2022 Headliners

[stuie]

8 minutes ago, Hotchilidog said:

Such a weird day. I was told around 5.30am, and then outside the tent you could just hear people expressing dismay as they found out. I am so glad I was at Glastonbury that year (mud and all) as the festival allowed us to escape the national post mortem. I needed those precious days to process the result and be reminded of the joy that is the collective Glastonbury spirit to restore my faith in humanity.

Exactly... I don't think there was a better place to be receiving that shitty news.

[Matt42]

I was coming back from stone circle absolutely battered and someone gave me the news. I thought he was lying because he could tell I was off my head.

Woke up later in the morning to digest the news.

Edited February 16, 2022 by Matt42

[Guest]

Yeah it was a really surreal feeling around the site that day, everything felt kinda flat for ages. I can't remember who opened at the Other Stage but they mentioned something about it too.

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Yeah it was a really surreal feeling around the site that day, everything felt kinda flat for ages. I can't remember who opened at the Other Stage but they mentioned something about it too.

james ... I shed a tear at this 

 

 

[Gnomicide]

Leftfield for Billy Bragg's set was incredible. If he'd have asked us to march on parliament by the end we'd have taken the fuckers down.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

james ... I shed a tear at this 

 

 

That's it! I'd never have picked it was James from memory 😂 They were the secret act at midday weren't they, walking down to see them was such a strange feeling.

[Ryan1984]

2016 was the only Glastonbury I’ve missed since 2003 and everything was just so flat out in the real world. M

[Gnomicide]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

That's it! I'd never have picked it was James from memory 😂 They were the secret act at midday weren't they, walking down to see them was such a strange feeling.

They were announced. They've stopped leaving the opener as a secret spot now.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

That's it! I'd never have picked it was James from memory 😂 They were the secret act at midday weren't they, walking down to see them was such a strange feeling.

they came on late because they were sorting mud issues around the front of the stage the area was fenced off .... 

[Matt42]

2016 felt like the best place in the world to be on a pretty horrendous weekend.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Gnomicide said:

They were announced. They've stopped leaving the opener as a secret spot now.

My bad, I thought it was still going at that point.

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

they came on late because they were sorting mud issues around the front of the stage the area was fenced off .... 

I have a vague memory of the front being horrid for mud.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Ozanne said:

My bad, I thought it was still going at that point.

I have a vague memory of the front being horrid for mud.

I stayed at the back and watched people run for the stage as they removed the fencing 

[Matt42]

Can we switch to 2017?

There was a really weird moment in 2017 where I was walking down from the park towards pyramid / other stage way (that downhill path if you know the one nearish stone circle) and I had a moment where I was pretty taken back at how many people were on site.

It really felt like 200k odd people were on site that day. Huge huge huge numbers of people.

[Boilingtent]

5 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Can we switch to 2017?

There was a really weird moment in 2017 where I was walking down from the park towards pyramid / other stage way (that downhill path if you know the one nearish stone circle) and I had a moment where I was pretty taken back at how many people were on site.

It really felt like 200k odd people were on site that day. Huge huge huge numbers of people.

Possibly post the giant CND sign? I remember this areas being rammo when i left the stone circle.

[waltere]

11 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

It really felt like 200k odd people were on site that day. Huge huge huge numbers of people.

I know where you're coming from here. Out of the 5 I've been to ('14 onwards), 2017 definitely felt the busiest somehow, even if the actual number of people on site was the same.

[FuzzyDunlop]

That Friday, I didnt even know about Brexit til I got to the Other Stage. "Oh" was my response.

I'll deal with it on Monday. 

James, Dakkhabrakha, ZZ Top, Rosin Murphy, Underworld... A chewbacca impersonating contest... Carl Cox.

Absolutely smashed, laughed my arse off, fell over, laughed more, watched people get stuck in mud, got myself stuck, laughed til I was sick on shrooms.

Honestly - my favourite ever day.

[Ayrshire Chris]

29 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

james ... I shed a tear at this 

 

 

Yes, remember that so well, I think the comment from the band was Fuck em . Michael Eavis arrived in his Land Rover to supervise the spreading of more straw and wood chips at the front of the stage which delayed the start. He watched the band from the side.  Made us forget about the mud and that vote and realise we were mostly all of the same mind. We enjoyed 2016 just as much as any other year. 

[danbailey80]

2016 was the one year I managed to get there on a Thursday (I'm a teacher) and then I had Brexit to wake up to Friday. Easily the worst Glasto day I've had. 

[Boomtowner]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

yeah a bit of a bastard that ... and on my 40th  Birthday too 😞 

That's a shitter, that definitely rivals my 40th birthday present... an Ofsted inspection, 10 weeks into my teaching career

[Crazyfool01]

19 minutes ago, Boomtowner said:

That's a shitter, that definitely rivals my 40th birthday present... an Ofsted inspection, 10 weeks into my teaching career

Or @vintagelaureate where he had ofsted turn up as he was about to leave for the festival 

[kingbadger]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

yeah a bit of a bastard that ... and on my 40th  Birthday too 😞 

Spent my 30th at Glastonbury in 2019 rocking round the site dressed as Miley Cyrus, shame my 40th doesn't fall at the festival 

[vintagelaureate]

13 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Or @vintagelaureate where he had ofsted turn up as he was about to leave for the festival 

Ah the great festival of 2019, when I arrived on site just as Tame Impala finished on The Other!

Nothing better than simultaneously getting a text from a friend saying your tent is set up, whilst you pick up the phone to Ofsted. 😥

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, kingbadger said:

Spent my 30th at Glastonbury in 2019 rocking round the site dressed as Miley Cyrus, shame my 40th doesn't fall at the festival 

What a party it is when it does …  this year it will be on the Thurs … probably the best day for it 🙂 

[kingbadger]

5 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

What a party it is when it does …  this year it will be on the Thurs … probably the best day for it 🙂 

We were talking about possibly doing a party of sorts somewhere on site with the big group of us, but didn't feel right to do that. Just made sure we all got to Kylie together and that was enough 

[Superscally]

7 hours ago, Smeble said:

It was ok on the vehicles because it was so stationary that the engine was off more than it was on, the guys in front of us had a BBQ on the go and would just move it up the verge as the traffic moved, I seem to remember my wife cooking up sausage chips and beans for us, we also had a few people use our toilet facilities.

I spent 20 mins on one of those kicker ramps of 15% or so. Handbrake wouldn't hold it. Had to keep it running on the bite! Dude came up behind me and kicked off. 

"DOYOUTHINKIWANTTOBEBURNINGTHESHITOUTOFMYCLUTCHMATE???? NOW LET ME CONCENTRATE OR I'LL BE ROLLING BACK INTO YOUR LOVELY T5"