Next fallow year...

[Abster]

Is 2016 a fallow year?

Planning my 40th and it could well be a 40th at Glasto with a week in Las Vagas to follow or just a week in Vagas, depending on when the fallow year is...

When did I get so old??

[Kellg80]

Nope according to Michael 2017 is fallow year

[Abster]

Oh cool, please please be the weekend of 25th 26th in 2016 I wiil get to spend my 40th there then

Thanks... More money needs to be saved....

[Mr Splodge]

Sorry to burst your bubble, depending on tickets which will sell out in ten minutes by then.

[Abster]

Sorry to burst your bubble, depending on tickets which will sell out in ten minutes by then.

Well of course this is all hypothetical that I will have a Golden Ticket, if I do manage to get one I will still need to save monies to allow me to do both and if I don't have a golden ticket, I will not loose out on the money stakes I will just have more to spend in Vagas and drown my sorrows with...

If I don't get a ticket I could have a Glasto themed party in a field somewhere.... Hmm there's an idea....

Edited January 2, 2015 by Abster

[Crazyfool01]

it will be my 40th in 2016 festival too , depending on tickets

[Abster]

it will be my 40th in 2016 festival too , depending on tickets

We could have a joint celebration ticket depending of course

[Crazyfool01]

sounds good if I havent forgotten this thread by this time in 18 months

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

We could have a 'joint' celebration ticket depending of course

I wish you (crazyfool1 and Abster) both the best of good luck for getting Glastonbury tickets for your 40th celebrations. I'm pretty sure that the dates for Glastonbury are always the last full weekend in June. In fact, it's a fact that I'd bet on being right. What a way to spend your 40th.

[Crazyfool01]

11 glastos and no failures yet , but it has been hard some years Im quite lucky so touch wood I will be again now just need to convince some friends to go as our numbers are dwindling fast from about 30 when I started to 6 confirmed for next year and trying for 6 more , not sure it will be the same to party on my own for my 40 th

[Sawdusty surfer]

Don't worry everyone. This year will be totally rubbish with a beige line up and welly topping mud. Everyone will spend the entire festival in their Tesco tents complaining on social networks about how there is nothing to do and their tents are leaking. This will result in 2016 failing to sell out.

[salvador wali]

Don't worry everyone. This year will be totally rubbish with a beige line up and welly topping mud. Everyone will spend the entire festival in their Tesco tents complaining on social networks about how there is nothing to do and their tents are leaking. This will result in 2016 failing to sell out.

They'll fu****g kill you over on the NFR NFC thread

[Mr Splodge]

They'll fu****g kill you over on the NFR NFC thread

No we won't we are nice people (as long as we get tickets).

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

11 glastos and no failures yet , but it has been hard some years Im quite lucky so touch wood I will be again now just need to convince some friends to go as our numbers are dwindling fast from about 30 when I started to 6 confirmed for next year and trying for 6 more , not sure it will be the same to party on my own for my 40 th

I'm sure it'll not come to it, but if you had to be on your own somewhere on your 40th I can think of no better place to be. I didn't want a 40th but eventually gave in to pressure and we went to a horse race somewhere (the place name eludes me right now). We stayed in hotels at the place after and went to a local disco after the pubs shut.

Incidently there was a physically disbled person in our group who naturally had to be helped / half carried up the steps to the club. The bouncers saw this and said we're not letting her in as she obviously can't stand up she's that pissed. We then explained her medical conditions and fortunately they let her in.

And then the psychopath I was going out with kicked off.............

Thinking about it now, I really should have gone to Glastonbury on my own and celebrated it there.

[jeffie]

No we won't we are nice people (as long as we get tickets).

We'll just plaster you in Sun Screen

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

[tigertoo]

been reading and reflecting on this thread myself. I absolutely love glasto but after 20+ years I do find it quite tiring these days, especially as it has got so big. Up until last year we always got tickets on the first attempt. Admittedly it has been more difficult in recent years. I had started thinking maybe I should give it a rest for a year or two.

Last year we failed in the October sale and it was a bit of a wake up call, I was gutted ! it was a massive relief to secure them in the resale, and the months leading up to April seemed very long. I had to have knee surgery but got it postponed until the week after glasto and i was so glad. I unexpectedly ended upon crutches which would have been a bit of a nightmare but did make me realise how much effort it takes if you are not fully mobile.

But on the other hand what else would you rather be doing the last weekend in June ?

[tigertoo]

oops I think I put this in the wrong thread, been reading a thread mooting a fallow two years !!

I think a 40th at glasto would be most excellent and Mr Eavis has always held the festival on the weekend following the summer solstice, therefore the last weekend in June. I have not kept track of when the next fallow year will be but others on here will know.

the ticket situation gets more precarious as the years go on but the weather and line up the previous year will deter the casual glasto goer compared to the commited ones. I hope you get the numbers up and are lucky on ticket day,

i am not a fan of birthdays ending in a '0 but glasto is a good way to forget or celebrate depending on your view.

[whisty]

Oh cool, please please be the weekend of 25th 26th in 2016 I wiil get to spend my 40th there then

Thanks... More money needs to be saved....

It will be that weekend if the pattern follows the traditionally fixed "weekend after the summer solstice" date

Edited January 3, 2015 by whisty

[glasto-worker]

well I feel so old - I was 40 in 1994 - the year the bloody Pyramid stage burnt down

Not that it was my birthday that weekend but I was 40 although I know staff who claim its their birthday ' every year ' which cant possible happen - sure they may have been born in June but unless they have a sliding birthday it cant possible match up with the Glasto dates ' each and every year ' - I think they do it for the Birthday cake the WBC makes up.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It will be that weekend if the pattern follows the traditionally fixed "weekend after the summer solstice" date

I hear you loud and clear whisty.

I never was any good at betting. Mind you, that's because I kind off err towards putting my money on an asthmatic three legged donkey to win. I can't help going for the big odds. I go quite giddy when I see the 500/1 horses 'potentially' running in The Grand National.

[whisty]

I hear you loud and clear whisty.

I never was any good at betting. Mind you, that's because I kind off err towards putting my money on an asthmatic three legged donkey to win. I can't help going for the big odds. I go quite giddy when I see the 500/1 horses 'potentially' running in The Grand National.

My dad asked me to pick a horse in the grand national for fun when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I picked Foinavon, it was 100/1. My dad, a gambler thought sod that and didn't bother. guess what happened next, one of the most talked about grand national races of all time. Those things happen once a lifetime if lucky.

[guypjfreak]

Don't worry everyone. This year will be totally rubbish with a beige line up and welly topping mud. Everyone will spend the entire festival in their Tesco tents complaining on social networks about how there is nothing to do and their tents are leaking. This will result in 2016 failing to sell out.

wot the blazes lol

[Sawdusty surfer]

In the ACDC tread Neil predicts the end of the fallow year. I also can see that happening.

I really hope it doesn't. For many friends of mine who crew the event in many different capacities, the year off is a welcome breather, After a fallow year they return to the festival energised and full of enthusiasm, often feeling a bit jaded during the last of a run of four festivals.

I know that the above applies to me. Without the years off there is no way that I would have been to so many without missing one.

(Edited to mention that I thought I'd post it here rather than in the ACDC thread as it may have caused drift if posted after Neil's comment)

Edited January 9, 2015 by Sawdusty Surfer

[stuartbert two hats]

Would they stop it whilst Michael is still alive though? I'm not sure.

I know this came up a few months ago and was ridiculed, but it wouldn't surprise me to see multiple events held at the farm during the year at some point in the future, although not more than one full blown Glastonbury festival.