Things to avoid at glasto

[Lilmiz]

Drunk people stumbling around with lit flares!!! Eeeeek!! Being relatively dinky they always seem to be held at my head hight.....thankfully i haven't yet had my hair set on fire but there really have been some close calls, especially in the afore mentioned Shangri La shuffle!

Also i really do try to avoid moaners and people who sleep all day....spins me out for the rest of Glasto wondering why they came if all they were going to do was moan and/or sleep for the entire festival...complete mentalness!!!

[ICGenie]

Chinese lanterns...

[Triton]

Tuborg!

[paulo999]

Tip for pizza fans... the place next to Tiny Tea... total nom, nice places to sit, a fiver for the very yummy basic. Always busy, because it's good, but not seen a bonkers queue for it yet, because it's not in a "town" type location.

Err, I mean, it's really horrible and don't go there, of course.

[Bort]

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.

[bush]

trying to piss into an empty can in your tent, in the dark, whilst pissed. a very messy business - i would imagine.

[Bradders]

That'll never work. The hole's too small and sharp, the can's capacity is a lot less than that of my bladder, and even if you do fill it up without spillage, it'll just fall over soon anyway.

[Random Circle]

Beware those people, I say. Twice last year I thought I'd found a chilled and shady spot only to become aware of some hysterical female, proper ranting at the bloke she was with. And one of them was definitely borderline-psycho. Quite disturbing actually. I put this down to some drug experimentation; particularly as the bloke looked nonchalent to the point of bemusement at her raving. I moved quickly on.

The other pair were possibly simply splitting up and she wasn't taking it very well. I moved quickly on.

And those moody, moaning twats that are friends of friends..etc. I glanced up and saw some moody sunburnt face scowling through the crowd..I moved bloody quick!

And the know-alls of the group that, even now, will be typing out a route andn itinerary for everyone.

And the newbies, particularly in a muddy year, that just moan and diss and want to go home.

It's not that I'm unreasonable; moaning twats just bring me down.

[pie_and_a_pint]

Happy birthday PAAP

[Lilmiz]

People with really overloaded wheelbarrows....i am hoping the queue isn't going to be as mad as it was last year (particularly when we joined the back of the queue at 7am and got in just after 12 and hearing that others turned up at 10 and got in at 11...they started their own mini queues...bumholes!!! Grrrrrrr) but the wheelbarrows were a real menace....swear i had bruised heels by the end of the tortuous wait....also people who don't seem to take in their surroundings when lugging their bag over their shoulder....add very close to concussion to the bruised heels!

Also how do we manage to avoid chavs....the last two years we have ended up being camped near by 2 sets of equally annoying chavs! Last years bunch had girls who seemed to go to Glasto to sit outside the tent moaning about how hot it was inside the tent whilst putting a full face of make up on, straighten their hair and sunbathe while yelling at each other....methinks a thomas cook package holiday to ibiza would have been way better suited!

[niceandfriendly]

Oh this is a good one! Everyone should have thought of this - absolutely forget it - it could be your favourite band on earth - it's just stress and totally not Glastonbury.

Edited January 16, 2011 by niceandfriendly

[Bradders]

The choices you make at the time are usually better than ones that apply to rules you've decided beforehand (leaving before the end of headliners, not watching a band at the Queens Head Thursday, regardless of who they are etc.), so I think a lot of these posts are a bit too planned.

[niceandfriendly]

The choices you make at the time are usually better than ones that apply to rules you've decided beforehand (leaving before the end of headliners, not watching a band at the Queens Head Thursday, regardless of who they are etc.), so I think a lot of these posts are a bit too planned.

[Pot]

Avoid worrying, love how relaxing the environment was

[grumpyhack]

trying to piss into an empty can in your tent, in the dark, whilst pissed. a very messy business - i would imagine.

[saratink]

I don't think all of the portabogs are that bad. I don't like the ones with the flushy handle, but the ones that just go straight in without the pan between the seat and the mess (so like longdrop style tardis bogs) are alright!

Toilets...yum!

[saratink]

Avoid going anywhere in the festival without a little bottle of anti bac gel and a pack of tissues. Hands get dirty quickly and need Cleaning regular and you never know when you'll need the loo.

[amfy]

The choices you make at the time are usually better than ones that apply to rules you've decided beforehand (leaving before the end of headliners, not watching a band at the Queens Head Thursday, regardless of who they are etc.), so I think a lot of these posts are a bit too planned.

[Bradders]

We were stood just outside the tent for Two Door Cinema Club this year. It was busy and our group got split up, but we just talked to other people and had a dance. I wouldn't recommend against doing it.

[Scotdy]

Tip for pizza fans... the place next to Tiny Tea... total nom, nice places to sit, a fiver for the very yummy basic. Always busy, because it's good, but not seen a bonkers queue for it yet, because it's not in a "town" type location.

Err, I mean, it's really horrible and don't go there, of course.

[alframsey]

Tuborg!

[hilton]

'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.

[Craigston]

i have to categorically disagree with this one i'm afraid. seeing maximo park quite close to the front in the queens head on the thursday in 09 was one of the best glasto memories i have, and i would say that is totally was Glastonbury. despite the fact i nearly passed out in the 45 minute delay (due to their being too many people and it got dangerous somewhere!) before they started and the crush at the start, it was well, well worth it.

[niceandfriendly]

At the same time, it will take alot of pre-planning to have anything like a decent experience at the Queens Head on Thursday.

[amfy]

Personally my choice isn't to wait around for ages to see one band at Glastonbury - it isn't a loss for me. I do other stuff, I see bands that I can see close up even if I get there quite late, I see others from a distance, I choose to give others a swerve because even if I do get there early, I don't find being in a crush that nearly makes me faint any fun any more.

I acknowledged in my previous post that when I was younger I might've done what you did, but what I thought was fun then (and it was - your post did remind me of experiences I had mislaid), I now find stressful. As I said - each to their own. I thought I had fairly clearly respected your point of view, you could try the same with mine.

We could continue to argue about it after I've agreed with you, but I wouldn't call that "nice & friendly".

The written word is a funny thing so I hope that isn't too ranty - but I never thought I'd get called for being lazy at Glastonbury!