Glastonbury : WTF have I done!!!!

[penrhos]

Anyone here managed to get tickets?

Resale was this morning and I failed to get past holding page for friends/wife.

Fortunately I grabbed a ticket for myself in the Coach resale Thursday, but that does mean I'm going on my own and will be camping in a tent for the first time in 35 years....

Wife wouldn't go unless we could take the Campervan so as we failed in the main sale in October today was her only chance for a ticket.

I'm happy to have a ticket but shi**ing bricks over being in a tent for 4 nights/days in what always looks like a refugee camp.

 

[Flinnster]

No luck here. Seeing that 'enter your details' page is basically a chocolate-unicorn-poo-urban-myth for me. I've never seen it in years of trying!

 

[jimmerd]

You will have a great time, probably make friends with those camping nearby.

Do get there early in the week and camp away from the popular places and avoid anywhere that's going to be come a 'thru' route. The number of people they let in these days is a bit silly, it's overcrowded.

Also be aware stuff stays open after 1am, which means a lot more people are wandering around rather than sitting around the campfire and chilling out. I feel sorry for the bands that have the morning slots.

 

[penrhos]

This is my sixth in a row, but I've always gone in a Campervan and parked in East CV.

Coach package leaves Leicester on the Thursday (by which time the best spots will be gone) - so it'll be avoid the thoroughfares and keep well away from taps/bogs and hope it doesn't become a mud-bath like last year.

might try to sneak into family camping fields, need to be away from Arcadia & Pyramid stage areas so can get some kip.

 

[jimmerd]

I'm less worried now you said you have been there before and know what to expect!.

jimmerd2017-04-23 21:28:10

 

[karlcdoe]

Haven't been there for about 7 years but... it's generally fun apart from the toilets which are deplorable although there is a stream that you are not supposed to use but as you can imagine people do. If it rains it will be muddy, very muddy and you'll probably want to leave out that huge collection of tinned soup you were indending to live on when you realise how far you have to carry your stuff.

You will be woken up by some tool selling milk from the farm first thing in the morning. You will find the odd secret gig, things will be open super late, there is (was?) some crazy 'industrial' themed area with robot sculptures, flames and the odd coin op off the railway track. There is (was?) also the circus area called Bellas Field that has a mad showman type vibe to it that might make an arcade bod feel at home. You can also 'enjoy' being lobbied by greenpeace volunteers and then laugh as you later watch them dismantle their signage with battery powered screwdrivers instead of good old hand tools or a brace.

 

[RolyRetro]

Good luck, I shall be watching Glastonbury live on a 65 inch TV on BBC4! Some of the atmosphere / better view of the band / less sleeping in an open sewer.

I think if I was doing it I'd have to go posh or rent a motor home as couldn't face slumming it in a tent.

But you go for it mate!

 

[penrhos]

Even using the campervan is grim - It's a good 40 minutes walk back into the site so you tend to go in after breakfast and not leave until you can't stand it anymore (so about 3AM for me). The music never really stops so even when you're in the van you can hear the constant thump of EDM/D&B in the background.

The long-drops are disgusting when its cold and damp but if its hot you can smell them from 50 yards away and using them makes your eyes burn.

but its Glasto - four whole days/nights you can escape reality and bimble around doing stuff you're just not allowed to do otherwise.

Yes I'll go, Yes I'll suffer, but I'll still be gutted if I don't get tickets for the next one (in 2019 - next year it's not on as its a fallow year for farm).

 

[frothmeister]

I wouldn't even consider going to a festival UNLESS I was camping.

I don't think I could do a massive one these days though. Way too many teenagers. I can tolerate them far less than having a crap nights sleep.