What's next for S.E corner?

[richy24]

I find as long as I get at least 4 hours sleep I'm ok. Went to bed between 5 & 6 every night and got up about 9-10. All nighters completely wreck me so I won't do that anymore!

Would probably be in bed by 1 without "assistance"

[Brave Sir Robin]

One of the major reasons we (mid-thirties) now go in a camper is the option of lying in for a good few hours after being out past sunrise (without the tent sauna effect). Means you aren't worried about being out too late. On the other hand, you have to make a real effort to get in for the first couple of acts as you have a bit of a walk in in the morning and it's easier to 'accidentally' sleep in. One of our group slept in until 6pm this year!!

[Woffy]

I didn't do SE Corner this year 'cos I was just proper fucked from unplanned trips to the car + additional driving.

 

Preferred the nightly campfires our group of 20-ish (of wide ranging ages [19 to 57] and musical tastes and lifestyles) always have going at our camp from midnight-ish.

[Charm]

Glastonbury is a 24 hour 5 day party, what a gift. Where else can you experience that. Its the totally unique thing about the festival and what sets it apart from anywhere I can think of.

I actually like letting go of the idea of time.

Time to go to bed.

Time to get up.

Time to do this.

Time to do that.

How dull.

We do that every single day in our normal lives.

Totally unnecessary at Glastonbury.

I hardly look at the time during the festival as whatever you think you don't really need to be anywhere at any particular time, as you arrived when you entered the gate.

Charm x

[stuartbert two hats]

Glastonbury is a 24 hour 5 day party, what a gift. Where else can you experience that. Its the totally unique thing about the festival and what sets it apart from anywhere I can think of.

I actually like letting go of the idea of time.

Time to go to bed.

Time to get up.

Time to do this.

Time to do that.

How dull.

We do that every single day in our normal lives.

Totally unnecessary at Glastonbury.

I hardly look at the time during the festival as whatever you think you don't really need to be anywhere at any particular time, as you arrived when you entered the gate.

Charm x

That's why even though everyone who has worked the festival speaks highly of it, I really don't like the idea.  It's the total, unfettered freedom that I like!

[Sawdusty surfer]

That's why even though everyone who has worked the festival speaks highly of it, I really don't like the idea.  It's the total, unfettered freedom that I like!

 

The trick is to get a job where you work the festival before it opens, party hard and than work after the festival finishes. The last bit can be tough.

[stuartbert two hats]

The trick is to get a job where you work the festival before it opens, party hard and than work after the festival finishes. The last bit can be tough.

Yeah, I was thinking that, but considering I decided not to go this year because I didn't want to leave my family for that long (and I'm too soft to take my toddler), possibly not an option I'll be able to take either.

 

Starting to brick it about tickets!

[Sawdusty surfer]

That's why even though everyone who has worked the festival speaks highly of it, I really don't like the idea.  It's the total, unfettered freedom that I like!

 

One of the most cushty numbers is working WV erecting tents. 2 to 2 1/2  weeks work before the festival with fair pay and three meals each day. Work finishes during the week before the start . EPO wristband, no work during event then back to work on the Tues or even Wed after the festival.

[stuartbert two hats]

I'm more interested in using SecretGlasto's followers to blag a ticket like you suggested a couple of weeks ago.  It's just that I've no idea who to blag or how!

[Sawdusty surfer]

I'm more interested in using SecretGlasto's followers to blag a ticket like you suggested a couple of weeks ago.  It's just that I've no idea who to blag or how!

 

Nor me....but there will be a way. Just a matter of pitching the right idea to the right person.

 

  PM me your email address... I'll send you a list of all the email contacts of the main movers and shakers of the festival. it is from 3 years ago but most should still be valid.

 

   Also get tweeting about what you do, the tweets will spread and twitter will suggest twitter accounts that are related and interested...then it will spread and get bigger etc. More contacts more chances. You've got nine months...get it right and its tickets for years

[Staberinde]

Just read this topic from the first post. Great reading, I agree with a lot of things said.

 

For those - me being one of them - who think the place is now a bit samey, or 'been done before', personally I think it's because I have seen it year after year since it's inception and I have become a bit jaded.

 

 Whenever I've shown pictures of the SE areas to friends that have never been, they are blown away and think it looks fantastic. Often the response is something like I never knew Glastonbury was like that! What? It's not all music stages?

 

Next year I am going to wonder around it - maybe with a couple of first timers - and try and see it with fresh eyes.

 

It's still a unique set of areas

[Pinhead]

Quite - I've certainly no right to imply that its samey when I've been going for 18 years. I wish in some ways I was seeing it again for the first time and getting suitably blown away tbh.

[Staberinde]

*grins* You can never have your first time back again

[Room to sway]

Yeah it'd be amazing to have your first time back again.

 

I do think they should do something different with it, but it's difficult to think what.

 

They have to have various music arenas and attractions. Maybe they need to add something.

 

Some kind of theatre production where the gillespied masses can join in for certain parts?

 

I don't know. Just something new that will leave a different kind of memory, I guess. At the moment you're always left with "I had a great time dancing" / "I met these people" / "I saw this weird thing" ...

[SLEEPYMOPS]

I would like one the the se area's to just be a big tent with big name dj's. I know it sounds simple and boring but with that side of the site staying open later it could be an amazing night.

[5co77ie]

I would like one the the se area's to just be a big tent with big name dj's. I know it sounds simple and boring but with that side of the site staying open later it could be an amazing night.

So you want it to be.... Silver Hayes

[ghostdancer1]

Silver Hayes doesn't have a big enough tent, or stay open late enough.

[Staberinde]

Yeah it'd be amazing to have your first time back again.

 

I do think they should do something different with it, but it's difficult to think what.

 

They have to have various music arenas and attractions. Maybe they need to add something.

 

Some kind of theatre production where the gillespied masses can join in for certain parts?

 

I don't know. Just something new that will leave a different kind of memory, I guess. At the moment you're always left with "I had a great time dancing" / "I met these people" / "I saw this weird thing" ...

 

I so agree with the above.

 

It boggles my mind thinking what an actual fantastic area the SW corner is, yet I have become dissatisfied with it some what.

 

(Could it be as simple as the old physiological  feeling...  oh it's so popular now, I don't like it anymore?)

 

I feel a little ungrateful, again, lucky for the first timers, but, how can GF improve on what they have there now.

 

I have always been impressed how Glasto has evolved, always changing but it has never lost it's essence.

 

 

 

We'll see  

[fatyeti24]

Alleyways!

[Untz]

It's been so long since the alleyways I'm over them.

There are plenty of small venues anyway and the windows where you can interact with the crew are a nice touch.

One of my favourite things of Shangri La this year was sitting in one of the small pop up tents they had around for the Occupy/politics theme and chatting bullshit with strangers so it is what you make of it. If you go there just expecting to be entertained it doesn't work so well.

[incident]

Silver Hayes doesn't have a big enough tent, or stay open late enough.

A "big enough tent" couldn't happen without a seriously creative audio setup. While the SE Corner has later noise limits compared to the rest of the site, it's still not a free for all, there are still strict limits on the size of the sound systems used.

Most likely, it's a case of make the tent bigger and nobody at the back will be able to hear anything.

[russycarps]

Rip the whole thing up and start again I reckon. It's boring

[Mardy]

It's been so long since the alleyways I'm over them.

There are plenty of small venues anyway and the windows where you can interact with the crew are a nice touch.

One of my favourite things of Shangri La this year was sitting in one of the small pop up tents they had around for the Occupy/politics theme and chatting bullshit with strangers so it is what you make of it. If you go there just expecting to be entertained it doesn't work so well.

Exactly, it's the most amazing part of the site, the creativity is fucking amazing, but to get anything out of it, you need to participate, let yourself get involved and play along. In that way, it's closer than anywhere else to being the true heart of the festival.

[ghostdancer1]

A "big enough tent" couldn't happen without a seriously creative audio setup. While the SE Corner has later noise limits compared to the rest of the site, it's still not a free for all, there are still strict limits on the size of the sound systems used.

Most likely, it's a case of make the tent bigger and nobody at the back will be able to hear anything.

 

i know, i was just pointing out that Silver Hayes doesn't have a big enough tent for the demand, or go late.

what SLEEPYMOPS was suggesting isn't what SH has.

[Homer]

We are a spoilt bunch aren't we?! The effort and production values are incredible and unlike anything at most other major festivals (though maybe Readihg and V have upped their games since I last went!). If you went for the first time again it would blow your mind, and all this snobbery about the tourists ruining it. Shame on all the moaners! They're making a huge effort up there to make you enjoy yourseif, but you do have to meet them halfway at least!