Would this year have been a quagmire?!

[dingbat2]

Most of my best memories of Glasto are in the muddy years. It brings a bit of the bulldog spirit in me, I still look back at similar memories, watching friends losing their Welles in mud, other people trying to pull them out and losing their Welles as well. I remember the quagmire years more than the hotter years. Not sure if I enjoyed then as much at the time, but the photos I treasure the most are of mud!

Saying that i would still prefer a warm and sunny festival

[mike46]

We were working last year so was set up Tuesday, wasn't raining then and we sat up at the Park Tuesday evening in the dry.

I do remember waking up Wednesday though to what sounded like pretty heavy rain, I only got out the tent properly when I heard the first cheer start over by the JP side, we were above the farm house and had a pretty good view of the site - could see the shadow moving across as the sun came through and the cheer that swept across the site.

[LondonTom]

i like your new avatar very much. not that there was anything wrong with your previous ones, but, well, you know..

Edited June 14, 2012 by LondonTom

[Ed209]

In 2006, the last fallow year, I remember the weather of Glasto weekend being absolutely gorgeous. I was sat in a friends garden in somerset cursing it. It would have been one of the all time perfect glasto weathers. 25c and sunny for all 5 days.

Sods law it will be this year too

As Neil said, rain in the build up doesn't make too much difference. Get some sun and some wind and 150 000 pairs of feet compacting the mud and that site can go from quagmire to perfect in an afternoon.

[Ed209]

Actually out of interest which weekend would it have been? Is it the last full weekend in June (so the sunday has to be in June, but the monday can be in July)? I'm guessing it would be starting in a weeks time rather than 2 weeks time....?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Lucky enough we could avoid that path on the way back so i don't know how many got caught out - it was like Quicksand - funny enough it did not look all that bad but if you slipped you were stuffed.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Actually out of interest which weekend would it have been? Is it the last full weekend in June (so the sunday has to be in June, but the monday can be in July)? I'm guessing it would be starting in a weeks time rather than 2 weeks time....?

[Ed209]

... yeah I guess that's probably right thinking about it.

They wouldn't have had the first day clashing with Summer Solstice

[glasto-worker]

Wednesday 26th July 2013 would be open day I would have thought.

[gooner1990]

In 2006, the last fallow year, I remember the weather of Glasto weekend being absolutely gorgeous. I was sat in a friends garden in somerset cursing it. It would have been one of the all time perfect glasto weathers. 25c and sunny for all 5 days.

Sods law it will be this year too

[JoeyT]

Yep, 2006 was scorching all summer iirc...I remember having people round my house for a BBQ and party on a Sunday afternoon as England were playing Ecuador in the World Cup 2nd round match, lots of regular Glasto goers came along and I recall one of my non-festival going mates saying 'Wouldn't you lot all be off at Glastonbury this weekend had it been on?'

A few of us noted the blistering weather and I said 'Sods law in a year off it's really nice!'

In fact out of the 7 Glastonbury's I've done, only 2010 was completely dry although I suppose 2008 and 2009 were OK as they only rained on one night.

[eFestivals]

Actually out of interest which weekend would it have been? Is it the last full weekend in June (so the sunday has to be in June, but the monday can be in July)? I'm guessing it would be starting in a weeks time rather than 2 weeks time....?

yep - the dates would have been Wed 20th to Sunday 24th June.

It's always the last full weekend in June.

[gooner1990]

Always remember watching this at the time when I started watching Glastonbury on TV each year (had seen snippets on C4 of 94 & 95)

Billy Bragg having a rant about the mud

Went on a family holiday to Dorset & Somerset in early 1998 and we went through Pilton, remember trying to see where the Pyramid/Main stage was, completely unaware it was a couple of miles away from where we were

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Edited June 15, 2012 by gooner1990

[goldfishboy]

yep - the dates would have been Wed 20th to Sunday 24th June.

It's always the last full weekend in June.

[eFestivals]

Interesting - I was looking into this yesterday and the festival's Wiki page (not a definitive source admittedly) says it's "The weekend of June that falls closest to the Summer solstice"

that might actually be right (I'd have to look back across loads of years to check), but even if it was it still pretty much always pans out as being the last full weekend in June anyway.

[gooner1990]

I think next years will be the last weekend in June.

Edited June 15, 2012 by gooner1990

[Ed209]

sorry but unless you know something that the rest of us don't know there is no way it will be in July

it is Wednesday 26th June - Sunday 30th June 2013

[Ed209]

that might actually be right (I'd have to look back across loads of years to check), but even if it was it still pretty much always pans out as being the last full weekend in June anyway.

[eFestivals]

Yeah, that;s why I asked. Usually all 3 days of the fest have to lie in June, but I also remember there being something about the Solstice and how traditionally they had it so that the travelling community could go to stonehenge and then make their way to glasto. This year is the only permutation of dates that can cause a bit of ambiguity.

hang on tho ....

If Glasto-worker has posted the right dates for next year (excluding the error with the month) - and I believe he has - then it gets to prove it's not "the weekend nearest to the solstice".

[Ed209]

hang on tho ....

If Glasto-worker has posted the right dates for next year (excluding the error with the month) - and I believe he has - then it gets to prove it's not "the weekend nearest to the solstice".

Edited June 15, 2012 by Ed209

[Ed209]

But the solstice actually falls on a thursday this year. Traditionally it only used to be a 3 day event so that still would have worked.

I'm guessing it would have been next weekend.

[eFestivals]

I'm guessing it would have been next weekend.

For this year, yup.

the glasto-man dates are for next year.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

sorry but unless you know something that the rest of us don't know there is no way it will be in July

it is Wednesday 26th June - Sunday 30th June 2013

[rexclark]

Definitely from the 26th of June next year, says so on the official site. I thought it would've been the previous week.

[guypjfreak]

its not M..

its LIQUID SOIL