Do you ever look through old line ups and

[Avalon_Fields]

Prompted me to look at the gallery for each year on the festival website, there appears to be very little in the way of mud baths until 97 and 98, but those two years look dreadful.

[ThomThomDrum]

2011 wasnt that bad was it? Its not ingrained in my memory the same way 05 or 07 is for the rain and mud.

2010 was a different sort of hell but Id take it over 07 rain and mud.

There is defo a perfect weather type for Glasto. Nothing on the extreme is perfect IMO. Dry, warm weather, light breezes with some cloud cover late at night to prevent the chill getting at you. Unfortunately to think 6 days of this in a row possible in reality is dreaming. British Isles weather is way too all over the shop to think we could be so lucky........

[Hugh Jass]

2011 wasnt that bad was it? Its not ingrained in my memory the same way 05 or 07 is for the rain and mud.

2010 was a different sort of hell but Id take it over 07 rain and mud.

There is defo a perfect weather type for Glasto. Nothing on the extreme is perfect IMO. Dry, warm weather, light breezes with some cloud cover late at night to prevent the chill getting at you. Unfortunately to think 6 days of this in a row possible in reality is dreaming. British Isles weather is way too all over the shop to think we could be so lucky........

Remember 11 being very muddy, but don't remember much rain apart from the Friday night. Think it had been raining heavily in the week leading up to it.

[Space Shanty]

I remember the aerial photograph posters from 97 and 98, which I have somewhere.

A sea of brown.

I didn't even get the poster for 07 because I thought I'd never go back after that

[The Nal]

Remember 11 being very muddy, but don't remember much rain apart from the Friday night. Think it had been raining heavily in the week leading up to it.

As soon as the gates opened on Wednesday it absolutely pissed it down. Sort of stopped, Thursday was ok with a few showers, Friday got steadily more horrid from the afternoon onwards and didn't stop raining until Saturday afternoon and then it was 30 odd degrees on Sunday.

Last year we had all 4 seasons. There was ice on the mud up in the campervan fields one morning when I was strolling back.

Gates opening in 2011.

Edited March 31, 2015 by The Nal

[GlastoSimon]

11 was really mixed. Rained on Weds (shitting myself for a mud bath whilst still at home), got there on Thurs and it was sunny. Then Friday was a bit crap, gloomy and loads of rain in the evening. Saturday the sun came out again and then Sunday was a scorcher! Ground just about solidified by Monday.

[Michaels denim shorts]

11, it spanked it down all wednesday morning / while queueing and setting up, then the sun came up & dried it out for the eve & thursday, then friday it rained, a lot, & turned most of the site to mud

EDIT: /or what he ^ said

Edited March 31, 2015 by Michaels denim shorts

[WS_Jack_III]

11 was okay apart from the Friday night when it rained quite a bit.

All these threads are changing from their original topics.

[fred quimby]

Prompted me to look at the gallery for each year on the festival website, there appears to be very little in the way of mud baths until 97 and 98, but those two years look dreadful.

1985

nuff said

[maelzoid]

I live in Bath and a lot of the post Glasto traffic drives right past my flat. I still remember the Monday after '07 - the cars coming through were alarmingly muddy, like they'd just come from some extreme rally driving experience. I still remember one car had written on its roof "11 hours to get out!" in mud!

[ImGonnaLive4eva]

I'd have said 05 was worse than 07? I remember the river running underneath our tent during that biblical thunderstorm, then emerging from the tent when it finally ended to see the tops of tents poking out from a huge lake and people boating around the paths.

07 was hard work, but nowhere near as bad as that.

I would take sun over rain and mud easily, at least you can sit on the floor when its hot and dry.

[Untz]

I'd have said 05 was worse than 07? I remember the river running underneath our tent during that biblical thunderstorm, then emerging from the tent when it finally ended to see the tops of tents poking out from a huge lake and people boating around the paths.

07 was hard work, but nowhere near as bad as that.

I would take sun over rain and mud easily, at least you can sit on the floor when its hot and dry.

2007 was a lot worse. Rained pretty much non-stop. 2005 had the thunderstorm and a bit of drizzle on the Friday, but the ground was fine by Sunday. It was easier to walk around in 2005 too as the water just sat on the solid ground for the most part, whereas 2007 had people getting stuck.

I had a river of rainwater underneath my tent most of 2007 and when I took it down on Monday it became submerged. I still feel guilty about the tent peg I left because there was no way I was finding it underneath all that water and mud.

I wouldn't go if you could predict the weather would be like 2007 again with 100% accuracy. That said, I am biased as 2005 was my first and I was powered on 2l bottles of Brothers and 2007 I was sober and ill most of the time. And, of course, for anybody flooded out at the bottom of Pennards then 2005 would have been the worst year ever.

[ImGonnaLive4eva]

Must just be my memory then. Although i do remember the mud at the front of west holts when Damian Marley was on was absolutely terrible. You'd get stuck if you stood still for too long.

[Memory Man]

my brother was horrified he didnt go watch Q tip in 2009 when we were looking through a lineup the other day!

[stuartbert two hats]

I'd have said 05 was worse than 07? I remember the river running underneath our tent during that biblical thunderstorm, then emerging from the tent when it finally ended to see the tops of tents poking out from a huge lake and people boating around the paths.

07 was hard work, but nowhere near as bad as that.

I would take sun over rain and mud easily, at least you can sit on the floor when its hot and dry.

It wasn't. Maybe the Friday morning was, but it was almost perfect weather the rest of the weekend, sunny, but not baking hot. As far as I remember, it didn't rain at all during the bands, except maybe some drizzle Friday morning?

[Hugh Jass]

I got stuck in the mud in the urinals by the Pyramid in 07. Was there for a good 10 minutes before some kind gentlemen rescued me. That was not a pleasant experience.

[Hugh Jass]

It wasn't. Maybe the Friday morning was, but it was almost perfect weather the rest of the weekend, sunny, but not baking hot. As far as I remember, it didn't rain at all during the bands, except maybe some drizzle Friday morning?

It was baking on the Wednesday and Thursday. Mate of mine fell asleep all day in the Stone Circle on the Thursday and burnt his face really, really badly (he looked like The Fly), made him look even more ridiculous the next day when everyone's splashing around in coats and wellies.

Because it was so unexpected I remember the welly stall making an utter killing, charging up to £40 a pair!

[LongTimeLurker]

2007 is the only Glastonbury I've been to...I had bronchitis and couldn't get there til Friday so I've never actually seen grass at Glasto, only mud. I don't think it stopped raining at all. I remember seeing a mum with both her kids stuck in the mud, right at the back of the Pyramid crowd during the Killers. She didn't know which one to rescue first.

Am so excited to return this year and experience it healthy and dry!

Oh, and my boyfriend was rather disgusted that I chose Chemical Brothers on the Sunday over The Who.

[ThomThomDrum]

2007 is the only Glastonbury I've been to...

Am so excited to return this year ......................

You better not bring that rain back with you!

[ThomThomDrum]

As far as I remember, it didn't rain at all during the bands, except maybe some drizzle Friday morning?

Yeah pretty much bang on. It did not rain from about lunch time on on the Friday right through till the end of the fest and the main stages started late due to lightning strike power issues.........

[LongTimeLurker]

You better not bring that rain back with you!

I DEFINITELY won't! Thought I was cursed when I went to the mudbath that was Bestival 2008 but have since shaken it and now I bring with me only sun and blue skies.

[ImGonnaLive4eva]

I remember the Marley brothers on the pyramid stage playing in the sunshine, that was 07 wasn't it? I think at the time everybody was cheering as it was the only sun of the weekend.