clarkete

Fantastic result, even more than last year 🍾

Damn out of reactions 😊

Can't help but notice this thread often being a grumble fest, rather than anything to do with 2024 site changes.

I've had postal for decades, much simpler and very handy.

I know many folks surmise that if they booked less popular acts the overcrowding before Friday would no longer have been an issue, but isn't it the case these days that anything can be a huge draw on those days and in this case the location being such a busy thoroughfare is what creates that potential for overcrowding?

I've read that twice and both times I lol'd (quietly obviously, it's late and I don't want to wake anyone up and explain why)

Yes, they tend to be the portaloo types and a proportion of them have those big containers nearby for folks to empty their van waste units into. There's also supplies of drinking water and along some of the tracks there are food vans - not as varied as those on site, but very welcome for some late night chips or a brew in the morning.

Ooh another prompt for a discussion about carhenge? I'll get my popcorn out 😉 They had to change WG for reasons, they had some spare cars as they were getting rid of an unused feature and freeing up some space for other things, they had a tiny budget so they made carhenge. Some folks like it, some don't, most agree it would be better if they featured more music played there. Anything I've missed?

To dissuade others from paying their balance surely?

Well done you, that's quite a list ticked off. I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time 🙂

Excellent, save a space for my chairs

Clearly your definition of edgy is to put it politely open to interpretation - surely it should include something more contemporary? Otherwise Prodigy and Air don't really have a GSH, plus the latter is clearly a complicated show to stage, Massive Attack are doing their own thing and isn't Grace Jones usually a bit tricky to get signed up?

As above, that only bothers some regulars. This is my 31st in a row and it's not a concern to me, as it never has been for earlier decades whenever it's happened. A quick and dirty count there are what 85ish places listed in the 2023 Clashfinder, so always plenty on to suit even my aged and ill informed tastes at any time 🙂

Maybe she wouldn't need the loudhailer if you'd throw those curtains wide?

Pretty sure I've been to the festival more than all those that have thus far contributed to this thread and I don't share the sentiment about the line up, already plenty I'd like to see and that list will massively fill out. As ever there were some acts hoped for which have played before and would have delighted others, but I'd have just shrugged at, so I don't pine for them. I come from the olden days when there were two stages for and many of the acts on the second one were not well known. Also there were often some acts on the Pyramid who had played before.

There have certainly been changes in several areas, as outlined above. Some like them others less so. As for the festival itself, plenty of folks are very hyped for it and that's before the individual stage posters kick off during the next week or two (based on previous years). If you're not feeling it, then you should look into your heart 😊 And we definitely shouldn't be having speculative discussions about MEs health, it's a touch crass imho

I stopped reading because they did two things that annoyed me I'm afraid. Firstly conflated the FTPT with the kippers doing well in the EU elections, which clearly they only did because of PR. It's not for nothing that Farage has failed to become an MP 7 times. Secondly how could they write all that but get the year of the referendum wrong?

Easy, with FPTP? 🤔

More importantly, they know you've seen them recently and therefore they may not make the cut for your clashfinder, therefore why even bother? 😉

That's gonna be an interesting future parent's evening 😂

Hard to say if that counts them in or out, that's a long jaunt for either Fri or Sun?

The PAYG sim didn't include 5g? That in itself would have been a great reason to get a lebara on offer for a quid or so per month. Dunno if it's changed, this refers to data sims or PAYG plus (which in 5g)? https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/sim-only I've been to Liverpool recently, lots in the docks, but also in the city up to cathedral, confident I had 5g Voda on at least some of that. Can you check the phone somehow?

Would certainly agree that Vodafone performance was specifically better in 23, as you say for known reasons as they added nine new masts - https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/press-release/mobile-data-demand-skyrockets-at-glastonbury-2023/ Are you saying that in 2023 your Vodafone sim didn't pick up a 5g signal on the farm? As I certainly did and performance was great, with the only exception being such as when incident described, during massive crowds, which I believe is why it's affected.

So much more bizarre innit, the synopsis is crazy