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  1. Festival toilets

    in Chat

    Posted

    Noooo .!! Never got tickets this year sadly, but those flushers were my sanctuary at 6-30 every morning ! A little touch of comfort in my day. Sitting with my Glasto programme planning my day with a good poo.back to tent for a few aspirin washed down with a rehydration powder .went to Down the rabbit hole in holland this year instead of sulking here , and toilets are amazing .All porcelain flashers and immaculate .

  2. Epic Trolley Fails

    in Chat

    Posted

    its the suitcases that get me. What make seemingly sane folk,think that a piece of luggage with 2 inch plastic wheels , designed for polished airport terminal floors , will be ideal for your average festival terrain?!

    Lost count of the amount i have seen leaving a dust / mud wake. Being dragged like a canvas brick  by the knackered owner :-)

  4. How many tickets have been sold?

    in T in the Park

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    Yeah there's no doubt that T has always been about the band's( well and a big wheel. WTF) but it's never pretended to be otherwise so I've no issue there.I've had great times at Kinross.I'd hate there not to be a big music festival in scotland.be a real kick in the teeth for our national musical credibility.

    But I think for it to have a future it may need to reinvent itself into something more accessible to a wider age group.is this new site the opportunity to do this? Some of the diversity you mentioned Ahthing.I hope so but time will tell.I fear for it if not.tickets widely available with a week to go doesn't bode well.

    Get yourself down to Somerset Ahthing.you'll wish you'd done it years ago like we did !

  5. How many tickets have been sold?

    in T in the Park

    Posted

    when you talk about "value" at a festival .You have to look at not just the bands on show , but what punters actually get when they get through the gate on top of this.

    For someone who has done both T and Glasto numerous times, it is a little unfair to compare the two. The Eavis's have been learning and growing their festival since the early 70s.

    But the likes of V and T can learn so much from Glasto.But i dont think they want to.

    Punters at T are fleeced on food , drink and anything else that can make the greedy promoters a buck. Your all treated like criminals at the gate .Searched for anything on you that will stop them ripping you off inside the fence. And i think folk are getting wise to this and that's what is reflecting on the sales of tickets.Not just the band quality.

    At glasto you can take as much food and drink in with you as you can carry , and wander round with it anywhere in the site.Yet they still have hundreds of real quality food and drink outlets that still make a buck as they come back year after year. Free programe..free lanyard..free bags..

    Yes the demographic is slightly different , But why should it be ? Treat people like adults, get a better cross demographic of bands  and the T in the park festival will sell out again .Christ they reckon 100.000 folk watched Lionel Ritchie at Pilton farm FFS ! 

     

    Oh shit , just realised what ive done........i take it back . Glasto is shit .. dont go !

  8. Festival Sledge

    in Chat

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    Hi Jack,. My son is a 3rd year engineering student at RGU so i wish you well if this is the career you are thinking about,

    Ok.For a kick of i like the way you think.Its cracking project to take on. But id say the trolley / chair idea needs a little more thought.

    From experience.of all the things you carry a seat is probably one of the least heavy issue you have to deal with.  So i wouldnt be concentrating on this as as issue/selling point of your project.

    We made a flat bed trolley for Glasto 2013 . from 2 sack barrows , cut and bolted together .with MDF.as the flat bed. worked brilliant.4 folks gear in a one trip...two push handles on the back. rope pull at the front . but we were lucky to have a vehicle we could put it in the back  all assembled ., now if you could design a snap together , demountable version that would flat pack into the boot of an average car .......  ;-) 

  10. Going for a poo.

    in Chat

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    I find a nice big crap always aids the hangover process - a big drink, a massive turd and a cold bucket of water for a wash - then on go the clean socks and I'm brand fuckin new. Bring on the world!

     

    yip. i find im the most regular at festivals. 6-6-30am. hoodie on..up to the flushers at big ground .no queue.Sit with the Glasto programme and plan my day ahead as i dump. back to tent. 2 x deolerite in a pint of water with  a beechams .couple hours kip. brand new :-)

  11. There;s something going on with reusable cups at bars

    in Chat

    Posted

    How do real ale festivals get past the health issue of reusing glasses? Went to one a few weeks ago and brought the "official" glass for the event and used it a number of pubs during the evening - never washed once?

    My local still has tankards a few of the old guys have their pint in too

     

    likewise. been to dozens of beer festivals .Buy glass, use glass for whole beer festival.never heard any grumbling .Not sure if its been mentioned though,I wouldn't want to be on the business end of someone lobbing a half filled hard plastic glass into a crowd.  Quid a pop or not , a fanny is a fanny.

  12. Whisky Bar

    in Chat

    Posted

    well if its patch on Bourbon Street , god rest its soul , it will be fine with me.

    Was one of my favorite places in 2010. Great booze and some cracking bands  .Wish they would resurrect it.

  13. SOUND

    in Chat

    Posted

    Always found acoustic tent sound very ropey. At front its passable but tent seems to act like a sponge on the sound if your further back. And considering some of the performers there are, well as it says on the tin, acoustic , it should be better  .

  21. Sold Out

    in Belladrum Festival

    Posted

    Glad I decided to go before line up announcement and tickets in the bag.(thank you Lynn x!)

    Was wandering .Has this year been sold out in record time? Last few years tickets have been available much closer to August.

  22. Kate Bush

    in Chat

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    What the fuck is happening .Am I the only one who thinks a "tour" means more than getting your arse of a sofa and depositing it a few hundred metres for a 2week run.

    Talented she is undoubtedly and I've been a fan since day one.but as a fan north of Watford im thinking she is taking the piss .I think she's skint .

  24. Have a fire in 2014?

    in Chat

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    well i posted on this in favour of the communial fire early doors on this thread and glad the consensus seems to be in favour of the snap ,crackle and pop of burning timber.

    i think , as i said in earlier thread, we should , at glasto in particular,try and encourage a move to a step back to the roots of the actual fair .a little more nature a little less kwh's .be drawn to flame and a blether ( as we say in scotland) rather than be cajoled into heading towards a manufactured entertainment area.

    Not the large communial bonfire isnt "manufactured" but a i think its what i and a lot of other would consider to do on say, the Thursaday, before well and truly knocking their pan in for 3 days marching from one end of the site to the other getting our music fix.

    question is can we get the Evi to consider this? id happily e mail / write and ask this to be considered .Does anybody have experience of writing with ideas , requests ?

    i also muted the idea of a big f*ck off firework display to end the festival at the pyramid.

    is it crass . ? i just find it fizzles out a bit after the last band , be it Stones or whoever.just think it would be a fiting finale to the best festival in the world to have the night sky go off like a atomic fecking bomb !

    or am i just a bloody pyromaniac :sarcastic:

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