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3 hours ago, Chicken Bob said:
How many of you lot cheered Greta and claim to do your bit for the world. But then scurry home and constantly use single plastic pointless ltf tests and disposable masks? All because you think it’s in the name of the greater good. That imo is a head wobble moment. Utter madness.
3 hours ago, Chicken Bob said:Why ? So you can wear a “ive had covid” badge or something?
3 hours ago, Barry Fish said:I do care...
But that doesn't mean I want to pander to a lack of logic and this constant fear and obsession with covid and testing isn't without other costs.You are both utter fuckwits and bellends. How is anyone taking a few extra precautions because they have vunerable people in their lives a lack of logic or madness? Its just common decency and somehting alot people would have to do with or without covid.
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People really telling on themselves here about how they treat others in crowds when they don't notice queues or it being busy at all while apparently being at all the busy places of the site or apparently they are very special and the only ones with " the nous" to avoid crowds and how to do Glasto.😂
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Ah man thats rough, one of the reasons I decided not to bother this year and give my ticket back was cause of crowd issues in 2017 when I last went and just nothing seems to be done despite it getting progressively worse year on year (And the BBC coverage had got me wanting to go back desperately)
The big "secret" sets need to stop , everyone knows the slots now, they are basically announced in advance so they are not secret and just lead to mad crowding. The other way you could handle them is when you have say someone like Diana Ross, why not have the Jack White, Georga Ezra "secret" sets against her to draw the crowd away? Some really bizzare choices in scheduling seemed to make the stages more crowded then they need to be, instead of painful clashes we used to get that split the crowd more.
And yeah you can't keep letting more people on site, without expanding the site and stage areas or expanding the facilities. Glasto isn't the the only space guilty of this though, many places with big crowds seem intent on shoving more people in than they can realistically handle.
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Great service! I am subscribed to the playlist and looking forward to seeing it grow!!
I was a bit lost last year musically, Glastonbury rumours and lines ups give my music listened some structure.
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2 hours ago, chemica said:
Thinking about it. Are they really gonna wait 5 months to tour this new record?? Seems odd.
Think its just they are doing other dates before hand. They are in Japan in March. They have always been a bit odd when touring albums.
Don't understand their insistence on doing odd venues in London with shite transport links and terrible sound/view either.
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I wouldn't mind the main pathways on both sides from Pyramid to Other being made one way to help crowd flow a little more (but you would then need to force everyone further up the hill to enter from the back of the Pyramid field so they didnt end up all on one side).
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2 hours ago, Matt42 said:
@dentalplan is wrong on this point. The 1975 are way bigger than Biffy. Since when were Biffy selling out mass shows at the O2 and across the world? Come off it.
3 years ago when they was touring their last proper album...
This happens almost every time some bands have have a few years off to write some new material and people then use it to say X is now bigger.
I reckon Foals, T Swizzle and Fleetwood Mac/Macca. Covers pretty much all of the glasto headliner boxes. It will be exactly the same as 2010 when everyone got excited but the actual line up is about the same as it always is.
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Intresting thread actually as I've been thinking about this alot the last couple of years. I took my current partner for her first festival in 2017, in the fallow year I attended the wedding of two very close friends (who met at glastonbury and I met them there before they knew each other) and this year for the first time since 2010 (out of choice for other things and thinking I was fed up with it) and weirdly I am glad I did.
So I've reflected it on a lot recently and I think having spent the best part of a decade attending and having it be the light in some of lifes struggles, to me its about friendship and feeling like you belong to something bigger and different. No matter what has changed in the last 10 years, glastonbury has remained a constant, even this year when I didnt attend. I kept up to date with friends who are were there and watched loads of sets on TV , listened to Daddy Teacha on worthyFM.
I remember at my first one in 2010, my current girlfriend at the time had hurt her ankles and we went to the medical tent after Muse and one of the staff there said something that has stuck with me every festival. "Its hard now and it is a struggle at times, you might even hate the festival tomorrow but when you get home you realise it's all been worth it and want to come back next year". So yeah part of going to Glastonbury isn't the instant gratification but working/struggling to find fun sometimes and it makes it all worth it!
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11 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:
Why doesn't Mel B just do it solo?
Did Mel B ask you to suggest that ?
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3 hours ago, Guy Incognito said:
What goes on at T&C fields at night? It's one of my favourite spots on site but shamefully I haven't been there after dark yet!
Sensation Seekers is open pretty late with scheduled entertainment and is bit more adult than earlier on in the day I guess and some of the acts seem to just be walking around randomly still. The outside high wire thing goes on pretty late.
Depends on your vibe really, I've had a lot of fun just wondering around there but I am only drinking and not really wanting to enjoy being crushed for a rave. (As much I love the art and look to everything in the SE corner)
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Green Fields and Theatre & Circus fields are my go to places now. No where near as crowded and some really random/unexpected acts going on
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3 minutes ago, MaxPower said:
Ah but Elton would be classic after classic, like Kylie was. Bit different from Taylor or 1975 imo.
So you just want older pop hits that appeal to you personally ?
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For better or worse, its become mainstream and part of the must do events of the summer. Partly down to people sharing what is going on there on social media, the fact the media (as lot of them now go themselves) no longer present it as a bunch of hippies rolling around in the mud and more mainstream music acts that are global superstars.
With social media, its seeing household names like Gary Lineker turning up there making it seem "aceptable" to the masses.
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42 minutes ago, mcshed said:
At the festival have you ever got the feeling that there are too many people there who aren't fussed?
Loads, but you can't really do anything about that.
40 minutes ago, Yassmin said:I don't agree with removing the deposit scheme but I agree that there is no need for the ganging up, it's like bullying in the school playground ffs. How old are some of you on here?
If you deliberately start a thread, where you know lots of people are going to start disagree with your opinion, is still a pile on?
37 minutes ago, Mash011 said:Matt 42 is a great poster. love him. much better than the likes of London Tom
Rude
27 minutes ago, Matt42 said:An assumption that I have which no one will convince me otherwise, is that the festival is made by the attendance of people like on efestivals. Without a devout crowd glasto wouldn’t feel as special. I guess I just find it sad to see so many people miss out this year. Especially since I’ve been in that position a lot in past years. The arguments that loyalty is silly are completely valid but I do feel that without the regulars, Glastonbury wouldn’t be the same.
I actually have a heart, which @LondonTom doesn’t believe.
I don't think I said you didn't have a heart? I just don't think you've thought about it from other people in worse situations than yourself.
I don't see what the devout has to do with it, part of the charm of Glastonbury is the mix of people you get. It would be shit if it was just the devout every year (Who would eventually die out anyway as new blood struggled to get in.)
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14 minutes ago, ivan said:
Well they should pull the likes of Worthy View and just allow people with tents and in the CV fields. £1000 for a yurt ?
I'm in two minds on that, while it does encourage more richer people, it still has no effect on the base access to the site and makes more room for us anyone "slumming" it.
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1 minute ago, Matt42 said:
Wow I seem to have really upset you. I wonder what could make you come to such certain conclusions about me?
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7 minutes ago, billum said:
But, sorry to sound like a smart-arse, that is also exactly what you'd see if it was truly random...
Yes and I've been subscriber of that theory but that starts to become less likely the more years you see it.
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It seemed worse to me this year, got the holding page on my mobile (using 4G) after about 15 minutes...and my desktop got it about 30 minutes in when I turned my VPN on.
I don't think there is any advantage anyone can make themselves but I am starting something is going on with the network routing as some people seem to get in year after year quickly and constantly while other people barely even get the holding page in years...
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The festival already skews to the wealthy and to many in the upper classes. Why would want to do shift it even more that? Even if they got rid of the deposit scheme, you've still got the problem more want to go than there are tickets available, and the only real way to really stop that demand is to price people out which thankfully the Eavi don't want to do as they have moral compass unlike you and your posh friends who want to get rid of the deposit scheme.
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6 minutes ago, eFestivals said:
slowed down now, server load is off the scale.
People want their advantage anyway they can get
Hi btw ?
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May the force be with all ;)
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Well thats rather brilliant!
This band...god..
LAWKS! It's the next announcement thread
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Hope you got enough to enjoy your "retirement" Neil! Thanks for all the effort you've put in over the years, when I was active on here I did really enjoy it alot (I've kinda moved on from enjoying festivals and just find other places easier than message boards these days)
(Also Hi Everyone!)
I also had a goole of the new name and found lots of references to similar russians . (Please say you haven't sold out to Russian Disinformation Neil 😂)