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  1. I was there and it was amazing. Easily one of the best gigs I have ever seen. It still stands out in my memory to this day. They were totally on top of their game, great energy throughout, the crowd were really tuned in, big singalongs, the works.

    The only downside was the crowding was pretty brutal when everyone attempted to shuffle off at the end of the set (/obligatory extended Its The End Of The World As We Know It encore). Final year before the (Roskilde crush-induced) superfence and REM were still absolutely massive at that point so the field was utterly mobbed. One of those where you're constantly crushed and have no control of where your feet go next. Had to put my 5'2" girlfriend on my shoulders cos it was starting to freak her out. I'm a big guy and crowds don't normally faze me as I can comfortably see over everyone's heads, but I didn't feel safe in that one. I do miss the old pre-fence chaotic energy and the next few years were pretty sterile until it got its mojo back, but it needed to happen.

    So, yeah, one of the best and scariest gigs ever. 11/10. Would recommend.

  2. 11 hours ago, hurdy said:

    @deadstillstandingcould you give me a nudge on how to make this a png with a transparent background please? Printer suggested I use this and online guides for adobe don't seem to remove all the background?

    Ps can you tell I'm out of my depth? 😂

    Yeah, it'd be a bit of a ballache to do this yourself. You'd end up making all whites transparent and that would mess up the logos and the station circles. However, have just stuck a png with a transparent background in the folder 🙂 Let me know if this doesn't work for you

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  3. Here's the final (I think) tube map for Glasto 2023!

    If you'd like to run off copies then there's a pdf and jpg at this link and please consider dropping by the iTHINC Green Welfare tent to drop some coins in the bucket, or buy a raffle ticket to take home the big map hung on the marquee. We're a not-for-profit voluntary organization providing 24:7 welfare to people in crisis at a whole bunch of UK festivals – your quids really do make a difference.

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  4. On 5/31/2023 at 9:53 PM, 4AssedMonkey said:

    That's a great service. Is it new or have I just missed it before?  As a recurring anxiety sufferer (under control for now) I strongly approve.

    It's new. The different services all had a presence previously - mostly in the older parts of the site - but this is the first time they're co-located like this and in two of the newer but also very busy and kinda underserved areas, support-wise.

  5. 2 hours ago, Tranquility of Solitude said:

    Fantastic work! Thanks. You might consider adding the path that run from between Lost Kids and Police to The Wood through Big Ground and Row Mead, because if you were going to and act on Acoustic from Woodsies or vice versa, you wouldn’t want to go via Meeting Place. Superb work.

    Yeah, fair point. Helping people avoid the choke points is part of the purpose. The Hammersmith & City just got an extension. Thank you!

  6. Afraid not - lawyers said no. But, once it's done I share a link to download the image and you're free to run some up yourself e.g. with CafePress or whatever. If you do, please consider dropping by the iTHINC Green Welfare tent (between the railway track and a Croissant Neuf) and dropping a quid in the bucket 🙏

  7. 1 hour ago, ian the worm said:

    Hello. 

    If we are allowed to be pedantic,

    Welcome friend. Proceed.

    1 hour ago, ian the worm said:

    I would suggest making The Park the station and Stonebridge a smaller stop. 

    That would be my preference too, and in previous versions it was. But in reality the stage it is set back a fair bit and –  especially with the new walkway just north of it – Stonebridge is a much better marker for that junction.

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    The map logic is that junctions are stations rather than stages. Hence Pyramid and Other are little stations instead of big'ns.

    1 hour ago, ian the worm said:

    Evenly spaced Park stops should look good. 

     

    The fine fiddling will come at the end. If i polish every version I start to go a bit mad when I have to move everything 20 pixels left to make enough room that NOWHERE doesn't wrap to two lines and remains ambiguous in meaning.

    Yes, I do overthink this.

    1 hour ago, ian the worm said:

    Maybe overkill but how about the ribbon tower being coloured in (rainbow colours) and that being the place that the other roads connect as it’s a fairly major landmark?

    Wouldn't be so legible. And, as above, the bar is the junction really.

    1 hour ago, ian the worm said:

    Love it. 

    Thank you!

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  8. 18 minutes ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

    👍 But should be above the line as it's on the right after entering through the gate.  If that's not too pedantic!

    Impossible! That's moved above the line now, thank you

  9. 19 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

    Looks great. You could maybe add Rimski's Yard as a lot of people don't seem to know where it is but I don't think you could squeeze it in. Maybe make it Astrolabe/Rimski's Yard?

    Or you could just leave it, it's only small anyway.

    16 hours ago, HotChipWillBreakYourLegs said:

    I thought Rimski's Yard was on the right just after coming through ped gate C?

    9 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

    It is, so it should be the last stop before gate C

    8 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

    It is but is also just over the way from Astrolabe. 

    I hadn't really clocked that gate C was further up the map, last stop before that would be good. 

    Thanks all! Added 👍 Have to admit, I don't spend too much time up there so not sure I've ever visited. Will try to swing by this year.
    Will leave it a day or two for any other suggestions to shake out and then send it print (and stick some shareable versions on here).

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  10. Alright, I think I've got most of the 2023 changes in for this year's Green Welfare tube map. Please can anyone who knows better point out anything I've missed?

    (Have slapped a big ol' watermark on it because the draft got pinched and shared on social last year with a bunch of stuff still wrong on it.)

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  11. 10 hours ago, March Hare said:

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    doesn’t appear to be much different down there

     

    Yeah, the four main zones are still there but the main map doesn't pick out the stages, which do shuffle/rename every now and again

    10 hours ago, gfa said:

    Gas Tower now become 'NOWHERE'

    Nice one. Thank you!

  12. <rolls up sleeves> Right. I better get this tube map updated then.

    Think I've got most of the changes. Did anyone manage to figure out if anything is different about the Common (or the naughty corner generally) from 2022?

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  13. On 6/16/2022 at 5:46 AM, blutarsky said:

    I’m in this camp. 

    On the assumption that whoever made that list just pasted in new information and didn't delete any old stuff out of caution/lack of clarification, I'm thinking the Glade Stage is in the trees and the Dome is the marquee. Too late to update the Green Welfare tube map banner but I've updated the versions here if anyone wants 'em for themselves:

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zk05o3lQnU_6Ht9gvfJ4HQOy-nd9lUY0?usp=sharing

  14. 19 minutes ago, Staberinde said:

    It is a wonderful tube-esqu map of Glastonbury, I take my hat off to you.

    However! There is one thing glaring out me - maybe it's just me...

    North of the Band Stand the yellow line just terminates against the Purple Line, this makes no sense. Of course I know it's not a real map, still, it just glares at me - mistake!

    I hope you don't take this criticism the wrong way, maybe you could put in a Black circle interchange there and name it Tony Benn Tower.

    Anyways, love your work DSS, thanks for sharing

    Totally with you. It bugs me too. But there's really nothing at that junction. The Tony Benn Tower is the next junction over with the meeting point etc. I could put in a double station, listing both the cider bus over this spot and the village  green (or whatever that bar is called) over the other one, but I've kinda avoided including the bars otherwise (coupla notable exceptions). I've basically resigned myself to it being the big annoying flaw.

     

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  15. 22 minutes ago, tazbang said:

    Nice map. Could I suggest the purple line goes Pyramid -> San Remo (is that the old Beats Hotel?) -> The Woods -> John Peel?

    And the green line goes SONIC -> John Peel -> Ped Gate A?

    At the moment to get from the Pyramid to The Woods/John Peel you need to go via SONIC, which is not a route that you would ever take. Conversely, to get from SONIC to Ped Gate A you do head up past the John Peel field (give or take).

    Um. Yeah. Fair point. Totally see what you're saying. And I wasn't too happy with the SONIC/WOW junction thing either. Plus I've got another tube line colour to play with now so... I think this makes sense.

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  16. 1 hour ago, Nathan Explosion said:

    Not suggesting the excellent tube-style map should be altered again, but I think it's still very much up in the air which is The Glade proper & which is The Glade Dome.

    The exchange below was under a picture of the new tent element, so it suggests the tent is the dome and the trees are the Glade. However, as you can see, since I first looked at it the original tweet has been deleted so who knows!

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    Ugh. The plot thickens. However, I really want to send the banner to print, so unless anyone's got a hook up with a Glade person, I'm just gonna have to draw a line under this and accept it might be wrong.

    43 minutes ago, hurdy said:

    Is that good to go to be printed? The first version was 600dpi,but this one is showing as 300dpi?

    Also there's an attachment showing as unavailable - is that just me or should that be available for download. 

    The pdf and jpg should both be sufficient for high quality print (300dpi is ample for this - prolly more than most T-shirt printers use) at approx A4 sorta dimensions (i.e. with T-shirts in mind). If anyone wants more resolution for whatever reason I can supply but tbh this should be fine.

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  17. 2 minutes ago, blutarsky said:

    The consensus is that the tent in the Glade is now the main stage, as it's bigger and can accommodate the bigger acts listed for the Glade main stage. The old stage is still in the trees and is quite dome like, so makes sense for it to be the dome. 

    Fair enough. Will switch them. Personally I like the sound of the pressure coming off the actual glade (of trees) area. It's way nicer when it's not rammed solid. 

  18. 22 minutes ago, tarw said:

    Could ped gate A be moved up to level with Worthy Farm. I always feel I walk down from there to JPT and not across 

    Maybe you've been walking in through gate B? Gate A is definitely off to the north-west, at Yellow gate, beyond John Peel.

    20 minutes ago, bigbilly said:

    I'm not sure of its exact location but its part of block 9 so I thought it would be better with icon etc 🙂

    Ah okay. Yeah, Block 9 is a funny area - it basically fills most of that space north of the railway line all the way up to and including Ilcon, and with a hedge cutting through the middle of it to separate it into Block 9 East and West (which I don't have room for). The little 'station' tick mark lines are meant to signify the closest/main entrance to a thoroughfare, in this case the railway track. But you can totally get to most things from other directions, e.g. walking over from Genosys.

    19 minutes ago, FLB said:

    This should help with SEC locations etc. Imo glade and ped gate A are ok as they are

    Aha. Nice one, thank you. That helps with a couple of lingering questions I had.

  19. 10 hours ago, blutarsky said:

    think you need to swap Glade and Glade Dome, although with it being new we won't know for sure until we're there. 

    Also wondering where 'Lizard' came from in front of Toad Hall? 

    Yeah, I'm kinda guessing but on the official map, that looks to be a marquee in the usual Glade Lounge spot, which I assume is the Dome, with the 'main' Glade stage in its usual position. Very ready to be corrected if anyone knows otherwise though.

    Lizard Stage is a dinky little chai and world music stage. Figured I might as well wedge them in.

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    10 hours ago, bigbilly said:

    Mate it's ace but nyc downlow should be next to icon not in the shangri la bit  :-)

    Thank you. Are you sure? I can never remember shit about the layout down there but the 2019 map definitely had NYC in that spot. Maybe it's been moved? Anyone know this stuff definitively?

  20. On 6/10/2022 at 9:18 PM, hurdy said:

    One blank tshirt standing by ready to be printed... 

    Gotcha. I think I'm happy with this version. Unless anyone points out anything wrong, I'm gonna run with it. So here's the 2022 Green Welfare Glasto tube map 🙂 Hope it helps and have a great festival!

    If you'd like to win a massive banner of it, come buy a raffle ticket from Green Welfare (just off the railway track heading to the stone circle).

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    220612_2022 Glasto tube map_no arrow.pdf

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