Glastonbury 2008
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are you sure you saw Massive Attack on Sunday night at the same time as Manu Chao and the day after Jay Z?
mr steev
magic thought wizard
I didn't hear of anyone getting robbed round by us (the new field below the Park). My mate got spannered on Wednesday night, realised on Thursday morning that he'd left his bag, loaded with wine, up at the Stone Circle hours before... when he went back to check, hours later, it was still there!!
The closest any of my group got to getting robbed was when a group of security piled out of a van and surrounded them whilst they were having a smoke outside a cafe in the Jazz field. They demanded their 'puff' (as they called it). Making a big scene. My mates just fronted them out and they got nowt... not needed at all though. One of my friends reckoned they were just doing it to make an example, as they could've been more persistant
are you sure you saw Massive Attack on Sunday night at the same time as Manu Chao and the day after Jay Z?
Actually, you're right. We watched the first half of the set of Jay Z before getting a little bored (he's a good performer, but not my bag), then walked around to see the rest of the Massive Attack performance. Yawn - I reckon the Daddy G/Mr Benn set in the igloo would have been much better, had the Igloo not been so miniature
And on Sunday I dimly recall screwing my nose up at the option of leaving Manu Chao for Gorgonzola Armada. And so off we wibbled off to the Glade instead, catching the last two tracks of some gawdawful wibbling Tekno bollocks. And then ran quickly back towards the theatre marquee to try and catch the legendary Riceman, the perfect end to the festival. Only he wasn't fucking on. I should have listened to my gut and stayed in the Dance area for Derrick May.
Come to think of it, Sunday was a bit of a damp squib of an ending really, compensated by the view from the new field.
Velouria
Long time lurker
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You can get it from here using that Bittorrent thingy:
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apparently they were only doing it on the first night, so people who turned up on wednesday as everyone would have been knackered, they were targetting men apparently as men tend to leave wallets in trousers etc, some people even had their jeans stolen too, just taking cash and leaving the rest there. guess it'd be pretty easy tbh if someone wakes up you could just say sorry mate got the wrong tent init.
she said there was well over 50 people queing up at the same time they did to report thefts and at that time they had estimated that they stole about 13,000 in total
Velouria
Long time lurker
over on the virtualfestivals boards someone (who worked for the festival so is prolly telling the truth) said this:
mr steev
magic thought wizard
We were there on Wednesday... There were quite a few of us though, and most were awake until way into Thursday
I've read a few grim stories on efestivals though. Seems like the first night 'swoop' is becoming a bit of a regular event
Makes me even more annoyed about security hassling people for smoking when there are scum like that around!
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
photo I took of the fire in a scrap yard off the A37 on Thursday. At first I was worried it was in the car park.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
From the reports I've read the thieving was happening pretty much all over the site. Media reports said that after a concerted effort the problem had been contained (but clearly not eliminated) by Friday.
Without any corroborating evidence, I'd take the 'it was security doing it' story with a pinch of salt. There was a rumour of people using fake/stolen tabards, but again nothing to substantiate that.
Neil, who runs efests, believes it is (to an extent) a regular group who have been doing the rounds at other festivals in the last year. His theory sounds plausible to me.
Without any corroborating evidence, I'd take the 'it was security doing it' story with a pinch of salt. There was a rumour of people using fake/stolen tabards, but again nothing to substantiate that.
Neil, who runs efests, believes it is (to an extent) a regular group who have been doing the rounds at other festivals in the last year. His theory sounds plausible to me.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Looby
Well-Known Member
Nice sentiment.
I knew you were there.
That's why no-one saw you, just couldn't tear yourself away from the luxury tents. 
Kanda
Diving wanker
I knew you were there.
I'd rather tear my toenails out with a tow rope and tweezers than do Glasto in Camp Kerala.
The funny thing is that Camp Kerala isn't quite in the exclusive location they imply. It is - if I've got it right on my map - marooned in the middle of the campervan fields and car parks.
Still, the people who run it are some of the neighbours who for some reason never complain about the late license for that corner. So in my book, they can do their thing as long as we can do ours.
Still, the people who run it are some of the neighbours who for some reason
never complain about the late license for that corner. So in my book, they can do their thing as long as we can do ours. 
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Chatted to people about the tent robbing thing for Worthy FM a bit, during that big scrap yard fire as it happened. Heard some really bad stories, one girl was in reporting her theft whilst her friends were outside, they told me that some guy had come into her tent, she'd woken up and scared him off, but had had her bag by her head, so he ran outside the tent and slashed her tent by her head with a knife and grabbed her bag.
The police had a spot map for each reported crime in their compound, and a lot of the robberies that night seem to have been concentrated round the park.
The police had a spot map for each reported crime in their compound, and a lot of the robberies that night seem to have been concentrated round the park.
Looby
Well-Known Member
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
mysterygirl
Stealth visit from work
I was at Download 2 weeks ago, there they open the campsite field by field, and it was exactly the same thing - following the new arrivals, taking cash only, leaving wallets & cards, saying it was the wrong tent if people woke up, taking jeans if necessary and from by people's heads etc etc. People often think that putting their valuables by their heads means they're safe - it's not so.
New arrivals are often the most tired, and on their first night of the festival have the most money, and as such are the best pickings. Download has nothing happening until Friday, when the arena opens, so all people do is drink, Wednesday night & Thursday night are the prime nights - most new arrivals, most money, and people are often most drunk on those nights through having nothing much to do all day but drink (as in my mate).
They often target people snoring - my mate got really drunk, passed out in his tent & didn't hide his wallet as he usually does, and was snoring his head off. He lost every penny. Every single tent in our quarter of what was quite a large field was done in the one night, every group had someone who lost something. All weekend, all we heard about was people having been robbed -I've never known it to be as bad as it was this year, nothing like it.
Crispy
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