Panicking about T Day

[Ruwise]

When talking about to any casual interest people please only talk about the mud and how tiring it was!! Display mud photos proudly on your Facebook and talk about how a week later you are still broken!

[FuzzyDunlop]

Almost all in our group, including myself, thought it was a really strong line up this year but it's all personal taste. I can see how the general masses could perceive it to be less than sterling though. And as for the weather, listening to the radio on the way back home I thought they were reporting from a different festival - or from 2007!

However these views definitely help with lowering demand on T-Day. So remember, if anyone asks, the lineup was crap and the weather was awful!

On the day itself it's all about getting your whole group trying from different locations, registration numbers shared and manic F5 bashing.

[michael eavis' beard]

I thought the line up as a whole was strong, but to joe bloggs, they look at 3 names. The headliners. The headliners were "weaker" in many ways thsn in recent years.

The Stones, U2, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder are all bigger commercially than Kasabian and Arcade Fire. Most in than list are than metallica too.

[eFestivals]

Metallica have actually sold more albums than all of those apart from The Stones and U2. They've also sold more albums than Prince, Dylan and The Who. They are a massively successful band commercially. Kasabian and Arcade Fire have sold considerably less but are viewed as more acceptable. The problem is that people view "not my cup of tea" as "weaker".

In the case of Glasto tho, Kasabian got the biggest crowd and Metallica the smallest.

With Kasabian as the big act in the eyes of the public at large, that's a poor year.

[gerardfenton18]

To me the line up means nothing this was my 1st glastonbury and i had a ball!!

I made a point of seeing dolly parton, imagine dragons and kodaline... seen another 5-6 acts (none of which were headliners although i would of liked to kasabian but i found heaven!!)

and now im counting down the days to T Day!!!

[MoilyX]

I managed to get a ticket within about half an hour of them going on sale last October (or within two minutes after See's 'technical difficulties' disappeared). In the two resales that followed I picked up a ticket for two different eFest members.

I don't have any big secrets, but I did have a method, and it worked every time I used it.

Essentially, ticket day presents two problems: how to get onto the booking screen, then how to race through the booking screen before you lose your position or the whole thing sells out.

For the first problem, I had one browser window open, on a laptop connected wirelessly to a stable connection. Then I just F5'd it. That's all you can do, but do it quickly and relentlessly and be in full concentration mode so when that booking screen comes around, you don't just F5 again and lose it.

Next, getting through the booking screen quickly. This is where you do have an influence. I had my browser take up about two thirds of my screen. The other third was taken up by a word document, shrunk to fit the space so I didn't have to change windows. On the word document was every piece of information I knew I'd need: registration number(s), postcodes, credit card number, address details. The expiry date and CVV was memorised as typing those in was quicker. But... it didn't end there. I positioned certain bits of information all around my screen so that all it took was one click to highlight them all - sometimes with word you have to double click and sometimes you click too many times and have to click again and those are precious seconds you're wasting.

My tip: have the registration copied before you even F5 - that's the first thing you need so do yourself a solid and copy/paste it before anything. Next up, the postcode. Put that in the search field at the top right of your browser (assuming you use firefox). You only have to click on that part of the browser once and it's instantly highlighted. If you're quick, you can race through that first screen in about a second. Next, the number of tickets (easy drop down) and then your credit card details. Have these as the last thing you highlighted in your word doc so that when you click on that word window, it'll highlight it all instantly again.

Between your card number and the address, make sure there is at least a full paragraph space. That's because if you highlight something and it's linguistically connected to something in the same paragraph, you risk highlighting it all, then you'd have to go back and carefully select the bits you need - again, precious seconds wasted. You want to be able to clumsily smash that mouse in the word doc and copy what you need instantly. So space your details out. For the address, I practised typing this out myself, as copying and pasting seemed a semi-second longer.

Even using that method, the system kicked me out a couple of times. Luckily I was just able to back click in my browser and it connected to the previous page. But this is a tried and tested technique and by the time I bought my third ticket, it was literally over within ten seconds of hitting the booking page.

[CaledonianGonzo]

In the case of Glasto tho, Kasabian got the biggest crowd and Metallica the smallest.

With Kasabian as the big act in the eyes of the public at large, that's a poor year.

[H.M.V]

The 'News' act was Dolly - all over the front pages on the Monday and more or less all anyone's talked about since in terms of the fest.

Dunno if her crowd was bigger than Kasabians - but surely it must have been....?

[michael eavis' beard]

In the case of Glasto tho, Kasabian got the biggest crowd and Metallica the smallest.

With Kasabian as the big act in the eyes of the public at large, that's a poor year.

[kalifire]

Dolly's crowd was the largest, I believe. It was the trickiest point to get into the front pit but I managed it. I wish I hadn't though - it took the best part of an hour to get to normal-walking ground, not helped by all the locals arriving and pitching up their chairs.

[eFestivals]

The 'News' act was Dolly - all over the front pages on the Monday and more or less all anyone's talked about since in terms of the fest.

Dunno if her crowd was bigger than Kasabians - but surely it must have been....?

Oh yes. I was talking about the 3 headliners only.

I said at the time that Dolly's crowd was at least the same size as the Stones, and Emily has said since she thinks it was bigger than that - and I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it was.

I don't think Dolly's presence this year means anything towards whether someone would buy a ticket for next year tho.

Edited July 4, 2014 by eFestivals

[pentura]

Didn't Dolly get around 100,000 in that field? Hoped to get a nice spot at the back to watch but ended up like sardines at the cider bus. Not that I was complaining

[CaledonianGonzo]

It was way easier to get into the pit for Dolly than it was for the Stones, I know that much. We pretty much strolled in once The 1975 finished. It wasn't really packed cheek by jowl either.

[Ruwise]

It was way easier to get into the pit for Dolly than it was for the Stones, I know that much. We pretty much strolled in once The 1975 finished. It wasn't really packed cheek by jowl either.

[eFestivals]

It was way easier to get into the pit for Dolly than it was for the Stones, I know that much. We pretty much strolled in once The 1975 finished. It wasn't really packed cheek by jowl either.

i strolled in after they'd finished and got a great spot.

Bugger was I gonna stay for a whole set of that crap tho, so was off out after 2 and half songs. I think she'd finished her 7th before I made in thru the gate into the markets towards the other stage - co0s it had filled up massively since i'd arrived.

I actually wanted to go up towards the cider bus cos I needed a piss, but there wasn't a hope in hell of being able to do that (whilst I know people were doing that during the stones).

[CaledonianGonzo]

Yeah - getting out of Dolly took forever. Took us 40 minutes to get to The Park and that's with walking very fast once we were in the clear. Absolutely heaving.

Comparatively speaking once Metallica had gone offstage the place had tumbleweeds blowing across it.

[Mouseboy11]

Who do we think pulled the biggest crowd of the three headliners? Metallica?

[CaledonianGonzo]

From the TV footage it looked like it was Kasabian by a country mile.

[eFestivals]

Comparatively speaking once Metallica had gone offstage the place had tumbleweeds blowing across it.

I was stood towards the back for that, and I could feel tumbleweed before halfway thru the first song. There were about 10 out of that crowd for every one going in.

[pentura]

I was stood towards the back for that, and I could feel tumbleweed before halfway thru the first song. There were about 10 out of that crowd for every one going in.

[autoinflate]

Kasabian wasn't that busy, we had loads of room just to the left of the mixing desk.

Metallica hard to say on the TV cos there weren't many wide shots of the crowd. I thought they'd got a big crowd from reports on here, but maybe not? It was really busy where we were (JP/Silver Hayes) so can't have been massive I spose.

[OBface]

We should join forces and camp next to each other. Wonder off do our own thing lol

[yellowsnow]

I managed to get tickets fairly quickly this year in comparison to other people. I just opened one tab in Google Chrome, didn't have any other program on my computer open. And just sat on there website until the tickets were on sale and pressed f5. The page crashed a couple of times whilst I was putting my details in but I refreshed a couple of times and hey presto! It's just luck of the draw though.

[frostypaw]

Just going from comparing this year's questions from friends compared to last I'd say interest will be lower. Last year I got bombarded with questions from friends who suddenly fancied going since they hadn't seen any mud and they all wanted to know the stories - this year I've mostly been asked how horrid the weather was and that's it. Only one really expressing interest

It'll still be manic, but hopefully a little less crazy than last times post sun-fest and stones surge

[FuzzyDunlop]

June 24th FuzzyDunlop

"This my last Glastonbury. I can't afford it. As long as it's a good one, I don't mind"

July 4th FuzzyDunlop - (First day back in work, overtime is offered to complete a big job + people are needed for double timefor Ausgust bank holiday monday)

"Give me the overtime, I'll get a most of it at the end of september just in time for Glastonbury T-day"

.......the wheel keeps turning!

Time to work out a strategy for getting a ticket. I've heard praying to the ticket gods might work?!

INT NFC! (I need a ticket, no fucking compromise)

Edited July 5, 2014 by FuzzyDunlop