Jump to content

Don't Miss a Beat

Join the UK's most passionate festival community. Keep up with the latest conversations, line-up rumours, and music news.

250,000+ Members

Connect with a massive network of fellow festival-goers.

Lively Discussions

Thousands of active topics on music, campsites, and tips.

Hot Rumours & News

Hear about secret sets and lineup drops before anyone else.

Create Free Account
OR
  • Sign Up!

    Join our friendly community of music lovers and be part of the fun 😎

Embrace missing out or hideaway?


Fred Zepplin

Recommended Posts

21 hours ago, Fred Zepplin said:

Congratulations to everyone who got tickets. I missed out for the first time since 2007. Well I didn’t go in 2019 but we had just had a baby so decided to give it a miss. 
For the ticketless will you be doing anything special for Glastonbury weekend and be watching everything available or pretending the whole thing isn’t happening?
My friends who have never been and don’t want to go have a party and get the projector set up outside. We’ve been I invited to go but at the moment I just want to pretend it’s not on this year 

Personally I paid no attention to it at all when I didn't get in, went down the Devon/Cornwall for the week and blocked it out. Out of sight/out of mind. I've not yet watched anything significant from that weekend. I did however really enjoy my days away doing something that I never had before that was a long time coming.

 

 

18 hours ago, Mardy said:

I didn't get a ticket last year, first time since 2007 and it was...fine. Got over the initial disappointment and moved on.

 

Didn't watch it on telly cos I'm never that fussed about watching music on TV, it always fails to capture the essence of it. And I'd never rewatched sets I was at when I got home anyway, so I definitely wasn't going to start watching sets I wasn't at. I'll be honest I can't remember what I did last year over Glastonbury weekend. Just got on with my life I guess. Was surprisingly painless. And decided against trying in the resale this year. Having broken the habit, much easier this year, things can exist without me being there. I'll live, the festival will continue. Current plan is to try on T-day this autumn and if that doesn't work, not bother with the resale.

 

Too much bloody vision – The Ed Techie

 

 

 

I am trying to go with that theory next year, should I fail, get in early and book a week away to some parts in England I never have, up to Scotland maybe or something, hire a car and do some northern trekking.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hiking in scotland would be a great way to ignore it all yknow. I've hiked the West highland way and the Speyside way in the last few years, and its been great - book up the accommodation well in advance, plot your route so you're not undertaking ridiculous distances, and its a brilliant way to spend a week. 

Start each day with a fryup, bit of hiking through some amazing countryside, about six hours a day/15 miles ish so room for afternoon nappage and a couple of pints with dinner somewhere, and then b&b/little hotel/pub rooms for a wonderful night's sleep and ready to do it all again the next day. Perhaps a little whisky here and there to aid your feet too!

If i were avoiding a glastonbury, thats precisely what i would do 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Personally, I choose to embrace. Leading up to the festival I watch vlogs of the years I went, looking out for things acts I saw and reminisce. I've already watched a couple from last year, currently watching the GnR set.

 

For the actual weekend I'll check in during the evening after the kids are in bed, crack open a couple of cans and catch up on highlights and then watch live.

 

At the end of the day, you tried your best to be there, and it's gutting to miss out, but you know you'll (very likely) get to go again and it was out of your control that you missed out this year.

 

You can avoid it too if that helps, but as others said, might just compound your misery even more. 

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 4/22/2024 at 12:28 PM, Fred Zepplin said:

Congratulations to everyone who got tickets. I missed out for the first time since 2007. Well I didn’t go in 2019 but we had just had a baby so decided to give it a miss. 
For the ticketless will you be doing anything special for Glastonbury weekend and be watching everything available or pretending the whole thing isn’t happening?
My friends who have never been and don’t want to go have a party and get the projector set up outside. We’ve been I invited to go but at the moment I just want to pretend it’s not on this year 

Each to their own - personally I think a combination of 'embrace', and also book something that weekend (a little holiday?) that makes you almost 'glad' you're not going to glasto. Something that you come back from going "that weekend was great, and I wouldn't have experienced that had I gone to glasto".

 

By the 'embrace' element, I mean - feel free to whack on a headliner in your holiday home, with your mates, catch up on iplayer sets later in the month...and just be grateful for the positives, that you're not camping in the cold and that you will be going to glasto at some point again in the future! Personally it'd feel worse if for me if I pretended it wasn't happening.

 

i think the party with your mates and a projector fits the bill on both accounts tbh - have a good laugh with your mates and enjoy the glasto music!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Fully embrace the TV! My whole family is going this year without me - I love Glasto but it's not something I want to do every single year. We get the projector out, BBQ on, COLD beers from a fridge and enjoy the easy access to my bathroom and hand washing facilities. See it as a weekend of cracking TV, bit like when there's a big sporting weekend except sport is sh*t and music is great....!

Edited by hannahlmoore
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 4 weeks later...
On 4/23/2024 at 3:15 PM, hannahlmoore said:

Fully embrace the TV! My whole family is going this year without me - I love Glasto but it's not something I want to do every single year. We get the projector out, BBQ on, COLD beers from a fridge and enjoy the easy access to my bathroom and hand washing facilities. See it as a weekend of cracking TV, bit like when there's a big sporting weekend except sport is sh*t and music is great....!

This for me.

gazebo and tent in garden, big order from burrow hill, get some like minded people around and enjoy it from home. Did it lockdown year and it’s not the same but at least it’s a chance to sit outside with a cider at 10am and not get bollocked. Finally accepted the fact today that it’s my first missed festival since 97, not a bad run, bring it on.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Every time I see this thread I think it’s about band choices! 😀

 

I’ve not missed one since I first went but I think I’d vote hide away, go on a holiday over Glasto week and get another different festival fix after. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 minutes ago, Lakey91 said:

Watching it on TV sucks, I tried this last year. You don't get any of the vibe or any of the bits that make glastonbury what it is. Book the time off work and go do something else!


I guess clashes are less of a problem watching on tv 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Latest Activity

    • Alkaline Trio 90 Barrington Levy 95 Basement Jaxx 120 Billy Bragg 100 Billy Ocean 100 The Black Keys 90 Carl Cox 100 Chase & Status 115 Chelsea Wolfe 80  CMAT 105 Confidence Man 150 MAX Dave 25 David Byrne 150  Disclosure 65  Everything Everything 105 Faithless 80  Fatboy Slim 100 Four Tet 125  Funeral for a Friend 45 Garbage 100 GOAT 105  Greentea Peng 120 Happy Mondays 80 Hollie Cook 90 Jorja Smith 100 José González 100 Joy Crookes 120  Judas Priest 90 Kasabian 80  Kneecap 110  The Last Dinner Party 15 Levellers 85  Limp Bizkit 35  Linkin Park 90 Lorde 120 Madness 75  The Maccabees 100 Neck Deep 135  Nile Rodgers & Chic 100 Overmono 100 Pixies 55 The Prodigy 140 Pulp 150 MAX RAYE 100 Ren 85 Richard Ashcroft 95  Say She She 85 Scissor Sisters 120 Self Esteem 120 Skunk Anansie 100 Stereolab 120  The Streets 110 Super Furry Animals 110 Tems 50  Thundercat 90 Tom Jones 70  Two Door Cinema Club 20 Tyler, the Creator 75 Underworld 115 Wet Leg 90  Wilco 85 (-10) The Wombats 90 Wolf Alice 135
    • Not necessarily but it should be, Download have a habit of messing it uo when others get the bookings on point. Good Charlotte I doubt are playing 3rd down and that too 3 that day while dreamy is too strong. I think you'd have one another day to help sell weekend tickets. I also doubt Papa Roach play. 
    • Here's a bit of a wild stab, few placings may be off, and for all I know half of these won't actually be touring next year, but screw it, it's a bit of fun   Pyramid: Sabrina Carpenter, Phoebe Bridgers, TBA (Florence + The Machine), Garbage, The Last Dinner Party, Interpol, Alex James Britpop Classical Other: Chase & Status, Teddy Swims, Clairo, The Kooks, Zara Larsson, Kingfishr, Sports Team, Orbital West Holts: Robyn, Baby Keem, De La Soul, Deltron 3030, JID, Dua Saleh, kwn, Daniela Latila Woodsies: Bonobo, Darkside, TBA (Tame Impala), Laufey, Warmduscher, Wednesday, The Lottery Winners, The Royston Club, Florence Road Park: Patti Smith, Super Furry Animals, Slayyyter, The Cardigans, Skye Newman, Kelly Lee Owens, Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers   Pyramid: Harry Styles, The xx, Richard Ashcroft, The Pogues, Jessie J, Sigrid, Travis Other: Rosalia, Sombr, Mitski, Alex Warren, Holly Humberstone, Cat Burns, Pale Waves, Yard Act West Holts: Basement Jaxx, Elyanna, Clipse, L’Imperatrice, Nation of Language, Jim Legxacy, Yazmin Lacey, RIP Magic Woodsies: Suede, Chvrches, Bleachers, MUNA, The Cribs, Keo, Bleech 9:3, The Lilacs Park: MARINA, Magdalena Bay, Jacob Alon, TBA (Lily Allen performs West End Girl), Getdown Services, Isaac Wood, Snail Mail, Madra Salach Pyramid: Sam Fender, Hozier, David Byrne, Cher, Obongjayar, David Gray, Billy Ocean Other: Doja Cat, Deftones, Addison Rae, Ren, Viagra Boys, Maisie Peters, The Reytons, Hard Life West Holts: Kano, Thievery Corporation, Angine De Poitrine, Thee Sacred Souls, Brooke Combe, Sasha Keable, Master Peace Woodsies: The Wombats, Metronomy, Geese*, Dry Cleaning, EsDeeKid, Sienna Spiro, Cowboy Hunters, Radio Free Alice Park: Big Thief, Laura Marling, MJ Lenderman, Richard Dawson, Oklou, Maruja, Dead Dads Club, Ratboys   *There's always one band booked for Woodsies that ends up being massively under-billed and gets shut down really early. They'd be better off playing somewhere like Other sub, but I could see the G getting them to play a smaller stage while it's still possible
    • Another Kraftwerk one for me today, as just back from seeing them.    
    • Completed my 2026 survey. Put down Super Furry Animals as my most wanted for next year but suspect the moment has gone for that. Popped a big shopping list in the box for who else you would like to see. 🙂
  • Featured Products

  • Hot Topics

  • Latest Tourdates

×
×
  • Create New...