Glastonbury 2007 pt2: the festie!

[rocketman]

two minor issues:

people hate vehicle movements.

There's a vehicle curfew from 10pm to 3am (ish) to reduce the risks of injury.

Widen the metal laid track routes to main areas of site, and people will hate vehicle movement a lot less, as they wouldn't be forced into the mud by grinning drivers who are clearly enjoying doing it.
The curfew is no problem either. Just have first run at 6am, end it at 6pm, only on the Monday. And press every vehicle into the task.

 

[clandestino]

How did this year compare to 97 and 98? Was it as muddy/rainy or worse?

 

[rocketman]

How did this year compare to 97 and 98? Was it as muddy/rainy or worse?

There's been lots of debate on this. Personally, I felt the unrelenting rainfall made for harder going than any other year, when even rainy weekends have seen a few hours of decent sunshine. 97 and 98, I don't personally remember them as being so wet, though I was a decade younger and probably twisted out of my brain those years.

 

[clandestino]

my memory of 97 is that it rained loads then stopped and so it was a couple of days with lots of mud but no extra rain. 98 was just fucking rain rain rain. apart from the one bit of sun one morning that made us think 'oh, it'll be ok, let's not go home'. a few hours later, more rain.

 

[newbie]

that's just not the case. Even on dry years, when neither vehicles nor people are so tied to the trackway, they/we resent them. And yes, I can see a stream of vehicles at 6am being so, so popular


btw do you really think many drivers enjoy inching through those seething crowds? It's far, far more difficult and stressful than any other driving I've ever done.

 

[scifisam]

Lots of the vehicles were driving around empty after dropping stuff off, though, and, even though I;m one of those who was mildly annoyed by the amount of traffic, I could see that it had diminished by Sunday.

Good point about night-time - it could only be done in daylight hours. But then a truck goes round to the lock-ups from 10am onwards to collect left luggage; you could have more than one of those, dedicated to each pedestrian gate (depending on how busy each gate gets - I don't know) and still not have that many trucks.

What do I care anyway, I'm not going again! If this means that I've jinxed myself by missing out on a lovely sunny Glastonbury next year then I'll just bask in my position as the new found Sun God who gave the rest of you a sunny festival.

 

[scifisam]

btw do you really think many drivers enjoy inching through those seething crowds? It's far, far more difficult and stressful than any other driving I've ever done.

I have to say, I didn't envy the drivers much. Sure, they were warm and dry, and didn't have to walk through the sucking mud, or avoid the cars or people walking into them, or take an hour to walk 100 metres, but I wouldn't have liked to be in the position of potentially running people down, or trying to get down some of those muddy roads. It was one of the many ways in which Glastonbury was like Soho.

 

[newbie]

picture of train

 

[William of Walworth]

What do I care anyway, I'm not going again! If this means that I've jinxed myself by missing out on a lovely sunny Glastonbury next year then I'll just bask in my position as the new found Sun God who gave the rest of you a sunny festival.

JINX!!!!!

Shame not to have you back enjoying a hot and sunny one though ...

 

[William of Walworth]

picture of train

Helen the Hat's

 

[newbie]

I have to say, I didn't envy the drivers much. Sure, they were warm and dry, and didn't have to walk through the sucking mud, or avoid the cars or people walking into them, or take an hour to walk 100 metres, but I wouldn't have liked to be in the position of potentially running people down, or trying to get down some of those muddy roads. It was one of the many ways in which Glastonbury was like Soho.

you're joking! I drive in Soho regularly and by comparison it's simple and utterly stressfree. The tourists may look the wrong way as they step off the pavement, but by and large they're not completely out of it, they're not oblivious to everything around them and there's nothing like so many of them.

But you're right- I was dry, despite spending hours in the rain my new coat worked and I stayed dry. The landrover, otoh, was filthy and wet and the controls were covered in slimy, wet mud.

 

[scifisam]

you're joking! I drive in Soho regularly and by comparison it's simple and utterly stressfree. The tourists may look the wrong way as they step off the pavement, but by and large they're not completely out of it, they're not oblivious to everything around them and there's nothing like so many of them.

But you're right- I was dry, despite spending hours in the rain my new coat worked and I stayed dry. The landrover, otoh, was filthy and wet and all the controls were covered in slimy, wet mud.

I can't drive, so it's not exactly an informed perspective. I was going on the time we got misdirected and my GF ended up driving through Soho at night, when lots of people were out of it. I wouldn't want to do that. It's a similar level of 'not want' for me driving through Glastonbury.

I wondered what on Earth that train was about. What was it about?

 

[newbie]

a woman apparently named Helen and her sidekick having a great time taking people and their stuff on magical journeys.

Soho at night isn't that difficult once you're a bit used to it

 

[rocketman]

Helen the Hat's

Problem solved?

 

[William of Walworth]

It could work ...

If they make Helen the right offer

 

[scifisam]

She brings that train to Glastonbury all by herself and lets strangers use it? Wow!

 

[bluestreak]

well LV shut down on Wednesday when Roy had a strop with Eavis over precisely fuck all, and from thereon in it was all downhill. Some of the worst mud - not their fault, admittedly, the same stuff as ever but with bigger queues and less chance of getting in. I've got friends involved with LV, indeed i've done stuff with them myself and i love what they are / were about, but it did all seem dead tired this year...

agreed. LV has served its time, i was just bored of the same old shit. they need some different stuff now.

 

[bluestreak]

oh and meeting and chatting to loads of new urbs whilst on 2-cb at the cider bus on weds/thurs (?)/both (?) was also very interesting. i was tripping like hell at some point, whilst talking to virtual strangers who already knew loads about me

funny

one thing i do regret about this glastonbury is not spending enough time with many of my friends and urbanites.

 

[bluestreak]

if anybody finds out where i can get hold of the Q review i'd be very happy - it was monsooning as we left and i think we left too early to buy them on the way out

same here. i think i was in it!

 

[William of Walworth]

She brings that train to Glastonbury all by herself and lets strangers use it? Wow!

She has a partner, an assistant or two and at least one truck ... over the last few years, most festivals I've been to, she's been working really hard with kids' stuff, the train is a recent addition to her repetoire of keeping the kids entertained. I have a lot of respect for her, she's a veteran of so much stuff on the festival and protest and countercultural circuit ...

 

[pagan]

one thing i do regret about this glastonbury is not spending enough time with many of my friends and urbanites.

Yeah, I'm disappointed I didnt make the Cider Bus meet and didnt get a chance to put faces to usernames (William - we will have that pint one day!)

 

[pagan]

BTW Bluestreak, you sound like a fucking angel mate

 

[pagan]

Besides I dont think there is any water left in the sky, it was all used up for Glasto, Glade has to be bone dry (agian).

mate, that's what got me through Glasto - the thought that in four weeks time I'll be stomping in the baking Glade Sun

 

[pagan]

Worst band - the Killers. We didn't go to see them, but couldn't help hearing them from our field. [/i]!

mmmmm Can't say I put much faith in that review mate I hate indie guitar wank but Killers rocked big time!

 

[JTG]

Back to work today

 

[newbie]

me too, and the sun is shining and I just want to go back and do it all over again.

 

[paolo]

Picked up a few copies of the Q Review from smiths at London Bridge station yesterday (and also the trashy NME version, for good measure).

Aerial photo in the Q version is superb. I unfolded it in the pub last night, and everyone - whether they had been or not - just went "woww!!"

The one thing where NME "won" though was their shot of the devil guy, stood on top of bog henge, holding two red flares arms outstretched. It's an awesome photo.

 

[Voley]

Lovely day down here in the South-West today, you know.

God hates you. It's the only rational explanantion.

 

[aqua]

gorgeous day here too

just perfect for getting all my glasto washing done

wouldn't have changed the weekend for anything and you NVP are just jealous you didn't go

 

[Voley]

GOD. HATES. YOU. AQUA.