david dissadent
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Well that will cut down the number of card transactions they have to process and mean ticket sell out quicker, ofset against more tickets to sell.Tort said:
Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up
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madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Good quote WOW, and it sounds like me 
. Well, not that bad really......
Anyhooo, just done our reg and between me and hub which I registered one after the other, there are 145 people registered. Bloody hell. Hope that includes peeps typing at the control centre!
. Well, not that bad really......Anyhooo, just done our reg and between me and hub which I registered one after the other, there are 145 people registered. Bloody hell. Hope that includes peeps typing at the control centre!
david dissadent
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not with the quantity of mushrooms Ill be consuming.
Just felt the need to clarify that it wasn't actually me who postd that 'Posted elsewhere' quote, erm, 'elsewhere' 
Was someone else who I don't know, but he raises an interesting point ... <strokes imaginary beard ... >
<plans, with a timetable, to discuss pros and cons of his points anally and organisedly and planning-aheadly ...
>
at self ...
Was someone else who I don't know, but he raises an interesting point ... <strokes imaginary beard ... >
<plans, with a timetable, to discuss pros and cons of his points anally and organisedly and planning-aheadly ...
> at self ...
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
It's interesting, but with progressive Glastonburys (-ies??) I've moved further and further away from having any kind of an itinerary.
But I do try and wear sensible footwear. That's just, well, sensible...
Different name, moved elsewhere, not identifiable under that name, these days
Not when the 'Warminster Weed Warriors' were there in their truck in the campsite with a small sound system , a good few years ago!!
(agreed Larmer Tree has got much more mainstream and less freakout-friendly more recently)
madamv said:Actually, sounds like the Larmar Tree Festival..............
Not when the 'Warminster Weed Warriors' were there in their truck in the campsite with a small sound system
, a good few years ago!! (agreed Larmer Tree has got much more mainstream and less freakout-friendly more recently)
"My AK rig goes boom-boom" ... 
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Undoubtedly a silly question, but: on the postal registration form it asks me to "Affix 2 unused 32p first class stamps in the space provided". But, um, affix with what...? 
Normally I'd use a paperclip but it's got two little boxes for the stamps saying "Please place your first '1st Class' Stamp here".
What am I missing?
Normally I'd use a paperclip but it's got two little boxes for the stamps saying "Please place your first '1st Class' Stamp here".What am I missing?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I was thinking of employing two ants to hold them in place. One sugarcube should be ample payment, and I'm sure the people at Glasto Admin HQ would find use for two eager workers once they're done holding my stamps.
Lord Camomile said:Undoubtedly a silly question, but: on the postal registration form it asks me to "Affix 2 unused 32p first class stamps in the space provided". But, um, affix with what...?
What am I missing?
Just lick 'em & stick 'em. They're still valid as long as they're not franked.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Ahhh, cheers
An fair number of people will be registering on spec, or on a 'just in case I can make it/afford it' basis (as insurance). Not all of those will be able to go, some will 'just realise' that they've got a wedding or stag/hen party or something on that weekend. Possibly even their own . Some people really are unbelievably disorganised about dates and arrangements.
OK that type will be in a minority, but I can't believe a totally insignificant one. There'll be reasons why not all people who register will even get as far as trying to get a ticket.
. Some people really are unbelievably disorganised about dates and arrangements.OK that type will be in a minority, but I can't believe a totally insignificant one. There'll be reasons why not all people who register will even get as far as trying to get a ticket.
For once, nothing to say about Glastonbury, but this thread was on page 2 and that's wrong! 
david dissadent
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Gonna feel like that when some chav emo kid has a ticket and you dont?William of Walworth said:For once, nothing to say about Glastonbury, but this thread was on page 2 and that's wrong!
Not even going to try and answer that ...
The thread was on page 2 again, and I've rebumped it, but this time also to say that with the able assistance of my technical advisor (ie helping with the photography side) , I am now registered
Not far short of 110,000 people registered now ...
The thread was on page 2 again, and I've rebumped it, but this time also to say that with the able assistance of my technical advisor (ie helping with the photography side)
, I am now registered Not far short of 110,000 people registered now ...
david dissadent
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Well let me be the bearer of bad news. The tipi fields are outside the festival fence this year or some shit.
david dissadent said:
This has been known in outline for a while and has already been talked about earlier up this thread. What I'm picking up (from kerplunk over yonder, he also posts here occasionally, too) is that their field will be just outside the fence by the old railway line (where this leaves the site near Lost Vagueness). The implication appears to be that ther'll be an extra staffed entrance at this point for easy in and outness of legit people (guess there'd have to be a security presence there too!!
). I can't see how arrangements could be done otherwise if that rumour of location is right -- kp's pretty well informed, but we await more information. If there was no gate there, the tipi folks and their visitors would have to walk a huge distance round to get there ...It is undisputably the case that the tipi field has been growing a lot in recent festivals, maybe they genuinely need the expansion place in a quieter field.
david dissadent
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Tipis getting managed like punters at Womad or Reading, well some say they wanted a bigger more secluded space.....
The More I think about it, these ID cards, with those unsmiling images of self that you need to have in order to get hold of a ticket, combined with the fact that data on those cards means whoever has access to that data can get my name, birth date, place of residence and bank details inside a few minutes, is a real turn-off. Glasters was about freedom when first I encountered it, and I loved and still love that festival. I stuck with the event as the fences went up and licenses grew harder to secure, I stuck with the place because I loved its sense of freedom.
But what's so free about the ID card described? Wandering round with that kind of information fed into the Glastonbury ticket machine doesn't feel like freedom. And the idea that the places that in recent years meant the most to me, for example, the tipi field are to be slowly evicted from the main site ("Hippy healing? Outside the gate, near the camper vans, at top, near the ticket-less chavs and the toilets..") Well news of that really isn't a loyalty-inducing factor.
it's so terribly depressing, but at my most "to the stones" moment, as I sit there in memory of the fire jugglers, drummers and dancers and munted people by firelight waiting for the dawn, as I sit in my memory of that place, I find myself thinking: "This was the Field of Avalon, where is freedom now?"
I really dislike reductions of freedom. Freedom is precious. It is rare in a consensus society, and now a little more of it seems gone.
But what's so free about the ID card described? Wandering round with that kind of information fed into the Glastonbury ticket machine doesn't feel like freedom. And the idea that the places that in recent years meant the most to me, for example, the tipi field are to be slowly evicted from the main site ("Hippy healing? Outside the gate, near the camper vans, at top, near the ticket-less chavs and the toilets..") Well news of that really isn't a loyalty-inducing factor.
it's so terribly depressing, but at my most "to the stones" moment, as I sit there in memory of the fire jugglers, drummers and dancers and munted people by firelight waiting for the dawn, as I sit in my memory of that place, I find myself thinking: "This was the Field of Avalon, where is freedom now?"
I really dislike reductions of freedom. Freedom is precious. It is rare in a consensus society, and now a little more of it seems gone.
newbie
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No.
But it has occupied a particular spot in the British cultural landscape, a big chunk of which is the whole anti-commerce greenfields vibe, almost exemplified by the romance of the tipis and those that live in them. Each successive year dilutes the distance between the festival and the commercial mainstream, and the tipis are a reflection of that.
First they were herded together into an exclusive field- some called it an elite area, some compared it with the heritage industry, bait for tourists with cameras - and then they started renting spaces to rich wannabees, giving hoteliers their first foothold at the festival, which has subsequently been exploited in Lost Vagueness and behind the Pyramid.
I don't know why they're moving outside the fence- maybe they want privacy or maybe bedspace demand exceeds supply and they want to build a gated holiday camp.
But it has occupied a particular spot in the British cultural landscape, a big chunk of which is the whole anti-commerce greenfields vibe, almost exemplified by the romance of the tipis and those that live in them. Each successive year dilutes the distance between the festival and the commercial mainstream, and the tipis are a reflection of that.
First they were herded together into an exclusive field- some called it an elite area, some compared it with the heritage industry, bait for tourists with cameras - and then they started renting spaces to rich wannabees, giving hoteliers their first foothold at the festival, which has subsequently been exploited in Lost Vagueness and behind the Pyramid.
I don't know why they're moving outside the fence- maybe they want privacy or maybe bedspace demand exceeds supply and they want to build a gated holiday camp.
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I'm not sure where you're getting this from but it's a major exhaggeration on the actuality of the situation. We're not talking about ID cards just a photo on your ticket in order to make sure you are the person that bought said ticket. No need to give date of birth & the only bank details you give are the same as you would for any other transaction that you make over the internet. No registration data will be given to 3rd parties & all will be destroyed shortly after the festival. I can understand how some may still feel that this is an unecessary invasion on their personal rights but there's no need to make a bigger (brother) issue out of it than it really is.
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