shapebuster Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) Hi all, My friend and I are worried that Glasto may not go ahead next year either. Looking at the UK from Aus, you guys are getting smashed by Covid and I just can't see the government risking another explosion in cases with a huge music festival once they get it under control. What are your thoughts? I'm sure a lot of you will reply with blind optimism so please consider your response. We all know how that backfired this year! Don't get me wrong, I'm bloody eager to go but I'm just trying to get a picture of what's going on over there! Also, let's try keep this thread on topic. Thanks Edited May 28, 2020 by shapebuster 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrelarmy Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 Tickets are being carried over so if you already have one then it will be valid. There will be a resale at the usual time of this year but I’d say availability will be limited. If you are successful or indeed you already have tickets then make sure you book flights that are covered by insurance in the unlikely event of another postponement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 Probably best to stick your question in here - It's the general covid-19 thread and one of the busiest on the forum so you'll get plenty of discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jparx Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 Also not sure it's worth starting this thread quite yet, at least until we're past what would have been this year's festival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatyeti24 Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) Plenty of thoughts here, though I'm not sure why it's illustrated with a gif of the mango Mussolini. Edited May 28, 2020 by fatyeti24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jass Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 Oh Christ! Here we go again... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shapebuster Posted May 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 2 hours ago, SwedgeAntilles said: Probably best to stick your question in here - It's the general covid-19 thread and one of the busiest on the forum so you'll get plenty of discussion. That thread is so off topic, it's impossible to read it. Literally nothing has been about Covid in the last few pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedgeAntilles Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, shapebuster said: That thread is so off topic, it's impossible to read it. Literally nothing has been about Covid in the last few pages. Literally every post on the last page is about covid. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyrulion Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 7 hours ago, shapebuster said: I'm sure a lot of you will reply with blind optimism so please consider your response. We all know how that backfired this year! The answer is no one knows for sure and blind optimism is the only thing we have to say it will go ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModernMan Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 Who knows really, there’s about 10 months before they need to make any decisions. I think many people are concerned about it, including those on here involved with the festival in some way. Personally, I think it will just about be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestCountryGirl Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 All of the talk in that other thread about Dominic Cummings and the daily briefings is about Covid. Regrettably, that whole thread is on topic because covid is pretty much the only topic of conversation in this country presently, since, as you so delicately put it, we are being "smashed" by it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaf Nobby Burton Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, shapebuster said: Hi all, My friend and I are worried that Glasto may not go ahead next year either. Looking at the UK from Aus, you guys are getting smashed by Covid and I just can't see the government risking another explosion in cases with a huge music festival once they get it under control. What are your thoughts? I'm sure a lot of you will reply with blind optimism so please consider your response. We all know how that backfired this year! Don't get me wrong, I'm bloody eager to go but I'm just trying to get a picture of what's going on over there! Also, let's try keep this thread on topic. Thanks Did you both have tickets for 2020? If not I really wouldn’t worry about it. If you do then trying to be as objective as possible I would say it’s very likely to go ahead. Several things may have happened by then. A second spike may well hit in (our) Autumn/winter but will be well over by the time the festival needs to start preparing etc. With or without a second spike, by about March/April we would’ve gained a significant amount more ‘herd immunity’ Even with a number like say 30% it will make big gatherings all the more possible. Bear in mind London is already at about 20% so where will it be in a year? There may well be a vaccine before the end of the year/early next year Suitable treatments make it less of an issue It just fizzles out like many other viruses have If none of the above happens, it becomes endemic and kind of just continues as is now, people will eventually recalibrate to the risk and learn to live alongside it. Edited May 28, 2020 by Deaf Nobby Burton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrshire Chris Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) Please please please 🙏 get past this years dates before starting to worry, panic, pray, scream 😱 about 2021. This shit will end. It’s bad enough we’ve lost this year! @Hugh Jass is spot on, Christ here we go again! If it keeps getting cancelled never mind headlining pyramid. The 1975 will be the heritage act! Edited May 28, 2020 by Ayrshire Chris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Jass Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 There is absolutely zero point in worrying or stressing about it this far out. That may come across as burying my head in the sand but I don’t care. This fucking virus has already written off 2020, I refuse to entertain the possibility of it fucking with 2021. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilgamesh69 Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said: There is absolutely zero point in worrying or stressing about it this far out. That may come across as burying my head in the sand but I don’t care. This fucking virus has already written off 2020, I refuse to entertain the possibility of it fucking with 2021. This. I've got some mates that keep saying stuff like "festivals might not even happen next year!". But what's the point in even saying that? It only makes people feel even more down and hopeless about the situation. If things are still bad early next year then maybe we can consider it won't be happening, but for now we should just hope for the best and not be so bloody negative... Edited May 28, 2020 by Gilgamesh69 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrshire Chris Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 This thread gives me the willies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebeedoobee Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 37 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said: This thread gives me the willies I always knew there was something different about you Scotts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrshire Chris Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 36 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said: I always knew there was something different about you Scotts You’ve got to find your thrills somehow, snowbound and isolated in our wee cottage throughout the long dark winters! You Somerset country bumpkins havnt the monopoly on such things!😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyfool01 Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 so the only way we can get rid of this thread is to not respond to it ... or have it deleted .... this is just like those multiple threads that appeared a while back .... im posting while this is at the top by the way ... lets just let this one drop away hopefully like the virus .... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozanne Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 14 hours ago, squirrelarmy said: Tickets are being carried over so if you already have one then it will be valid. There will be a resale at the usual time of this year but I’d say availability will be limited. If you are successful or indeed you already have tickets then make sure you book flights that are covered by insurance in the unlikely event of another postponement. 100% crew assemble! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy0808 v5 Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ozanne said: 100% crew assemble! You rang? This thread is irrelevant until at least the date that the postponement was this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozanne Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said: You rang? This thread is irrelevant until at least the date that the postponement was this year. I feel this thread is calling for unwarranted positivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy0808 v5 Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 I am 99.876% sure I’ll be dry humping one of the flowers on the approach to the park in 13 months time. Does this help with your flight bookings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayrshire Chris Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 17 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said: I am 99.876% sure I’ll be dry humping one of the flowers on the approach to the park in 13 months time. Does this help with your flight bookings? @crazyfool1 posted a few minutes ago ways on how to ditch this thread. The surreal image of a giant plywood daisy being molested might just be the thing that does this! 😁. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebeedoobee Posted May 28, 2020 Report Share Posted May 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said: @crazyfool1 posted a few minutes ago ways on how to ditch this thread. The surreal image of a giant plywood daisy being molested might just be the thing that does this! 😁. Knowing this lot, that'll be a no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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