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  2. The National

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    13 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

    Something to do with some politician in Ohio who's fighting a new health bill over there. Pretty weird. Not sure why he thought Glastonbury was a good platform for it.

    It was some Republican in Ohio, and it was done before Bloodbuzz Ohio so made enough sense to me, also lead to half the crowd cheering that they were from Ohio which was amusing.  Obviously not a massive audience for it but I didn't find it out place.

  4. New Quechua "Fresh & Black" Tents

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    It's a bit fiddly but do it a few times, somewhere where you have access to watch the videos and it really is pretty straightforward once you have a bit of practice and as stated above the system and colouring these days make it a lot easier.

  6. New security measures in place

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    Has there been any comment on this statement from the e-mail:-

    'There will, however, be no entertainment or facilities in the car parks and Festival goers will be expected to remain in their cars until the Festival gates open.'

    If this is true this would be somewhat of a departure from previous years - queuing at the gates overnight once in the carpark.

  7. Tent walkabout post festival

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    Didn't realise it was quite this bad.  Even with the mud our tents were damp and a little muddy but could completely have got away without giving them a wipe down once home.  

    With technology I'm sure there are options, but whether they are truly feasible particularly from a cost point of view may not be the case.  There must be ways to mark peoples tents with something tied to their ticket as they come in, but it's a case of time and money and then what do you do when they leave their tent? The admin to mark tents and then if left behind pursue them in some manner?

    Some sort of half-voluntary/forced deposit system whereby you need to register your tent and then when you leave register it the opposite way to get your deposit back or probably a better incentive -> not get your registration black listed.

    As drone technology and such improves, some way to have them map out the site and the people whose tents are whose... all a bit big brother but with facial recognition maybe it could be done.

    All the solutions really become quite involved, particularly when you consider the implications of slowing down logistical issues (entry/exit) that are already not perfect.

    If there are any suitable options it would be nice to see the festival trying some scale pilot schemes for small sections of campsites to see how these may work.

    Forcing on-site camping stores to register the purchaser probably wouldn't be such a big deal I guess, but is probably a tiny part of the problem.

    Which really in my mind means the best current options are through educating people...

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

      

     

     

  11. For anyone wondering why todays sale was the slowest ever...

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    I actually think the ticket sale rate was about right this year.

    It'd be crap for it to sell out in half an hour, which lets face it weeds out some of those people who aren't that fussed but would like to give a try. 4 hours is an acceptable if bloody annoying length of time to expect people to keep trying for without ruining their lives. (2005? was something like 12-16 hours starting on a THursday evening that was bad.

    All my friends that went through the resale last year got tickets, so I hope those people here that didn't get tickets can do that.

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