9 ways Glastonbury has to improve for 2020 according to the local council

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

2 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

My take on the recommendations is they are reasonable, and basically they are supportive of the festival.

It would be wise for the festival to make good on much of the points raised and act in good faith, the alternative may be imposition and then much may change to our disadvantage.

I've no issue with a restriction on incoming alcohol quantities. Shall we say one trolley per person limit?

I'm more concerned by the amount of Fosters on that trolley 🤢

[Ayrshire Chris]

6 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

if we work on the pilton party policy of 6 cans or 1 per hour ...... It will allow us 120 cans  per person .... give or take  more than enough for me  

Good suggestion, And a new tent in the medical centre specialising in emergency hernia repairs and back problems caused by lugging it across the site on arrival! If I remember they were quite strict at the pilton party, checking the amount of alcohol. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:

Good suggestion, And a new tent in the medical centre specialising in emergency hernia repairs and back problems caused by lugging it across the site on arrival! If I remember they were quite strict at the pilton party, checking the amount of alcohol. 

Yep I lost 2 cans to them  they didn’t believe me when I said it was for the band members on my hat 

[rivalschools.price]

On 1/11/2020 at 12:29 PM, crazyfool1 said:

I think it still happens ... but seemed to be very common back in those days ... the vodka jelly seems to be a dying trade too ... I always wondered who was brave enough to part with their money .. and did they actually contain much /any vodka ? 

I was sitting on the floor in Reading Festival about 15 years ago when my mate handed me two vodka Jellies he’d bought from a girl selling them.

Im no connoisseur but it tasted like petrol and must have been the cheapest, dodgy vodka known to man. Let’s just say I recommended that my mate didn’t smoke for a while afterwards.

[fatyeti24]

5 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

I'm more concerned by the amount of Fosters on that trolley 🤢

Absolute proof that it's for sale. These heartless fly-by-nights should have been ejected immediately. 

Just imagine how you'd feel if you'd bought 3 for a fiver off them. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

On 1/11/2020 at 12:31 PM, giantkatestacks said:

To answer the question re breakouts of stomach problems - pretty common to have those  warning signs up saying that there is an outbreak in the recycling/Water Aid camp. Mind you last year or the year before the crew catering was given an unsatisfactory by the council yet still continued.

Making sure the water supply and the distribution points are clean as possible  is more important than ever now we are committed to ditch bottled water in favour of using the on site supply. Nothing worse than an attack of the killer shits to ruin your festival. You can cope with bad weather, mud even mumford and sons but not the rampant runs. 

[Jay Pee]

It’s deffo the same fella. Him and his missus have been bang at it for years. Have seen them at Glastonbury, Bearded Theory, Kendal Calling, Beatherder, Shambala and undoubtedly others that have slipped from memory.

he wears Tiger print skirts etc.  To be honest, he is my “go to” sighting that it’s festival season again at BT and the rest of the summer there on.

him and the lovely donkey covered in stickers that gets held aloft in the mosh pit at seemingly most of the sets I go to see. My wife and I know it as the “Piñata of Joy”

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

10 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

You can cope with bad weather, mud even mumford and sons but not the rampant runs. 

Beautifully poetic 

[Johnnyseven]

14 hours ago, Jay Pee said:

It’s deffo the same fella. Him and his missus have been bang at it for years. Have seen them at Glastonbury, Bearded Theory, Kendal Calling, Beatherder, Shambala and undoubtedly others that have slipped from memory.

he wears Tiger print skirts etc.  To be honest, he is my “go to” sighting that it’s festival season again at BT and the rest of the summer there on.

Yep, that's the guy I saw at Bearded Theory.

[Neville Street]

On 1/11/2020 at 2:18 PM, kalifire said:

Also, has anyone ever been approached by a sketchy geezer quietly asking if they're interested in a Dark Fruit Strongbow? Alcohol re-selling might go on, but I've never seen or heard of it.

Funded my whole 1989 and 1990 festival doing this Happy days!! There was no such thing as "Dark Fruit Strongbow" though, we just had bitter and lager,  in 1989 in big 2 or 3 litre bottles and "boo hiss" poured into plastic pints, out of the back of our car, that we camped next to. In 1990 we had the foresight to take cans as we had heard we couldn't camp by the car that year. We got "taxed" by security every slab we carried in, between 2 and 6 cans. Still made enough to have a great weekend, ticket, booze, food, fuel all covered, and plenty of happy customers. We were worried about our stock, so we set up the tent in the car park and got woken up and told to take it down each morning as the licensing people were using helicopters to monitor the amount of tents in non camping areas.

[Ayrshire Chris]

21 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

I'm more concerned by the amount of Fosters on that trolley 🤢

Maybe he had kids with him 

[giantkatestacks]

Yes the vodka jelly pots that splinter on the floor are the largest source of non recyclable plastic we pick up once you ignore, I dunno, camping chairs.

Plus the fact that they splinter means you are on your hands and knees for ages getting all the bits up. If you buy them please put them in a bin!

[Doug85]

34 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

Yes the vodka jelly pots that splinter on the floor are the largest source of non recyclable plastic we pick up once you ignore, I dunno, camping chairs.

Plus the fact that they splinter means you are on your hands and knees for ages getting all the bits up. If you buy them please put them in a bin!

I will second this, one of the worst parts of the recycling job. The father in law openly berated someone for having 5 of them at Kylie and just squashing them into the ground. 

If they ban anything alcohol related it should be those first as they are in plastic pots. 

To mention the points about limits on alcohol it would be tough to do unless they mark on the EPO how much alcohol you bring in on each trip etc but then again they still couldn't police it as people who don't drink could bring in some for the rest of the group etc so just leave it as is.