2019 Headliners

[Sasperella]

1 hour ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Usually try to get going around 530 Monday morning, head for the M5, M6 then M74 to Glasgow and on to Ayrshire. The service stations are a joy to behold. Full of begraggled near dead festival goers, cars caked in mud if it’s been a wet one and folk sleeping in cars Usually try and kip for a few hours ,  the joys of the return to Scotland ! 

I can't quite fathom the distance yet....it's felt like the end of the earth just getting back to Sheffield in the past few years. Now I just need to commit to the night bus on the way down and get booking (I think flight works out too expensive). Do you drive though!? I hope you can at least take turns with someone willing and able!

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, Keithy said:

I've still not decided on my Monday Glastonbury plans yet. Have normally just got the coach back to Bristol, stayed in a hotel and gradually returned to normal life whilst wallowing in a bath, sit and have food and a pint by the river, read the Guardian reviews and the go home on Tuesday.

Since moving to Salisbury, logically I should just get the shuttle bus to castle cary and get a train from there at some point during the day....but getting back home on a Monday just feels like a hard return to normality...

Definitely something to be said for the gradual transition to reality. My mate's mum lives local and she used to pick us up from Bath and West Showground on the Monday. We'd then go back to hers, shower, eat, chill in the garden and sleep before driving back to London on the Tuesday. I do miss those days!

Now I tend to go back to work Tuesday. Yes it's tough but feels like a waste of a day off to me these days.

[jyoung]

I'm always back in work at 10am on Tuesday morning. It's tough but if I take the day off I'll just waste it mourning.

Edited March 4, 2019 by jyoung

[tumbles]

7 hours ago, crocodiles said:

I am always surprised how many people go Sunday daytime etc . I never really understand why as look forward to it all year why would you cut it short . Even that long drive home tired and in need of a shower feels part of the experience to me 

Not Sunday day. I pack up morning load it in car then stay till I’ve had enough - depends on band but could be 8-11pm depending. 

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, jyoung said:

I'm always back in work at 10am on Tuesday morning. It's tough but if I take the day of I'll just waste it mourning.

Jeez, I don't go back until the Thursday, and even that's pushing it.

[Ayrshire Chris]

5 minutes ago, Sasperella said:

I can't quite fathom the distance yet....it's felt like the end of the earth just getting back to Sheffield in the past few years. Now I just need to commit to the night bus on the way down and get booking (I think flight works out too expensive). Do you drive though!? I hope you can at least take turns with someone willing and able!

Just drive all the way in one go, my wife doesn’t drive so it’s a long haul but getting to the main roads is half the battle. 3 days in Glastonbury town before the festival means the drive down isn’t a problem. 

[jyoung]

Just now, Hugh Jass said:

Jeez, I don't go back until the Thursday, and even that's pushing it.

Was working for a PR agency in 2017 and when I arrived on the doorstep of work the Tuesday morning following Glastonbury we had just received a delivery for 30 boxes of brochures, posters and flyers. All of which I had to carry upstairs to the office. A sudden and devastating return to the real world.

[Keithy]

4 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

Now I tend to go back to work Tuesday. Yes it's tough but feels like a waste of a day off to me these days.

The waste of a day off is an added dilemma for me. I've gone from 33 days annual leave in the NHS to 25 in the MoD. 8 days less is a hard adjustment and suddenly have the Tuesday off now feels a bit like a waste. I used to to have Tuesday to Tuesday off....now looking at saving 2 days leave and trimming down to Weds to Monday.

(I am acutely aware that moaning about leave is a bit cheeky!)

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 minute ago, Keithy said:

The waste of a day off is an added dilemma for me. I've gone from 33 days annual leave in the NHS to 25 in the MoD. 8 days less is a hard adjustment and suddenly have the Tuesday off now feels a bit like a waste. I used to to have Tuesday to Tuesday off....now looking at saving 2 days leave and trimming down to Weds to Monday.

(I am acutely aware that moaning about leave is a bit cheeky!)

33 is amazing! 25 is probably quite standard isn't it? I'm freelance now so any day I take off is a day I don't get paid. Does make the decision easier!

[Doug85]

The last couple of times we left on the monday morning or lunchtime and it's a long slog of drive back to Newcastle, 2017 we did it after a 6 hour litter picking shift and could barely keep our eyes open we had to stop a lot and get some shut eye. This time we have a 6 hour shift on the monday morning again so we are either going to grab some ZZZ's in the afternoon and drive back in the evening or we are going to stay in the crew field until the Tuesday morning after a decent nights kip. Luckily not back in work until the wednesday. 

[Quark]

14 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

33 is amazing! 25 is probably quite standard isn't it? I'm freelance now so any day I take off is a day I don't get paid. Does make the decision easier!

We get 25 but have the option to buy an extra 5.  Taking them up on that offer!

[stuartbert two hats]

16 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

33 is amazing! 25 is probably quite standard isn't it? I'm freelance now so any day I take off is a day I don't get paid. Does make the decision easier!

Yeah, but the days off are all on your own terms.  Sure, you don't get paid and that is a bummer, but you don't have to worry about "allowances" or any other such nonsense.  So glad to be independent.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Yeah, but the days off are all on your own terms.  Sure, you don't get paid and that is a bummer, but you don't have to worry about "allowances" or any other such nonsense.  So glad to be independent.

Oh yeah, wasn't moaning so much as explaining why I tend not to take the Tuesday off - it's a financial decision as much as anything. I do love being freelance for the very reason you describe.

All this talk of leaving the festival on the Monday, on top of the Keith news, is bumming me out! We've not even got there yet. 

[Giraffe Man]

16 minutes ago, Doug85 said:

The last couple of times we left on the monday morning or lunchtime and it's a long slog of drive back to Newcastle, 2017 we did it after a 6 hour litter picking shift and could barely keep our eyes open we had to stop a lot and get some shut eye. This time we have a 6 hour shift on the monday morning again so we are either going to grab some ZZZ's in the afternoon and drive back in the evening or we are going to stay in the crew field until the Tuesday morning after a decent nights kip. Luckily not back in work until the wednesday. 

6 Hour shift for us on Monday too. Normally get away early afternoon & home around 5-6. At work 7.30 Tuesday. Its very grim but well worth it as it could be worse, we might be ticketless!!

[Username taken]

The Chili Peppers seem to be lurching ominously into life.  Just announced for Ohana festival in the states

[balti-pie]

I’ve got a 4hr drive down the coast to Sussex, so it’s a pretty decent drive in terms of traffic - I always feel for you poor buggers going 7+hrs up the country, that’s harsh. I always knock the booze on the head early doors Sunday to make it a bit easier too. It makes the coach fairly appealing: but then I do like having wellies, clean clothes etc sat in my car if they need to be deployed . . . It’s strangely beautiful having a porcelain poop at Southampton services on the way back too, it’s another of my traditions ??

[Homer]

2 hours ago, dentalplan said:

Why would you say that when they’re only at four festivals?

I'd not looked into it to that extent - but it would appear that I may have overestimated how many European festivals The Strokes are currently booked into,

I hereby retract my statement concerning Melvyn Benn wrapping Julian Casabancas in cotton wool (though I stand by Robert Smith), 

Edited March 4, 2019 by Homer

[Sasperella]

1 hour ago, Keithy said:

The waste of a day off is an added dilemma for me. I've gone from 33 days annual leave in the NHS to 25 in the MoD. 8 days less is a hard adjustment and suddenly have the Tuesday off now feels a bit like a waste. I used to to have Tuesday to Tuesday off....now looking at saving 2 days leave and trimming down to Weds to Monday.

(I am acutely aware that moaning about leave is a bit cheeky!)

Yeh same, the adjustment is hard. I've been a PhD student for the last two Glastonburys and the one before that I was working abroad so came over for a whole two weeks with a wedding tacked on the following weekend. I think I'll get reasonable holiday at the new place, but not sure how happy they'll be with me taking too much at the beginning! Thinking I need to cut the planned six days down to four...and take it a bit easy on the Sunday!! I was really in no fit state to even get out of bed on the whole of Tuesday and most of Wednesday in 2014 and 2016 ?

[JoBalls]

Back on the topic of potential headliners, following the previous discussion in this thread Kings of Leon have just announced their only UK show of 2019 in Liverpool on August 30th so I think we can rule them out. 

[SwedgeAntilles]

8 minutes ago, JoBalls said:

Back on the topic of potential headliners, following the previous discussion in this thread Kings of Leon have just announced their only UK show of 2019 in Liverpool on August 30th so I think we can rule them out. 

 

[dentalplan]

That would be great news if the alternative wasn't The Killers.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The Killers are the Kings of Leon of The Strokes.

[OddRon]

7 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

That would be great news if the alternative wasn't The Killers.

*Mark Corrigan voice*  Course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love The Killers

[Freddyflintstonre]

26 minutes ago, OddRon said:

*Mark Corrigan voice*  Course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love The Killers

Haha I love the Killers and am absolutely buzzing for them to be announced 

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, Freddyflintstonre said:

Haha I love the Killers and am absolutely buzzing for them to be announced 

If it is The Cure and The Killers, I'll be there both nights. Fuck the nay sayers and the "uninspiring" shouts, it'll be great. Mock away, pop boys.