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Ideally 2026, so I can go to the World Cup and not have to somehow fit that and Glastonbury together in the same period of time 🤣 selfish, I know

Good on you Skip 👍 best sets you saw?

When I was reasonably recovered, that’s exactly where I went in time for dreadzone! Glade, left side as you look at the stage, lovely bit of shade, breeze popping in. Much more manageable. If Sunday was to be the same weather I’d have been absolutely knackered, I could’ve cheered when the cloud started thickening and the sun pissed off for a bit. I’m now recalibrating my ideal temps as 21/22, and with some cloud. twice daily sunscreen and still getting sunburnt is ridiculous.

That stinking hot saturday in 2019 and this year’s stinking hot Saturday saw me take the same approach; down the fluids, wet the floppy hat, and retire to the Tow and Hitch to stay in the shade with the dub, the sofas and to relax with a no-alcohol beer for the isotonics. Hour or two there and I could manage things again. It’s open and a little breeze makes it a blissful spot. It’s now my oasis of reasonable comfort and I’d now like to get Fuzzy in there the next time it’s just too hot 👍

Foo fighters? f**kme. Absolutely bloody not. Enough of his bollocks already.

Being a bit useless, I put this in the ‘prices of things’ thread when it’s much more appropriate here: so here goes again: Didn’t really feel ripped off at any time, and a couple of things felt like really good value: the tikka daal at the Goan fish curry seems to have been £8 for decades amazingly, it’s a lovely dish and a right bargain. Miss it already! Pietanic in t+c did an absolutely great pie with lovely chips, with gravy and some pickled kimchi stuff for £11 - that was delicious and filling and everything I could want from a pie. And I know my pies, as my username and pic can attest. The hot dog stall next to em was great quality and £7.50, I paid £12 for a dogshit hot dog at download and this was so laughably superior it was almost funny. beef rendang at Malaysian coconut curry was everything I’d anticipated, and I finally had a bash of the Lebanese meze at the park: PRECISELY what I needed. I swear stuffed vine leaves are a cheat code to fix my ills, I bloody love em. £11 for a great big plate of deliciousness, I’d easily pay £15 in a restaurant and that’s not in the midst of a bloody dairy farm: I was broadly very happy with the prices 👍

Didn’t really feel ripped off at any time, and a couple of things felt like really good value: the tikka daal at the Goan fish curry seems to have been £8 for decades amazingly, it’s a lovely dish and a right bargain. Miss it already! Pietanic in t+c did an absolutely great pie with lovely chips, with gravy and some pickled kimchi stuff for £11 - that was delicious and filling and everything I could want from a pie. And I know my pies, as my username and pic can attest. The hot dog stall next to em was great quality and £7.50, I paid £12 for a dogshit hot dog at download and this was so laughably superior it was almost funny. beef rendang at Malaysian coconut curry was everything I’d anticipated, and I finally had a bash of the Lebanese meze at the park: PRECISELY what I needed. I swear stuffed vine leaves are a cheat code to fix my ills, I bloody love em. £11 for a great big plate of deliciousness, I’d easily pay £15 in a restaurant and that’s not in the midst of a bloody dairy farm: I was broadly very happy with the prices 👍

His low register is still spot on, he just needs to approach the high bits differently. Elton managed it with Goodbye yellow brick road, get the crowd to sing the really high bits!

Exactly the same as me, tbf 🤣 saw her once, thought it was deeply ordinary, saw no reason to repeat it at all. (Would say the exact same thing about Royal Blood too, though they were good in 2014 and deeply average in 2019 - law of diminishing returns innit)

I thought that in 2014, and she’s wrung another nine years out of it tbf

They were absolutely bloody great weren’t they? The field was so up for it and into them, it was the perfect combination of time, venue, place, sound system, people, band, everything. Just 😊

Ban em in the pit, keep em in the rest of the field for the spectacle 👍

🤘Ah, this is tricky: but right now I’d go for; 1) Elton Hercules John. Just so big and iconic, everything was perfect (ok, maybe not the guests etc, but if he wanted to do it, then who am I to argue 🤣) 2) Kelis was just great in every way - the crowd were ace, the atmos was lovely, she was amazing, and my favourite Kelis track got spliced with my fave Wu-Tang tune and my head nigh on exploded with the awesomeness 🥳 3) ho99o9 on the truth stage - fag paper between them and Skindred, both were amazing and especially one after the other - I finished my shift at 9:45 and legged it from the other side of the site, making it in time courtesy of 2 x canned bangers of imperial stouts and getting my hike on. Ho99o9 are incendiary and so energetic live they even got me leaping around in a moshpit despite my f**ked legs and feet! few other seriously excellent mentions - Young Fathers, lil nas x, the Hu, Elvana, not a single bad vibe at any of the performances I saw. Always west holts for the best atmosphere though, in front of the mixer is such a brilliant place to be

This is alarmingly small time, but I checked the ticket of bbc presenter Alice Beer at the village gate. No other celebrity spots this year, and perhaps it doesnt really count, cos I didn’t recognise her and only recognised the name about a minute afterwards (my first thought was ‘I know that name? Is that one of my patients? Oh FFS’)

They do look really really similar, it’s a bit sh*t - I thought that on Monday when I got here. Though I’ll be honest, my main moan was that it won’t look good on my hat, having consecutive years in the same sort of hue 🤣 21st century problems, I know

Ac/dc wouldn’t be impossible yknow. I’m sure bloody Grohl will be on the blower, Axl seemed to enjoy himself, Lars loves the place, Lemmy played, some of the totems of metal and hard rock have finally been chiselled into, and you don’t get any more hard rock lineage than ac/dc. Bung some dollar at them and make it happen dammit!

I thought they were great (Just got back to me tent and lying down resting my poor bastard feet!) and surprisingly polished and professional! Ok, Axl’s voice isn’t like it was in the eighties, but that’s what happens with metal singers with a high pitch, Judas Priest work wonders with mic distortion with Rob Halford - they could do something vaguely similar with Axl. But he actually seemed decent, wasn’t the classic massive bellend of previous, and obvs it was pretty much all about Slash, who was amazing. That’s not new news though, he’s Slash. setlist could’ve done with a trim, though personally I was right chuffed with estranged and double talkin jive. All told it was an 8/10 and I was steeled for a 6. Better than expected 👍

I know other festivals are other festivals and it’s not a comparison etc etc, but I was at download a couple of weeks back and if you think Glastonbury is bad for shade: a racetrack is a hundred times worse. I’m in the greenfields at the mo (hence being on my phone!) and there’s loads of people having a nap in the shade, it’s findable though of course annoying to have to miss bands. I’ve never been a sun worshipper, always preferred autumn days #teamfuzzy but it’s a matter of prioritising; I like to not die, so I’ve got to avoid the sun when i can

The people staying at hospitality are absolutely desperate to let you know they’re at hospitality at every single possible conversation. I was working on a gate on weds and thurs and had the same conversation with at least a hundred of them; “oh, I’m in hospitality, do you know where it is? Here’s my wristband. I know it’s straight ahead and to the right, but can you tell me again so I can impress people behind me? Thanks “

Ah ffs, my shift ends at 22:00 and I’ve got to get from Mary’s gate to skindred! That’ll be a bloody battle

Drove down to Glastonbury town today, a fairly leisurely four and a half hours along the south coast and up, and now I’m in a travelodge with me feet up! Into the oxfam field at 10am tomorrow for a couple of days of nosing around and taking it easy before everyone rocks up on Wednesday 👍

Brooklyn Special effects is the absolute don of NA beers, so I’m really quite chuffed to see it - albeit a fiver a can is a bit mean in a staff bar, that’ll equate to £6 on public bars I’d have thought

I will accept a wet Tuesday, even though it threatens to scupper pint plans with other workers (well, it’ll make em a bit more moist, I suppose)

Earth wind and fire was an awful lot of fun, but i dont know if i'd go as far as to say it was one of the greatest sets of all time

whats the bloody point of casual fridays if you cant wear shorts? what possible justification do they have for staff not being able to wear shorts? I'd presume skirts are absolutely fine, no? you should rock up in a skirt. i'm often jealous of a good scottish kilt, imagine the air around your nethers! blissful!