Rainy rainy rain

[balti-pie]

Just found this ace video about the 2005 festival, my very first - me and the missus came on the Thursday and it was relentlessly, ridiculously hot - the storm that started at about 5am was no surprise given the humidity, but something like two months' worth of rain fell in about four hours and the place was a bloody quagmire. We were camped in oxylers, about 20 feet away from where this curious little river formed and flooded out a big swathe of tents.

I took the executive decision to sleep more and dispatched said missus out to buy me some wellies at about 9am, which heroically she did - so out we went off a wander and a few photos of tents under three foot of water! ( Her first glastonbury was 1997, another famously muddy one, I don't think we're a curse)

Any muddy tales to tell? I've only been to dry ones since!

[mrtourette]

I went in '97 and '98, both horrendously muddy, and then '99, which was lovely weather. True story.

Edited April 14, 2014 by mrtourette

[alframsey]

After watching that my excitement levels have tripled! I can't wait to get the those bleedin' fields, rain or shine. Luckily enough every recent muddy festival I have attended in a camper van so hardly been affected by the floods, only used a ten since 2009.

[Yesiamaduck]

Only been to two

2009 had a tunderstorm and it was glorious and refreshing

2011 just rained a lot for a day and because of the secret gigs an entire part of the festival was impossible to walk through I dun want weather like 2011 it was impossible to adapt because it kept on changing from one extreme to another.

[russycarps]

2005 is remembered for the floods, but that was the year I got more horrifically sunburnt than any other. The sunday afternoon was intensely hot!

[Ted Dansons Wig]

2007. Drizzley drizzely drizzle.

[jeffie]

Can you all stop with the glorying of r@!n please...

[glasto-worker]

Just found this ace video about the 2005 festival, my very first - me and the missus came on the Thursday and it was relentlessly, ridiculously hot - the storm that started at about 5am was no surprise given the humidity, but something like two months' worth of rain fell in about four hours and the place was a bloody quagmire. We were camped in oxylers, about 20 feet away from where this curious little river formed and flooded out a big swathe of tents.

I took the executive decision to sleep more and dispatched said missus out to buy me some wellies at about 9am, which heroically she did - so out we went off a wander and a few photos of tents under three foot of water! ( Her first glastonbury was 1997, another famously muddy one, I don't think we're a curse)

Any muddy tales to tell? I've only been to dry ones since!

[pie_and_a_pint]

2005 is remembered for the floods, but that was the year I got more horrifically sunburnt than any other. The sunday afternoon was intensely hot!

[lucyginger]

Can you all stop with the glorying of r@!n please...

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

There's a full story on here already somewhere about our trials on the Friday. To cut a long story short - camped bottom of Pennards, had to abandon tent. got it all squared away in time to meet the Mrs and the gang just in time for The Killers. Awesome weekend ensued.

Contrary to all the pictures from 05 it was red hot most of the weekend, I have pictures somewhere from the Thursday afternoon showing our crew with towels on their heads trying to get some relief from the sun.

Weirdest sight - guy a few tents down from us having to dive underwater to retrieve his car keys from his totally submerged tent.

[russycarps]

Yep. The worst thing in 2005 was that once the storms were over, and the ground was mush, it went boiling hot. The necessity of wearing wellies / boots in the heat was really annoying.

[Spindles]

The sticky, claggy mud is the worst, weighing down your feet. The site dries up pretty quickly though, even 2011 where the weather was shit in the run up to the festival and it pissed it down in protest at U2 playing on the Friday it was arses on grasses by Saturday lunchtime, which was impressive as early Saturday morning the bogs at the top of Dairy were like something from apocalypse now, by Sunday afternoon mud was a distant memory.

[Guitargeek]

That newsreader: "What is it about these people, that.... they actually enjoy this?"

[alframsey]

That newsreader: "What is it about these people, that.... they actually enjoy this?"

[Trebor]

2005 was hard work but also one of the maddest, funniest years I ever had, mainly for the Sunday when it was red hot. Finished all put medication and had a mad time by the Pyramid for Van, Jools and Wilson.

But other than that rain and mud can fuck the fuck off. Been to too many wet ones.

[JoBalls]

I remember 2009 (the Michael Jackson year) being horrendously rainy on the Thursday evening and Friday morning... And then it became gloriously sunny for the rest of the weekend which was lovely. Except by that time, the ground had become a quagmire which made wellies compulsory and the mud was made progressively worse by the fact that it was so difficult to walk that everyone kept spilling their pints.

I have vivid memories of trying to carry a four pint carrier of cider back to my friends and getting completely stuck in the mud. A couple stopped to help me; she held my ciders while he pulled me out of the mud! Glasto spirit right there!

[fred quimby]

if you wanted to see a real quagmire then you missed it by 20 years as 1985 is for everyone who has been going a long time beats all the other years.

in fact 1985 was the first official ' year of the Mud ' - sure there has been other wet years but for Mud 1985 still takes the biscuit.

[balti-pie]

Bump to annoy the anti-rain freaks

[mr gumby]

You little bastards!

[balti-pie]

You little bastards!

[Trebor]

I remember 2009 (the Michael Jackson year) being horrendously rainy on the Thursday evening and Friday morning... And then it became gloriously sunny for the rest of the weekend which was lovely. Except by that time, the ground had become a quagmire which made wellies compulsory and the mud was made progressively worse by the fact that it was so difficult to walk that everyone kept spilling their pints.

I have vivid memories of trying to carry a four pint carrier of cider back to my friends and getting completely stuck in the mud. A couple stopped to help me; she held my ciders while he pulled me out of the mud! Glasto spirit right there!

[glasto-worker]

I remember that year, I remember a wonderful Thunderstorm as well. The market was all uphill towards the farm and there was a mud slide to help you back down, if you got up there..

[kalifire]

That newsreader: "What is it about these people, that.... they actually enjoy this?"

Edited April 14, 2014 by kalifire

[UEF]

2005 was the year you couldn't get rid of it on the ground. 2007 was the year you couldn't stop it falling out of the sky!

Bit of a bugger that, finishing up the "run" of Glastos with a washout in 2005, takes a year off for 2006, then back on the scene in 2007 with more rain.

Of course, I'd take the full force of either year over the "festival goers die in hot cars" weather of 2010.