The Crowds 2019

[kalifire]

Does anyone else feel like it seems somehow busier this year? Everywhere seems rammed. Shangri La wasn’t much fun on Wed/Thurs, due to the insane number of people. 

The Temple queues were eye watering  

Hopefully Pangea evens things out a bit. 

Edited June 28, 2019 by kalifire

[Pinhead]

Seens a shit load busier tbh

[babyblade41]

talking to my daughter yesterday and accompanied by the heat as well she's having a bit of a mare 

[al_coholic]

I guess it's mostly the weather. No one hiding in their tents from the rain.

[Northtim]

Was very busy but with Pangea not doing much and no main stages everyone is in the other open areas. Start of the rest of the festival today so should get better.

Railway track and main drags last night were a sea of people.

[Avalon_Fields]

I stay away from the crowds as much as I can, we were going to do Extinction Rebellion but decided against it.

But it’s rammed everywhere for sure!

 

[robillustrates]

It's a probably a combination of a number of factors. First festival off a fallow year, new features to see, better weather than expected, the anticipation of hottter/humid weather later in the weekend and wanting to explore as much as possible before the main stages and music starts today and a lot of newbies from the sounds of it.

[gordong]

Couldn’t get anywhere near LNTG Prince set or George Fitzgerald at Glade. Ended up going up to sit at the park and relax cause of the crowds. Heard SEC was absolutely rammed - there was signs up all over the site telling people. 

[FrancisH]

It's always ramo before the bands start - people wandering around without any schedule and any minor event on a tiny stage is swarmed upon.

[MEGABOWL]

Anything on Thursday worth seeing always gets dead busy. It’s maybe slightly more noticeable because of the good weather admittedly.

[Madyaker]

I think more people came Wednesday because of the fallow year

[dingbat2]

It always seems busy pre main stages opening. From Friday you will have 100000 odd at all the main stages so the rest of the site shoudnt seem as busy as it did on Thursday. 

[Led festivals]

At around 1am the SE corner was fine. Wandered around and say Oonipa without any crowd issues

[august1]

Definitely busier this year. Places we usually go on Thursday unaccessible

[Swine_Glasto2014]

As others have said, come this afternoon the main stages are open and there goes 100,000 odd people. 

The heat and the dust down there must be pretty mental. 

[majormajormajor]

Had no problem getting around the SE corner either side of midnight. Dunno what people are talking about? It's the same busy as always for weds/thurs.

The Pyramid crowd takes up 1/3 of the people from today... 

[Jay89]

Couldn’t get to Glade for George Fitzgerald, so made my way for On Loop at Stonebridge where the queue was massive, no luck again. Decided to start heading to Beat Hotel, stopped for Prospa and a bit of Jon Hopkins at BBC and for Avalon Emerson I managed to actually get in a tent. Hopefully today will get better, cause it was absolute mission last night.

[concerned]

Tried to get into the blind tiger last night to watch gentleman's dub club.. ended up leaving before they started. Absolute chaos. 

 

They had put barriers up to stop people accessing it from one side but people behind couldn't see so we're pushing to get through, lucky there wasn't a crush.

 

Felt sorry for the security guy, 1 bloke trying to hold back probably neatly 500 people 

Edited June 28, 2019 by concerned

[al_coholic]

Massive crowds for The Vaccines and Bjorn Again by the look of it (webcam)

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Think it's a number of factors. People flock around the places playing music now, there's less interest in the "extra stuff" like the Green Fields areas - especially as well a lot of places ask for bookings for massages, palm readings, so as soon as these get booked people don't care about it either.

Added to that is the rise in ppl going on the Tuesday night and queuing up for ages to get in on the Wednesday. I remember when most ppl wouldn't go until the Wed afternoon at the earliest, now it's a mad rush from the very start. 

Won't get any better if the festival increases its capacity next year with 7k extra ticketholders there! 

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

18 minutes ago, concerned said:

Tried to get into the blind tiger last night to watch gentleman's dub club.. ended up leaving before they started. Absolute chaos. 

 

They had put barriers up to stop people accessing it from one side but people behind couldn't see so we're pushing to get through, lucky there wasn't a crush.

 

Felt sorry for the security guy, 1 bloke trying to hold back probably neatly 500 people 

Yeah, I remember seeing Rationale on the Thurs evening. The change overs between sets was manic at Williams Green and the security had no chance

[MEGABOWL]

13 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

Massive crowds for The Vaccines and Bjorn Again by the look of it (webcam)

Walked past back of the Other for the Vaccines and it was a huge crowd

[waterfalls21234]

Bit of a bottle neck just now just past West holts by the bridge as they were removing a giant bees nest from one of the trees.... Random lol 

[The Nal]

The crowd were 3 people deep outside Williams Green for Black Midi at 11am. 

Nice vibe around the place this year. 

[Hugh Jass]

We were wandering around the Park and the Pier at around 10.30 this and there was barely anyone around. It was lovely.