Chairs In The Crowd

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Are you really moaning about chairs?!!

What about:

* The lazy idiots who leave the rubbish all over the ground - what's wrong with using the bins?

* The dirty idiots who piss in the hedges and polute the land/water?

* The disrespectful idiots who have graffitied on Bella's bridge?

* The pissed up twats who fall into people and throw up everywhere

* The drugged up idiots and the drug dealers who are breaking the law

* The thieves stealing money and other personal belongings from tents/and pockets

So what if people use chairs to make a long weekend more comfortable!! Let's face it, they are not breaking the law like thousands of other people doing any of the things listed above.

[hedgepeg]

Get up, stand up ! as Bob Marley would sing at you if he headlined the pyramid

[scappaflow]

Yep, totally agree with the original post.

They are dangerous and use up more than double the space of a person... therefore 1 person standing in front of their chair during the gig = space for 3 people standing.

This is one thing that the commercial festivals have... with the campsite / arena segregation it is much easier for them to prevent camping chairs at stages.

If you're tired sit on the floor, go to your tent, or find a bench amongst the stall!

However... this won't change, it would be almost impossible to police at Glasto without a major, major change to the site and I'm sure would also stop a lot of fat women in their 40s and 50s going (no offence, but it is most people who are sat in chairs).

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Yep, totally agree with the original post.

They are dangerous and use up more than double the space of a person... therefore 1 person standing in front of their chair during the gig = space for 3 people standing.

This is one thing that the commercial festivals have... with the campsite / arena segregation it is much easier for them to prevent camping chairs at stages.

If you're tired sit on the floor, go to your tent, or find a bench amongst the stall!

However... this won't change, it would be almost impossible to police at Glasto without a major, major change to the site and I'm sure would also stop a lot of fat women in their 40s and 50s going (no offence, but it is most people who are sat in chairs).

[tinktink]

so fat women with chairs can't go now, oh well my theory of it all being laid back and anything goes everyone chilled, is starting to fade with reading this website

[markeee]

I think it's more to do with where people have chairs. In a sparse crowd earlier in the day, chilling with a beer/cider....no problem. At an advanced position at the pyramid stage when the headliner is on, is daft. Personally I bring a chair in for the early part of the day, head back to the tent at some point in the evening to grab supplies for the night, leave the chair and head back in.

[idontgetoutmuch]

I've already posted this in another thread, so sorry if you have read it there.

I'm normally very easy going, and although the chairs annoy me, I don't want anything at Glastonbury 'banned'.

I think that Faithless was perhaps affected by people marking their spot for Stevie with their chairs. We were at the second barrier and there was an encampment set up by Stevie fans.

When the girl in front of me stood up for Faithless, I very politely asked her if she could fold down her chair. It took up more room than the 4 of us had to dance in. I explained that it was because we wanted to dance, she gave me a filthy look and said that the chair was not folding.

Maybe it was the heat, or maybe it was the way she spoke to me, but I did get 'The Rage'

My initial thought was to throw her hats and her bag, which she had on the chair, into the crowd behind me. I thnk I came up with a better solution:-

I DANCED ON HER CHAIR

She did not like this, and screamed at me to get off her chair, she proceeded to tip me out, but my friends caught me. Guess what though, it had the desired effect and she managed to fold the f*cker up.

So if they are at the barrier, they don't fold it down when asked, and it is taking up your dancing space, then I urge you all to do as I did.

BTW, not that it matters, but hating the above stereotyping re ladies in their 50's - I am nearly 50 and a Guardian reader to boot (a bit fat too sadly)