what would you change and why?

[AZZA&SAHA]

just like the topic says what would you change and why????

[johntrfc]

just like the topic says what would you change and why????

[AZZA&SAHA]

ha ha we agree with that one.

how about colour coded gate entrancesand camp sites??? so you know where your staying when you book? think v does this

[headshrinker1979]

ha ha we agree with that one.

how about colour coded gate entrancesand camp sites??? so you know where your staying when you book? think v does this

[AZZA&SAHA]

not been so cant comment on that but at least they even out the entry process. which is what alot of people struggled with

[nu-marc88]

Glasto should take NO IDEAS from the shite that is V Fest!!!

[bazakin]

I wouldn't change anything, this years festivals was spot on. It would be nice if it wasn't jammed full of ignorant public school kids.

[jontosh]

Glasto should take NO IDEAS from the shite that is V Fest!!!

[Abbathehorse]

I must say, full credit to GFL and the Eavises, I think they got so much right this time. The south-east corner of the site improved massively, the crowds weren't too bad, the toilets were far better, the carparks opening early worked, they got it dead right with the football fields. Wouldn't change a thing I don't think

[KingOfSnake]

Deposit on the beer/cider cups.

Still can't figure out why after all these years they don't do it..

[ImGonnaLive4eva]

Maybe lower the capacity by about 10,000, there were some crazy bottlenecks at certain points and it was pretty rammed.

I'd also ban talking/shouting down near the front when bands are on, if you are down the front it should be to watch the band, not constantly shout down your mates ear deafening everybody around you and making it impossible to hear the music!

[MrZigster]

I'd also ban talking/shouting down near the front when bands are on, if you are down the front it should be to watch the band, not constantly shout down your mates ear deafening everybody around you and making it impossible to hear the music!

Edited June 28, 2010 by MrZigster

[frankie boy]

Wish I saw more bands saw about 12 spent alot of time at my tent feeling sorry for myself and being to hot to move.

Still had an amazing weekend

[MrZigster]

Wish I saw more bands saw about 12 spent alot of time at my tent feeling sorry for myself and being to hot to move.

Still had an amazing weekend

[Wooderson]

Swap the acoustic tent aspect around. Only venue on the site where the crowd have to look uphill to see the stage. Radio f*cking rental stuff.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Only thing I could say would be directions in the guide/signposts. They all seem to be the longest way round.

[Wiggum]

I'm surprised to see a few other people saying similar things to what I was thinking. Basically, ban the scouser pikeys and sell 50,000 less tickets....in an ideal world anyway.

[st dan]

I know it's impossible to change this but i hated people sitting down near the front of sets.

I understand it was hot and people's legs were tired, but if you want to sit down then go to the sides or the back! ... People were right at the front and sat down without a care in the world, taking up loads of space and then scowling is they get stood on !!

During stevie i was close to the front (in the front section of the barrier) and there were 4 people sat on camping chairs !! I nearly tumbled over them on several occassions. Really selfish as they were taking up lots of space and sat there without a care in the world. Im not one to say things to people about stuff like this because i dont want to lower the spirt and atmosphere, but it was very annoying indeed.

[chuckley]

Deposit on the beer/cider cups.

Still can't figure out why after all these years they don't do it..

[20/20]

Better security please. Was it really necessary for 6 burly security guards to march in to a group of tents on Wed evening to confiscate a whipped cream charger and canisters. The people seemed a decent bunch just having a laugh. My bet is that security lifted as much as they could either for themselves or to sell on. One particularly big security guy told them how unpleasant it would be if they didn't hand over everything now. Not only did they confiscate, they said that they could not have the stuff back at the end of the festival...well dodgy. If security are going to confiscate/steal these, surely the same rule needs applying consistently throughout the site.

The police, on the other hand, were amazing. That is exactly the kind of policing the festival needs. Friendly, relaxed, and approachable. Well done the Somerset police!

[eoJ]

Make turn up times timeslotted. You get a time period to turn up in, if you're late, you wait extra long. Had 6 hours queuing on wednesday to get in.

Also, more medics, less fannying about. My dad was there, and in the crowd someone started having an attack. The stewards didn't know what it was, but they came to the front of the queue to get someone else to walkie talkie control centre. They told control that they were having an attack, but they didn't know what it was. They also seemed to express a lot that there was a doctor there, although they didn't really mention that he was only from the crowd, and that he was only a GP, with no equipment. The control centre then started fannying about, asking for grid references etc, asking for age and gender of her, etc.

They took half an hour in the end to turn up. Luckily, it only turned out to be a panic attack, so it worked out ok, but if it had been an asthma attack, she'd have been dead, and for all the control centre knew, it could have been an asthma attack.

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[Bristol Boy]

Agree with the one about layout of Acoustic Tent, in my world it would be a down the hill a bit and facing upwards and to the corner. And be a bit more open (a sort of bigger Blazing Saddles type design).

Enforce the smoking ban in the tents eg John Peel and Acoustic. The "Fire Stewards" turned a lot of blind eyes to that.

Seriously take action against the hedge p155ers. Kick them out with their trousers round their ankles. The threat that the festival might be closed down obviously doesn't work so make it personal on them.

[NeilVJ]

Stop people from sitting near the entrances of the Pyramid. It's hard enough trying to walk around there as it is without people being sat in the walkways. Oh and get the alcohol on the main bars back to a realistic price. £4 for a pint of Gaymers when it was £3.20 last year is really taking the piss.

Also I'm not sure if the improvements in the late night areas has also brought a lot of chavvy idiots who think they are in Kavos, Lots of people saying they weren't off to watch music just go to dance areas to try and pull.

[MrZigster]

Is this the whinge thread?

As I've said elsewhere, I don't really want to whinge as the festival is so marvelous. It is so huge that, logistically, a few things are bound to go wrong/are unable to be stopped I think.

However.

Cinema Tent, Thursday night (I think). We went to see Four Lions. We knew it would be popular so got there early, so early that the film before it had not even started. About an hour before the doors opened the security started to form two "proper" queues. After having done this they then basically went back to talking amongst themselves or their mobiles and ignored any pushers in after that. It really was complete anarchy. My lighthearted, throwaway, trying to get a laugh line about how you could tell the Tories were back in by the evident increased selfishness in society (honestly, the British not forming an orderly queue, tut, tut) led to me being the target of some (I hope) misdirected aggression from my friends other half, which led to a stand up row (you may have heard us), which could have ruined the festival had I spoken my mind and not decided to hold my tongue for the rest of it and pretend it hadn't happened. By the time we got in the only view left was one in which a third of the screen was blocked by tent struts, so we left.

A good 2 hours of festy time wasted, which I think is equivalent to about 10 in the real world, and a vibe wrecking row to boot.

I can think of a few solutions to this problem, all of which probably have some logistical flaw to them somewhere or another.

A different style tent where the poles aren't such a problem. A post office barrier type queue system (would take a lot of field space). Bring back the Field (no queueing). Make the tent "one in one out" rather than "queue, empty, queue, empty" so if you were prepared to get there early for your film you should get a spot (would mean people walking in front of others a lot and means people could hog the field).

A favourite subject of mine though (generally, not particularly at Glasto), would be to either bring back the differentiation between "stewarding" and "security" or emphasise a bit more to the security the implied stewarding role. Though the queue could maybe have been a more vocal in pointing out that there was a queue to the pushers in, this is a bit hard to do when there are literally hundreds of them arriving on mass at the last minute and I feel that it should have been the role of the security to stop this happening like they do at Shangri-La. They then had the cheek to get all tough/abusive (i.e. security mentality rather than stewarding mentality) with people who were moaning about the pushers in. Their lack of earlier action caused the sort of situation that security are meant to be there to prevent imo.

Didn't go back there after that so they may have got it sorted for all I know. and please don't interpret this as a broad generalisation of all the security/stewards. For the rest of the festival I found them all, without exception, to be fantastically brilliant, professional, friendly and in the spirit of things.

Oh, and a few more entrances to the site would obviously have been handy this year.

Whingy, self indulgent rant over. Off my chest. You can relax now. That really was the only bad thing all week. You can tell I am back and bored now can't you. :angry:

[manateemike]

Souvenir wristbands for the kids.

Took my 8 y/o for his first time, he was gutted he didn't get a band like us, even *made* a ticket for his pouch to show each time we left/returned to the site from camper van fields. Only a souvenir band, my own causes me enough stress in not losing it/ticket stub/pass out let alone his !!

And an escalator for PGC.