Glastonbury 2005

[sovietpop]

Here's something new & wonderful for all you Glasto historians.

150 colour pics from Glasto 1971

Brilliant!

lovely photos, there really was a lot more hair around in the 70s wasn't there. I think it makes people look older than they probably were.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I loved the pics too - we're not going this year because of the Unsound holiday, but we are tempted by Womad.

 

[aqua]

but we are tempted by Womad.

ditto

 

[William of Walworth]

nothing to do with being negative, we just don't have the funds to buy tickets

don't get me wrong, the idea of not going isn't attractive this is purely financial

"Something will turn up" -- Mr Micawber

Just go without food for a few months or something ...

 

[William of Walworth]

I loved the pics too - we're not going this year because of the Unsound holiday, but we are tempted by Womad.

WOMAD rules -- we're already booked. See you there!! Aqua too

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Just go without food for a few months or something ...

Not that easy - they don't take credit cards and we don't have the money now.

Barcelona here we come by the look of it

 

[Fuzzy]

Not that easy - they don't take credit cards and we don't have the money now.

Barcelona here we come by the look of it

you're just not wanting to put up shed loads of tents like last year.

[it is still muchly appreciated you doing mine]

 

[William of Walworth]

Posted on EFestivals by 'Tommy' ... it makes sense to me ...

I do think that is introducing a certain negative vibe. to be honest. It may be that, in their own minds, people are trying to come up with a way to dislike Glastonbury, so that either they don't need to bother trying for tickets, or that it won't hurt as much if they don't manage to get tickets. I honestly think that after the tickets have been sold, and those who didn't get one get it out of their system, the attitude on the board will pick up, and people will start to look forward to it properly,

Spot on ...

Not that easy - they don't take credit cards and we don't have the money now.

Barcelona here we come by the look of it

That going without food thing was a sort of joke, really ....

I hope something turns up for you by Sunday though ...

Otherwise, book WOMAD as soon as you have some £££s! Not a bad substitute at all ...

 

[moose]

According to my spy in Reading, Womad are bracing themselves for a flurry of ticket sales on Monday to unsuccessful Glasto applicants.

I'm quite ambivalent about Glasto at the mo, but I know if I don't get any, I'll have to leave the country whilst the Beeb live coverage is on every night.

 

[aqua]

According to my spy in Reading, Womad are bracing themselves for a flurry of ticket sales on Monday to unsuccessful Glasto applicants.

I'm quite ambivalent about Glasto at the mo, but I know if I don't get any, I'll have to leave the country whilst the Beeb live coverage is on every night.

can't we all just say we'll go to womad and focus energies on that

 

[William of Walworth]

According to my spy in Reading, Womad are bracing themselves for a flurry of ticket sales on Monday to unsuccessful Glasto applicants.

I'm quite ambivalent about Glasto at the mo, but I know if I don't get any, I'll have to leave the country whilst the Beeb live coverage is on every night.

To which this (just posted by me above) is relevant

do think that is introducing a certain negative vibe. to be honest. It may be that, in their own minds, people are trying to come up with a way to dislike Glastonbury, so that either they don't need to bother trying for tickets, or that it won't hurt as much if they don't manage to get tickets. I honestly think that after the tickets have been sold, and those who didn't get one get it out of their system, the attitude on the board will pick up, and people will start to look forward to it properly,

The ambivalence/negativity will dissipate when Ticket Hell has been successfully negotiated.

GOOD LUCK FOR SUNDAY EVERYBODY and stay positive!

 

[belboid]

GOOD LUCK FOR SUNDAY EVERYBODY and stay positive!

bloody hell.....sounds more like preparations for going over the top at the somme than for trying to get a gig ticket!

 

[William of Walworth]

bloody hell.....sounds more like preparations for going over the top at the somme than for trying to get a gig ticket!

Yer right, and I don't like it, but thats the way of it ..... once we're supping that first cider at the Bus on the Wednesday, we'll have forgotten about all the ticket hassle though ...

 

[Velouria]

Yer right, and I don't like it, but thats the way of it ..... once we're supping that first cider at the Bus on the Wednesday, we'll have forgotten about all the ticket hassle though ...

I won't have

In 2003 I got my ticket no hassle.

2004 - nightmare.

2005 - Worse, probably.

edit: I just found out the name of their new improved ticketing system:

Automated Logfiled Online User-facing Dynamically Autobalancing Re-entrant Electronic Cashless Uninterruprible Networked Ticketing System

 

[Tort]

 

[Velouria]

Love to see you again Tort (we briefly met in 2004 I think, you have a pic of me anyway ), maybe... see you on the other side.

Or I'll blag my way in... hmm my sister's ex is a copper... his uniform might about fit

 

[moose]

Unless your hair's drastically different from last year, it might be a bit of a giveaway, though

 

[Velouria]

Unless your hair's drastically different from last year, it might be a bit of a giveaway, though

Mmmm... all I need is the warrant card.... 'undercover work mate, huge ring from scotland, we're THIS close to Mr Big, he's well banged to rights if we get him with the gear, going down for a LOOOONG time...'

Has anyone got any scans of a warrant card? We've got a good colour printer at work, and a laminator...

 

[pennimania]

you're just not wanting to put up shed loads of tents like last year.

[it is still muchly appreciated you doing mine]

and mine

I am starting to get really worried now.

 

[Velouria]

Not that easy - they don't take credit cards and we don't have the money now.

Barcelona here we come by the look of it

Withdraw cash using credit card if you have a PIN for it (exorbitant tho), pay into bank account...?

Yeah despite everything in this day and age, that's the quickest and cheapest method to transfer money from one account to another

edit: or if can't withdraw cash on card, find sympathetic mate with a shop to bill your CC 2xtickets worth money and give you cash as a 'refund'?

 

[pennimania]

Withdraw cash using credit card if you have a PIN for it (exorbitant tho), pay into bank account...?

Yeah despite everything in this day and age, that's the quickest and cheapest method to transfer money from one account to another

QUOTE]

Yes.

I was thinking about this last night and thought it might be the way out.

Come on bees and aqua!

we need you

 

[aqua]

my cards are maxed out and so is bees

I'm raiding the penny pot whilst ignoring thoughts about barcelona

 

[pennimania]

my cards are maxed out and so is bees

I'm raiding the penny pot whilst ignoring thoughts about barcelona

Isn't going to Barcelona more expensive than Glasto? and you can still do that later in the year - remember no Glasto next year!

 

[William of Walworth]

my cards are maxed out and so is bees

I'm raiding the penny pot whilst ignoring thoughts about barcelona

There MUST be a way round this purely temporary money shortage thing!!!!

Good luck ...

 

[aqua]

its not temporary will thats the bloody problem

we are trying though

 

[Hollis]

Jesus.. i have to decide this weekend. Anyone know what the policy on refunds is if you change your mind?

 

[doofusclam]

really? How interesting. The story I had heard was that it was a separate server for EMAP employees (of which Aloud is I believe a subsidiary) to get their tickets. This of course makes me all paranoid, doesn't it, because who's telling the truth?

As for the technical aspects, if it was supposed to be in a load balanced arrangement... then you can't even get that right? Even DNS round-robin balancing would have been better than nothing... but when this fancy load-balancing fell over the admins did... Nothing. Even I could have done a better job.

Talking about the techie aspects, I'm a system administrator with 7 years' experience on NT/2000/XP/2003 systems, 4 years experience on VMS, 3 years' experience on Unix (mostly HP-UX), and other odds and ends. Do you happen to work for aloud at all? Well then I have a question. What exactly broke that 'load balancing' and if freya was supposed to be load-balanced with the one server that did end up taking all the strain then why was not even the SIMPLEST STEP taken towards fixing the problem by also assigning freya the DNS name www.way-ahead.com? Or secure.way-ahead.com. Whatever it was. You see now why I don't believe you as doing that would have been an absolute piece of piss, and no one did it.



Because I'm incensed at Aloud, and I can't believe GF are still going to be using this shower of shite to sell this years' tickets. Because in 2003 when there were multiple ticket agencies, I just went to Ticketmaster (iirc) and got mine no hassle. Because it is getting increasingly harder and harder to get the bloody things, and this stupid bloody war against touts is the source of the whole problem.

Go on then, out of all the Glastonbury tickets sold in 2003, can someone tell me how many of those were touted on? Are we talking a significant proportion or something meagre like 10%? 5%? These ridiculous anti-touting measures have resulted in the situation we now find ourselves in where it's a mad scramble for tickets cause if you don't get em when they are on sale ... cause they are personalised... you're fucked.

Anyway the policy is about stirring up board wars and nowhere on there did I mention anything that would link the two boards. Apart from my comment here, and my username.

Apologies for the late reply - I changed my u75 email address (ain't been here for a while, moose, or those other sites come to think of it) but didn't get the confirm email, so my username was put on hold. I think thats why I didn't show up in the user list.

No, I don't work for aloud - like many of you lot I spent 14 hours on the phone/'puter last year before my mate in stafford eventually got through. My issue was mainly with your remark about stirring up shit - there's no need for it, and with the stereotypical rant against meeja types - who I don't give a fuck about to be fair, but it just seemed out of place in a glasto thread.

re the techie details - i'm going to resist turning it into a "i' have more geeky experience than you" pissing contest, but all I remember is trying to get through on the net from 4 locations - my girlfriends house, mine, work and a mates. Between them I saw three different endpoints for the http requests, and it looked to me like a load balancer. Which is indeed what you'd expect to see. You also can't blame some of the errors on aloud - I administer our work network and webservers, and my contact at our ISP said that BTs Colossus (IP) network was taking a right kicking that night, so with all these variables it seems reasonable to me to forget about last years debacle and hope they have learned from it, rather than turn the fact you couldn't get through into a rant against <insert stereotype here>

That said, i'm with you on their techies being shit. Not because they ran the site on IIS, but because they had obviously done no proper system testing - it's one thing being unable to connect, but whebn you could some users were let down (I suspect) by their database which is as likely to keel over as the web servers depending on how they handle the concurrent connections. I can only say this authoritatively because the same happened to me at work last week with a customers system (a major irish bookmaker). Again, all we can hope is that they have learned from it.

Apologies for the ramble. Hope we both get our tickets this time!

 

[mr steev]

Jesus.. i have to decide this weekend. Anyone know what the policy on refunds is if you change your mind?

You cannot change who the ticket is for. Ticket orders can be cancelled and ticket price refunded until 6.00pm on May 13th.

 

[Relahni]

Not sure if we are going - gonna decide on Saturday.

I guess that babies get in free?

 

[doofusclam]

Not sure if we are going - gonna decide on Saturday.

I guess that babies get in free?

Under 12s do I think.