Size of glasto

[Al the CAT]

To put it into perspective with Download, Glasto would cover the whole area of the Donington race circuit and stretch well across into East Midlands Airport

[Langdale Wolf]

2010 will be my 6th Glastonbury.

I always mooch around, especially on the Wednesday and Thursday.

I have yet to see the whole site.

That's how big it is.

I always laugh at first-time Glasto-goers who are attempting to meet up via phone. The following phrases are usually uttered by such folk:

"Meet you by the sound desk at the Pyramid Stage"

"We're near the 'drop the debt' bus"

"We're under the blue flag"

"I'm waving from up that hill - you MUST be able to see me"

"Look by the tree - we're sort of underneath that - almost"

"I'm right by the ice cream van"

I can guarantee that they won't meet their mates unless further instructions are given. It's big.

[Macca3031]

2010 will be my 6th Glastonbury.

I always mooch around, especially on the Wednesday and Thursday.

I have yet to see the whole site.

That's how big it is.

I always laugh at first-time Glasto-goers who are attempting to meet up via phone. The following phrases are usually uttered by such folk:

"Meet you by the sound desk at the Pyramid Stage"

"We're near the 'drop the debt' bus"

"We're under the blue flag"

"I'm waving from up that hill - you MUST be able to see me"

"Look by the tree - we're sort of underneath that - almost"

"I'm right by the ice cream van"

I can guarantee that they won't meet their mates unless further instructions are given. It's big.

[Al the CAT]

I've done the ice cream van one before. "I'm standing right next to it where are you. NO I'M RIGHT HERE WAVING, CAN'T SEE YOU!!! Ohhhw you said Other Stage......"

[ukslim]

get across the idea of the enormity.

Edited October 7, 2009 by ukslim

[5co77ie]

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Look up 'enormity'. It doesn't mean what you think it means.

http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/f...&title=21st

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<anti-pedant>

... although your usage is becoming more common and its original meaning may become eroded over time. Like "disinterested".

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[Ponyegg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns...d_by_population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset

If we assume 180K + 30K staff/workers/help/traders/artists then that's 210K which makes us a little smaller than Derby but bigger than Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and arguably the largest population/grouping in the area apart from Bristol. We increase Somerset's population by about 23% (from approx 900k to 1.1mil)

So, in reality, large enough to have our own Council and at least 1 MP :-)

Edited October 7, 2009 by Ponyegg

[robin]

I've done the ice cream van one before. "I'm standing right next to it where are you. NO I'M RIGHT HERE WAVING, CAN'T SEE YOU!!! Ohhhw you said Other Stage......"

[robin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns...d_by_population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset

If we assume 180K + 30K staff/workers/help/traders/artists then that's 210K which makes us a little smaller than Derby but bigger than Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and arguably the largest population/grouping in the area apart from Bristol. We increase Somerset's population by about 23% (from approx 900k to 1.1mil)

So, in reality, large enough to have our own Council and at least 1 MP :-)

[rabid]

It is possibly the town with the lowest crime rate though, anyone know arrest numbers for one weekend in a town of similar size?

[Ed209]

I think the perimeter fence is 10km in circumfrence

[Langdale Wolf]

It'll be a damn sight lower than Newcastle on a Saturday night.

[Storm_NL]

Do we have an update yet on the total amount of festivalgoers vs site size for 2010?

I'm a little concerned if there's an increase in the number of people, but the site size remains the same as this year....

[pie_and_a_pint]

2010 will be my 6th Glastonbury.

I always mooch around, especially on the Wednesday and Thursday.

I have yet to see the whole site.

That's how big it is.

[Ponyegg]

It is possibly the town with the lowest crime rate though, anyone know arrest numbers for one weekend in a town of similar size?

[fatyeti24]

Try and imagine a massive festival site, then double if not triple it!

I was looking at a map of it in 2000, even then it was lot smaller than now! The difference from the 80's to now would be mental

Edited October 7, 2009 by fatyeti24

[Ed209]

On a reported crimes per capita per day basis I think you're probably right. Oooh... lets see if we can dig up some stats :-)

I popped along to here:

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/information/CrimeStats/

Somerset East doesn't seem to suffer any major increase in crime over the period, indeed, if they graphed the crime on a per-capita basis you'd see a huge drop during the festival.

[Ponyegg]

I think reported is the key word here. If it were actual crime rate, it would be amongst the highest ...

[Dave F.]

I remember hearing it was the same size as the city of Bath, that was sometime ago now and it's probably bigger! Reasure them that it doesn't feel that big so you don't scare them too much.

[smytho15]

Download:

Glasto:

[Ed209]

That is reading not download

[fowls]

Yep, definitely Reading. And to be fair to Reading, that is a photo of just the arena with a small bit of the camping. But still, Glasto is probably 3-4 times the size of Reading/T/Download etc. (at a guess)

Edited October 7, 2009 by fowls

[ukdannyb]

Not sure if it was myth but I'm sure I heard that during the height of the problems in the late 90s that it was reported that the crime rate in Liverpool dropped during the festival.

[Spuddy]

That is reading not download

[Dave F.]

That is reading not download