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if the mud gets deep (2007 style)
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Most supermarkets would take them back and swap for the same value in cans if you bought them from them in the first place and had a receipt.
My experience with Asda's (often abused whilst at uni) returns policy is that they would probably swap them without a receipt if you said your partner / Mum etc... bought you beer for Glasto without knowing about the no glass rule. Probably worth checking that Asda actually sell the brand you have first thou
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Hooray! Someone that a lot of people were really looking forward to seeing might not be playing after all!
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I actually love the BBC's coverage, because I love the big acts as much as I love the dance village and smaller stage acts that don't make the coverage, it means that while I'm there I can stick to the latter 2 safe in the knowledge that I'm seeing the things that you only get to see at if your at Glasto. Then I can catch everything I missed on the telly when I get home and veg out for 3 days solid.
The 3 days after the festival are part of the whole experience imo, vegging out in bed all day tuesday watching the coverage helps the come down big time.
Aside from that I'm not sure I'd want the coverage to show what the festival is really like, first of all it keeps 50% if the festival Britain's best kept secret. Glasto was soooo much better the first time I went because I had absolutely no comprehension of what I was about experience.
Secondly I think if the likes of The Daily Mail knew what actually happened they could very easily turn it into one of their retarded 'moral crusades'.
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I'd normally disapprove (future of the festival and all that), but the Metal Gear guy deserved to get in every bit as much as anyone who bought a ticket, that's f**king awesome!
I'd defend that by saying that him doing that isn't putting the festival at risk. No matter how much security there is, there's always going to be a way in (proof - people break out of top security prisons). It's just a case of making it hard enough to get in that the number of people that do manage it is low enough for it not to really matter.
Him doing that actually demonstrates how hard it is to get in, to the point that anyone thinking about doing it before they read it would probably change their minds.
I.e. there aren't enough people willing to go through all of that to get in to risk the future of the festival.
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AFAIK (Though my bro is the big Soulwax fan not me) They were originally Soulwax, then they did some DJ stuff which they used the 2ManyDJ's monikor for which I belive comes from a track on one of thier earlier albums.
As a crossover of the 2 acts they then made an album of thier own songs mixed which I believe is Soulwax Niteversions which they also sometimes DJ as.
Clear as mud?
Disclaimer : I could have some of this wrong
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Could you post the username of the winner? Maybe someone will know them and be able to let them know?
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Mind linking me? I can't find anything.
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I would die.
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This sounds very like the 'Glastonav' facility available via www.orange.co.uk Seeing as Orange are festival sponsors there sould be no connection issues
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Whats the big deal with taking an IPhone? I will be taking mine and will be getting this app.
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Pyramid to Other 7 mins at good pace
Pyramid to park 20
Pyramid to JP 10
Pyramid to Dance 15
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Yeah, but there are a couple I want to be up nice and close for. Rail, if possible. Apparently being ten rows back might mean watching the back of some obnoxious flag for an hour.
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This happens every year and it will happen in every future year.
Glastonbury ALWAYS has the most diverse line up of any festival, it doesn't matter how eclectic your taste is, 99% of everyone going is going to look at the line up and see that the vast majority of acts on don't appeal to them. Most of my friends consider me a massive music geek with an encyclopaedic knowledge of artists and bands spanning every genre (they are wrong, I might be a bit of a music geek, but they over estimate my knowledge. Point remains however that I know more than most) and I haven't even heard of about 50% of the line up.
The diversity is what makes it great and the reason that Glastonbury attracts such a diverse audience (compared to other festivals).
My point is that the diversity creates the illusion of a line up that is very thin on the ground in terms of acts that you want to see because they are so heavily diluted with acts that you don't. But every act that you don't want to see will be someone else's festival highlight, it really doesn't matter to me that I'd rather stick a kebab skewer in my ears than see Lady Ga Ga's set because I'll be at one of the other 40 odd stages / cabaret tent / circus tent / stone circle / healing fields / dance village / Trash City etc… If you do like Lady Ga Ga, great, I'm pleased for you that she's playing and hope she puts on a great show.
In regard to the Pyramid headliners being old and Dad rock, meh. So what? By definition Pyramid headliners are mainly going to be long established acts with huge back catalogues. Look elsewhere if you want newer edgier music.
Also with the Pyramid and Other stages being quite mainstream, again, what do you expect? The more mainstream the music = more people that want to see it. It makes perfect sense that the 2 biggest stages are full of mainstream acts.
It's also worth noting for any newbies that unless you're prepared to spend your festival dashing around from stage to stage and getting stressed about what your missing (been there, done that, don't recommend it), the absolute maximum number of acts you can schedule to see in a day is 5, even doing that you'd still be missing the vast wealth of other things that there are to do that really set Glastonbury aside from any other festival that I've been to.
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How early does one need to arrive at a stage (not the Pyramid) to get a good spot up front? For example, the John Peel or Queens Head.
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God I also have this problem!!!!! I am goin with someone who is younger than me (my cousin) and my uncle, I have to make sure my cousin is safe, yet he doesn't really want to see the same people as I do. I cant let him go off on his own, and he will make a big fuss if i dont comprimise. What to do???
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Calm down, they are being sent out way earlier than normal this year. Most people didn't get theirs untill the week before, so all's good
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what's the betting there won't be an iphone version?
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source?
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There isn't really all that much to 'do' on Wednesday, but that's kind of the point.
Use the time to soak up the vibe, explore the site, chat to randoms and generally settle in, which you need to do to make the switch from normal everyday life into Glasto life.
Typically I chill round the tent with some beers and spliff flicking through the programme untill around mid day, assisting people in my group with putting up their tent up as they arrive, figuring out who else wants to see x band etc... Then we set off on a very general and relaxed circuit of the site stopping off for extended breaks by the cider bus, brothers bar and stone circle. Then back to the tents after tea for bit of a power nap to see us through a night of more cider bus, brothers bar and watching the sun rise at the stones before bed.
There's no hard and fast rules though and definetly no schedule.
Typing that out has just made me very excited!
Hope that helps :-)
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Does anyone else find that their lower back starts aching when standing in front of a stage for a while? Let alone the number of gigs you stand in front of at Glastonbury..
I'm not *that* old...
Other than a good sit down to recover, any advice on avoiding it or coping with it?
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The day Emily gets her dirty little mits on the festival, is the day a little part of Glastonbury will die!!!!!!!!!
I broke into Glasto....
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Jesus, talk about over thinking something!
Clearly out of 170,000 odd thousand people some people going to be in the OP's situation, through their own fault or not - I don't think it really matters. That’s what you're dealing with when you're selling tickets to 170,000 fallible humans.
With the amount of data they have on you and the fact that theoretically nobody else can get in on your ticket, I don't see why they can't have a senior / management type person with the authority to make a decision on a case by case basis. I've got quite a lot of experience in customer services and it's normally pretty easy to tell the difference between someone on the blag and someone that’s being genuine, most people just aren't that good at acting or lying.