The Weather Thread 2024

[rosieangel]

The 2019 rollercoaster where we went from the Somme to the Sahara makes me chuckle whenever I think about it, think we almost reached 300 pages or sth 

[Wooderson]

I broke more laws in the 90 mins it took me to get my car offsite in 2016 than collective years motoring before/since.

[CaledonianGonzo]

4 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

 

I've suppressed majority of memories from that weekend. They return to the surface whenever anyone shares that vid of Jez from WorthyFM tentatively toe-tapping at a patch of grass on site which is clearly floating on about 18 inches of bogwater.

 

Yeah, that was in the Friday  but the record also shows the site getting leathered most of the Monday and into Tuesday too. Twas but a fool's hope.

[Jacko45]

CURRENTLY ON-SITE

 

 

KINGDOM OF DUSSSSST

 

 

[Wooderson]

2016 had a similar stench of meh surrounding the line up too if im not mistaken.

 

[TiZuff]

12 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

 

I've suppressed majority of memories from that weekend. They return to the surface whenever anyone shares that vid of Jez from WorthyFM tentatively toe-tapping at a patch of grass on site which is clearly floating on about 18 inches of bogwater.

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[Glasto Weatherwatch]

13 minutes ago, The Nal said:

 

Wasn't there a load of "still time to dry out" merchants that year? 

Guilty. IIRC at one point it was looking pretty dry Tuesday onwards and I was thinking we might get the trampled flat springy mud by Sat / Sun. Lunacy in hindsight.

[Wooderson]

Just now, TiZuff said:

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HAHA!

 

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**existential shudder**

 

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[The Nal]

12 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

 

1 minute ago, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

Guilty. IIRC at one point it was looking pretty dry Tuesday onwards and I was thinking we might get the trampled flat springy mud by Sat / Sun. Lunacy in hindsight.

 

Haha. Lunacy is what this thread is about.

 

Lunacy in Hindsight would also be a great name for an album. 

 

But 16 yeah. Remember being in the breakfast room in our B&B in Taunton and Kay Burley coming on the telly telling us to stay put. 

 

Id still take 2016 over 2007 or 2011.

[CaledonianGonzo]

10 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

2016 had a similar stench of meh surrounding the line up too if im not mistaken.

 

 

Lots of good things in hindsight- ZZ Top, Kamasi Washington, Art Garfunkel, Ronnie Spector, Chris, etc

[Wooderson]

1 minute ago, The Nal said:

 

 

Haha. Lunacy is what this thread is about.

 

Lunacy in Hindsight would also be a great name for an album. 

 

But 16 yeah. Remember being in the breakfast room in our B&B in Taunton and Kay Burley coming on the telly telling us to stay put. 

 

Id still take 2016 over 2007 or 2011.

 

Unless im wide of the mark did it not "largely dry out" by Sunday in '11? The Sunday in 2016 was awful.

[tigger123]

1 minute ago, Wooderson said:

 

Unless im wide of the mark did it not "largely dry out" by Sunday in '11? The Sunday in 2016 was awful.

Yeah it was definitely trainer weather on Sunday 2011, when Paul Simon was on it was scorching! 

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

5 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Id still take 2016 over 2007 or 2011.

 

I still think one of the enduring Glastonbury myths is that 2008 ticket sales were slow because of Jay-Z and Emily 'rebooting the festival'. I went with a group of about 35 in 2007, and it was so awful only four of us returned in 2008. 

[Wooderson]

I can't get with the 2016 apologists.

 

'Orrible bunch o'lads. Muteblock accordingly folks.

[rostro]

1 minute ago, tigger123 said:

Yeah it was definitely trainer weather on Sunday 2011, when Paul Simon was on it was scorching! 

It was pretty much dried out by the time of Pulp's secret set on Saturday, I think.

[TiZuff]

remember walking from other stage to the railway track and it being so f**king difficult. that walk should take .... 1min tops? it took 10mins. especially the slope going up. f**king hell. 

Edited June 21, 2024 by TiZuff

[Wooderson]

1 minute ago, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

 

I still think one of the enduring Glastonbury myths is that 2008 ticket sales were slow because of Jay-Z and Emily 'rebooting the festival'. I went with a group of about 35 in 2007, and it was so awful only four of us returned in 2008. 

 

Took me 5 years and a campervan to return after 1997.

[al_coholic]

4 minutes ago, tigger123 said:

Yeah it was definitely trainer weather on Sunday 2011, when Paul Simon was on it was scorching! 

It was, but the humidity was terrible and so was Paul Simon

[The Nal]

10 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

 

Unless im wide of the mark did it not "largely dry out" by Sunday in '11? The Sunday in 2016 was awful.

 

Yeah was mud crackingly dry by Sunday in 2011 but we all got pissed on arriving and setting up. It was a mudbath in places and the rain ruined Friday and Friday night. Remember eating curry chips after U2 and after 30 seconds it was a rain curry.

 

I dont remember any heavy rain in 2016 when the music was on anyway.

 

Ill take a muddy fest with no rain over a fest with torrential rain on arrival and during the headliners any day. 

 

  

7 minutes ago, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

 

I still think one of the enduring Glastonbury myths is that 2008 ticket sales were slow because of Jay-Z and Emily 'rebooting the festival'. I went with a group of about 35 in 2007, and it was so awful only four of us returned in 2008. 

 

Yes similar in our group. I went to Rock Am Ring instead. 

 

The 08 lineup was a complete binfire mind you.

Edited June 21, 2024 by The Nal

[HuggyBear70]

3 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

It was, but the humidity was terrible and so was Paul Simon

Very true

[briddj]

12 minutes ago, tigger123 said:

Yeah it was definitely trainer weather on Sunday 2011, when Paul Simon was on it was scorching! 

 

Sun came out for Friendly Fires on the Saturday afternoon and it stayed out.

 

2011 had a tough first half but everyone was in trainers on the Sunday.

[Acid_Haze]

Funny that the last rainy glastonbury's were 2016 and 2011. I blame Coldplay

[Glasto Weatherwatch]

I have a vivid memory of huddling against the Garlic Guzzler van in 2007 in absolutely lashing sideways rain while The Automatic played Monster or some such sh*t and thinking 'I'd rather be at work'.

 

[Jacko45]

Just now, Glasto Weatherwatch said:

I have a vivid memory of huddling against the Garlic Guzzler van in 2007 in absolutely lashing sideways rain while The Automatic played Monster or some such sh*t and thinking 'I'd rather be at work'.

 

 

That made me LOL

 

The fact you had to say the only Automatic song anybodys ever heard too. 

[Wooderson]

3 minutes ago, Acid_Haze said:

Funny that the last rainy glastonbury's were 2016 and 2011. I blame Coldplay

 

Those two particularly bad but both '14 and '15 were "muddy" years.