videos on YouTube with Malcolm and someone called Lou Fitzpatrick about how they put SH together back in 2013/2014...was interesting.

Yep, rather frustrating....but not much we can do about it! We've got 2 coming in a car and 5 of us on the coach (the two in a car don't live anywhere near us anymore and four of us are on a coach from Oxford and one is on a coach from Reading) and can't even start to think where we will camp now because we don't know when the bulk of us will be arriving.

Interesting....

Personally I would like my coach departure and return times before the map. 😄

Has Malcolm Haynes given it up then?, because if so that's a bit of a surprise as he's been running that area for well over 20 years.

I'm wondering if that might be a bit delayed/later as once the map is out then all the 'secrets' about some of the changes will be apparent....especially over the future of Pangea.

Ha! That sounds like a messy night! 😁😵‍💫

Don't worry I'll get to your age eventually! 😄

I don't I wouldn't bother going if I had to pay £300+ on top of the ticket price just to camp there. I have my own tent, which I take home with me and take to multiple other festivals!

Sounds like what some of our crowd did, also in 2007 except we were in Big Ground overlooking the Pyramid stage, a couple of them sat under a gazebo most of the weekend drinking and smoking weed. The only night they did something else was on the Friday when one of our friends sorted them out a couple of pills and they trudged off to Hot Chip in the JPT for an hour or so because they needed to burn off some energy. The weather didn't help, its also a year I started to get very lazy as the weekend wore on due to the swamp like conditions!

I got carried away and went far in too hard on the 'specials' on the Thursday night in 2017 and as a result really struggled to get going on the Friday, the first band I watched were Royal Blood at gone 5.30pm after I had forced some dinner down. There were a good 6 hours in that daytime of me feeling like absolute shit and not wanting to be there, but of course when I came back I told everyone what a great time I'd had throughout the whole weekend!

When did he say that? I think it would defiantly start to put people off if he or Emily pushed that as the prices they charge for WV/Sticklinch are very eye watering.

There's plenty of fields on the west side that can accom people arriving thurs evening/fri am.

Ditto.

I don't think we are too far off that happening.

mate, I go to football virtually every weekend but still find plenty to moan about at that (and I'm not just talking about matters on the pitch! 😄 )

That's a load of rubbish, plenty of space on the west side of the site.

I think that's the thing now, festivals in general bend over backwards for peoples custom and once one festival offers glamping the others follow suit. A friend of mine lived in the US for three years 2014-2017 and would always keep a massive stash of camping equipment at his parents house ready for when he came back for Glastonbury each year!

On the Saturday of 2014 a mate of ours got separated from the rest of us in the late-afternoon, we tried calling him several times, just went straight to voicemail and got nothing so just assumed he'd gone back to his campervan for a rest/reload/whatever, wasn't until it until it was time for Metallica that he was supposed to be watching with us that we started to worry a little and after their headline set his girlfriend went straight back to their campervan and texted me to say he had re-appeared and all was fine. The following day he explained that he'd forgotten to charge his phone on the Friday night when he got back wasted, then on Saturday PM had wandered off from us to get some food, we had moved by the time he had got back and when he went to call me, suddenly realised he had no battery or his charger pack with him, so thought he would just stick it out until Metallica was done, go back to his CV and get some juice to meet us for SEC antics, but when he found his annoyed gf there just went to bed. His main gripe the next day was that he tried several times during Manic Street Preachers and Pixies (whilst also looking for us) to strike up conversation with people around him, offer them a bit of his spliff etc but most people didn't seem interested or just maybe gave the odd answer and then just stuck to their group, he felt like he was looked upon as some sort of weirdo for trying to talk to strangers. Said it put a bit of a downer on his night and would never make the mistake of getting split apart from friends again, he's been doing festivals long enough to know what he's talking about and I felt a bit bad for him that people weren't more receptive to someone just trying to have a chat. Perhaps he just got a few wrong groups and was a bit unlucky, but I also think that these days people are more inclined to stick with their own crowd as a result of mobile phones becoming easy to use on site now and not have to talk to people they don't know in a crowd, because its rare for people to get split up and not manage to find each other anymore.

Isn't that what Caitlin Moran goes in (Think Neil confirmed it one year) then claims on her Guardian column she's been 'slumming it' at Glastonbury over the weekend.

I think glamping helps retain an audience that otherwise might have retired due to getting older or who wouldn't attend if they had to do standard camping.