We're going to Glasto!

[Pinhead]

Somehow feels good to have people who post on here watching over the site - is that a bit mad?

[Buff124]

Interesting, so they effectively pay off the locals for the inconvenience. Looking forward to more pictures of the site as it develops. May I ask, have you just recently moved to Pilton?

[mr gumby]

I was one of the Gate Stewards at Orchestra in a Field last year, I wonder if I checked you in? Sorry to be dim but where is the Strummer Stone? Ive not found that myself. Is it a particular stone at the circle? Regards Grubersaberhagen

[Buff124]

You'll probably find that Bez is still there. Check the bushes

[coma girl]

Strummerville is well worth finding, this year I'm determined to get there in time to see something good I always turn up when its winding down

[Grubersaberhagen]

Thanks for the map link Mr Gumby, I've worked by it many times and never noticed! Now that I know I shall do a special visit, always good to find something new. We all keep an eye on the site and I know that many people follow the webcam (when Steve has rebooted it!) so I will keep doing little forays taking photo's and put them up as I can. It is quite some years since the problems quoted above gave been reported but last festival there were a couple of bikes nicked from gardens. I've seen the Security actually chase people inside the village and listening to their short wave radio is quite entertaining ( there is a 24hour checkpoint with floodlights right outside my house). Last Festival a poor lady pulled up in her car which immediately caught fire and caused a bit of drama, security sorted it out in no time at all and avoided it escalating. Nothing but praise from me for them. Regards, grubersaberhagen

[Pinhead]

I was going to say I thought that these sort of problems had largely vanished now what with all the village security - I remember them being raised as regular objections in license review meetings back in the early '00's, but haven't heard mention of them in the more recent PEL reviews (expect perhaps by the odd resident who objects to the festival every time there is an opportunity no mater what). I'd have thought that the proximity of the festival was more likely to raise house values - there must be a waiting list of keen festival regulars who would love to move there if given half a chance. Just my opinion I stress, but I'd be more inclined to reimburse those people who had experienced specific trouble from crime or disruption to their working pattern as a result of the festival.

[Thearg]

I'm told that this year there is official camping up the hill from the stone circle which is new and they've acquired the next farm out towards Pylle too, I don't know but the layout could well be skewed a little east as a result.

[Madyokel]

This is a superb thread lovely viewing and reading

[Grubersaberhagen]

Ok. I'm going undercover. Lurking, ducking and diving, bobbing and weaving. I'll report again when it's safe. Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast. - Grubersaberhagen

[Pinhead]

I'm told that this year there is official camping up the hill from the stone circle which is new and they've acquired the next farm out towards Pylle too, I don't know but the layout could well be skewed a little east as a result.

Edited January 31, 2013 by Pinhead

[Mrs*E*]

P.s. Apologies about the song. They say "Hair of the dog" and everything so I thought I'd put a new link here now that we have clicked over onto page 2; http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tv-iuthRmD0

[mr gumby]

Ok. I'm going undercover. Lurking, ducking and diving, bobbing and weaving. I'll report again when it's safe. Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for breakfast. - Grubersaberhagen

[LondonTom]

Oh my sweet lord, did you seriously just quote Red Dwarf on here? That's a shame brilliant, just when people were starting to like you! We start to love you!

[Grubersaberhagen]

Pinhead - I should have paid more attention at the time that I heard but I thought that it was Cockmill they acquired? Or maybe a farm by Cockmill?, really not sure but it is over that way. Mrs*E*, sorry try here http://www.piltonvillage.co.uk/piltonvillage/Musicians_Group.html if that doesnt work as a video at least you can hear it ( then I suspect something wrong with your browser so use a different one (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari) Mr Gumby - Directors Cut or Original Release? I have no shame more importantly I learnt long ago that if put store in what people thought I'd never acheive anything. What's happening in June? "something wonderful" ( for those who like 2001) Thank you LondomTom, keep listening, there's more. Friday today, I saw heavy machinery working down on the newly surfaced entrance where you enter off the A361 by the bit that is always the Security/Fence makers car park yesterday, and loads of clattering and clanking in the trees. Now that the sheep have all moved I expect that the muck spreaders will be out across the Festival site to fertilise the ground distributing Daisy's winter goodness so that it is all broken down and absorbed before any camping in the summer ( oh yes, every year!) makes the village REALLY HUM for a couple of weeks, called the Pilton Pong. - regards, Grubersaberhagen

[LondonTom]

. Now that the sheep have all moved I expect that the muck spreaders will be out across the Festival site to fertilise the ground distributing Daisy's winter goodness so that it is all broken down and absorbed before any camping in the summer ( oh yes, every year!) makes the village REALLY HUM for a couple of weeks, called the Pilton Pong. - regards, Grubersaberhagen

[Grubersaberhagen]

There is major roadworks starting on the A361 in the heart of the village on the 11th February that is scheduled to last for 12 weeks. This work is to create a new footpath along the very busy main road so that villagers can get from Top Street to Shutwell Lane without walking on the carriageway (with 20 ton quarry trucks brushing their arms/pushchairs/children etc). It will also 'move' the road 12 feet or so to the north to accommodate the footpath on the south side and provide serious drainage for run-off water from the fields above. The work will involve the road closing completely at some point and diversions through other villages (none of which I think will be either direct, straightforward or easy) this work has been delayed again and again over the last few years and although it should be finished by the middle of May, experience tells me that it is easy for major projects like this to over-run because you actually don't know what you are dealing with until you start. If it is still in place in June this may be a problem for festival goers. Last year was a missed opportunity to get the work done with the festival taking a break but there you go, Local Authorities eh? I'm told that there is a desire to bring more people into the Festival site from the lesser entrances than before but I don't know if the roadworks were a deciding factor, meanwhile rumours abound.............., regards, Grubersaberhagen

[fatyeti24]

this thread is much more interesting and exciting than the headliners thread.

Rolling Stones and Arctic Monkeys? pah!

site photos and Pilton logistics? now you're talking!

thanks, Grubersaberhagen.

Edited February 5, 2013 by fatyeti24

[Grubersaberhagen]

I put a 'Glastonbury Festival News' scroller on the village website at www.piltonvillage.co.uk along with a little countdown widget to the Big Day. I have never seen the puddles on the trackways as deep as they were on Monday, even the dogs were slipping on the mud when we crossed the fields, the cattle won't be out for a while I'm sure. Traffic lights and diversions now in-situ on the A361 at the top of the village but progress is so slow at the moment - I must have more faith that they know what they are doing. The gossip is starting to circulate too, and they are looking for artists of the spoken word to perform (check out the glastonburyfestival.co.uk website, I think it's listed there too). Updates will follow.... Regards, Grubersaberhagen