Regrets? I've had a few...

[Homer]

If it makes you all feel better, I was at loads of the sets that people regret having missed.

[Beaver89]

I don't have many (or any?) in-the-moment choice regrets that come to mind. Even subpar experiences have their stories and are part of the experience. However, I do have some long tail hindsight regrets where I wonder where the hell I was for certain sets or moments that I would certainly choose differently now. Like Leonard Cohen. Oh the folly of youth not knowing how important he was. I needed an elder to drag me by my ear in that moment. I did walk past it or turn up at the end but should have been there.

The closest was probably Coldplay vs Primal Scream doing Screamadelica in 2011 but I was never going to be anywhere else at that time than Coldplay. I guess missing Ed Sheeran before he exploded might be another when he was playing 6 gigs in the weekend on mostly tiny stages. I could tell it was going to be the last chance before superstardom and had a clash for every single one except the last. I was in the Park and knew it was either a hard left or hard right to the stage he was playing, 50% of getting it right. Decided to stay put. I still don't know where the Snakepit is/was!

Never seeing Frightened Rabbit is one now. They were on after Christine and Queens the year she played Other. I could have stayed. No idea where I was instead. I didn't know them then though so again - only hindsight.

Anyone else find looking back that when they cut early or turn up late to a set they later cannot remember what the other thing was? I guess you only know when one blasts it (the one you remember being late/leaving part way for and you've no way of knowing which one until afterwards.

[Olshansky]

James Blake instead of Adele - seen him loads before and loads since.  

in 2010 i took a small nap and missed the Thom Yorke / Johnny G set completely.  Still mad at myself for that. 

[gazzared]

Regret watching Ed Sheeran instead of going to see the last Arcadia Metamorphosis sun set show but was to exhausted to move from pyramid 😭

[Calvin Klein]

LCD in 2016 was perfect. I missed the first two songs because we were at Grimes and run all the way to the Other stage just in time for I Can Change. Still up there with the best shows I've been to.

[Skelts]

1 hour ago, Gnomicide said:

 I still throw on Ash's singles album on a fairly regular basis" so off I went.

You might want to consider Chagstock this year mate, they're the Friday night headliner 

[Skelts]

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[Crazyfool01]

We had an entire thread about my regret back in 2016 

[Metal Monkey]

I watched Spin Doctors on the Pyramid in 1994. I didn't really enjoy it. I didn't go and see Tool at the same time because I'd not heard of them. Maybe the younger me wouldn't have liked them, but I definitely do now. 

[Meerkat]

Regret not being familiar with Arcade Fire in 2014…my first Glastonbury headliner ended up being Kaiser Chiefs…

[jimmillen]

Variation on a theme, I did go to Glastonbury early - 1997, when I was 16 - but then it's like I totally forgot about the existence of the festival for 15 odd years. I made a lot of dumb decisions in my 20s but that's one that forever mystifies me. 

I don't have many regrets about the choices of act I've seen, life is too short... But leaving the festival early in 2016 and missing out on LCD was a massive mistake. I was just done with the mud and the wet, and stone cold sober 'cos I had to be home for work on the Monday (Also a massive mistake). Watching the set back though - ah, damn it. 😞

[serendipitous]

I saw Janet Jackson instead of Lizzo, my thought was that I'd never be likely to have the opportunity to see Janet live again. What a waste of time.

[Harry49]

New Order over Adele. As others have said, it just never got going. Was it due to fans not getting the band going or vice versa? Only poor headliner I have seen so can’t complain though.

[hodgey123]

Went to Shaggy over Nile Rodgers & Chic a couple of years ago, think that is the only one I really regret now. I'd have actually liked to have seen Ed Sheeran unlike plenty here, but think that was the year he clashed with Boy Better Know and I went on my own to see them instead when 10-15 of my group were at Ed but don't regret that choice at all!

[Nuthugger]

I went to see Rolf Harris open the Pyramid Stage. He did two little boys, and everything.

[David_303]

8 minutes ago, jimmillen said:

I don't have many regrets about the choices of act I've seen, life is too short... But leaving the festival early in 2016 and missing out on LCD was a massive mistake. I was just done with the mud and the wet, and stone cold sober 'cos I had to be home for work on the Monday (Also a massive mistake). Watching the set back though - ah, damn it. 😞

You missed absolute ballache traffic though mate!

[tigertoo]

I wish I'd gone to see Iggy Pop and the Stooges. I don't even know what I was seeing when they were on. What was I thinking 🤔 .... Big regret. 

[Franco Baresi]

I went to see The Futureheads in the John Peel, while Amy Winehouse performed on the Pyramid Stage haha! 

[jimmillen]

3 minutes ago, David_303 said:

You missed absolute ballache traffic though mate!

Actually that's just jogged my memory - I wanted to get out in daylight 'cos I was worried about the mud & there were horror stories going around about cars getting stuck & queues in the car parks. I think that year there was a different crew driving the recovery tractors or something, definitely a lot of confusion & chaos.

In any case, from where I was parked I got out in 10 minutes with no issues whatsoever... Probably was the right choice given I did need to get home. But still regret it! 

[Mezhyp1]

No regrets musically, but I did get the bus back to Glasgow the first 2 years I went before flying back. Life changing 

[zico martin]

15 minutes ago, Harry49 said:

New Order over Adele. As others have said, it just never got going. Was it due to fans not getting the band going or vice versa? Only poor headliner I have seen so can’t complain though.

Only time I've ever been right at the front at a big stage so perhaps for that reason I loved it more than most. Think the missus still hates me for making her miss Adele though!

[Florian Saucer Attack]

3 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

No regrets musically, but I did get the bus back to Glasgow the first 2 years I went before flying back. Life changing 

I hear you

We get the 8am Monday flight back to Belfast and are in bed by 10am. Total bliss

[clarkete]

[TheGChild]

2009: Neil Young. Think i was tearing it up in the SE

Same year, nonchalantly strolling across the back of the sea of people watching Gaga and thinking she'll be back.

[Smeble]

Watching Liam Gallagher over Katy Perry in 2017, no massive interest in Katy Perry but would have had a better affect on my mood on a Saturday evening than being shouted at by an angry manc. Knew I’d made a mistake a few songs in but doubled down on my mistake by staying there for the whole set. Got a major attack of Glastonbury blues and ended up sitting down contemplating going home. Didn’t help when I met back up with my wife who had had a fantastic afternoon and was absolutely buzzing, we then decided The Jackson’s was a better way to spend the evening, they were great, but looking back I should have gone to the Foo’s, but I wasn’t in the mood for a rammed pyramid field. 
 

shows how one bad decision can fuck up your whole day.

fortunately we both had a fantastic Sunday, even if we made another mistake by seeing Ed Sheeran who was quite possibly the most boring thing I’ve ever had the misfortune of sitting through.