Glastonbury 2005

[Looby]

You have to be pretty oblivious to pitch your tent at the bottom of a big sloping field against an embankment when heavy rain is forecast.

I’m fairly sure it wasn’t forecast, I didn’t take wellies as I didn’t think I’d need them.
The night before me and my friends were sat in the blazing heat drinking frozen margaritas and feeling well smug. We woke up in the morning and there was a river running past our tent. Then it didn’t rain again the whole weekend after that.

 

[Gerry1time]

Yeah, it was one of those freak localised intense rainstorms that you get round here, possibly coming in off the Atlantic / Severn. We had one one just last Thursday as it happens. I remember hearing at the time that if the storm had moved just one mile either way, it would have basically been a hot dry festival. From memory, it started missling with rain around 5/6am (i remember hearing it and thinking it would be great for keeping the dust down, as it had been really dusty up until then) then it built to a sudden insane crescendo a few hours later, then suddenly stopped and that was that. With that much rain and dry ground though, there were rivers everywhere. The most famous was the river down Pennards Hill, but the two actual rivers through the site burst their banks too, and I remember being almost swept off my feet by a river running just in front of the counter for the cider bus. Because what else are you going to do after an event like that other than go and buy a pint of hot mulled? I seem to remember the long drops at the entrance to William's Field overflowing and running down the hill too. Thankfully we were camped above them.

 

[William of Walworth]

Back then, I remember really hating the mud-lakes at the time , but 2005 was much less bad than 2007 IMO

At least by Sunday 2005, it was hot, sunny and dry again
In fact at that year for most of it, I mainly remember most of the time being warm/hot and sunny!**
The rugs may have helped, cider too!
**(Prior to and after all the Friday night-time and Saturday floodlake drama, obvs!! )

Great thread-bump anyway ( ) ....
I've just read the last four or five pages, and it's superb to be reminded of various Urbans around then who were camping/cidering/getting-wrecking at the time

Fuck knows what gigs I was at that year, though!

 

[Giles]

the weather was worse over the whole weekend in 2007 its true.

But at least everyone KNEW from forecasts that it was going to be wet pretty much all weekend before they set off.

In 2005 I recall driving down there in baking sunshine on Wednesday and then it being hot dry and sunny all day Thursday and assuming it would be pretty summery all weekend. And then....

 

[Lord Camomile]

Walking around the local park this morning, the overcast weather, hefty breeze and general 'early morning feel' really reminded me of a morning at Glasto

Haven't missed it like that for a while.