Things to avoid at glasto

[tjefffrench]

'Queue' fair enough. 'Dangerous crush' was my experience one night last year. If you're my height and trapped between the backs and fronts of giants you might feel a little differently! Over organisation it might be for you, but not for me, sorry. One solution, perhaps I can sit on your shoulders this year? Teehee.

[Bort]

Luckily I don't trust you. If I did I'd have missed the likes of Neil Young doing Rockin' in the Free World and A Day in the Life, or Blur doing the Universal, or Flaming Lips with Do You Realize??

Shangri-La's ace but missing a once in a lifetime experience to avoid a queue is just silly, over-organisation.

[Festival Liam]

I disagree with this. A lot of the food around the pyramid are pretty crappy, but there are some good ones. The hulloumi place is awesome. Isn't the rugby club place next to the cider bus?

[mike46]

Sticking to area's you know you'll like/know your way around,

if you don't get lost at night in a drunken haze you did something wrong!

[BlackHole2006]

Drinking so much passing medics find your discomfort hilarious

A pizza stand at the back of the Other Stage, can't remember the name but its name is written in yellow on a red background. I still feel sick now thinking about it, which considering it was cheese, bread and tomato puree (probably anyway) is impressive

Edited January 12, 2011 by BlackHole2006

[the real new messiah]

The medical tent & Brothers bar Wednesday afternoon/evening

[mikeb]

The medical tent & Brothers bar Wednesday afternoon/evening

Edited January 12, 2011 by mikeb

[blackdog]

being very ill after drinking a few bad pints of Jem ale! it happened to 3 of us missed half of fridays bands in 2008!

[denwyn]

Ordinarily I would agree with you, but the portaloos were DRAMATICALLY imporved last year

[redmosquito]

Avoid performing an act of oral love on the Sunday

[mike46]

Avoid performing an act of oral love on the Sunday

[sisterofmercy]

Avoid the portaloos, particularly first thing in the morning when they're being cleaned.

[tjefffrench]

why after they have just been cleaned?

[kingjamma]

why after they have just been cleaned?

[Jackmypie]

You should never talk to a pedo unless he has some sort of sweets, if he has a bag of those waitrose strawberry laces then go for it. Cos those are my favourite.

[gooner1990]

Ive given up on it really, nice on the Wednesday night to soak up a bit of atmos and the view but its Shangri La all the way for me these days. Every night last year – “c’mon we’ll go up for a ramble, just for an hour or so” and every morning at 7am without fail ended up stumbling all the way back to the tent in Michaels Mead in a blind state of f**ked-up-ness.

You'd be dead after two weeks of Shangri La.

[thelizardking]

Watching a film in the cinema tent.

As if I'm going to waste a precious couple of hours watching a film when I could be doing something truly memorable!

[pie_and_a_pint]

Things to avoid:

Buying anything from the overpriced ice cream vans

The crush for whichever biggish act is on in the Queens Head on Thursday afternoon

The John Peel stage if it rains and you've no wellies *squelch*

Forgetting where you parked the car on Monday morning

Warm lager

Washing

[ivan]

I disagree with this. I watched 'When You're Strange' last year and it was a great atmosphere in there with people cheering and laughing and having a good time. You don't get that when you're watching a film at home, much like it won't be the same listening to a CD and watching a band live.

Agreed you shouldn't spend the whole weekend there, but definitley try and make time for one or two films.

[MEGABOWL]

I made the same mistake and got served by a man who was so stoned that he thought and insisted that I ordered a Hawaiian pizza not the Cheese and tomato pizza that I initially ordered. So after much debate he finally agreed taht I ordered the cheese and tomato pizza which cost me £7.00 and tasted like crap. Never again.

Also avoid Fernando's. Nando's rip off selling incredibly greasy and only slightly spicy chicken. Never again.

[Spindles]

Can only agree on those pizzas. My daughter and I bought a "meal deal" of large pizza, garlic bread and 2 500ml bottles of pop for £12.50. It didn't even resemble food, let alone pizza..the base was made of something that clearly didn't involve flour or yeast (polystyrene and brown colouring if you ask me) and the topping looked rank beyond belief...it was the only time all weekend I allowed my daughter to chose the food and boy did I guilt trip her for it.

Like others I now avoid the stone circle in the evening, had a nice time up there wednesday night in '09 but every time I went up there in the night time hours apart from that it has been the same experience others had described and I figure there are better experiences to be had elsewhere.

Of course, avoid the crush to arcadia post headline slot, the river of human sheep is always to be avoided, imo, unless you really fancy spending an hour on a 15 minute walk.

Avoid crappy neighbours. These days I like to chat to people in the area I'm planning to set up, see if they are friendly, like minded people..I spent one year surrounded by asshats and it bummed me out by the end of the week.

[amfy]

Things to avoid:

The crush for whichever biggish act is on in the Queens Head on Thursday afternoon

[Ricochet]

Things to avoid:

Buying anything from the overpriced ice cream vans

The crush for whichever biggish act is on in the Queens Head on Thursday afternoon

The John Peel stage if it rains and you've no wellies *squelch*

Forgetting where you parked the car on Monday morning

Warm lager

Washing

[guypjfreak]

people

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Edited January 15, 2011 by guypjfreak

[fuzzylogic]

I'd avoid the Stone Circle after dark. There used to be a friendly hippy druggy vibe to it, but these days it's more of a sleazy menacing druggy vibe, seems like the lowest seediest characters just congregate there nowadays, and there is a very unfriendly menacing atmosphere now.

Edited January 15, 2011 by fuzzylogic