Quite amusing article I found

[dondo]

I have google news alerts set up about Glastonbury (sad I know)and it sent a link to this today which I found quite amusing

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/music/the-veteran%E2%80%99s-guide-to-glastonbury-goers/

[ukslim]

It's quite amusing, but at the same time it's mean-spirited.

Yeah, the Pyramid stage chair crowd are irritating, but it's a lot easier to have fun if you forgive and forget.

Think less about the people to avoid, and more about the badger, I say.

[amfy]

I always wear my Guardian Guide! How else are you supposed to work out who all the bands you end up watching instead of ending up where you were heading for are?

[fatyeti24]

I always wear my Guardian Guide! How else are you supposed to work out who all the bands you end up watching instead of ending up where you were heading for are?

[Peachy]

Good, if bitter, article. Especially liked the bit about Gazebo Goons, what sort of tosser takes a gazebo to Glasto anyway? They really piss me off as well, acting like Mr Eavis won't mind them putting one up cos the're "special" f**king w*nkers . Rant over and out

[chewbacca]

i have a question that is a bit of related to the article:

i will arrive on thursday, do you think i will still get a programme etc.?

[ukslim]

Good, if bitter, article. Especially liked the bit about Gazebo Goons, what sort of tosser takes a gazebo to Glasto anyway? They really piss me off as well, acting like Mr Eavis won't mind them putting one up cos the're "special" f**king w*nkers . Rant over and out

[jimmyt]

i have a question that is a bit of related to the article:

i will arrive on thursday, do you think i will still get a programme etc.?

[chewbacca]

Can you tweet that to GlastoFacePalm please!

[jimmyt]

I thought it was a great article BUT I am a Guardian Guider!!! No matter how much I love the festival itself and the atmosphere and all that, I want and need there to be a good selection of music for me to enjoy and I need to know where to find it. Which is the same as I am at home - I want and need good music and I use itunes and a specific CD cupboard to let me find it easily.

Plus, if you have more fun when you don't know where you are then take a shit load of drugs, get on a random train and have a lovely time wherever you get off - leaving a ticket for people that actually want to be at Glastonbury specifically.

[schmangle-mangle]

However some of my camping mates have brought gazebos in the past, and I've been bloody grateful for it -- it's lovely to be able to chill at the camp in a group, whatever the weather. I don't think it took up excessive space. A group of people that large deserve a clearing for hanging out and chatting, whether it's covered by a gazebo or left clear.

[ukslim]

Guardian Guiders are N00Bs who haven't discovered Clashfinder

Edited April 18, 2011 by ukslim

[jimmyt]

Guardian Guiders are N00Bs who haven't discovered Clashfinder

[Party-'Scatter'!]

Gazebos are for selfish scum :angry:

Clashfinder General is king!

[jimmyt]

damn

that means yes?

[The Nal]

Gazebos are for selfish scum :angry:

[James Bolivar]

Nice article - though a bit vitriol lite if you ask me. The blogger also missed out a few types:

Home Counties Students - useless, pretty young-things, filled to brimming with a sense of entitlement and with the limits of their social horizons set firmly within their group. Last time I was there I saw one of these feckers collapse ahead of me as I walked down the hill and his "friends" mostly just left him and those who remained were clueless. Many other halter-neck/polo-shirt wearing tw@ts just stepped over poor Johnny till I got there and administered first aid.

Middle-aged pixies - you can't dance, I can't dance, but I don't let the world know.

Lads - need I say more? Think gazebos, hyper-market value backs of Wifebeater and harmonized tribal uniforms (and "FCUK" isn't clever or funny)

best stop, before I start looking too closely at myself.

[Pooog]

Sorry! Yes you will be given everything as you walk in on Thursday. I'm not aware of them ever running out. A friend of mine a couple of years ago didn't get to us until the Saturday and he was given everything as he came in.

[chewbacca]

Sorry! Yes you will be given everything as you walk in on Thursday. I'm not aware of them ever running out. A friend of mine a couple of years ago didn't get to us until the Saturday and he was given everything as he came in.

[jimmyk83]

Its a bit sad if you're walking round for the whole festival thinking what a w*nker everyone else is. Glasto is the one time of year when im NOT thinking that. Lighten up and enjoy yourself a bit more

[LondonTom]

Agree with him on all points except of course the Guardian Guilders Halvin Clash Finders =p, i don't think theres anything wrong with looking to find a certain band/what time they are on. They might be the one they are checking for the whole weekend, so you know and it does have a very good selection of music which if your into needs a certain degree of navigation.

The others are fair game imo =p

[geebus]

I've had gazebos up in the past and it's been a good 'social' thing if anything I'd say - definitely in sudden down pours you get to make lots of new friends.

Have had to make a barrier one year when the exodus from the glade saw one of my friends tents completely flattened and covered in mud, otherwise been ok and I expect a bit of mud on my tent.

To add to the ranting - guy ropes.

Got a tent that needs guy ropes to stand up? Get a more suitable one for use in cramp conditions with thousands of tired, drunk, intoxicated people!

Think you need to brace for force ten gales in the middle of the camp site? No; you'll just cause your tent to get flattened by force ten drunk people!

[scappaflow]

Gazebo... guilty.

Ok, so it takes up some more space. If they were really strict about it and went round telling people to take them down, then fair enough, it would free up space for tents, but they aren't.

A T in the Park gazebos tend to just blow away on the 1st day as it's on the side of a hill. At Glasto they provide valuable shade from the scorching heat!

However, good article, and made me chuckle. Not to others - don't take a humerous article too seriously.

[Partyofspecialthingstodo]

It's a really horrible, bitter article. He forgot to add a section on 'whiny little shitbags', like himself, going to the festival and only dragging up his most hated things. If people, god forbid, want to watch bands on the main stage then for £200, I think they're entitled to. I can't stand people who constantly slate people who go for music, when they should be in the 'Green Fields or the Stone Circle'. They're admittedly quite good, but if people prefer to watch music, then let them and don't complain they're not doing it properly. There is no 'way' of doing Glastonbury. The main thing is to enjoy yourself and that shouldn't be dictated to you.

Poorly written rant over.

[BuriedBones]

Guardian Guide middle pages are perfect for teeing up a line of carlos. sorta windbreak thing going on with easy straw access from both ends - communal! Apart from that - useless.

Its that time again - Gazebos! haha. only w*nkers ever bring them. Also noticed that gazebo people are often fat too. don't know why, they just are - go figure.