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I'm afraid my memory is not great and I've had a look, but don't have a record of how I was alerted. Hopefully somebody will pop up who has faced the dilemma and is more sensible 😉

Ha ha my guy, thankfully that's as accurate as half the revisionist nonsense you spout about the benefits the country reaped from Thatcher.

You really think that 4 million people reading something every day presenting a certain view of the world doesn't have any impact on their perspective? Extraordinary.

So they don't have a vote then?

There's a lot of data here to support those conclusions... https://academic.oup.com/cje/article/44/2/319/5550923?login=false

Let's not forget a few wealthy billionaires doing their utmost to influence many millions of voters....

From a big sponsored tent obviously, commerce is king after all 👍

Yes, as I arrived on Coach I came through PG A and walked through the site, which was a decent distance carrying weight for my age and fitness, hence went to trouble to pack as light as possible - although was great for getting bearings about where it was and where things were (eg the co op etc and other things not too far away)

Talking of live music, a new venue opening a few miles from the farm in Wells. Think at one stage 40 years ago it was a diy shop and I fleetingly did work experience there. Hope they do well... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-68665988.amp

Yes, in 2022 (having done campervans or caravans for many years, but as my ticket was bought in the resale I was too late to rent a van). I'm an old git and was going to be coming by coach and knew I couldn't carry my other stuff as well as a tent and something to kip on. As @Mich1268 said I regularly visited to ensure I could get something. So first up I paid for a bell tent in Sticklinch and then set myself a page monitor. Thankfully during the day at work if it went off I could pop up the page and see what they had on offer, it did take a number of visits before I got myself a 4 person bunkpad (which I chose as that included bunkbeds, so all we needed to bring were sleeping bags). The date I got one was Friday, April 22, 2022 1:30 PM As for facilities - they had actual flushing toilets, with a queue system which was most of the time really well managed (someone standing by the front of the queue directing the next person when one was available), plus other folks who were checking they were OK and even cleaning or replenishing bog roll - honestly it was the nicest loos I've seen on the farm in nearly 40 years. They also had quite a few showers - pretty busy at peak times, clearly many of the attendees are scrupulously clean these days, but later in the day would be easy to nip in. They had a handful of food and drink stalls (but I believe less than WV), the ones that did a fancy coffee or more sophisticated breakfast had a bigger queue, but if you wanted a bacon butty and brew there was a very small queue. No bar in Sticklinch, that year there was one in Carmageddon, so not sure how far it was to the nearest last year as that had gone.

Good call, one of the things they could carry over to the same space and helps to retain some variety.

I was intrigued by the email too and I'm lucky enough to already have a ticket

Wrong thread surely

My pleasure, I was hoping that it may be of interest to someone more likely to have gone into a club in the last decade or two than me 😉

Not specific to the fest, but some interesting ideas about clubs and venues... "How can we save British nightlife from collapse? Look to Germany – and its football" https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/how-can-we-save-british-nightlife-from-collapse-look-to-germany-and-its-football

I only went to V once, after fifteen to twenty years of Glasto, knew the rules said no booze, but in my slightly worse for wear state (well it was early afternoon) I couldn't quite compute the person going to the trouble of searching me...and finding a plastic bottle up each sleeve. They even sent me back as I was too worse for wear (which I naively thought was the point). Thankfully poured away bottles, next gate let me in. Didn't return to V.

I'm sure you'll have a fab time 😘 I'm going to be exercising some more moderation this year, first time for a while so will be interesting to mix it up slightly. Tbh in my case each one could well be the last I get to, so having a more memorable experience would be good 😊

That is a fabulous show 😂

I'd suspect the increase is at least partially driven by venue costs, wages and energy? Inflation has taken a toll on everything

Cheeky feckers!

I went to plenty before 2000 and never snuck in as such. Had two I worked, then several I got in on free tickets (family member on Mendip District Council and the festival were savvy and said "come and see it for yourself"), then bought them usually from the shop in broadmead, but one notable time it sold out and I very cheekily phoned MEs brother (who I only knew very slightly), who walked me through on one of their villagers' tickets. Really felt he had better things to do during the fest, so resolved to not be in that position again. I nearly helped someone else, we hid him under a duvet in a vw camper a friend lent me. As our first go in a van we foolishly didn't realise they didn't care about parking the van up, just when you came through the pede gates. As he wondered what to do, someone moved the fence, security chased a runner and he strolled through with a dozen others...who all got in quicker than us ticket holders 😊

I think the only really valuable thing I've lost was many years ago and was some lovely smoking material that I enjoyed so much that I left it outside the tent 😄

I'm really excited to know about your great valuables now 😉

As has been pointed out, not those who put their valuables in the lock ups 😊

I'm 35-40 miles north of the festival and it's certainly been quite a bit of rain this week. We must be due a really warm spell later to compensate 😉