£200 barrier breached

[abdoujaparov]

I thought he was great..... and don't remember the crowd being too precious

they were reading a newspaper. ?

[abdoujaparov]

indeed...

I wouldn't have minded a couple of S & G toons , but we got some great other songs.

Maybe I'm old....

no, I know I am

[Mr.Tease]

which, is a bad thing for those who want time to stop still and for Glastonbury to always be the same. But for me, it's a good thing

I mean, the paralympics closing ceremony...?

[eFestivals]

I fail to see how attracting greater numbers of people who see people on low incomes or with no jobs as irrelevant filth is a good thing.

because, just as happened with me and plenty of others, it's an eye opener.

If these people never have alternative views put to them or put in front of them, they stand little chance of their views changing for the better.

Glastonbury would not be what it is if it only preached to the already converted.

Edited October 11, 2012 by eFestivals

[oneeye]

^^^^ This.

As a result the crowd got stuck at the fringes (certainly where I was on the Top Webbs Ash side) and it got unpleasantly crowded. But heaven forbid someone would fold up their chair or have their picnic blanket trodden on. I left after 20 minutes.

[Mr.Tease]

because, just as happened with me and plenty of others, it's an eye opener.

If these people never have alternative views put to them or put in front of them, they stand little chance of their views changing for the better.

Glastonbury would not be what it is if it only preached to the already converted.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

And in the past I'd absolutely agree with you, it does give people a chance to meet people they wouldn't normally have anything to do with, and expand their mind a bit.

But I think the problem now is that the balance is tipping to the point where there aren't really going to be that many people there who actually challenge any of their beliefs or offer much of a different viewpoint.

[MEGABOWL]

Totally agree; we did the same

I think that particular sunday afternoon was a combination of the hot weather, overcrowding, tiredness and maybe a slight intolerance as a result of 4 previous days of mud etc.

Certainly my agitation level was beginning to rise, even though I thought I'd left in in the car, along with attitude

Sunday afternoon Pyramid sessions have become too busy of late; local 'onedayers' generally stay there all day, hence the blankets/chairs/attitude etc.....

On a positive note, Paul Simon was OK for the 20 mins or so that we endured

[oneeye]

Yep. I've resolved to keep clear of the Pyramid on Sunday afternoons from now on. It was OK in 2010 for Slash and Ray Davies because some of the crowd was wacthig the football but it gets too crowded otherwise

Edited October 11, 2012 by oneeye

[MEGABOWL]

It was superb. Lovely relaxed atmosphere and I enjoyed Slash way more than I expected to.

I didn't get the football thing either but was happy it worked that way. Fingers crossed for 2014!

[Filthy]

I would have watched the match if I'd been at home but no way was I going to miss Ray Davies to see a certain defeat by the Germans. Football seems pretty irrelevant when you're at Glastonbury

[Verbal]

I would have watched the match if I'd been at home but no way was I going to miss Ray Davies to see a certain defeat by the Germans. Football seems pretty irrelevant when you're at Glastonbury

[LondonTom]

I went to the footie ...I could hear slash's guitar in the background ...I couldn't even see the game properly apart from going toes..never again.. luckily I left just in time to get back for Ray Davies due to England being shit.

[russycarps]

A large number of people on this forum wanted the football showing on the big screens on the pyramid stage

[UEF]

because, just as happened with me and plenty of others, it's an eye opener.

If these people never have alternative views put to them or put in front of them, they stand little chance of their views changing for the better.

[eFestivals]

Well much as Glastonbury was an eye opener for me too, I'm not sure how my discovery of the joys of getting mashed for 5 days in a field translates to the real world?

not everyone's Glastonbury experience is merely 5 days of getting mashed.

[oneeye]

A large number of people on this forum wanted the football showing on the big screens on the pyramid stage

[oneeye]

I went to the footie ...I could hear slash's guitar in the background ...I couldn't even see the game properly apart from going toes..never again.. luckily I left just in time to get back for Ray Davies due to England being shit.

[cdm22]

I didn't understand why so many people wanted to see England getting beaten by Germany again instead of seeing Slash and Ray Davies either On the plus side, more room for the rest of us!

[rexclark]

Wouldv've loved to watch England getting pumped out the World Cup but there was no way I was missing Slash.

[UEF]

It was bloody boiling hot that day too, there was no way I was truding for miles to sit in an uncovered field.

Anyone who says that there's no such thing as too much sun at Glasto hasn't been to 2010. That was fucking horrible. Great if you get that much sun on holiday, but not if you're waking up in a tent with a hangover every day and you're sweating so much that your armpits could cut through steel...

[MEGABOWL]

It was bloody boiling hot that day too, there was no way I was truding for miles to sit in an uncovered field.

Anyone who says that there's no such thing as too much sun at Glasto hasn't been to 2010. That was fucking horrible. Great if you get that much sun on holiday, but not if you're waking up in a tent with a hangover every day and you're sweating so much that your armpits could cut through steel...

[rexclark]

I was there in 2010 and there wasn't too much sun. No such thing as too much sun at Glastonbury.

[Filthy]

I preferred last year's weather to 2010. Managed very little sleep in the heat

[LondonTom]

Anyone who says that there's no such thing as too much sun at Glasto hasn't been to 2010. That was fucking horrible. Great if you get that much sun on holiday, but not if you're waking up in a tent with a hangover every day and you're sweating so much that your armpits could cut through steel...