Post Glasto Moan

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'll be honest. I wouldn't be best pleased with someone shitting by my tent if that helps?

[richroet]

Will agree with a couple of posters about chairs. No issue with them in front of the stages but when it starts to get busy use your legs and stand up. Was especially bad on the Sunday not sure if it was just the better weather or the influx of locals. Was especially awful.for Dolly and.totally inconsiderate.

Obviously where people have mobility problems or similar that is different but most people were just being selfish

[Andywright88]

However, when you're standing at the front of the crowd for the Pyramid Stage and you want to get rid of an empty bottle or fag butt, there's not a lot of point heading all the way to the bins for that.

[DTichborne]

1 Litter

Yes it is awful but how do you deal with this other than have huge lines of bins everywhere moreso than they already do?

[Glastonvirgin]

There are always little gripes if you spend 5 days with 170000 people.

The Chinese near the Other Stage gave me a fake tenner in my change which was then confiscated at the fag shop.

Queues for everything were a bit annoying.

Arcadia is a nightmare to get to at night.

I was hoping to catch Fatboy but it just seemed to be full of posey guys with iced gem hair doos.

But so what.

I'll filter it out of my experience, not going to let it get dilute a week which is anually the week that is the closest to perfection that money can buy.

Perception is everything, just forget about it, it was pretty good for everyone overall.

Don't forget about the person shitting outside your tent though, don't care how drunk they were, that is rancid behaviour.

(I'm definately sacking off oxylers next year for a spot near the avalon)

Main positives for me were.

1. Not feeling compelled to get steaming, thus, not having the shakes when going to bed tonight.

2. Talking to strangers and not looking like a weirdo (guess I'll have to wait another year at least before I can do that)

3. Avalon, Healing Fields, Spirit of 71 and all those areas.

[Dazzla]

Litter, oh man don't start me on that. Even at 5am on Tuesday there were empty cans and Pringles boxes littering the car park queue. The bins were a few paces away but folk were just too lazy. The litter on site was appalling - no bin close is no excuse, just put it wherever you had it when it was full and dispose in a bin when you eventually walk past one.

Doors being knocked off toilets. Wtf is all that about? Not big or clever. Also blokes wazzing up the tarpaulin in the toilets rather than waiting 2 mins for a urinal space.

Finally girls (and it was almost always a chain of girls) barging past whoever stood in their way. I'll gladly move aside if you ask. Manners cost f all.

And finally Pete in the group of tents next door. Always done the most outrageous things, always been the most pissed or tried the best drugs, always the first to do this or that, always talking about himself, always destined to be an arse. Needless to say he couldn't be bothered to take his tent down before leaving (on Saturday morning!)

[budvar]

Seems to me that there's actually a lot less negativity on these boards than I've seen in previous years, which suggests that things really aren't all that bad.

Personally I found the atmosphere to be great across the weekend (a little bit of mud always seems to help).

[frostypaw]

6) The mud... I always hate it. But this year the ground held up surprisingly well compared to past experiences. Somehow they managed to woodchip virtually the whole market area overnight after Friday, and you could easily walk round it. That is a massive improvement on previous times for me, and logistically I don't know how they managed it.

[kidpresentable]

I had a great time and will definitely come again. If we're looking at the bad points though, I do agree there are a lot of idiots there. Not sure much can be done about it though. I do wonder if the way the BBC presents the festival could be a factor, many people I speak to who only watch it on TV just think it's about Beyonce or Kasabian or whomever, which inevitably leads to a large audience who don't care beyond the big names. Just a thought. Clamping down on drugs would be good too, when I visited the Stone Circle area I lost count of the amount of dealers who approached me (we'd only gone up there to find the Piano bar, which we did). The littering is appalling and I made a point of taking everything to the bins. I will say though that there were times when it wasn't always easy to find one, and when they'd been left to overflow for too long. Toilet queues weren't great for the girls either, there's less at the Other Stage now they've put the long drops in. I also discovered the Flushing toilets on Big Ground and wondered why the other campsites don't have these?

Edited July 1, 2014 by kidpresentable

[Jackmypie]

I had a great time and will definitely come again. If we're looking at the bad points though, I do agree there are a lot of idiots there. Not sure much can be done about it though. I do wonder if the way the BBC presents the festival could be a factor, many people I speak to who only watch it on TV just think it's about Beyonce or Kasabian or whomever, which inevitably leads to a large audience who don't care beyond the big names. Just a thought. Clamping down on drugs would be good too, when I visited the Stone Circle area I lost count of the amount of dealers who approached me (we'd only gone up there to find the Piano bar, which we did). The littering is appalling and I made a point of taking everything to the bins. I will say though that there were times when it wasn't always easy to find one, and when they'd been left to overflow for too long. Toilet queues weren't great for the girls either, there's less at the Other Stage now they've put the long drops in. I also discovered the Flushing toilets on Big Ground and wondered why the other campsites don't have these?

[J1mbo]

I'm usually loath to contribute to moaning threads as I'm relatively tolerant and pragmatic about how the festival has changed over the years. There are definitely ebbs and flows in crowd behaviour and attitude.

However, I was pretty staggered by a lot of the behaviour at this years festival. A lot (A LOT) of deeply selfish and often downright unpleasant attitude. Poor weather always plays a part in this, but still. And I've never in 20 years of going ever seen such a universally monged crowd. Everyone...just everybody...absolutely pilled up to the eyeballs to the point of reaching drooling, glassy eyed brain lock. It quite worried me, and I'm no stranger to the naughty sweets.

[Vinnie Chase]

Grrrr, damn those kids with their perfect hair and nice clothes really ruined my whole festival experience!

Why does their hair have to be so DAMN immaculate? aarrrgghhhhhhhhh

Poor, OP, must've been terrible

Edited July 1, 2014 by Vinnie Chase

[Yesiamaduck]

The weather pissed me off royally, because I'm a temperamental moaning arse... It was at the point I thought "fuck this, I'm goingcost djhome." Luckily, I didn't!

Cameras on sticks. Fuck right off... And videoing sets at places like The Pyramid... It's being proshot by the BBC, see it there... Photos, cool. But no to videos.

The control of mud. The only thing actually down to organisers... The bark should have been spread everywhere, not just left in a pile... The mud was rotten.

[posthuman]

... she'd pushed through halfway through the set and we'd been stood there ages she said "It's fucking Glastonbury!" and asked why I was such a dickhead.

[smogo]

And finally Pete in the group of tents next door. Always done the most outrageous things, always been the most pissed or tried the best drugs, always the first to do this or that, always talking about himself, always destined to be an arse.

[wilko8]

The NO2 balloons were by far the most annoying thing all week.

Food prices did seen expensive, but there were still places that you could get good value (Goan curry, woks happening, Anna maes mac & cheese, greens cheese ploughmans)

Didn't really have a problem with queuing or loos.

I came across a greater amount of selfish annoying people this year. People who barge through the middle of my wife and I when I've got my arm round her without even an 'excuse me'.

People with umbrellas who still want to be front centre at stages, but don't want a drop of rain to fall on their precious heads (arsehole with the massive red chartered institute of accountants umbrella at Jagwar Ma at the park, I'm talking to you)

Talking and not paying attention through sets. If you aren't bothered about an act, stay at the back, go to a bar. If you want to get a good spot for your favourite band, don't ruin the band before for everyone else.

Oh, and did I mention the NO2 balloons...???

Edit: forgot to mention the walking made in Chelsea cliche that asked our group if we had any rizlas at the Glastonbury sign area. We replied 'no, sorry' (we didn't have any). His response 'oh for fucks sake'. Knob off pal.

And yes I am grumpy because I'm on my way to work.

Apart from the above, it was a bloody brilliant week!

Edited July 1, 2014 by wilko8

[amfy]

I wonder if it would be helpful if instead of proclaiming each Glastonbury 'the best ever', ME actually made statements intially & through the year about how (in so many words) Glastonbury doesn't welcome the growing army of knobheads, and that if such people go to the festival, they can expect to be consistently challenged by people (young & old) who understand the festivals ethos.

I know last year, I said to some lads who were pissing against the outside of the urinals 'come on lads it's only just there' - I didn't shout or swear at them, my tone was actually reasonably friendly, but what I got back was a mass of F. Offs & a barrage of quite horrible personal insults. Sadly, I have reached the stage where I won't challenge this behaviour any more, it's better for me to walk past it, and not have my mood ruined by people who don't deserve to have that power over me.

One of my realisations in my year off was that I have to let that old Glastonbury go, because expecting it to be there is one of the things that's spoiling it for me. That isn't how I want it to be - so a stronger lead from the organisers regarding what Glastonbury was about could be useful. Let's face it, these people aren't reading the fine guide.

[The Other Steve]

Ok before

4. The cool kids. With their hunter wellies, designer togs, immaculate hair topped with garland and iPhones glued to their hands, I got a bit sick of them pushing to the front of acts only to chat the whole way through then take a pic just to say they were front row and centre at the latest music sensation.

[Dazzla]

So essentially we all loved it apart from having to endure a small minority of selfish nobheads

[bluegel]

The litter was bad this year. I used to work on recycling crew for five years an used to be people at the gates giving out bags. We came in through gate a and there were no bags. Our campsite crew also did not have any and had to wait until wed night. I was in family camping and the campsite was amazingly clean which shows the type of people who camp there as no litter pickets come through the campsite. I did see a few litter pickers but there was not much picking of litter going on

I think it's a shame. When we worked there we worked so hard to clean up and our leader took us to clean the worst areas such as stone circle and pyramid stage. We didn't get breaks (only ten mins) and worked a full 8 hour shift. Maybe there has been a change in staff

[Memory Man]

I cant believe they dont hand out rubbish bags at the entrance. They used to 1 green 1 black! That way there is no excuse!!

Only thing that majorly peed me off is just ques everywhere. Up in bushy ground they had the compost toilets, great, but feeling like you have to walk to other toilets at 10am to avoid a 20 min que for a pee is really annoying. Why dont they team the composters with urinals?

The composters are really good but they need more! I think there where a whopping 5 toilets in the common..... Five.

Qued at gate A at 10.30am ish weds morn for about 1.5 hours and when we finally made it to the front the queue had basically gone!! Next time i will arrive later and not que to enter. Could have easily got same spot in bushy on thursday! At least the campsite was quiet at night : )

Edited July 1, 2014 by Memory Man

[Tremor2005]

I will confess to one incident of littering, but hopefully I can make the teeniest of excuses for it - namely that I didn't want to lose my f*cking hand. Was sat a long way back up the hill waiting for Dolly (over 3/4 of the way up) enjoying the space and the atmosphere and finishing a plate of something expensively unpleasant. Put the plate down along with an ice cream wrapper only for a group of people to march over the mat I was sat on and kick it away. This turned from a small group to one of those conga lines of people just trampling over our stuff and knocking everything a bit further away. It would've been genuinely risky to get them back. By the end of the set I couldn't even see it. What do others think about this? I'm sincerely asking, but if you think we made the wrong call don't start calling me names, eh?

By and large I thought it was a great festival. You're always going to get the unpleasant minority - it will seem like much more but that's because you're going to remember being barged into rather than the nice man who stepped aside to let you past, or the tiny young lady who apologised profusely for stepping on your toe, or just the group of people in front of you merrily singing along. It's like any big issue on the news - you're going to hear a lot of the shit stuff yelled loudly rather than the majority of people who have a mild/no opinion on the subject. I'm sure the "knobhead" young people probably get just as annoyed by the "old farts"/"moaning gits" spoiling their good time as vice-versa. Queues depended on numbers of people - leaving Arcade Fire took aaaaaaaages but wandering around the site was generally OK.

The toilets I used (family campervan site mainly) were excellent for a festival, the kidz field was a joy for my one year old son and three year old niece, the wood chippings laid down made the Sunday SO much better. Great job by that team. Stewards were universally friendly and helpful (especially letting my wife into the campervan park in a separate vehicle after a family emergency took her away for a night) - check out the video of Dolly singing "Jolene" and watch the dancing stewards at the front. The line up was as eclectic as always, something for everyone!

Person downside was the food, but I think I just chose poorly as my companions enjoyed their meals. One unpleasant moment: driving through the village on the way to the car park to see a group of lads hop off a bus in a slow moving queue, take a piss against the wall of a poor elderly couple's house, seeing these poor people emerge to berate the lads only to receive a two finger salute before they ran back to join their bus. Terrible behaviour.

By and large though, an excellent festival. Special love for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's rendition of the Doctor Who theme.

[stopwn1981]

This thread is basically, "other people annoy me," isn't it? I mean, how DARE someone wear a brand of wellies that you don't like. How DARE other people want to go to the loo / eat from the same stall at the same time as you.

I don't entirely disagree with the OP points but anywhere with 250,000 people is going to have a few types that you're less keen on. I'm the same - I had a few moments of that too. At some point you have to let it go. Those people will be there, nothing you can do about that. And actually, maybe they are nice people and maybe there is something about you that annoys them too.

Rubbish and chatterers bug me though. Rubbish piled onto one bin when there's an empty bin next to it. Perfectly good stuff left for trash. And I nearly got to the point of asking a few around me at Robert Plant if they were watching as they didn't seem to be paying much attention...

[frostypaw]

I'm all with the hunter hating - the folk I used to look out for at the festival were skinny faced gurning rough lads who got a bit bargey - nowadays I try and religiously avoid girls/women with hunter wellies, pretty festival tops and flower garlands - all three of the unpleasant leery experiences were with them assuming since they were a little princess and it was their party that they could do exactly what and how they wanted. It *is* the spoilt brat uniform, half the blokes with them were apologetic

As with anything I'm sure there are folk who genuinely find that they are the perfect welly for them, but I've learnt to steer clear in general of anyone who looks like the Daily Mail's photos of the festival

[bluegel]

We moved away from some people when we were at west holt stage. For two reasons, my husband stood up to check on our little boy who was asleep one of the girls sat down in his seat and said "finally they've moved". Hubby told her to move which she did. Secondly all were wearing hunter wellies and flowers in their hair. They were talking about their "garp yeaar" (gap year) and how mummy and daddy were going to pay for them. It was clear by the conversation they had little understanding of the value of money