Glastonbury 2005: so who's going?!

[William of Walworth]

i think this is my 14th but i really can't be arsed to count.

william - i've been to everyone since 1987 (inclusive) apart from 2002, so how many is that? the fallow years confuse

OK Festographers hat on

1987
[1988 was fallow -- I THINK!!]
1989
1990
[1991 -- fallow definitely]
1992
1993
1994
1995
[1996 -- fallow definitely]
1997
1998
1999
2000
[2001 -- fallow definitely, and painfully -- it was a heatwave late June that year! ]
2002
2003
2004

This year is 2005 I think! so it may well be your FIFTEENTH then ...

I'm jealous of all those wild years 1987-1993 that you went to

 

[belboid]

[1988 was fallow -- I THINK!!]

deffo fallow - twas my graduation year, and a right pisser that we couldn't celebrate it in style!

I'm jealous of all those wild years 1987-1993 that you went to

naaah, they weren't really that wild.

Honest

 

[Bob]

I'll be there with four very good friends - bringing them all to the urban encampment.

I'm intending to go down for early Wednesday morning to put up the tents for my mates and generally relax from early on - anyone got a spare space going down?

 

[newbie]

<resolves never to buy second hand car from belboid>

 

[Pieface]

its just occurred to me my work pass mgiht arrive whilst i'm in italy - and as i only have 2 days turnaround before i leave for site thats a bit sharp if i dont have the pass.

wiskers

this has occurred to and concerned me a tad aswell.....are you leaving on saturday?

 

[mr steev]

Looks like I can't count and this will be my 13th!
Oooh, unlucky. Maybe I should stay at home... or maybe not

 

[ddraig]

voted for the blag option but it's a working one!

still waiting to hear as it's not definite

<crosses everything while touching all wood in room>

 

[the B]

My ticket has arrived

 

[J77]

Blimey, there's enough people from here going!

I'll definitely make an effort to come wander by the U75 camp this year

 

[JTG]

So, where to camp? Crew area or with you lot?

 

[William of Walworth]

Blimey, there's enough people from here going!

I'll definitely make an effort to come wander by the U75 camp this year

Failing that, there'll be an Urbanite Cider Bus meet from around 8 pm or so on Wednesday and Thursday night ... well maybe a little later than 8 but whatever ...

 

[wiskey]

this has occurred to and concerned me a tad aswell.....are you leaving on saturday?

yeah prolly, not entirely sure. possibly friday

 

[wiskey]

So, where to camp? Crew area or with you lot?

pie eye & i will be up in toms field with the occasional forray into the festival i think.

there are pro's & cons to staying up at the top - your stuff is safer, its less far to walk to work, you're there in case they change anything or need to give you information, you bond with your fellow oxfamites etc. however its at the top of a bloody steep hill, none of your mates can come back and visit you, its full of people working, and its a little steralised. but it has hot showers.

wiskers

 

[wiskey]

Look at it this way: the first few is novelty, the next few habit, then nostalgia. After that it's purely sad, demonstrating a complete lack of imagination and an inability to grow up

and a cold terror at having to find something else to do that w/e every year

(i think this is oficially 20 and unoficially 21 for me)

 

[Onket]

(i think this is oficially 20 and unoficially 21 for me)

Excuse the ignorance but how do you get an official figure and an unofficial figure?!

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Well i first went to glasto in 1995 as a wide eyed 15yr old.. so this will be my 10yr anniversery!! Got the most amount of people coming too ever this time including lots of glasto virgins! I cant wait to see the looks on thier faces when they see the place I went 95,99,02,03,04 so this will be my sixth time!

I have failed to meet urbanites everytime.. maybe this time

 

[Jazzz]

I think I'm going!

Not 100% sure yet though, the funds haven't gone from my account yet, and I only just put them in. But they've said it all looks ok

 

[Tort]

Excuse the ignorance but how do you get an official figure and an unofficial figure?!

I know! I know!

 

[JTG]

pie eye & i will be up in toms field with the occasional forray into the festival i think.

there are pro's & cons to staying up at the top - your stuff is safer, its less far to walk to work, you're there in case they change anything or need to give you information, you bond with your fellow oxfamites etc. however its at the top of a bloody steep hill, none of your mates can come back and visit you, its full of people working, and its a little steralised. but it has hot showers.

wiskers

Yeah, I figured most of that.

I also am reckoning that after getting there, registering etc etc I'm not gonna be arsed enough to walk all the way down to the bottom of the site to set up shop there.

Tom's Field probably unless anyone's so desperate for me to be at camp Urban then

 

[Firky]

I think I'm going!

Not 100% sure yet though, the funds haven't gone from my account yet, and I only just put them in. But they've said it all looks ok

I got no idea how im getting there or what Im going to do when I get there, for ages. My mates don't come down with the tent for a couple of days

kinda cool in a way, good way to meet people - I just walk around with a grin and accent, that gets me through all sortsa shit lol

So... no money, no means to get there, but I got a ticket. How long will it take to walk? Portsmouth to Glastonbury... anyone got a post code for the campsite?

 

[Firky]

Well i first went to glasto in 1995 as a wide eyed 15yr old.. so this will be my 10yr anniversery!! Got the most amount of people coming too ever this time including lots of glasto virgins! I cant wait to see the looks on thier faces when they see the place I went 95,99,02,03,04 so this will be my sixth time!

I have failed to meet urbanites everytime.. maybe this time

I went to V95 instead - DOH!

 

[newbie]

I know! I know!

how?

 

[wiskey]

Excuse the ignorance but how do you get an official figure and an unofficial figure?!

you take the first figure, which is 20, which is how many festivals i've been to. then you add the second figure, 1, which is the amount of party/festivals i've had on site in non festival years (held for and by production staff (there has only been one i know of)).

 

[Onket]

you take the first figure, which is 20, which is how many festivals i've been to. then you add the second figure, 1, which is the amount of party/festivals i've had on site in non festival years (held for and by production staff (there has only been one i know of)).

I see.

 

[J77]

Bump cos it's that time

 

[tastebud]

yay!

you guys must all be going soon

i'm going on friday... speaking of which, must book the train ticket

i reeeeally can't wait to have lots of fun!

 

[Onket]

Well i first went to glasto in 1995 as a wide eyed 15yr old.. so this will be my 10yr anniversery!! Got the most amount of people coming too ever this time including lots of glasto virgins! I cant wait to see the looks on thier faces when they see the place I went 95,99,02,03,04 so this will be my sixth time!

I've only just registered what you put there bouncer.

I went to my first one in 1995 (I was 17), it was brilliant, then again in 1999, & 2000. I tried to go in 2002 too but failed, ended up on that old airfield in Smeatharpe (which was quality by the way). While I was at Glastonbury in 2002 I was shocked at the type of people I saw there, the lack of atmosphere & any apparent noise after about midnight/1am. It seemed odd and not like Glastonbury at all to me. I said I wouldn't go again but now I am missing it.

Have you noticed any similar changes? Should I go again or will I just be dissappointed?

EDIT> I ask cos we seem to have been there at similar times/ages.

 

[J77]

I first went in '92 as a 15 y/o.

The sketchyness has definitely gone and the characters which went with it - I loved it back then though, was mental.

It's definitely a safer place these days - which is nice as one gets older

 

[Onket]

which is nice as one gets older

This is what I need to remember perhaps!!!!!!!

 

[tastebud]

haven't been since '97, so v excited!