Glastonbury 2005
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Getting tickets will be a pain, but using them will be a revelation!! 
No doubt any Urbanites who manage it will get down the Cider Bus the first evening there, for a timely meetup ...
W of W (planning his eleventh Glasto ...
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No doubt any Urbanites who manage it will get down the Cider Bus the first evening there, for a timely meetup ...
W of W (planning his eleventh Glasto ...
)
Tort said:*Wonders whether Mrs Tort would be amiable towards him heading westwards a day or two earlier this year*
There's a rumour of somewhere called the Riflemans Arms in the town : despite the name, reassuringly hippyish and cider dominated, apparantly
Never spent any time in the town, so all this I'm looking forward to ...
Changes to Glasto 2005 license application
Nothing too drastic!
The license application for Glasto 2005 is scheduled to happen on Monday 17th January. In advance of that, a public meeting was held in Pilton village <subsequent embarassed edit : it wasn't at Pilton, but many Piltonites were at the meeting actually held at Mendip's head offices, not sure where they are
> last night (Thursday 6th January).
This news posted on EFestivals
No time for me at the moment to add any comments .....
Bosses etc . ....
Nothing too drastic!
The license application for Glasto 2005 is scheduled to happen on Monday 17th January. In advance of that, a public meeting was held in Pilton village <subsequent embarassed edit : it wasn't at Pilton, but many Piltonites were at the meeting actually held at Mendip's head offices, not sure where they are
> last night (Thursday 6th January).This news posted on EFestivals
A public meeting was held tonight at Mendip District Council's offices, prior to the actual Public Entertainments Licence hearing on 17th January, when hopefully the licence will be granted. The meeting gave locals a chance to voice concerns and reservations about the proposed 2005 festival, and to say what worked well and what not so well.
First, the Council's Senior Environmental Health Officer, Chris Malcolmson, briefly ran through what was in the licence application for this year, and highlighted a few changes.
He confirmed that the application was again for 150,000, broken down as last year with 112,500 weekend tickets on general sale, 3,500 Sunday tickets for locals, and 34,000 passes for performers, staff, etc. The site will open as last year at 10am on the Wednesday.
The main changes to this year's application are to do with the arrangements for noise control. It's all been overhauled, to minimise the impact of off-site noise. There were violations to the licence last year for which the Festival's licensee and operational director Melvin Benn could have been prosecuted. These were the first since Melvin’s involvement started for the 2002 Festival, and only recently the council decided it wasn't in the public interest to prosecute, confident of improvements for this year.
Melvin said that within this licence application "this year we’ve been very specific about when entertainment starts and finishes". He commented that none of the entertainment was much different than in previous years, they were just giving a greater transparency.
Michael Eavis ... off to a rave?
There's been a re-categorisation, grouping things into principle stages, lesser stages, other areas and markets, and Lost Vagueness, and each group has their own defined operating times.
The main entertainment is again from 10am until 00:30 on Friday and Saturday, and until midnight on Sunday. Included is a period from 1pm until 00:30 on Thursday, when only the Radio 1 stage will be operating.
The Radio 1 and Glade stages will close at 00:30 Friday and Saturday, and midnight on Sunday. All bars and the markets are also noise-restricted to these times, and Leftfield will go ambient from after those times.
The Glade Stage is to move into the new dance area where the New Tent was previously sited. This new dance area will include a big dance tent, and also several small dance tents too (possibly label-themed tents). In the Glade (under the trees) they'll be a late ambient session, operating in a similar way to how it did in 2002 & 2003.
Bar Solar, which was a source of noise problems last year, won't be there this year. And to show they mean business with this, any backstage sound systems will also be monitored.
Thankfully, Lost Vagueness is designated as open 24 hours (until 8am Monday) – although Melvin did say that they would close for a few hours each day, in the mornings. The Festival has had to get undertakings from those living nearest to Lost Vagueness, stating that they have no objections to these arrangements.
Outside the fence, in Pilton Village there's to be noise stewards, to monitor sound through the night – they'll immediately inform the Festival if necessary so that action can be taken.
As to the public using their voice, there wasn't too much said. One man commented on the policing, believing that Avon and Somerset Police weren't impartial – he felt uncomfortable about them being paid by the Festival to police the Festival. But at the same time, he objected to costs being borne by the ratepayer.
A 21 year old female spoke in support of the Festival, commenting how she'd been on her own at last year's Festival, and had felt "incredibly safe" during the whole weekend.
There was also recognition from some traditionally hostile councillors present that "Melvin has cleaned up the act", although said alongside minor criticisms.
There were even fewer objectors present this year than the few last year, and the criticisms of the Festival less harsh. Melvin has succeeded in turning the Festival around in the eyes of the locals and the Council, and for that he should be congratulated.
Of course, there's no guarantee that that the Festival will get its licence on 17th January ... but I think we can start to relax.
No time for me at the moment to add any comments .....
Bosses etc . ....
Rozi said:
If you have the courage to read last year's thread - there were about...5 million posts alone on the night of ticket buying when people were trying all night. Bitched about the way it was does for even longer etc.
I'm going this year, honest, shouldn't be anything to get in the way...and it'll be my birthday on the Monday as people start thinking of heading off...
MarkMark said:
this is actually quite a slow-moving glastonbury thread for Urban.. you wait till nearer the time
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Dubversion said:this is actually quite a slow-moving glastonbury thread for Urban.. you wait till nearer the time
I still think it should be in general
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
mk1 J said:
good idea IMO - I've seen some brill tents on eBay at the moment - at a fraction of what they'll cost later on in the year.
For the price of a barely adequate Argos 'membrane' you could treat yourself to a rather swanky (and waterproof) palace of a tent.
Yes I'm a saddo too - I'm getting my camping equipment now.
Velouria
Long time lurker
n00b!!mk1 J said:
Hehe, we all were once newbies
Hi! Try chat sometime if you're the chatty sort, it can range from silent to a torrent, from tedium to insanity My first post ever was on the Glastonbury 2003 thread
ahh I remember it well. OK I lie, I remember it vaguely. Funnily enough I think it got zero comments, a tradition of non-response which my posts continue to garner I am SOOOOOOO looking forward to Glasto!
I am SOOOOOOO dreading the buying of tickets. Fuck, that sucked. It took me 11 hours on the phone and the Internet. I advise taking the next day off work and preparing to not sleep until you have tickets.
I still have the entire Glastonbury 2003 thread and images in html format, but nowhere on the web to put it. It's 23 megabytes uncompressed...
<Stumbles drunkenly over a guyrope on way back from Cider Bus >
>This has been itching me for ages - did anyone see that band who seemed to be singing about recent newspaper issues like foxhunting and child abduction? I think they were on the Glade on saturday - the only song I can remember went "beautiful foxes, the farmer wants to kill you with his gun" or something... someone described them as two lame old versions of the streets...
pennimania
still dre and drooling
liberty said:I'm still not going
I say that every January
I actually mean it this year.
liberty said:
pennimania said:I say that every January
I actually mean it this year.
You mean that penni?? Seriously not??
I've got some dates and details of many alternative festivals for you if you want to do something different.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
pennimania said:I actually mean it this year.
How come?
Neither was I - they were crap. But my girlfriend and I found them hilarious ( we were laughing AT them, not with them ).hiccup said:
