Glastonbury alcohol email?

[mrtourette]

To remove any doubt that a Guardian journo peruses these pages: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/13/michael-eavis-glastonbury-alcohol

[antbfc]

End of thread

[dub-tech]

let's get fucked up!

[smytho15]

Its 36Kg

Thats 20% heavier then you claim!

[grumpyhack]

I appreciate the spirit (if that's not the wrong word) for what they were trying to suggest. Alcohol taken onto the site should be for personal consumption not re-sale.

It seems it was an example of poor phrasing. If they'd said, in a friendly way, that a measure of for your personal consumption was what you could carry, as opposed to take in on a trolley then there wouldn't have been a problem.

Then, provided you could demonstrate or persuade the people at the gate that you could actually carry the booze that was on your trolley, you'd be OK.

[Spindles]

let's get fucked up!

[drewsstrat]

Is this rule so the bars make more money??

[fur_q]

Post of the day.

To be honest I do not see the problem with people taking in enough for a bit of resale personally. I bought a few cans when I ran out in '09 and didn't want to pay bar prices and put a bit of cash in a student's pocket who had done his back in lugging more than he could consume onto the site. No harm there, I wasn't buying alcohol, I was paying him for the service of carrying it to the festival. There used to be plenty of free trade at the festival, I miss that.

[fur_q]

I thought that.. Earlier thread about increasing prices, and I replied that I'm bringing in boxed cider at equivelent of 1.20 a pint, well if everyone does same sales will be lower. I don't think bringing own will stop the beer sales, and I don't think ME was behind this, but I wonder who is benefitting more if bar takings rise?

[All Mod Cons.]

I can see the day coming before long whereby we are no longer allowed to bring our own ales.

[jamiejc]

I can see the day coming before long whereby we are no longer allowed to bring our own ales.

[leggyemulous]

I'm glad this has all been sorted out anyway, I wasn't getting very far with my scheme to rustle next door's donkey...

[russycarps]

I still haven't got an email retracting the original email

Not everyone reads these forums or the main website.

These fuckers know exactly what they are doing

[knivesout]

I still haven't got an email retracting the original email

Not everyone reads these forums or the main website.

These fuckers know exactly what they are doing

[King Kong]

On the BBC now

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22899369

[siblin]

On the BBC now

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22899369

[Pilgrim S]

In reference to the email about alcohol that went out to Glastonbury 2013 ticket holders this morning, my personal preference is for people that come to our festival to drink much less!

However, Glastonbury remains the only major festival that allows people to bring their own alcohol in, and you are still OK to bring your own alcohol through the gates, providing it’s just for your own use (whether it’s on a trolley or not).

Michael Eavis

[russycarps]

So people at Glastonbury in the 90s weren't as fucked up as now??

[eFestivals]

So people at Glastonbury in the 90s weren't as fucked up as now??

they were more fucked but also more in control.

Alcohol is a disabling drug in the way that many illegals are not.

[Pilgrim S]

So people at Glastonbury in the 90s weren't as fucked up as now??

[russycarps]

I reckon people drank more back then than now. Just the drugs were miles better

[teamsofa]

Did anyone else miss the main point raised in this thread.... A few pages back Russy applied for a job with Avon & Somerset police!

[russycarps]

Did anyone else miss the main point raised in this thread.... A few pages back Russy applied for a job with Avon & Somerset police!

[mrtourette]

swing and a miss:

Goal - to make stop people bringing alcohol in trollies

Result - The national media website has an article with the message (and suggestion) that its okay to bring alcohol on trollies!

[Zoo Music Girl]

Yeah, most of my friends will get the email but not read the website, at least until that item has dropped way down the list. There's got to be more people like that.