Obsession with glastonbury.!

[verrymerry]

I think everyone I know is generally sick of hearing about it. I try not to bring it up too much, but the second anyone says anything Glastonbury/festival related I'm off!

My colleague made me laugh, she was asking about toilets / shower blocks like it was a campsite, her face was priceless when I told her there would be no showering, and showed her a pic of the longdrops. To be honest everyone at work thinks I'm mad, but as I'm the only one who's been I know I'm the sane one

[Wanderlei]

I think everyone I know is generally sick of hearing about it. I try not to bring it up too much, but the second anyone says anything Glastonbury/festival related I'm off!

My colleague made me laugh, she was asking about toilets / shower blocks like it was a campsite, her face was priceless when I told her there would be no showering, and showed her a pic of the longdrops. To be honest everyone at work thinks I'm mad, but as I'm the only one who's been I know I'm the sane one

True. I find people want to know about Glasto, though. Once it gets brought up I find i'm answering an endless barrage of questions. Glasto has that universal mystique.

[matt2007]

I been every year since 1987 and the other day had a random fella call me from Cardiff

asking if I can get him in........I live in Kent and have no idea how he got my number....part of my life just as a non stop footie team supporter

[grumpyhack]

Took mother in law (92) out to lunch today with a 93 year old family friend who'd come down from London with his daughter for the weekend. And what did we all end up talking about? - Glastonbury. And they raised the subject - not me.

One you are hooked in, or people know that you are hooked in then it's an inevitable topic of conversation.

[lebouski]

Quite normal, but not everyone gets it like that. Lots of people love it but for some it strikes a deeper resonance and you see echoes of it everywhere. As Ez says you fall in love and it can be all consuming

Over the years it wore me down a bit - the run up is much longer than the festival which seemed to flash by. I'd arrive so het up I'd get ruined before i started. Slowly I learnt to keep it to an insistent trickle until the festival is close, let it build to a roar as the gates open until sometime usually thursday it explodes

It's always there though and occasionally it's fun to look behind the floodgates at years of OMFG moments and deeply treasured memories that will make my heart flutter for many many years to come. Roll on the electric twilight and the gathering revellers, the surge of the dancing crowds and the seconds that slow to a near standstill when just then, just there surrounded by the expanse of the festival everything is perfect.

Love this post, sums it up perfectly

[funkychick2007]

U cant bottle u cant buy u cant describe it u can only feel it! Its just the most amazing moment in time!

[Curlygirl]

Quite normal, but not everyone gets it like that. Lots of people love it but for some it strikes a deeper resonance and you see echoes of it everywhere. As Ez says you fall in love and it can be all consuming

Over the years it wore me down a bit - the run up is much longer than the festival which seemed to flash by. I'd arrive so het up I'd get ruined before i started. Slowly I learnt to keep it to an insistent trickle until the festival is close, let it build to a roar as the gates open until sometime usually thursday it explodes

It's always there though and occasionally it's fun to look behind the floodgates at years of OMFG moments and deeply treasured memories that will make my heart flutter for many many years to come. Roll on the electric twilight and the gathering revellers, the surge of the dancing crowds and the seconds that slow to a near standstill when just then, just there surrounded by the expanse of the festival everything is perfect.

That last paragraph put tears in my eyes! So very true. Thank you

[stuartbert two hats]

Yeah, great post coldhands.

[H.M.V]

Obsessed to the point where instead of studying for an exam I just checked in here all day for updates. Everyone knows I'm going to Glasto and my year is just pre and post Glasto now. All plans are made around it.

First time last year and already can't imagine not going and wondering what I'll do to fill the void of the fallow year.

Also, my mind has been blown by the people I have met, friends I have made. Its not just a festival but a whole beautiful ethos which just brings out the absolute best in myself and others.

Just over a month till we're there again.

Edited May 24, 2015 by H.M.V

[Curlygirl]

Yeah, great post coldhands.

Ha Ha I am such a baffoon. I just looked through all 3 pages looking for a post from Coldhands!!! I get it now

[H.M.V]

Ha Ha I am such a baffoon. I just looked through all 3 pages looking for a post from Coldhands!!! I get it now

LMAO!!!!!

[stuartbert two hats]

Ha Ha I am such a baffoon. I just looked through all 3 pages looking for a post from Coldhands!!! I get it now

[Firesprice]

the first time I went, 2002 (?) my mate said I could take his girlfriends ticket because she was doing his head in. We literally sped off in the car with her chasing us...needless to say they are not together anymore! The festival is epic and it is almost pointless trying to explain it to someone...the years I couldn't go I spent on the sofa watching it in the spirit of a wake...so now I just have to make sure to go! See y'all there soon...

[JennieT]

U cant bottle u cant buy u cant describe it u can only feel it! Its just the most amazing moment in time!

This! ❤️

[dizzymoo]

Quite normal, but not everyone gets it like that. Lots of people love it but for some it strikes a deeper resonance and you see echoes of it everywhere. As Ez says you fall in love and it can be all consuming

Over the years it wore me down a bit - the run up is much longer than the festival which seemed to flash by. I'd arrive so het up I'd get ruined before i started. Slowly I learnt to keep it to an insistent trickle until the festival is close, let it build to a roar as the gates open until sometime usually thursday it explodes

It's always there though and occasionally it's fun to look behind the floodgates at years of OMFG moments and deeply treasured memories that will make my heart flutter for many many years to come. Roll on the electric twilight and the gathering revellers, the surge of the dancing crowds and the seconds that slow to a near standstill when just then, just there surrounded by the expanse of the festival everything is perfect.

Just beautiful Frostypaw.

And remembering the blissful moments is almost as good as experiencing them first time round. I bore people rigid going on about the festival because it feels like such an important part of who I am. Fortunately my husband and kids love it just as much so we enjoy the build up together. When we couldn't get tickets for last year it was sooo painful, and I thought we were in for the same this year, then lucky enough to bag tickets on monday (I'll never stop feeling pathetically grateful to the eFestivallers on the Secret Resales thread which kept me sane-ish). Don't care who the headliners are, this is a precious thing which will be all the more special this year.

[BA4 4BY]

Love the feel good factor this thread gives!

Don't want to lower the tone but I was cutting my toe nails earlier and the thought went through my mind that I'll probably only have to cut them once more before Glastonbury.

Sorry, probably TMI

[sheffieldlady]

Not alone at all. I have just spent the evening with people who have somehow missed a lot of 'big acts' musically. (I'm talking the likes of Taylor Swift and Foos here..) it made me realise how much I couldn't live without music, it's odd really. I don't play an instrument well, I can't write lyrics but I can't imagine my life without music and a life without festivals seems odd. I talk about how awesome Glastonbury is all the time and how much fun I have there - talking to strangers, enjoying music and the other delights Glastonbury has to offer. I never want to get to a stage in my life where music isn't there and where the option of music festivals don't feature.

This is why I avoid the likes of red bull and alcohol on Sundays... people piss off to bed, leaving me watching R1 big weekend (why is Swifty not that great? Was expecting better, given the fuss on here for her??)

[MrZigster]

No posts since 02:37?

People aren't obsessed enough.

Oh hang on. It's Bank Holiday weekend (my shifts mean I happen to be up).

I was thinking it had been a bit slow on here since Friday.

Loving this thread. I intend to get back to it.

Obsessed you might say?

Edited May 25, 2015 by MrZigster

[glasto-worker]

I love the way you could get tickets by post by writing to M Eavis esq ... Wonder if the same would work now :-)

well spotted - did you clock that there was no Post Code ?

Since the late 1950s, the Post Office had been trialling a method of six-digit alphanumeric codes to sort mail in the Norwich area. In October 1965, under Tony Benn's watch as Postmaster General, the Post Office announced it would extend the system to the rest of the country although that was a slow process - they must have got their's in the 70's

looking at other old posters I spotted the 81 one - cant recall if that was the year that Ginger Baker was knocked out by a wine bottle tossed from the audience - knocked him straight out { he did recover and they slotted him in on the Sunday }

anyway what I found of interest was ' Stall holder fee was £40 for two people ' - I am still kicking myself as I don't have any shots of the old market area this image is from http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/glastonbury-festival-1981.html taken by Bodge and the market was behind the camera

[Bisque]

Not my bag.

You two will have go without me.

Motorhead it is then

[matt2007]

in 1993 went with my GF and some work mates, during the festival GF became un-F and a work mate became GF, married for 21 years with 3 kids now.

The original GF said that she thought

Glastonbury was too hyped and in her words "a pile of shit", too hyped in 1993!!!!!

[Glastosmile15]

That last paragraph put tears in my eyes! So very true. Thank you

Sniff

[Crazyfool01]

I have Glastocam on my desktop computer , the highlights of 2013 playing on the laptop , whilst putting the finishing touches to this years fancy dress , just a mild obsession I would say oh and at least a once daily check of this forum

[filmguy]

This will be my 3rd year, obsession started about a day after I arrived!

[stuartbert two hats]

I have Glastocam on my desktop computer , the highlights of 2013 playing on the laptop , whilst putting the finishing touches to this years fancy dress , just a mild obsession I would say oh and at least a once daily check of this forum

ONCE???