Belated post Glasto blues

[joebingo]

So, this is a new feeling for me. I've had the post Glasto blues before (who hasn't?), I've had the 'well, that was a good year, but it ended at the right time'. But not this year.

This year, I came back, went straight out to a friends gig and got drunk. Spent the tuesday doing not very much, and went back to work on the wednesday. All was normal until today, and now I'm having the usual feelings. "why isn't the world as lovely as Glastonbury?", "why can't I get a pieminister and a brothers pear cider in the same 2 minutes?", "Why is everyone so stressed out and serious?" etc etc etc

So I just put The Verve's 2008 set, Blurs 2009 set, Stevies 2010 set and a selection from this year on youtube while at work this afternoon and felt low for a bit. I'm at home now with my laptop in my tent and a hifi playing loudly from somewhere else in the garden to replicate the sound of a festival a cold beer, reading through the best conversations thread and feeling a little better

I really hope the world doesn't end in 2012.

[TwistedReligion]

Think of next year as an opportunity to open your festival horizons...I am already thinking about all the festivals I haven't even considered until now...

Beatherder, Bestival and the likes of Exit await!

[Pinhead]

The site looked lovely on the webcam this morning too - lovely bright and warm looking sunshine. And they've still got the Pyramid canvas on. Still looks quite 'brown' in Pennards.

[Aragorn]

I think what I really miss aswell is all the build up - like this time 4-5 weeks ago was a week before the fest and excitement was heightened and planning and obsessing over the weather thread etc etc

even a holiday to the south of france followed by bestival in august/september isn't getting me as exciteable in the same way as glasto does lol

[amfy]

The fact that it's not on for 2 years now is helping to be honest. I've had to let go of it in a way I don't usually do.

Next year I'll be doing something else, so that's opened up a world of possibilties. I love going to Glastonbury every year and find it completely unmissable, but it's only just now that I realised how constraining that is. I am actually quite oddly enjoying the feeling of not having to go to Glastonbury next year!

Is anyone else getting this?

[BlackHole2006]

The fact that it's not on for 2 years now is helping to be honest. I've had to let go of it in a way I don't usually do.

Next year I'll be doing something else, so that's opened up a world of possibilties. I love going to Glastonbury every year and find it completely unmissable, but it's only just now that I realised how constraining that is. I am actually quite oddly enjoying the feeling of not having to go to Glastonbury next year!

Is anyone else getting this?

Edited July 14, 2011 by BlackHole2006

[knivesout]

i'm just worried that in 2013 i'll still have my last a levels to finish around the time of the festival :/

the thought of being sat in an exam room and then going home and watching on tv the place i've been to every year since 2008 and the envy involved in that is just too painful to comprehend

[Pinhead]

Worried about getting a ticket already !

[amfy]

I am very worried about getting a ticket. We got a new computer after the last ticket day, and on the resale days when I was trying for other people I got nowhere near it! I think we've lost our cookies (or something), I am seriously concerned that our straight run from 2007 may have properly come to an end!

Whilst I'm finding the idea of it not being on next year quite liberating, I cannot stand the thought of it being on and me not being there ever again!

I have got myself into a properly strange place with Glastonbury where I start dreading it being over about 3 weeks before it starts, and I actually feel sick on the way there because I know that it'll soon be gone. I think I am just quite pleased to get 2 years to get a grip!

Edited July 14, 2011 by amfy

[Miss_Boo]

I have decided to go travelling for a year round Central and South America as a way of getting over the fact that Glasto isn't on next year.

Well.... I planned on travelling anyway, it just fits in nicely that when I get back in Jan 2013 I'll *hopefully* have a ticket and only a few months til I go again! wooohooo!

[Pinhead]

We could always all crash the Royal Bath & West Show, or Glastonbury Extravanganza next year. About as close as you can get to Worthy Farm in terms of location anyway

[Jackmypie]

Lipnot Artyp

[jodicool]

Hmmmm I haven't been too bad this year up till today. Just washed the Glasto mud/smell off my tent & felt really sad. Can't believe we have to wait so long. Am debating what to do next year. Save the money I would normally spend at Glasto for the following year & go all out, rent a tipi, buy all food & drink there etc... Or go to another festival, which to be fair I usually do 2 or 3 anyway. What a conundrum

[redflower]

It was my first time this year, and I didn't know that I would have loved it so much! It's in the past week or so that I've been feeling the blues. We went straight from Glasto to Croatia for a week, so didn't feel it then. But now I'm back at home and work and I no longer have it as something to look forward to! Well, shall have to start saving for 2013!

[Pinhead]

Chucking it down on site this morning. Can see some puddles here and there on the brown. Actually quite glad I'm not in the middle of all that. Then again, I'd happily trade it for being here at work any day

[sisterofmercy]

I'm having major post festival blues, I want to be back in a field rather badly

I'm currently looking for gigs to keep my mind off of it but there aren't any good ones about at the minute. Boo.

[milly16]

I miss it so bad,can't keep my mind on things.Just want to go back.

Why did i just go on the glasto webcam,it looks like a ghost town,it's upsetting to see when we were all there having the time of our lives just last month.

Edited July 18, 2011 by milly16

[Aragorn]

Lipnot Artyp

[Pinhead]

yup - know exactly what you mean

[Jackmypie]

Yeah, but imagine if we all crashed that . . . !

[Pinhead]

They should keep the numbers down then.