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I went to Latitude in 2019, just for the day on the Friday, and they were selling real ale at one of the main bars on site (although not at all of them), but it ran out mid-afternoon. They told me they hoped to get more in on Saturday but it wasn't certain. It was Adnams if I recall (The Adnams brewery is only a few miles from the site) as well as another local brewery.
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I've posted this before, several years back, but if you fancy taking a wander through the festival over the weekend, check out some of my YouTube videos.
After 2013's festival I created this short film and after some requests I also uploaded some of the raw footage, so if you fancy...
Walking from Pyramid to Baileys
Walking from Shangri-La to West Holts
Walking from the Meeting point to The Other Stage
Standing by the road in the Greenpeace field
or any of my Glastonbury videos
...feel free!
Apologies for sound on the walking/standing ones as I wasn't intending to use them with sound.
Anyone else got anything similar?
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REM in 1999
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Came up on my Facebook today from 2010: "...is having his first couple of pints of brothers cider. Mmmm... Fruity!"
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I've not read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been covered.
I've made vodka with: Pineapple chunks, Apple cubes (sour and not so sour), Cola cubes, Werthers, Fox's mints, Pear drops, Mars bars, Skittles, Jelly beans, Cough candy and a few more that slip my mind. I normally use around 200g of sweets to 500ml vodka, this will end up being around 600-700ml of finished product.
Conclusion: Everyone has their favourite, what I like isn't necessarily for everyone. Flavour aside, some things work better than others: clear boiled sweets work best at disolving (24 hours, no dishwasher needed) and don't need any filtering. All a dishwasher does is heat the mixture to speed up the dissolving, so you can get the same result from putting the bottle in a washing up bowl of hot (not boiling!) water. I tend to do the dissolving in a tupperware container (have you tried breaking boiled sweets into pieces to fit in the neck of a bottle?) and then transfer back to the bottle.
Chocolate-based sweets (Mars bars) taste really nice, but for best results it needs filtering and that can take days.
Jelly-based sweets (Skittles, Jelly beans) initially dissolve ok but leave a gellatine sludge at the bottom of the bottle and you have to get *that* mate to drink/eat it for a bet.
Werthers is my favourite, they dissolve easily enough but do need a couple of runs through a coffee filter which can take a couple of days. It's drinkable withuot the filtering of course, but looks much nicer as a clear liquid.
Fox's glacier mints is an interesting one - like vodka toothpaste - but quite refreshing on the pallette. Can be used instead of cleaning one's teeth in a festival situation.
When I did pear drops I got them loose from a shop, they were a mixture of yellow and orange sweets so they were most perplexed when I asked for "just the yellow ones please".
Skittles ends up a dirty brown colour once all the colours are mixed, doesn't look so good in my opinion.
Non-sour apple cubes are another favourite although quite hard to find on the high street.
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My first thought was also one of the reins being handed over to Emily, I didn't realise it was his karaoke doing of choice. Either way it was a really nice moment.
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I'd seen a few clips of their recent shows and thought maybe 10,000 or so might be handed out to those at the front, but to see the whole field lit up like that in the tellybox is a truly amazing sight.
At their arena shows they did ask for them back, although most kept them as souvenirs. Hopefully most will keep theirs and very few end up in landfill.
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Watching underworld now, is anyone else getting slight tempo changes here and there? Is it happening live, or is the BBC coverage a bit dodgy, or is it my TV/Virgin media?
Great set though, would love to be there although I did see them at Camden Roundhouse earlier in the year so not feeling too bad about it. Who am I kidding, of course I would be there in a heartbeat if I could!!
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Arriving from above appears to be your best option.
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2013, 1am Friday morning. On the way back to my tent I went to a long drop for a poo. Gingerly lowered myself on to the seat (as you do) only to find a turd there already. I sat on a turd. I couldn't go after that, the turtle had retreated into its shell.
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According to the couple of news items I've read it seems the environmental impact is a big concern, the peeing on the land in particular. I wasn't there this year so can anyone who was give an indication of whether they thought there was more or less pee going into the land than previous years? Will be interesting to see the environmental report on this year's festival when it comes out.
The whole suggestion of moving the festival does seem strange to me, I can understand the reasoning behind the idea, but think of all the logistics and infrastructure that has been built up over the years - the traffic systems that get put in place around the site, the permanent-ness of the Pyramid stage, the water storage they built a few years back, the drainage systems built, bridges rebuilt, the list goes on. To move to a new location would mean all of these things would either have to go to waste or would need recreating and suffer the inevitable teething problems.
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No hope of getting anyone who isn't currently touring. It takes longer than 10 days to get together a stage show, equipment, rehearse, a tour crew etc...
This is going to be the deciding factor. Even when Gorillaz stepped in they had time to rehearse.
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No AC/DC option? Playing Berlin on the Thursday, Glasgow on the Sunday - they'll be passing through as it were. Or have they been discounted before for other reasons? Not having got a ticket this year I've not been frequenting of late.
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I'm pretty sure they do the black beach ball thing at most, if not all, of their gigs. I've certainly seen them do it before. I doubt the balls would have too much eBay value if they have done that stunt hundreds of times before.
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Perfectly judged, no point playing a load of obscure album tracks to a crowd of predominantly non-metal fans who booked tickets without the knowledge you were playing, the managed to keep the heavy metal elements there but also by choosing some of the soft stuff show off some of there amazing musical talent.
I think the genre may have won over some new fans tonight, Metallica have always been a point of entry into metal music.
Nail. Head.
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Probably a bit late for those already there but I have it on very good authority (one of their stage crew) that Mumford & Sons are playing a super special secret gig at 'a small stage' tomorrow afternoon. Unfortunately I don't know where or when, but are there any special guest slots unaccounted for?
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Once you know the site well (and I don't know if you both do or not) then a simple text and a location is enough normally. Texts get through even on a weak mobile signal but admittedly can take a while if the network is busy. My wife and I just go for the "I'll meet you in the centre of the flag circle by the Brothers bar at 2:30" and then go our separate ways...
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I did some walking and static videos at last year's fest which I've shared on here before, but if you haven't seen them, they can be found here...
It was all footage I used to make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtCSYeicVw.
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Nickyboy - I am a fairly brisk walker, although I did consciously slow down a bit when shooting these, makes for (slightly) smoother video too. It seems I walk quite a bit quicker than I thought though, especially when compared to the Glasto walking times chart I posted before.
SPTFRE - Night filming is the one thing the GoPro doesn't do well, the newer GoPro Hero3 is better but still not great.
I've uploaded the static shots too now:
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyLFfSee_WM. Not as good as the walking ones IMO, but thought you might like to see them anyway. -
Thank you for the vids! Definitely agree that they show a part of glastonbury that you don't get to experience unless you've been before... was 2013 your first? The GoPro is really handy for capturing footage at festivals, not a pain to carry around and you can get some really nice shots. My boyfriend cut this together from our 10AM trip up the jellyfish (still not sure what it's called) on the way back from the stone circle this year. It felt like the whole festival was fast asleep (although of course it wasn't)!
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Glad you like them, I have another which I might upload which is a static shot looking along the railway line for about 10 minutes or so. If I get time I'll add some annotations to the walking ones describing where I was walking at the time.
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Some of you will have seen me post this
I made at the festival last year.Looking back through the original footage I thought it might be nice to watch the walking bits in their original form - like walking through Glastonbury all over again. So I tidied them up a little and uploaded them to YouTube.
So to while away the long winter nights at the time of year furthest from the festival, why not take yourself back there and take a walk from the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZSJMB1bDU, or from
or from the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRL2bBt4Wvc.They're actually pretty boring, nothing in particular happens - just me walking through crowds - but quite nice to watch and relive the sunshine and vibe. The sound is pretty awful for the most part, especially in the Pyramid one, so apologies for that in advance but I was never intending to use the sound with the footage so didn't bother with a proper mic.
Enjoy!
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Except it isn't really sold out though is it, all it means is that the official ticket retailers have shifted their allocation to others to make obscene profits. And why should the official ticket sellers care? They already have in all the money they were ever going to get, and they know if it wasn't for the touts that would never have shifted so many dates so quickly. It a shame that even though people will probably not get another chance to see this at the proper price there will still be empty seats.
Bringing own cart/trolley
in Latitude
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We're thinking of doing the same this year to help with young child transportation. I last went for the weekend years ago and went for a day in 2019, and I can't remember whether I saw many/any trolleys on the site (there may well have been). So do you think this sort of thing would be ok?