People without wristbands / overcrowding

[ked]

On Saturday night we got chatting to a couple at Arcadia, they said that they'd paid a dodgy "firm" £250 to get them in to the festival, neither of them had wristbands on. They reckoned they were shipped in on a bus with 28 others and that there were up to 10 of these buses an hour bringing people in illegally.

Not sure if they overstated the scale of it, but It seemed a lot more crowded this year and we heard of a lot more people getting their tents robbed (both of us had commented on this before chatting to the couple). If there was that kind of operation going on, it would have explained things..

Anyone else think it was more crowded than previously (not including 2000 though)?

[Amii]

I agree. It felt more crowded. Not sure I believe the scale of this operation though. How could they keep that quiet?

[sl1ppy]

Weird.....thought it was the least crowded for years

[Vacant0]

Weird.....thought it was the least crowded for years

[scrippit]

I met them too. £250 to a security firm, put on high viz jackets, bussed in and dropped off. They were having a great time.

[Big Vern]

Wednesday seemed massively more busy than Wed in 2011, it felt like pretty much most people had arrived. I took photos of the other and pyramid fields and compared them against similar photos taken about the same time in 2011 and there is a huge difference in numbers

[mandolin]

We chatted loads of times about how it felt more crowded this year than in the previous two. We kept wondering what amazing (or very popular) band we had just missed only to realise that the timing didn't work for it being due to people leaving a stage.

[Phil-itfc]

I thought it was a lot less crowded this year. But I did tend to stick away from the Pyramid, and made sure to take busy routes around the site.

[frostypaw]

Much more crowded around the main venues, I was a bit stunned at how dense some of the crowds were - clearest on the Other stage which was rammed to the back more often than I've seen in ten years of going

[Jack Nottm]

Having only been to 2, 11 and 13 i thought it seemed busier on the weds (filling up quicker) but less busy on other days, probably due to the ground being fine and so not everyone was sticking to the tracks as in muddy 11.

[ked]

I met them too. £250 to a security firm, put on high viz jackets, bussed in and dropped off. They were having a great time.

[Spindles]

I thought it was a lot less crowded this year. But I did tend to stick away from the Pyramid, and made sure to take busy routes around the site.

[imcle5]

I hope someone got the details of the company as this maybe a plan if get no tickets for 2014

[frostypaw]

I thought it was a lot less crowded this year. But I did tend to stick away from the Pyramid, and made sure to take busy routes around the site.

[wilson123]

Busiest I've seen it on a Wednesday since I first went five years ago but then that is to be expected when people can get another day out of it.

Other than that I didn't think it was that bad moving about. Agreed about the Other Stage though, it was constantly full each time I walked by.

However stone circle, was absolutely dead on Thursday night. Wasn't as full as previous years (if my drunk brain remembers rightly) at 7am on the Friday.

[Somersetsun]

Maybe EE can give GFL some data on people's movements as they moved through cells & sent data so they can identify where the pinch points and when. Sort of like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/twitter-hate-speech_n_3265916.html

[MJMilz14]

Arrived at 10am wednesday and Park Home Ground where I normally camp was packed full, so much so we moved on to Dairy Ground. I realize these are popular areas but the 2 previous times I've been, I've easily found decent spaces there, despite arriving at 3pm (2011) and 7pm (2009).

And the person who said about Stone Circle being quiet, went up at about 2.30 on saturday night and there was almost no one there. Barely stayed 10 minutes because nothing was happening, and noone was there. Every other time I've ever been up, especially any time from 9pm-6am it's been jam packed.

[august1]

ive put over-crowding down to demographics, more people there to sit in chairs by pyramid/other stage and the big areas, Where as greenfields and up that way was pretty dead

[Taikonaut]

I noticed a fella with no wristband on whilst drinking around the cider bus. Piqued my interest but he didn't look like the type to be jumping any fences.

[Keithy]

clearly there was something up as Sunday morning the wristband checking to leave and return to the site was very strict on gate D. Stewards told us that there were fake wristbands going round and people without wristbands.

[Neville Street]

Oxfam had handed over to security by 815pm on Sunday evening at Gate C, no handing back of passout, cursory wave in the air of arm to get in. If I lived locally I would definitely chance it another time around, book the Monday off and see the headliners and party the whole night.

[Nomie]

I noticed a fella with no wristband on whilst drinking around the cider bus. Piqued my interest but he didn't look like the type to be jumping any fences.

[Messy]

I saw a guy getting pinned down quite violently by a security bloke on Saturday night, radioed for "back up" to have the guy removed for not having a wrist band. He seemed co-operative and certainly wasn't resisting. Security bloke definitely seemed a jobsworth but I suppose it's fair enough.

[glasto-worker]

Weird.....thought it was the least crowded for years

[WillyVWade]

this claim about 280 per hour being shipped in per hour sounds rubbish to me - sure some may have got in but I am sure GFL would wonder if 6,720 extra bodies arrived in one day.

Edited July 2, 2013 by WillyVWade