Not going AGAIN

[4AssedMonkey]

This reminds me of a friend who announced their wedding date once they had booked a venue. Quite a prestigious place with a 3 year waiting list to get a Saturday, so they were chuffed to get the date they were after for the following summer. It was only afterwards that I pointed out it was a World Cup year and that weekend was likely to be late into the knock out stages. It transpired that it was a quarter final (IIRC) and England were playing. Needless to say, I wasn't at the wedding, even though England were useless and got knocked out. Funny, but his wife doesn't really talk to me these days.....

[greenfairy43]

At the end of the day Glsto is JUST a festival. It's brilliant & there's nowhere on the planet like it, but it is JUST a festival.

[4AssedMonkey]

At the end of the day Glsto is JUST a festival. It's brilliant & there's nowhere on the planet like it, but it is JUST a festival.

[greenfairy43]

True.

But it is also:

my escape from the pressures of life for 6 days,

the chance to see weird and wonderful things I would never ordinarily get the chance to see,

an opportunity to check out acts/artists I'm curious about,

a place where I can chat to anyone and almost be guaranteed an open, friendly response

a place to taste a variety of wonderful, exotic food and drinks.

It is for these reasons that it is special to me. Acts or bands I know and love can be seen on tour close to home, but the above can't really be done in any single place and time anywhere else. Unless you know different and in that case please do tell!

[llcoolphil]

So just to confirm, you are going on a 3 week holiday to oz and also going to beauty days when you get back. And you're f**kin moaning about that. Glastonbury. Just a festival.

[4AssedMonkey]

In Australia? On a once in a lifetime holiday?

[llcoolphil]

What exotic food and drink can you only get at glasto?

[rabid]

Unless you know different and in that case please do tell!

[4AssedMonkey]

What exotic food and drink can you only get at glasto?

[YouWhat]

So just to confirm, you are going on a 3 week holiday to oz and also going to beauty days when you get back. And you're f**kin moaning about that. Glastonbury. Just a festival.

[tevaburger]

I am very happy for your trip to Australia. You'll love it. Don't worry about Glastonbury. It's just a festival.

Please please please remember to cancel both of your tickets, as I need as much help as I can get during the ticket resale day, which is increasingly taking on an ever-so-heightened sense of urgency now that 2011 has kicked off...

[YouWhat]

I am very happy for your trip to Australia. You'll love it. Don't worry about Glastonbury. It's just a festival.

Please please please remember to cancel both of your tickets, as I need as much help as I can get during the ticket resale day, which is increasingly taking on an ever-so-heightened sense of urgency now that 2011 has kicked off...

[amfy]

My brother has just got engaged to an Australian, and the wedding will be in Austrailia.

I guess I am lucky that it's likely to fall on a fallow year, but to be honest, if it didn't and it clashed, and I could afford to go to Austrailia, I would still be really excited. I am never going to raise the money for such a trip without a good reason, so if my brother's wedding is the push that makes me scrape it together, I don't really mind when it falls.

Glastonbury is fantastic but it happens nearly every year. I was heartbroken to miss out on tickets in 2007, but I did learn that it's not the end of the world to miss one, although it did feel like it at the time. If you want to go to Glastonbury again, you will find your way back there, if you don't you won't.

Theres a big world out there, sometimes I think I might be a bit too attached to Glastonbury to fully appreciate that. An enforced trip to the other side of the world instead probably isn't such a bad thing!

[LusciousLucy]

I flew back from Oz just for Glastonbury in 2008...the conveniently timed wedding the weekend before was a great cover when explaining to my rents why I was breaking from my year away just 3 months into the trip! I was back at Heathrow at 7am on the Tuesday, wasnt back at work in Sydney until the Friday and had 2 full days of evil jetlag and post Glasto messiness to contend with in my hostel room. I didnt regret doing the trip for one second (despite it setting me back £2000+ for the 2 week trip) though as the return to Blighty rejuvenated me mentally and got me over any homesickness I had.

BUT I came back for Glasto in 09 and utterly regret it as it meant I ended my second year visa far too early and wasnt able to go back that time because recession had hit in the UK and I couldnt make enough money to return to Oz. That decision had quite major consequences...going on a crazy college course that really screwed up, a minor breakdown, quite a few months therapy and no serious work for a year and a half now!

Glasto IS just a festival at the end of the day. Yes its one of the best on the planet but go to Australia. It truly is one of the most stunning countries you will ever visit and if you only get to do it once, take the chance.

I am now going into training to get into a trade to be able to one day get back to Oz and Glasto may have to fall at the wayside. My love for festivals has got me into too much financial trouble recently. Reality and real life beckons...

[LusciousLucy]

The wedding issue I have is knowing my friends plan to get married the weekend after Glastonbury as they know NOT to get married on Glasto weekend. I am trying to figure out how to tell them that Daft Punk are almost definitly probably going to be headlining Wireless on the Saturday (as far as I am aware)...and that I cannot miss that show for anything. And to be honest...I don't think they will either!

[Milbert]

I missed the 2008 festival due to a wedding. Me and the missus weren't impressed at all. The couple have recently separated. We're even less impressed now