First Timer Not Impressed

[Weekend Cigarette Smoker]

Hahaha, that's true.

I'm a scouser myself and it felt more like Mersey Farm than Worthy Farm. Not that I met any scousers who were a problem, but it was either a Liverpudlian or generic Estuary accent that seemed to predominate.

[Benj]

Some people cannot stand for a long time, it may be due to a medical condition, age or pregnancy so those people can enjoy the experience just as much they may need a chair, whats the crime?

[jeffie]

Reading this thread it is obvious that although chairs were a general problem it was worse on the Sunday - Paul Simon, Pendulum, Beyonce are specifically mentioned - of course that is the day that 30,000 locals (think it's that number) come on site for the day.

[eFestivals]

Reading this thread it is obvious that although chairs were a general problem it was worse on the Sunday - Paul Simon, Pendulum, Beyonce are specifically mentioned - of course that is the day that 30,000 locals (think it's that number) come on site for the day.

it's not 30,000. Just 5,000. But yeah, they might have had something to do with it.

But it's also the case that by Sunday lots of people are knackered. This year for the very first time at Glasto I took my chair around the festival on the Sunday cos I was knackered - tho it was only used at a stage to watch Paul Simon.

What is a problem with chairs is the putting-a-towel-on-the-beach attitude of some. There were far too many people reserving space with their chairs for mates who weren't there.

[iwalker]

Can't they bring in a system where if a field is too busy, an announcement can be made that chairs have to be put away?

[pinback]

Can't they bring in a system where if a field is too busy, an announcement can be made that chairs have to be put away?

[iwalker]

Before Kool and the Gang came on the compare made a request that everyone with flags showed the rest of the audience some respec' by putting them down.

Not a one went down from what I could see.

[eFestivals]

Before Kool and the Gang came on the compare made a request that everyone with flags showed the rest of the audience some respec' by putting them down.

Not a one went down from what I could see.

not quite right. Right near the front one went down completely, while another was furled up and pulled as low as I presume the flagpole would allow.

There were others a little further back who waved their flags all the harder.

[scorp]

There certainly was an epidemic of chairs, as you say.

I can appreciate that some people need a chair because they have problems standing up (medical conditions, not alcohol reasons) however I don't think that was the case with the majority of chair users.