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I guess as a woman I'm more alert to dark, dangerous spaces.

Oh dear. I sincerely hope that the incidents did not involve the dark, totally unlit and dangerous spaces in the trees behind the Rising stage which were being used as a urinal by lots of men, but would also be a rapist's dream... 😞 We witnessed (and foiled) a theft before Metronomy - a woman accidentally left her phone on the ground when she got up to leave, and the the group next to her quick-as-a-flash leaned over, took the phone, whipped the back off and pocked the cash that was in the case and spread it out between them, then pocketed the phone. I called out to the people that I'd just seen what they did, and got called a c*nt. I was just about to pop off and find a security guard when the woman came back looking for her phone, and I took great delight in telling her that the group just there had her phone and her cash... They gave it back, then got up and moved.

Good for her! The crowd itself turned on a pair of chatty folk during Erland Cooper last year and they swiftly left, but quite what posessed them to rock up to his gig and stand honking away about their, like, amazing lunch anyway showed a shocking lack of awareness.

FWIW I sit near the back or side on a chair. But wherever people choose to sit, it’s still not actively disruptive to the audience’s enjoyment of a gig, nor is it disrespectful to the performance. Chatting during songs is ALWAYS disruptive and rude.

Some of us have no choice but to sit down at a gig. However, my being sat down has no detriment to your enjoyment of the gig. Your chat might ruin my enjoyment of gig. Have a think about it.

Oh my god, SO MUCH CHITCHAT even relatively close to the stage. I genuinely wonder why some people bothered to go and see bands because all they were doing was yapping on through the whole set. I think they thought it was the pub with some background music… Was the same at Glastonbury, though, and at several gigs I’ve been to. It’s bizarre.

Excellent news. Was hoping that was the case!

If anyone has any words to describe that Kraftwerk gig please do let me know because it seems to have rendered me temporarily speechless and slightly emotional.

Wow - the grass actually has some green in it! Packing now as leaving Stroud tomorrow morning. I'll bring the walking boots but only plan to wear them if it really chucks it down.

I wonder who will replace Long Blondes?!

Round the Twist was definitely there.

Yes, theoretically. But not, not really. Unless you're opening swigging from your can of beverage you'll be fine.

I must admit I always treat Green Man like a giant three-day beer festival with the added benefit of an extremely strong music lineup! I genuinely love Green Man during the day, but there’s lots going on after dark too - good dance music and comedy until 2am. When I was walking to the bus station at 5am last year for the first bus out, there were plenty folk just off to bed!

I have a three-man pop up fresh and black and (aside from being a bit tricky to pack away till you get the knack) it’s brilliant.

I was picking about a million Strongbow Dark Fruits cans up…

See also the ones by Ped Gate C / Astrolabe. Sparkly fresh all weekend - and soap at the sinks!

Stop fucking yapping at the top of your voice while the act is on. I don't care about how much coke Josh did last night or how Ella got, like, a glitter tattoo, and while it's thrilling to hear that mum and dad are off to Malta for a fortnight on Sunday and Tony got booked in for his hip replacement, you can talk about that later. For now, there's a nice man/lady/band on stage performing their heart out for our enjoyment, and we're all here because we'd all quite like to hear them, not you and your mundane chitchat. (This applies in any 'live music on stage' scenario, from the tiniest little pub backroom to the Pyramid Stage and everything in between!)

Pet Shop Boys. Utterly brilliant from start to finish. Best non-music act was (as always) Stephen Frost's Comedy Allstars. I laughed so much I was genuinely in danger of falling off my seat.

We used to use nail varnish remover and a paint scraper...

I know. I was one of them (John Peel though, not Pyramid).

Manic Organic will be back next year, according to their social media.

No, that’s Denelas from Shepton. Good, but not ‘freshly baked cheese and pesto focaccia from Lydia’s’ good.

And yet there was SIGNIFICANTLY less litter this year than in any previous year I’ve been. Thankfully people are getting the message (and having no plastic bottles has helped too).

Yes. And ‘heavy’ security.

They weren’t there in 2019 either - not in the same spot anyway. Looks weird without it!