How do you get excited?

[Ayrshire Chris]

look through my archive boxes of past Glastonbury’s. photos, tickets, momentos

Check out bands who are playing I’m not familiar with on you tube

Constantly check the webcam and this forum 

watch loads of past Glastonbury sets recorded on sky planner,got loads of them, eg

[gfa]

41 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

By being active on Efestivals. Simple as that.

Closer to the time, with increased chat & planning with our gang.

Nail on the head i think here. The real excitement is the festival supermarket trip

[March Hare]

2 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

phew thought for a min this had been set up by an Alt account ..... watching the webcam does it for me 

Watching webcams does it for me too

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Chuck "Glastonbury After Hours" documentary on, the weekend before

[Gnomicide]

Razzle.

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

Razzle.

Is it still available in seedy newsagents or is it just some pages such as readers wives stuck in hedgerows? 😉

[John the Moth]

5 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Is it still available in seedy newsagents or is it just some pages such as readers wives stuck in hedgerows? 😉

Random memory of the day.

I love mooching around 2nd hand bookshops, and, if I have the time, seek them out whenever I visit a different town/city.

Found 3 such shops on a trip to Manchester a while back. Every one had a massive section of second hand porn mags. No attempt at discretion was made in their display. Gave the impression there’s a big market for it round those parts.

I just wanted some Ray Bradbury 😞

[Fred Zepplin]

Evertons current league standing is getting me excited 

[incident]

By going to Bearded Theory.

Proper nice start to the Festival season, and being one of the easiest Festivals out there acts as a suitable measure of how badly my stamina levels have deteriorated and need to be improved over the next month.

The Glastonbury buildup proper starts after that.

[gooner1990]

More regular use of this forum...but that's about it really right up until the weekend before when I get all my camping kit out to check over and then usually I'll watch one of the Julien Temple films perhaps on the Monday night...Tuesday night is now all about going to bed early because I'm now 40, but for a few years (and also when we didn't leave so early on the Wednesday) I used to watch 'Human Traffic' to get me into the mood. 😄 

[gigpusher]

14 hours ago, Homer said:

I found getting a ticket in the resale to be good for immediately increase my excitement levels.

Yep this sent me from despair to ecstasy pretty quickly. Since then putting together my playlist, chatting on the forum, chatting with friends is all I need to keep me excited. I also tend to look for anything on twitter about Glastonbury and some of the photos from the site can make me a little more excited. Trying to temper my excitement about individual acts until I see the clashes because I suspect a few of my favourites will be clashing this year and I don't want to get too attached to the idea of seeing them for that reason.

[Padgey]

Just come on here and get more involved with the chat, as well as having more regular conversations with mates in our Whatsapp group about the line up etc.

Oh and have regular check up on Glastocam each day waiting to see that fence start appearing from either side.

[gooner1990]

Sometimes I feel though less is more, I was in a bit of a bad place back in 2010....(won't bore you with the details), had a ticket but started going on about dropping out, thankfully I was talked out of it, but as I had not much interest in the festival that year in the build up I didn't really get involved in the anticipation and it sort of just crept up on me.

Got to the festival and had the best time of any festival that I've been to, perhaps it was the good weather, or the really good mdma my mate brought with him 😄 but even England getting thrashed 4-1 didn't down my spirits...I'm still convinced to this day that some of it was because I had paid so little attention to the line up, site build etc than normal that it exceeded expectation rather than not fulfilling it because of overloading my brain with Glastonbury excitement in the month or so beforehand.

Not sure if that makes sense but in my head it does. 🙂 

[Spindles]

14 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

By being active on Efestivals. Simple as that.

This.  The infectious mood of lots of enthusiastic people who are as happy to talk about every random detail of the festival rather than me blathering on to all and sundry about it.  Outside of this forum it feels like the only 2 subjects anyone has any interest in is (1) who are the pyramid headliners and (2) how difficult it is to get tickets and there are only so many times you can have that conversation.

[rubick]

1 minute ago, Spindles said:

This.  The infectious mood of lots of enthusiastic people who are as happy to talk about every random detail of the festival rather than me blathering on to all and sundry about it.  Outside of this forum it feels like the only 2 subjects anyone has any interest in is (1) who are the pyramid headliners and (2) how difficult it is to get tickets and there are only so many times you can have that conversation.

"You're going to Glastonbury?! Who's playing?"

"I mean..."

[Gnomicide]

5 hours ago, incident said:

By going to Bearded Theory.

Proper nice start to the Festival season, and being one of the easiest Festivals out there acts as a suitable measure of how badly my stamina levels have deteriorated and need to be improved over the next month.

The Glastonbury buildup proper starts after that.

Good warm up for the liver too.

 

I also get excited by manning a Glastonbury specific Twitter account that basically brings me Glastonbury talk 365 days a year on top of being logged in here but in the months leading up to the festival it really builds up the excitement levels and almost makes the impossible happen by turning Twitter into a nice place. 

[gooner1990]

I just realised I've got Liam Gallagher at Knebworth at the start of June and I'm staying over in their official campsite so will give the fresh and black an early airing!

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

8 minutes ago, gooner1990 said:

I just realised I've got Liam Gallagher at Knebworth at the start of June and I'm staying over in their official campsite so will give the fresh and black an early airing!

Didn’t realise you can camp, I’m going on the Saturday and I think it’s sold out (camping that is) but at a quick glance, am I right in saying it’s £55 each to camp?!

[Quark]

A bit controversial, but I'm trying NOT to get too excited this year. Every year I fall in the trap of hyping it up to something that reality can never possibly match, and I did it so much for Beautiful Days last year (as the first festival back) that it actually ended up having a negative effect on me while I was there.

So my plan is to keep listening to the lineup, start on the clashfinder, discuss travel and camping plans with my mates, and probably start the flavoured booze an my packing pile a bit earlier than usual so I'm not rushing it closer to the time. 

Going for a steady build up so I can enjoy it while I'm there instead of imagining the proverbial sunlit uplands and unicorns 😄

Edited April 26, 2022 by Quark

[FrancisH]

I come on here and convince myself the next area announcement / full line up / map is about to drop on the hour, have about 3 mins of disappointment when nothing happens, then hype myself up again at about ten to the following hour.

Rinse and repeat until I'm sat in a sunny field drinking cider.

[efcfanwirral]

56 minutes ago, Spindles said:

This.  The infectious mood of lots of enthusiastic people who are as happy to talk about every random detail of the festival rather than me blathering on to all and sundry about it.  Outside of this forum it feels like the only 2 subjects anyone has any interest in is (1) who are the pyramid headliners and (2) how difficult it is to get tickets and there are only so many times you can have that conversation.

Don't forget the toilets. There's always toilet comments

[Quark]

Just now, efcfanwirral said:

Don't forget the toilets. There's always toilet comments

And the mud.

[ErnestWorthing]

15 hours ago, nikkic said:

I watch Glasto related vlogs a few times per week in the run up, Barbster 360’s are my fave. 

I'm going pretty deep on the vlogs at the moment.  I saw one where they turned up on Friday and left after adele on the Saturday (20,000 views).  Another where they stayed in a manor house, did a tour of the site on Thursday, then went home again (200,000 views). Mind blowing that these people exist tbh.

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

4 minutes ago, ErnestWorthing said:

I'm going pretty deep on the vlogs at the moment.  I saw one where they turned up on Friday and left after adele on the Saturday (20,000 views).  Another where they stayed in a manor house, did a tour of the site on Thursday, then went home again (200,000 views). Mind blowing that these people exist tbh.

The first one is somewhat famous on here, I think I’ve seen the second one (does he turn up in a VW camper?) he does another where he goes with his girlfriend and stays in some sort of posh yurt. He’s recognisable but I’m not sure why.

I think I’ve seen just about every Glastonbury Vlog on YouTube, and I’m not even joking.

Edited April 26, 2022 by Deaf Nobby Burton

[balti-pie]

7 minutes ago, ErnestWorthing said:

I'm going pretty deep on the vlogs at the moment.  I saw one where they turned up on Friday and left after adele on the Saturday (20,000 views).  Another where they stayed in a manor house, did a tour of the site on Thursday, then went home again (200,000 views). Mind blowing that these people exist tbh.

you're going to have to link us up, i know/hate the first but the second sounds possibly even more infuriating