Wednesday night recommendations

[LSF]

Was in Bimble Inn this year but quite fancy NYC downlow next year or the bars next to JP tent, never managed to get through there at night but imagine it would have been a decent place to have a drink and chill

[oo7tk]

10 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Everyone will go even earlier this year to avoid those queues I reckon. Expect the 16 hour queue to begin at 10pm on the Tuesday in 2017...

They might as well just ban cars basically and put the money into a decent shuttle service from all the nearby towns and stations.

Off topic but what's it like trying to getting to the festival on the Wednesday morning??  I'm staying in Glastonbury Town and looking to get a taxi to either Worthy View or ZooLoos so won't be the busier gates hopefully..

[Quark]

I'll be spending Wednesday evening watching the fireworks somewhere, using rum and party cigarettes to lure new friends over, probably looking a bit creepy, but I'll deal with that by drinking more rum!

[eFestivals]

32 minutes ago, Pinhead said:

Expect the 16 hour queue to begin at 10pm on the Tuesday in 2017...

it started at 4pm on the Tuesday this year.

 

[DropBeat]

Ahh I love Wednesday night, reacquainting myself with that Glastonbury atmosphere/feeling. I've never really planned it but ended up at the fireworks last time, right near the front in the stone circle with my mates and some randoms. Then bumped into some other friends and then got 'lost' in the SE corner. Bliss.

[cammie81]

Wednesday is definitely the one day I don't plan anything. Just start walking and the rest will play out as it will.

[bennyhana22]

1 hour ago, Charm said:

I really wanted one of those guys, saw one on a tent next to ours, don't know how I stopped myself claiming it, so jealous. 
Charm x

The peg tension on that green Gelert tent is an absolute disgrace. You wouldn't get that past me in our camp. I'd be grumbling and re-pegging to ensure an adequate erection. 

Ben

[Penrhos]

8 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

re-pegging to ensure an adequate erection. 

Ben

"Finbar"....

Didn't get to do anything Wed this year due to mud/queues and having no tow-hook on the T2. Previous years I spend the afternoon bimbling aroud the site the head off for the fireworks & SE corner later.

[gmb1992]

Wednesday is probably my favourite day, no restraints of acts to see so you can just wander until you find somewhere you like (which most likely wont take long) 

[Charm]

17 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

The peg tension on that green Gelert tent is an absolute disgrace. You wouldn't get that past me in our camp. I'd be grumbling and re-pegging to ensure an adequate erection. 

Ben

I'm totally rubbish at putting up tents, I'm surprised it stays up at all. 
Charm x

[bennyhana22]

Happy to pop over on 21 June and sort for you, Charm

Ben
x

[parsonjack]

Bimble around Williams Green....fireworks in Kings Meadow....then a boogie and a few Moscow Mules until late in Back of Beyond on the Common....top night.

[Skoo]

Thanks for the ideas guys. I'm going with some newbies next year and no doubt they'll want to go to watch the fireworks, so I think I will go solo and wander elsewhere. Like the idea of SE corner, barely touched it this year due to crowding, sounds like Wednesday is the night to see it if you want some space around you.

[Quark]

I've realised that all of this is pointless.  Clearly I'm just going to end up staggering in circles after the eFests meet and eventually pinballing my way into the night! Bring it

 

[Charm]

24 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

Happy to pop over on 21 June and sort for you, Charm

Ben
x

Might actually take you up on that, every time we went back to the tent I was sure we were going to find it had collapsed, was not a good feeling. 
Charm x

[Stretlow]

I cant remember where I ended up Wednesday night, my last photo was outside the Rabbit Hole for the fireworks... after that.... nothing 

Edited October 13, 2016 by Stretlow

[Ohinever]

I always solo bimble on the Wednesday. Have had some absolutely cracking random nights mainly centered around the Green Fields. 

[Pinhead]

3 hours ago, eFestivals said:

it started at 4pm on the Tuesday this year

Think I'll leave on Monday then next year....

[Pinhead]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Clearly I'm just going to end up staggering in circles after the eFests meet and eventually pinballing my way into the night! Bring it

That's my plan, except I'm normally staggering in circles before I even get to the eFests meet...

Tend to always go up to King's M for the fireworks though - always an atmospheric moment to start the festi and often the best night for Stone Circle now these days.

[budvar]

3 hours ago, eFestivals said:

it started at 4pm on the Tuesday this year.

 

Assuming that there's no loads of rain in the immediate run-up to the festival again, the traffic should hopefully go back to normal. I can't remember exactly when they first opened up the car parks on the Tuesday night but traffic hadn't been much of an issue since.

[Pinhead]

There was a problem with the timing of the opening of campervan and the subsequent comms that went out about it as well wasn't there, all driven by the realisation that the weather had saturated the parking areas and it was going to be a struggle?

[balti-pie]

8 hours ago, Tommy101 said:

The bar in the T&C field has become a haunt of ours for the Weds and Thurs evenings. It's nice atmosphere but not overrun, you can hang around outside the tent and catch up with old friends or head inside for a boogie. 

Pints of grimbergen as well! I manage to work my route to pretty much any stage via the t+c bar so I can pick up a pint on the way, it's magnificent stuff (and a fiver for a pint of 6.5% beer) 

[Quark]

1 minute ago, balti-pie said:

Pints of grimbergen as well! I manage to work my route to pretty much any stage via the t+c bar so I can pick up a pint on the way, it's magnificent stuff (and a fiver for a pint of 6.5% beer) 

Fuck I didn't know you could get that at GF. Got absolutely banjaxed on that at a wedding in France. Lethal.

[balti-pie]

I love the way it's at only one place, it would be messy if it was at every bar - inexperienced drinkers nutted at midday wouldn't be the best thing in the pyramid and other fields! This way you have to plan it and make a conscious decision to get over there. Or it's for those people who spend a good amount of time in the t+c field, and they tend to be pretty decent drinkers/not knobheads 

[BlackHole2006]

19 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Pints of grimbergen as well! I manage to work my route to pretty much any stage via the t+c bar so I can pick up a pint on the way, it's magnificent stuff (and a fiver for a pint of 6.5% beer) 

Your taste in beer just gets better and better, sir!

Grimbergen is the dogs bollocks. Literally my favorite drink at Glastonbury. Brothers Cider was swiftly moved to second place as soon as I took a sip of that stuff on the Wednesday of 2015. On the Sunday I had about 3 pints of the stuff in the morning and it made me very emotional for Patti Smith.

Edited October 13, 2016 by BlackHole2006