I’m so sorry to hear this Yog. From experience, loosing a parent sucks. I hope you’re finding the collective love and good thoughts here comforting. Get stuck into the line up and the build up 🙂
Yep.
Dropouts like Ethel Cain are beyond the festival's control, but the likelihood of those dropouts occurring is why festivals can't afford self-inflicted screw-ups with stages seeing other acts cancelled on top of that.
Especially in a context where the festival was both truncated _and_ more expensive this year.
Yeah, I did a lot of trudging along the path between Gate A and Woodsies, it was a quagmire the whole festival, same with Silver Hayes. Nothing an ankle high walking boot would baulk at, mind, just sticky, claggy mud that clings to the boot and sucks wellies off like a daytime hooker.
I did the overnight queue, in the pissing rain, in 2016. Pitching my tent there was an inch or two of surface water where I was. That was literally the worst of it. What rain there was in 2016 after the Wednesday wasn't so heavy, but it came at a frequency that prevented the army of walkers from packing it down.
Compare that to, say, 2011 when it absolutely f**ked it down most of Friday night but you could sit on the grass of the pyramid field by Saturday teatime because most of it was overnight and we stomped it all down through the day.
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.