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  1. Actually love the undercard - some absolute gems. But apart from The National I’ll struggle for (music) headliners. Plenty to do in theatre/circus though!
  2. Yes, I think we are - but I the email they sent is standard wording from the festival, and I think it's the wrong way round! We should be paying £150 as our donation and the ticket cost is a security deposit that we get back. I think someone in the festival office has got it confused! Have emailed Fiona at the Festival to check (but may not get a reply until next year, I realise, as she's always super busy!)
  3. The £150 is a charity donation, though. It goes to the charity I work for, not to GFL. Last year (and every other year I've worked) it's been £150 to charity + the cost of a ticket as a refundable security bond. I'm therefore assuming someone's sent the email wrongly. Or they're taking the piss.
  4. My charity sent me the exact same wording, so it's obviously the standard message from the Festival. I'm not entirely sure why we're being charged the same price as a ticketholder, TBH, and have queried it, as I'd expect it to be the other way round (as in, get the £355 back and the £150 is the cost to attend) as it was in previous years.
  5. We paid our deposits to our charity today. I think the 'direct' recycling crew is a bit later.
  6. Yes, when I was local. It’s lovely!
  7. Done - best of luck! I think you might find you need an older ‘oldest’ group though! You’ve fallen for the assumption that most festival goers are young…
  8. Backstage at Acoustic, because it’s run by a load of folk who run one of the best pubs in Stroud. Loved the Open Arms, but the Avalon Inn will always win just for the ridiculous novelty of going upstairs.
  9. Exactly this. I don’t think I’ve seen a performer enjoy themselves so comprehensively since Lionel Richie did his entire set with a massive grin on his face. Nothing short of Arise, Sir Rick is good enough as far as I’m concerned.
  10. Not overheard, but overseen - a bloke in high - vis pushing a wheelbarrow at quite the urgent pace up Muddy Lane. Said wheelbarrow contained a single toilet roll.
  11. You’ve learned a good lesson today then.
  12. It's funny, because ableist, judgmental assholes make me irate.
  13. Best: No Bones Jones, the Paletas ice lollies, and the really good halloumi wrap from the place called CHEESE near Williams Green. Honourable Mentions: chicken burrito from the Mexican Cantina, chicken burger from the place next to Bath Organic Farms (William’s Green). Worst: absolutely sh*t, soggy, pizza from the stall opposite the Open Arms. It tasted like a £1 value one from a supermarket, and I told them so.
  14. Yep, it’s been terrible for years. Really puts me off going up there, which is a shame as it’s a lovely part of the site otherwise with a great lineup.
  15. Overheard, near the food stalls at Williams Green, where loud music is playing at the Meeting Place Bar. A couple with a child about four in a trolley. Woman: Ugh! Simon! Put the ear defenders on her please! Simon: Why? It’s not that loud? Woman: No, I don’t want her hearing this song… The song?? Bill Wyman’s Si, Si, Je Suis Un Rockstar…
  16. Someone on my litterpicking team talked about nothing else but Joe Wicks all weekend. Obsessed!
  17. pie_and_a_pint

    Crazyfool

    It means the photographer who took the photo sold it to Alamy, an agency that newspapers use to buy photos.
  18. Sound bleed from Stonebridge to the Park is ludicrous. It was even a problem during the Pretenders, FFS, so how it works for gentler acts is behind me.
  19. pie_and_a_pint

    Crazyfool

    Just FYI a pic of you in your hat has been syndicated by Alamy and is being used in the letters page of the Torygraph* today! *I have to skim the papers for work, just in case people were about to judge!
  20. Blood clot survivor here. Please, please take very good care of yourself and take the anti coagulants and REST. Gutted for you but you have to put your health first.
  21. That rain’s hardly touched the sides. It’ll be dry in a couple of hours.
  22. I'm going to have to water the garden this evening. The soil is just sucking up any iota of rain we get and it's bone dry again now after a big soaking this morning.
  23. Having some lunch and a pint, watching all the paying punters arrive, and looking forward to taking some freshers to see Mik Artistik on the Croissant Neuf Bandstand later.
  24. I'm arriving on site this coming Sunday, 18th and I can't quite get my head around the fact that the Sunday after that I'm seeing Elton John play the Pyramid Stage. Elton flipping John!
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