Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up

[Looby]

Understand your WBC reluctance, their collaboration with Ansheuser-Busch-scum (Budshiter) is a terrible thing .... thank fuck for their real ale tent, which is

I'm hopefully doing the WBC thing this year, I'm just waiting for my union branch to approve the affiliation. I'm going to ignore the Budshiter connection. Sorry William.

 

[Tort]

Outside!

 

[William of Walworth]

I'm hopefully doing the WBC thing this year, I'm just waiting for my union branch to approve the affiliation. I'm going to ignore the Budshiter connection. Sorry William.

I will exert my principles by only buying real ale off you!!!

 

[Looby]

I will exert my principles by only buying real ale off you!!!

I will exert mine by only drinking Bud I have pilfered.

 

[david dissadent]

Fuck it inspite of myself........






I bloody getting excited.

 

[William of Walworth]

I will exert mine by only drinking Bud I have pilfered.

Thus maintaining the deception that Budshiter is actually drinkable ...

 

[Tort]

A Few Details of proposed changes to the site layout here.

Incidentally just to confirm that the application is for 180,000 of which 137,500 will be ticket holders.

 

[moose]

Link no work, or have we killed the site?

 

[Crispy]

I got it once, now it won't load. Important quotes:

The expansion is planned for the west of the site, the area facing out diagonally to the right from the Other Stage.

However, it all depends on the council granting Glastonbury Festival its application to increase its overall capacity by a sixth.

Organisers hope to sell 137,000 tickets, up from the traditional 112,000, as well as issuing 40,000 non-paying passes to staff, performers, guests and press.

If given the thumbs up, festival boss Michael Eavis will use 100 acres of his next door neighbour's land, known as Park Farm, which is what the new area will be named.

The expanse will include three new stages; a permanent Silent Disco, an Outdoor Acoustic Stage and a second New Bands Tent, which is to be programmed by Emily Eavis.

A Games Area is also being planned in place of the Tee Pee Field, where festival-goers will be invited to take part in a range of organised, participatory games. The Tee Pee Field is being moved out to the fringe of the festival to make way for the new hands-on attraction.

Glastonbury Festival's founder told us that he's confident the council will agree to the capacity increase, following the involvement of Mean Fiddler in the event's management.

A condition of the extra allocation is that all 25,000 tickets will be sold as part of a coach travel package, which should minimise disruption on the roads around the area.

 

[aqua]

A Games Area is also being planned in place of the Tee Pee Field, where festival-goers will be invited to take part in a range of organised, participatory games.

meep

You'll be able to get stuck into a range of games, lots of holding hands, that kind of stuff. It's quite an old fashioned kind of thing but it should be great fun and a good way to make some new friends. We've got an excellent team organising it all."

*runs away*

 

[moose]

Mean Fiddler? ?

Moving the Tipi field? ?



<runs off with Aqua>

 

[Crispy]

Mean Fiddler have been on board since 2000

 

[aqua]

but, a *GAMES* area?

fucks sake

*opens rum with moose and won't shift out of the greenfields*

 

[Dubversion]

but, a *GAMES* area?

fucks sake

*opens rum with moose and won't shift out of the greenfields*

i know, it sounds fucking horrific. like Scout Camp or something

 

[baldrick]

hehehehehe

not going, can't afford it

 

[aqua]

i know, it sounds fucking horrific. like Scout Camp or something

its worse than scout camp though they get to light fires and sleep in the open

this sounds like a hippy hug a tree thing

 

[Crispy]

but, a *GAMES* area?

fucks sake

*opens rum with moose and won't shift out of the greenfields*

*does a whole load of drugs and stumbles ranting incoherently through the "games" field, scattering hand-holding ruperts and pashminas everywhere*

 

[pootle]

Tee hee at Crispy! I like your thinking, it reminds me of someone...

I like this bit...

And there will be a big tent, a bit like a second John Peel Stage, which will have loads more pop music. Emily is looking after that one so it's quite a big thing for her. There will be lots of younger acts, I'm sure.

Eyyy! to pop at glasto. And without wanting to sound like a member of the "it's not what it was" brigade moving the tipi field out to the edge of the site is a bit miserable innit? The tipi fields are good for wandering around/gazing when feeling a bit special...

 

[mr steev]

but, a *GAMES* area?

fucks sake

WTF

The only game I intend on playing (presuming I get a ticket) is hide and seek with my mind!

 

[Skim]

With any luck they'll have go-karts

 

[Dubnium]

i know, it sounds fucking horrific. like Scout Camp or something

Bit like being 'stuck' in the perma garden.

 

[Dubversion]

Bit like being 'stuck' in the perma garden.

yeh, leaning on a gate wondering where the gate is

 

[newbie]

my only issue with that is that the spelling of "Tee Pee" which is rather too unusual for comfort.

100 acres extra sounds huge- how many acres was the site last time?

The games area might be a good idea- somewhere for people to participate rather than consume.

 

[david dissadent]

but, a *GAMES* area?

fucks sake

*opens rum with moose and won't shift out of the greenfields*

This sounds like something dreamed up in a 'bluesky-ing' meeting to add 'colour' and 'character' to the festival.

Overcompensating for the lack of crusties maybe?

 

[david dissadent]

Mean Fiddler have been on board since 2000

I thought someone said they were no longer involved, or is that just clear channels or something.

Does anyone know the full story?

 

[Lisarocket]

I can't believe they are moving the Tipi field

There are more than a few things about this years Glasto that i don't like...

 

[Crispy]

my only issue with that is that the spelling of "Tee Pee" which is rather too unusual for comfort.

100 acres extra sounds huge- how many acres was the site last time?

The games area might be a good idea- somewhere for people to participate rather than consume.

Yeah, but it's a 'participation area' - that sucks. There should be site-wide participation, at least in spirit.

 

[rocketman]

Moving the Tipi field?
Well, you know what, after two decades of the festival, I might not ever go again. It's just gonna be a scout camp at Reading, not the same - where the romance? Eavis, your event is being killed.

 

[Tort]

100 acres extra sounds huge- how many acres was the site last time?

900

 

[Tort]

I thought someone said they were no longer involved, or is that just clear channels or something.

Does anyone know the full story?

I thought I did but this has thrown it back into confusion. Mean Fiddler's contract, like most at Glastonbury, was for 4 out of 5 years 2002-6 so the contract effectively expired after the last festival. Vince Power sold Mean Fiddler to Clear Channel but I was told recently that Clear Channel had themselves sold up in November, relinquishing all remaining rights over Glastonbury & telling Michael Eavis to find a good home for all moneys that they may still have been due. Melvyn Benn is still very much involved but I'm afraid I have no idea who the actual holding Company is that may have taken over the Mean Fiddler role nowadays. I expect GFL are playing their cards fairly close to their chest at the moment & details will emerge after the license hearing.