Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up

[Tort]

Dose anyone have a clue as to weather the online photo app will be a case of uploading the jpg from your comp or getting it hosted and entering the location?

Still to be announced. We'll know more next week.

 

[david dissadent]

I would say its pretty unlikely they will allow remote hosting as you could in theory sell your ticket and change your pic.

 

[Tort]

An excellent couple of videos from 2005

which is Wednesday & Thursday

which is mainly the Thunderstorm.

I'm sure these guys are camped right next to Camp Urban. Isn't that William's tent behind the guy complaining about having a cold & sunburn about 2m50s into the second video?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

An excellent couple of videos from 2005

which is Wednesday & Thursday

which is mainly the Thunderstorm.

I'm sure these guys are camped right next to Camp Urban. Isn't that William's tent behind the guy complaining about having a cold & sunburn about 2m50s into the second video?

Those videos are great, really well edited

I wanna go NOW

 

[Dissenter]

Still to be announced. We'll know more next week.

rightyO then

 

[Tort]

Apparantly full details of registration process & presumably ticketing arrangements will be available from next Tuesday 30th Jan.

 

[pootle]

Now, thinking ahead to camping, I just don't think I'm going to make it to the site before Thursday. If there's no space at Camp Urban, where's the best place for us to pitch up? I was thinking of that field above the Glade where I've been a couple of times before, but is there anywhere else that's decent in that area of the festival?

I think you mean Pennards - I've always camped on Pennards. It's a handy spot for the Glade area, the railway line with which to get your bearings and you can hear the 2nd stage if the wind is blowing in the right direction.

I stongly suggest you avoid the bottom of Pennard's though. I personally will never camp there again regardless of any anti-flooding promises/prevention

 

[Crispy]

Pennards always fills up mega-quick though. If you get there on friday, there's just grotty bits near the main stage left

 

[Tort]

Pennards always fills up mega-quick though. If you get there on friday, there's just grotty bits near the main stage left

Don't forget that there is potentially going to be camping space for an additional 25k on Pennards or in that area this year if the increased capacity is approved.

 

[pootle]

True true.

When I got there on Thursday afternoon year before last I was told Pennards was closed already (luckily I had an advance party who had sent up tents etc )

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Well, I'll be there as the gates open on Wed, so Dragon Field it is for me

 

[pootle]

Those vids are v good.

the first one sent shivers down my spine with happy memories

The second one made me sad thinking about friday morning - especially the bit where some guy is talking about the bottom of Pennards looking like a 3rd world country and dome tents with just a few inches at the top showing. Worst. Festival. Time. Evar

 

[Crispy]

Those vids are v good.

the first one sent shivers down my spine with happy memories

The second one made me sad thinking about friday morning - especially the bit where some guy is talking about the bottom of Pennards looking like a 3rd world country and dome tents with just a few inches at the top showing. Worst. Festival. Time. Evar

Slept right through it. Camped at top of hill. Tent well set, with entrance downhill. No leaks. Got up in the morning (afternoon) and thought, ooh it's been raining.

</smug>

 

[newbie]

dp

 

[newbie]

Well, I'll be there as the gates open on Wed, so Dragon Field it is for me

good scheme, but don't camp close to the fence at the top of the dragon field. During the rain a couple of years ago a security landrover on the outside of the fence slipped down the slope- it's quite steep there and there was no trackway. The fence held it, but only just, it slipped downhill by a meter or so, and the landie came to rest with the wheels on a tent.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

good scheme, but don't camp close to the fence at the top of the dragon field. During the rain a couple of years ago a security landrover on the outside of the fence slipped down the slope- it's quite steep there and there was no trackway. The fence held it, but only just, it slipped downhill by a meter or so, and the landie came to rest with the wheels on a tent

Yeah, I spent a great half hour with the coppers in the landie taking the piss out of the driver - they were all taking pics and sending them back to the station. I saw the driver as I left the site on Monday and he said that he hadn't heard the end of it all weekend - they had even sent the helicoptor over to get arial shots of it

 

[aqua]

it did manage to clip a couple of tents too though

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

it did manage to clip a couple of tents too though

No real damage done though IIRC

 

[aqua]

yes there was! one had loads of poles snapped!

 

[pootle]

*shakes fist angrily at sky/Crispy*

Oh well. These things will happen if you camp at the bottom of a hill, next to the embankment of a railway line and then it rains in biblical porportions.

And it was the first festival I've ever ended up in the hands of a duty psychiatrist!

 

[Skim]

I think you mean Pennards - I've always camped on Pennards. It's a handy spot for the Glade area, the railway line with which to get your bearings and you can hear the 2nd stage if the wind is blowing in the right direction.

I stongly suggest you avoid the bottom of Pennard's though. I personally will never camp there again regardless of any anti-flooding promises/prevention

Yeah, that's the one. I've camped there a couple of times and like it a lot. (Not as much as the Dragon Field, but I don't think I'm going to get there quick enough.) There's no way I'd camp at the bottom – too close to the Glade and too near the toilets.

I'm hoping early Thursday morning won't be too late to find a decent spot at Pennards

 

[Crispy]

Other side of the hedge half way up is a good spot - nea rthe water, but sheltered from it by the hedge. Quick access to the stone circle, and easy to find at night.

 

[Skim]

Other side of the hedge half way up is a good spot - nea rthe water, but sheltered from it by the hedge. Quick access to the stone circle, and easy to find at night.

That sounds good, a little further up from where I've camped before. Conveniently near to the African latrines

 

[Strawman]

The first 5 times I went to Glasto, we camped right at the bottom of Pennards (even in 97/98!). Used to love the atmos there.

Sent shivers down my spine to see the state of it last year thinking about what could have been!

 

[Looby]

The first 5 times I went to Glasto, we camped right at the bottom of Pennards (even in 97/98!). Used to love the atmos there.

Sent shivers down my spine to see the state of it last year thinking about what could have been!

We were camped in the bit that flooded a couple of years ago and nearly did last year but we decided to go a bit higher up. *phew*

I like Pennards, it's handy for everything and not too far from the car park either.

 

[Strawman]

Tbh ive no idea why we ever decided to stop camping there!! oh yeh, it was because of the rash of tent robberies in the late 90s

We camp right on the other side these days, nice and quiet, but I do miss the shouting in pennards and on the railway line.

getting loaded up on mushrooms/acid and walking diagonally from the top of pennards (near the stone circle) straight towards the corner nearest the dance tent is great fun too!, specially on a friday/saturday night...watch them guyropes!!

 

[Crispy]

Tbh ive no idea why we ever decided to stop camping there!! oh yeh, it was because of the rash of tent robberies in the late 90s

We camp right on the other side these days, nice and quiet, but I do miss the shouting in pennards and on the railway line.

getting loaded up on mushrooms/acid and walking diagonally from the top of pennards (near the stone circle) straight towards the corner nearest the dance tent is great fun too!, specially on a friday/saturday night...watch them guyropes!!

Menalist! Down the hill and along the railway line = safe route

 

[Tort]

good scheme, but don't camp close to the fence at the top of the dragon field. During the rain a couple of years ago a security landrover on the outside of the fence slipped down the slope- it's quite steep there and there was no trackway. The fence held it, but only just, it slipped downhill by a meter or so, and the landie came to rest with the wheels on a tent.

A bit like this you mean?

 

[Strawman]

Menalist! Down the hill and along the railway line = safe route

safe isnt the point!

its an incredibly intense walk, your concentrating on your feet for about 30 minutes as you manoevre between the cracks between tents. When you finally get through the other side and look up you get an almighty woosh!!

highly recommended, although theres no way id ever do it again!

 

[david dissadent]

Artic Monkeys confirmed as Pyramid headliners on the BBC. Ho well.