Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!

[JTG]

All my stuff has loads of mud on it and is still dripping wet. I couldn't even look at it this morning.

Its going to take me fucking ages to sort it all out.

I've washed everything other than my small bag and my big rucksack - some of my clothes still have mud on them though despite the wash

Boots are now dried and I shall scrub them some time. Tent drying off and will be scrubbed clean soon.

 

[JTG]

I have good (but old) boots, and they had no defence against some of the knee high mud - this was especially bad on the path out to pedestrian gate D, which smelled like shit, and probably contained some. Thank christ I had wellies on

I didn't encounter anything over ankle height anywhere Admittedly I was nowhere near PGD at any time but even so.

tbh, many of the welly wearers were struggling badly in places I was having no problems with at all. Still don't understand the welly thing.

 

[Hollis]

yeah i wonder if thats contributed to me feelings that people only want to consume. in LV you are expected to consume, not partake.

An interesting point wiskey... something I've felt.. I guess there's consumption and gluttony. Personally I prefer unsound unbound cause there's definetly not that feel to it..

whateverr.

 

[William of Walworth]

All my stuff has loads of mud on it and is still dripping wet. I couldn't even look at it this morning.

Its going to take me fucking ages to sort it all out.

At various stages today I've done my little chair, clothes, tent bag, 2 rucsacs, TENTPEGS!!! (first time ever I've bothered with that) and the poles and little bags that hold pegs and poles.

Tent itself is being dried/aired, and boots drying, but proper cleaning of those will have to wait.

Cos I'm off to the pub for a bit ...

Oh yeah and essential food shopping!

 

[Dubversion]

I didn't encounter anything over ankle height anywhere

there were whole areas where it was deeper than that - thinking particularly of the narrow track north into the circus field. narrow, dead deep and even if there were shallower bits, when it's crowded and dark, finding them is difficult.

 

[sojourner]

Admittedly I was nowhere near PGD at any time but even so.

That was the knee high bit, and incredibly bad underfoot...holes everywhere that you obviously couldn't see

 

[Callie]

knows price of everything but the value of nothing and all that.

are you sure your not an OAP? that sounds just like something my nan would say

 

[Sunray]

This might float ya boat.. I'm going with a few mates... tis this w/e though so short notice..



http://www.beatherder.co.uk/

Very nice, but all my festi gear is utterly fucked at the moment and I doubt would be ready for use again in 3 days, esp my knees and legs.

 

[Dubversion]

photos thread http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=212487

 

[Sunray]

Can you spot the people on this thread that are still off work?

 

[JTG]

there were whole areas where it was deeper than that - thinking particularly of the narrow track north into the circus field. narrow, dead deep and even if there were shallower bits, when it's crowded and dark, finding them is difficult.

the one between East Holts and Avalon? I don't remember it being that bad and I went through it on Sunday. At least, it may have been deeper but the mud was so thick it wasn't a problem because it didn't actually pour into the hole you'd just made.

Still nm, not saying you're wrong at all.

 

[paolo]

I didn't encounter anything over ankle height anywhere Admittedly I was nowhere near PGD at any time but even so.

I nearly took a boot full on the way to PGA, before realising I should watch where other people go.

I did joke about bringing my thigh length waders... but then at some point I did actually see two girls wearing them. They certainly weren't under prepared.

 

[JTG]

are you sure your not an OAP? that sounds just like something my nan would say

cheeky. It's true

 

[Crispy]

bang on. My stuff is too precious to me to leave it all behind, I don't have much and can't afford to replace it just like that.

Fucked up society of ours, knows price of everything but the value of nothing and all that.

The next campsite along had a pretty loud soundsystem which kept us supplied with background tunes all festival. Once they'd gone, we saw that they'd taken their car battery with them, but left an entire 1990's CD + Tape Hi-Fi system and speakers behind. Perfect working order, just sitting there in the mud. Fucking disgraceful. Waste should be drilled into our society as the greatest sin, or we don't have a hope

 

[Crispy]

Can you spot the people on this thread that are still off work?

I called in at 9:30, told some story about a horrible trip back, wet and tired and sneezing and ooh me back, then turned my phone off

 

[JTG]

The next campsite along had a pretty loud soundsystem which kept us supplied with background tunes all festival. Once they'd gone, we saw that they'd taken their car battery with them, but left an entire 1990's CD + Tape Hi-Fi system and speakers behind. Perfect working order, just sitting there in the mud. Fucking disgraceful. Waste should be drilled into our society as the greatest sin, or we don't have a hope

I'd have made an effort to grab it if it were near me. Though I had to cart so much stuff over to the bus station yesterday morning I doubt I'd have been able to do it.

I'm not back in work till Thursday btw

 

[moose]

shame about the weather and the tiny tea tent.

What was wrong with the TTT?

 

[Final]

Same for me!

Mr Moose recommended this boot, and they rule ... so dry and comfortable. I actually own a full pair of them also ...

I picked my boots up for a £10 last year, never gave them any extra wax etc, when the ground was soupy I avoided the deeper parts, when it was just sticky mud I walked wherever.

Didn't get wet socks once (yay!)

 

[girasol]

Radio 4 is now broadcasting this:

Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off to Glastonbury:
The upper middle class student twit blunders around the Glastonbury Festival...

entertaining

 

[pagan]

What the crowds like by main stage and queus for loo etc like? Really put off going this year as found it bad enough and claustrophobic enough even before more tickets sold

Yup, Moose and JTG are bang on - it was too crowded. I think 177k's too much for a pay festival. There was nothing like the claustrophobia or overcrowding of the mass fencejumping years but reckon they should just sell less tickets and give 120000 a bit of breathing space.

 

[pagan]

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Most of my best times were in the small tents watching the quirky stuff like whirling dervishes and tap-dancing banjo players,

I didnt do enough of that this year. I feel like doing a lot less random wandering when its muddy.

 

[Crispy]

I didnt do enough of that this year. I feel like doing a lot less random wandering when its muddy.

We never made it further east than Jazz World, and that's a real shame. I missed out on so much of the site, but it was impossible to do even 1/2 the amount of walking that's normally possible.

 

[pagan]

The sound on the pyramid stage was both quieter and less energising (what I mean by this is anyone's guess) than any previous year I've been.

Did you see the size of the stack. I've seen bigger car stereos

 

[mr steev]

We got back at midnight last night.

Glad to say my paraboots and gaitors did me proud again, as did my tent, until a fucking massive tipi fell on it in the wind on Moday afternoon... I was in it at the time!!! But came out miraculously unscathed!

I'm sad to say I didn't feel it had the atmospere it's had in the past. It felt like a different crowd at times, friendly enough but more like spectators iykwim. I know the weather didn't help, but it felt a like that before the mud kicked in too.

Still had a great time though. Missed virtually everything I wanted to see but found a big bag of weed, just as it was beginning to dawn on me that the big bag I'd brought with me wasn't going to last

The amount of stuff that was left was obscene though! The irony of the free bags with 'reduce, reuse and recycle' on them! Most of the people round us seemed to just leave everything, most of it in perfectly good nick!

 

[pagan]

Campervan next time, for sure

Highly recommend the campervan option

 

[pagan]

The weather makes such a difference. When you haven't burned all your energy stomping across site in clinging mud, you're more likely to dance around and give a shit. When it's muddy, the bands are just resting breaks between the punishing exercise.

That is so fucking true.

 

[paolo]

Did you see the size of the stack. I've seen bigger car stereos

Don't think it was lack of capability - it was Mendip council. The sound check they did one morning was chuffing clear as day from Cockmill meadow. Waaay louder than for any act.

 

[editor]

The sound on the pyramid stage was both quieter and less energising (what I mean by this is anyone's guess) than any previous year I've been.

Yes. There was a real flimsy sound. Good job I'd brought my pack drill otherwise I would have been very wet too.

 

[JTG]

Yup, Moose and JTG are bang on - it was too crowded. I think 177k's too much for a pay festival. There was nothing like the claustrophobia or overcrowding of the mass fencejumping years but reckon they should just sell less tickets and give 120000 a bit of breathing space.

It just seems sensible. I know it'll make the supply - demand equation even more difficult but 177,000 plus all the crew etc (which is an extra 40,000 or thereabouts) is just daft. Make it smaller.

 

[Sunray]

While people may moan about the stuff left over.

Have no fear, the whole site gets tatted. If its valuable it'll get taken and then sold back to the people who left it.