Worst experience

[Liam13th]

Block Party in 09. Never Again.

[The Nal]

Block Party in 09. Never Again.

[ark]

Block Party in 09. Never Again.

[clockworkpurple]

Reading 2000...it was a SCORCHER. Now, I knew I was allergic to sunscreen, having had major prickly heat after using it (had been fine as a kid, it just randomly started). But it was SO hot and sunny I thought I'd take the prickly heat over epic sunburn.

Bad move: i had a massive allergic reaction, my body swelled up like the Michelin Man and I had to go home to my Dad's and lie in bed feeling dreadful for the whole of the Saturday. I missed seeing Pulp and didn't get to see them until the We Love Life tour (which, in all honesty, was crap).

What I learned: don't mess with allergies!

(incidentally I've now found a sunscreen that I'm not allergic to so Glastonbury is welcome to be SCORCHIO! )

Edited June 3, 2011 by clockworkpurple

[beodeejay]

Prodigy in 2009. Kids pestered me. Sat at the back like a grumpy old man. Missed most of blur.

Saw the Prod in 1998 on the main stage (or whenever) and it was fine - 10 years later, it was not. :angry: Glastonbury warriors my arse.

[amfy]

In about 1992 I remember a work colleague going to Glastonbury and having to stay of work the next week because she had fallen asleep in the sun on whilst lying on her side. She was red and blistered on one side of her face (and body) but still completely white on the other. She said she wasn't off work so much with the pain, but how stupid she looked!

[The Nal]

Prodigy in 2009. Sat at the back like a grumpy old man.

Edited June 3, 2011 by The Nal

[sonny]

In about 1992 I remember a work colleague going to Glastonbury and having to stay of work the next week because she had fallen asleep in the sun on whilst lying on her side. She was red and blistered on one side of her face (and body) but still completely white on the other. She said she wasn't off work so much with the pain, but how stupid she looked!

[Poliwhirl]

2009 getting back from the festival I had f**king Swine Flu. Or at least I think it was. Never felt so bad in my life!

[RedSkyTentRentBoy]

Worst experience at glasto was sitting under the big tree in the stone circle to hear a massive crack above my head and see two people fall from the very top branches all the way down through like a pinball through a machine, and hit the deck not ten feet away from me. She was in some trouble, and he was hanging from a branch midway. Poor folk were apparently having a bit of how do up there and got a bit carried away.

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

I found out at Leeds that having an open fire inside your tent indian stylie, no matter how big the tent or how cold you are is a very bad idea.

I was very drunk but even as drunk ideas go it was a very bad one.

hehe just remembered for the first time since the calls of 'Abandon tent, abandon tent!'

[The Goo Goo Doll]

Felt ill due to the sun last year and had to go to sleep for an hour or two.

Moral, don't stay out in the sun too long, shade is very important.

[radish]

Worst experience? I would say Rod Stewart, but it was much quieter than anywhere else at the festival so I sat down and had a really quite nice kip while he was on, so not all that bad.

No, it'd have to be 1997, went to Alton Towers on the Tuesday before going to Glastonbury. In and of itself Alton Towers wasn't a bad experience, but I had a burger while there that, by the time we were travelling back, had given me food poisoning. This was diagnosed later as streptococcus although I'm still not sure I believe that given just how bad it sounds on the NHS site. Whatever it was it was certainly Not Nice.

It took about 12 hours to drive back from the midlands to Bournemouth where I was then living, with me hallucinating, vomiting, screaming in pain and generally being not very well all the way, requiring endless stops hence the time taken for the journey. I have never ever felt as bad as I did then. We were supposed to leave for the festival on the Wednesday, but I was in and out of sleep/consciousness all day and definitely not fit to travel. It was strongly suggested that I should be in hospital, but I stupidly very bravely resisted this and insisted on going to Glasto on the Thursday. I was weak, shaky, hadn't eaten for more than two days and could barely keep a glass of water in my stomach, and didn't eat or drink anything for the majority of the weekend, but we made it there and had a great festival. How could we not, Radiohead for one thing.

Took me quite a while to recover after though. Months.

What did I learn? Not to eat shite food from dodgy outlets at theme parks? Or better still, stay in a hermetically sealed room for the week before the festival to make sure nothing can happen to stop you going. Oh, and if somebody, particularly a medical professional, tells you that you need to go to hospital, do it. Even if it might mean missing Glastonbury.

[Amii]

-Experimenting with pills I hadn't pre-tested. Tried to walk in to Arcadia and freaked out beyond belief.

-Ate a veery questionable bacon roll, developed gastroenteritis mid festival, left with IBS for life now from the trauma to my stomach.

-Thinking "I'll buy water when I'm in the festival". Eight hours of queuing, a near passout, and severe sunstroke later.....

& This was all in the same year! Lesson learnt.

[lillypip]

Sun stroke last year, courtesy of 6 hours of queueing in the sun, rendered me virtually unable to eat or drink for the next 5 days......Lesson? Never again queue without a hat!

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

Well most of these seem to be poo related so I won't change the record!

2007 in the dance village got a sudden bout of the squits. Legged it to the nearest toilets, the cleanest of which had a pyramid sticking out of the top. Squatted over and done my business and then realised I had no tissue! I proceeded going through the receipts in my wallet to see which ones were the important ones I had to keep!

Lesson learnt: take tissue EVERYWHERE you go!

[sprouts]

Worst experience-

I think it was 1999.

First time and arrived about 11:30. Felt like we had walked for miles rom the gate and then found a bit of land with loads of space - Following morning, I realised we had camped next to the Pyramid Stage area.

It was very rowdy. Anyway besides getting things take from our tent, we came back to the tent on the Sunday afternoon and someone has done a massive S**t inside of it. We abandoned the tent and alsong with hundreds of others camped in the open air cinema field with a couple of blankets.

Since then I always camped in quiter areas.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

Not at Glastonbury, but at Sziget last year.

One of the days we went into Budapest to sample the awesome baths. Enjoyed that immensely. Decided to walk back into town and realised my shoes had f**ked up causing extreme agony. By the time we got back to the island I was hobbling, barely able to walk.

I could hardly walk for the entirety of the festival.

Lesson: Take decent shoes to a festival and don't walk in broken shoes.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

Actually, worst Glastonbury experience was this from 2005.

Finished work near Hull at 11pm Wednesday. Set off and made it to Street/Glastonbury at about 3.30am.

I phoned my mates to check they were still up as they'd set my tent up in Pennards. One was going to bed, but he said the others were definitely staying up.

Parked up and was through the gates by 4am (it was so quiet at that time!).

Made my way to Pennards and phoned my mate. No answer, surprise surprise. Walked round Pennards for a bit looking for tents like mine and my mates'.

As it's nearing dawn, I find one. Phone my mate - no answer again. But I do hear a phone vibrate in a tent.

I take the plunge and venture into what could be my tent. It is, so I crack open a can, enjoy the sunrise and then go to sleep.

I awake a few hours later to hear my mates asking each other if I arrived, sounding concerned. I could've dragged it out further, but I just opened my tent and scowled a little bit!

Edited June 3, 2011 by Lynne Scratch Perry

[hotwaterbottle]

Probably bringing too much,

in '09 (first year) i brought about 4 bottles of water (the size of large coke bottles), my boyfriend's wine box, tins of food, along with far too many clothes. really put a dampener on my first experience as I was in so much pain for the first couple of days.

what did i learn? don't bring water you complete idiot. don't bring two pairs of jeans when you don't even wear jeans. don't bother with food & pack less you idiot.

[WhatsThatSound111]

Trying to eat cold soup with a fork...

Learnt to use a spoon instead.

[ghandi]

My first glasto in 2009. We got there on Thursday lunchtime and had to walk about 3miles to find a sport in the burning sun, then overdid it on Friday night on a mix of Pro plus and those herbal extacy tabs from one of the stalls mixed with Rum and Coke. The next morning i woke up to the mother of all hangovers. I decided to take some pro plus to get me going and also Nurofen for the headach. Bad mistake! After half an hour in the John Peel tent i came over all dizzy and sick and had to retire back to the sauna/tent sweating buckets, wanting to sleep but couldn't.I had to sweat it all out of me with my head wrapped in a towel to soak it up. I rejoined my fellow campers at the Other stage at about 3pm in the afternoon.

Yeh, i've learnt not to overindulge on stupid things that make you stay awake longer unless i know what the after effects might be and also don't mix tablets!

Also when i got home my bathroom upstairs had sprung a leak and floded my kitchen downstairs!

[New Cillit Bang]

2009 for me... was on it all day with the largers and strawberry cider...was really pissed by early evening when we thought it was a good idea to mix it up with some herbal mind benders or whatever the feck they were... Took too many and Jesus christ, what a mistake... i didn't know whether i wanted to sh!t my pants or throw up at one point...luckily i made it to the long drops or it would have been a disaster.

All of us were really bad on those pills... made it back to the tent where i collapsed and found it really hard to breathe... i actually thought that was it at one point, a very scary situation and one i don't intend repeating!

[Mel & Claire]

Worst time was definitly at V 2009, when on the Sunday night about 2.30am some twats jumped on our tent while we were asleep inside, not only once, but twice and at the side where our heads were. We were quite frankly terrified.

Tent was written off, so we packed up and drove home, getting back at 7am. Thank God we had the car and didn't have to wait for a coach.

What have I learned? Well it's pretty much the reason we're only getting day passes for Leeds this year.

[ktej]

Yeah I think I got swine flu on the last night of Leeds 2009, just came back from Faith No More and shivered in my tent all night, got an amazing 8 hours sleep though