Secret resales 2015

[frizzydizzymizzy]

In 2003 I phoned my local record store before the tickets came on sale and asked them to hold some back for me. which they did, no deposit or anything! think that was the last year you could buy them over the counter?

[Ted Dansons Wig]

13 minutes ago, JatTay said:

The first time I bought a ticket was from a record shop in Leeds Merrion Centre. A VERY long time ago.

The second time I went I didn't even buy a ticket, just turned up at the gate, paid and went in.

Jumbo Records??

That IS going back

[helsbellski]

1 minute ago, frizzydizzymizzy said:

In 2003 I phoned my local record store before the tickets came on sale and asked them to hold some back for me. which they did, no deposit or anything! think that was the last year you could buy them over the counter?

Pretty sure I bought mine from HMV that year. It was a simpler time! 

[mario man]

I never bought Glasto tickets over the counter but I did queue for Oasis Knebworth tickets at Portsmouth Guildhall back in 96. Seem to remember being in a very long line around the building at about 6am and at some point a security guy walking down the line counting buyers trying to work out where the cut off point would be for the last tickets. Luckily I got there early enough, I'd have been gutted to be told you were just too late! 

[StoneCircle]

3 minutes ago, mrbuz84 said:

goog old glastonbury . i met fatboy slim their one time and he let us in a workers party at block 9

I was there too, smallest crowd I have ever seen at a Fatboy Glastonbury set!! 

[beefykoala]

1 minute ago, helsbellski said:

Pretty sure I bought mine from HMV that year. It was a simpler time! 

Can we go back to that?! (But maybe extend the sales to Knoxville TN....)

[THEBOILERMAN]

1981 Finsbury park CND bookshop,   2 days before the Festival.  Bought 4 tics £8 each......... oh how times have changed  

[Prophet6]

1 minute ago, beefykoala said:

Can we go back to that?! (But maybe extend the sales to Knoxville TN....)

Yep, just go back in time to 1998 and assassinate Jo Wiley.

[frizzydizzymizzy]

Just now, beefykoala said:

Can we go back to that?! (But maybe extend the sales to Knoxville TN....)

can you imagine, we would be camped out front about a month beforehand telling each other knob jokes and generally needing a shower!

[mrbuz84]

2 minutes ago, StoneCircle said:

I was there too, smallest crowd I have ever seen at a Fatboy Glastonbury set!! 

if a remember rightly beer was real cheap in there, i think he gave us 7-8 passes bless him. i think he just wanted to escape us though

[beefykoala]

BTW I love this story telling! More tales of Glastos gone by please! 

Here's another one from me, and I wonder how many other people made this mistake. I bought my tent from Woolies, it looked nice and brightly colored, compact and lightweight, and a reasonable price. Perfect! I didn't want to have that whole 'it's suddenly bigger than the packaging it came in' problem, so I didn't bother opening it before Glasto. We get to Kidney Mead and everyone opens a few beers before turning to the task of setting up our tents. So I'm several beers deep, feeling a little tipsy, and I open up my new tent and... it's tiny. I climb in it to see if maybe it's just a trick of the light, but no, it is TINY. Laying down in it, I could fit my upper body in and that was it. Turns out I'd bought a kid's play tent.

And it wasn't waterproof.

I had a blinding time though. Each night I'd go back and climb 'in' my tent, leaving my wellies on, legs sticking out. By the third night it had partially collapsed. Nothing dampened my spirit. I love Glasto <3

Edited May 18, 2017 by beefykoala

[beefykoala]

4 minutes ago, THEBOILERMAN said:

1981 Finsbury park CND bookshop,   2 days before the Festival.  Bought 4 tics £8 each......... oh how times have changed  

EIGHT POUNDS?!

[Prophet6]

Sounds like my mate who bought a tent from Tesco in Wells, on the way to site. Turned out to be a toy tent for kids camping in the garden. 4ft long (he was 6ft 2) and it was a muddy one. 

He just kept his wellies on all week, legs sticking out the front as he slept.

[StoneCircle]

1 minute ago, mrbuz84 said:

if a remember rightly beer was real cheap in there, i think he gave us 7-8 passes bless him. i think he just wanted to escape us though

We has to give a password, Eat, sleep, rave, repeat and we were in! had a tip off from a friends not t the festival and just happened to be in the right place at the right time! The bar was very cheap!  

[beefykoala]

Just now, Prophet6 said:

Sounds like my mate who bought a tent from Tesco in Wells, on the way to site. Turned out to be a toy tent for kids camping in the garden. 4ft long (he was 6ft 2) and it was a muddy one. 

He just kept his wellies on all week, legs sticking out the front as he slept.

Hah, I KNEW I wasn't the only one who made this mistake. Damn loved that tent though.

[1waveydavey]

I bought my first ticket in HMV in Oxford 5 weeks before the festival in 1990 - just split up with a long time girlfriend and thought, hang on... I'll have a go at that, it looks like my kind of thing. And it was and still is my kind of thing.

[beefykoala]

6 minutes ago, frizzydizzymizzy said:

can you imagine, we would be camped out front about a month beforehand telling each other knob jokes and generally needing a shower!

Last night a woman in a van offered me a shower... so maybe I just always look like I need one anyway. 

But that sounds fun - lets do it!

[Slats14]

A couple of years back when the Dalai Lama was there. They had a little peaceful garden at the bottom of the stone circle field, where he was doing a speech one morning. He had a big wooden throne like seat that was roped off for the whole festival before his speech. 

One night my group were walking past and a couple were - lets say defiling said throne - They got caught by one of he helpers with a lantern and escorted off!

[Chazwozza]

1 minute ago, beefykoala said:

Last night a woman in a van offered me a shower... 

Was she called......Philipa?????

[dazednconfused]

2 minutes ago, beefykoala said:

But that sounds fun - lets do it!

I am up for that, beats this anxiety by a country mile...

[frizzydizzymizzy]

in 2015 shortly after arriving on site, the zip broke on one of my bags. phone, money, cards, camera..all gone! i hadnt even got to my tent, then one of my friends phone rang, it was a girl who had my phone and said she would leave it at property lock up. took me about an hour to get to, but my money and cards were also there. almost prepared to give up on my camera and start the festival, my friend suggested asking at this little crew tent which i would have walked past..they had my camera! i got it all back! Will never know who the lovely people were who handed back my things, but i believe in karma and they are due a whole lot of the good stuff! most glasto goers are unbelievably kind and honest. 

[beefykoala]

Just now, Chazwozza said:

Was she called......Philipa?????

I didn't stick around long enough to ask her name - I feel like that would have given the wrong impression.

[beefykoala]

Just now, frizzydizzymizzy said:

in 2015 shortly after arriving on site, the zip broke on one of my bags. phone, money, cards, camera..all gone! i hadnt even got to my tent, then one of my friends phone rang, it was a girl who had my phone and said she would leave it at property lock up. took me about an hour to get to, but my money and cards were also there. almost prepared to give up on my camera and start the festival, my friend suggested asking at this little crew tent which i would have walked past..they had my camera! i got it all back! Will never know who the lovely people were who handed back my things, but i believe in karma and they are due a whole lot of the good stuff! most glasto goers are unbelievably kind and honest. 

That is so awesome. I love good people.

[cb4747]

I actually won my first tickets with a radio station, I had a very vip experience for my first time. I was a lucky bugger! 

[storm]

Dodgy tent stories? Like many mine was my at my first Glastonbury back in 1989. I turned up with what I thought as a teenager was a perfectly good tent. It wasn't, it was probably a play tent too and made of canvas. It had half a pole and about 3 tent pegs, no way of doing up at the front and it  partially collapsed after a few hours. I came back to the campsite after a couple of days to find it flat on the ground with evidence it had been used as a handy skinning up dry area. As a teenager it didn't bother me and I was better off than a mate who arrived on a motorbike with what he stood up in, he slept crosslegged on a plastic bag