kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Chez nosher, today.
Glastonbury 2008
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Chez nosher, today.
Well we have made the decision not to go this year. It's a hard one, and undoubtedly the weather will of course be brilliant.
But it will be too expensive as we will have to pay for both kids this year and they ain't keen on going. And tbh I found last year very very hard going.
Think I need a year or two off. Also I have just landed a teaching job (after saying I would never do it again) so I won't be free to go anyway. (I had a 'special' arrangement at my last school
)
Bet you will all have a fabulous time tho
Aw penny, yet another old schooler bites the dust!
Tis a shame, but I do understand. Might be worth thinking about another, smaller festival or two later in the summer?
Congrats on the new job btw!
Saw this and thought of you
http://www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/news/4324
Looks like Chris has been put in charge of the LV fields...
Definitely worth reading this link in full if you're interested in any way in all in the LV related changes.
Roy gives a certain erm 'spin'
but take what he says with a bit of a pinch of salt I say, he certainly isn't giving the complete perspective ...Will be keeping an eye on this one and will try and find out more....
pennimania
still dre and drooling
Aw penny, yet another old schooler bites the dust!
Tis a shame, but I do understand. Might be worth thinking about another, smaller festival or two later in the summer?
Congrats on the new job btw!
Thanks William
we are thinking about Beautiful Days or Womad right now. Anyone rate either of these? Do they do good beer -(mr mania essential
) ?Thanks William
we are thinking about Beautiful Days or Womad right now. Anyone rate either of these? Do they do good beer -(mr mania essential
Can't speak from personal experience, but Kitty P & Badgers here (who've also done Glastonbury) rate Beautiful Days.
Thanks William
we are thinking about Beautiful Days or Womad right now. Anyone rate either of these? Do they do good beer -(mr mania essential
WOMAD
Music = World
Beer = Bath Ales (+ Burrowhill Hot & Spicy Cider)
Attendance = 25,000
Crowd = All Sorts
Venue = Lovely old country estate
Fancy Dress = Limited
Beautiful Days
Music = Levellers & assorted friends & relations
Beer = Otter Brewery
Attendance = 10,000
Crowd = Levellers fan club & assorted friends & relations
Venue = Lovely old country estate
Fancy Dress = Themed on Sunday
Photos of both at www.pbase.com/tort/festivals
jontz01
taking refuge in the loft
oxfam have added beautiful days as one they are stewarding.
Speaking of which, does anyone have any experience of stewarding?
I've been to Glasto a few times (missed last year luckily) and I'm planning on going alone[ish] this year. Since my first visit I always considered working, yknow, putting a bit back into the festie... I've done a bit of research on the net and would love to work with oxfam when they open up for applications..
What's the likelyhood of it? I'd imagine most of the posts get snapped up pretty quick by previous staff....
breasticles
the smell of life
i haven't stewarded glastonbury but i'm thinking about trying to this summer- although not with oxfam but with green stewards, who i worked for last year at big green. everyone i spoke to who had worked for both said green stewards were the better deal- mainly cos of the num num num free food. i don't know if they're doing glastonbury this year though.
hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
Gamblethink the 'prospect' away and you'll be fine!
there must be some weather site you can find that will support your optimism ,what is it with everybody , it couldnt possibly be they are getting too old and comfortable could it ? even a wet soggy shitty glastonbury like last year is better than a wet soggy shitty four days at home , well in my book it is anyway . Last year was enough to give it serious thought but only for a few moments , we are way overdue a sunny one .
Personally I feel it's the festival that's just getting too comfortable these days. Besides I've no intention of sitting at home. I'll be in Prague firing AK-47's
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
Has Glastonbury got a clean end? Somewhere you can get a nice bath every night, with hairdryers and stuff? If it has I might come along. And I will need a tv so I can watch Eastenders.
Looby
Well-Known Member
Up until last year I would have agreed with you but £800 and annual leave I didn't have to miss loads of bands because I couldn't face the trudge to the other end of the site, feeling cold and wet all the time, none of the bimbling around which is so nice to do. I spent half the weekend trying not to fall over. Not being able to do what I love best either, sitting in the sun, having a beer and a spliff, chatting and watching the world go by. There was nothing relaxing or chilled out about last year, it was fucking hard work and the atmosphere at times was flat. It wasn't all bad, I had a nice weekend but I went to Endorse It for a fraction of the cost and had an amazing time.
It's hard for me to say this, I love the festival. From the first one I went to I thought it was the best thing ever and couldn't imagine not wanting to go.
I will try for tickets this year and I dearly hope it's a good one but this year will truly be make or break for me.
I don't know for sure directly, but there really ought to be some Green Stewards this year, as in all other years. Check with your contacts, you may be onto a winner with that one
david dissadent
New Member
Due to being better prepaired for the conditions RNLI voulenteers are having to do it this year.
hammerntongues said:
Not yet. The best (if highly geeky
) site, http://www.netweather.tv , has some serious meterorolgical experts on it and none of them are predicting as far ahead as June!I'll keep people posted on here though, nearer the time, I check all these dull weather sites so that you don't have to!
Oi!!
Last year was my 12th Glastonbury. In terms of the sheer quantity and thickness of mud 2007 was far and away the worst one I've ever been to, and the hardest work to get around. It really was extreme, freakish.
I'm 45 now (then 44), and festival-experienced enough to go very well equipped. I've been to plenty of wet Glastos, but even the worst previous one, 1998, was not as bad as last year. I think a lot of that was to do with the weather getting steadily worse and worse as the time went on, the very worst and steadiest rain being on Sunday when people were already exhausted after 4 days of mudtrudging and caning it and going short of sleep.
Absolutely spot on. I'll still be there for several more Glastos whatever the weather, and if it's muddy again I will be determined to keep going until we get a dry/hot one again. Although I do genuinely think that we surely must be odds on to be on course for at least a dry and probably a hot one this year.
I know so many people, including old schoolers, who have dropped out after 2007 for various reasons, not always ostensibly to do with the appalling weather last year, but in many cases very much including that as a background factor -- whatever they say!
See my long post on the previous page about how really shitty weather really does affect the atmosphere.
Those who claim the rain/mud makes little real difference, that it's just as much fun in a muddy one as in a hot sunny one, even those who complain when it's 'too hot' and who wish for 'a few light showers' to 'damp down the dust'** are twisted lunatics IMO.
**Be careful what you wish for. Ask for a shower and you'll get a mudbath
If you don't like intense sunshine you can shelter and protect yourself from it far more easily than you can avoid the mud.
You can shelter from the sun but you can't sit down in the mud!
As gambles go on there being decent weather this June, I think such a gamble makes better sense than some! Simply on the balance of likellihood. Late June averages have to mean something -- as I posted a few pages ago to the editor, the average for late June is generally far better than has been apparant in several recent festivals, so reversion to the mean has to happen at some point and why not 2008? Recent mudbaths have been freaks, especially last year.
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
approx 2/3 go to previous staff, the rest is open to newcomers. this year the applications are online.
green stewards come highly recommended but afaik they are a commercial venture not charity.
Mixed bag innit? We had a pretty good June in 2006 (fallow year) as I recall, there were showers alright round about Glasto time, but plenty of nice weather too
pagan
Guerilla Gardener
Oi Will, don't diss Tony Bennet man
.....he was my favourite act that year. Through the muddy haze and grey Somerset drizzle, a silver suited perma-tanned legend appeared on stage, started singing 'Raindrops keep falling on my head' and lo and behold the Sun shone for the first time all weekend. If he'd played on Friday aftrenoon, there would have been no mud or rain, only beautiful sunshine!
One of my favourite Glasto moments of all time
As for Leonard Cohen....theres not many younger acts I'd choose to see over him. I'd like to see him do a double act with Nick Cave. He's a living legend (and sadly needs the money due to criminal management
)Laughing Len for Glasto...That's what I say!
Neil Diamond sucks arse though
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
Luxury tents at glasto - in 2005
If you have £6k the luxury tents above should suffice. However there is no guarantee you will be saved from mud, as the place has never been developed sufficiently to avert a total quagmire. Surprising really, considering the amount of money that passes through there.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Yup
Someones prob already said this but......
if Michael Eavis wants youngsters back at the festival, why has he got Neil Diamond?
Oh and I wont be going this year. He can shove his festival up his arse if he doesnt want my 'old persons' money.
I go every year to Glasto but this year i'm afraid i shall be else where.
Last year was a pain in the arse. Glasto is all about chilling with your mates, watching a few bands, meeting brilliant people but 2007 was like being in a war zone.
It was such a mission to get anywhere. The fact that there was an extra 25,000 people there made it really hard to get anywhere at night as all the areas such as Pyramid, other stage even Lost Vaguenes where so over crowded. Yeah fair enough they made extra camping space but they left all the main areas the same size???
Also, last years festival had Emilys name written all over it! It was like an NME readers wank list!
Get all the travelers back in. Don't let any scenesters in with Toni and Guy haircuts, Make all the areas bigger, Let Emily have control over the other stage and nothing else and the most important thing... On the Sunday night we should be aloud to the throw into a fire Colin Murrey, Edith Bowman and any other radio 1 morning/afternoon dj.
Ahh, I feel better for that.
Last year was a pain in the arse. Glasto is all about chilling with your mates, watching a few bands, meeting brilliant people but 2007 was like being in a war zone.
It was such a mission to get anywhere. The fact that there was an extra 25,000 people there made it really hard to get anywhere at night as all the areas such as Pyramid, other stage even Lost Vaguenes where so over crowded. Yeah fair enough they made extra camping space but they left all the main areas the same size???
Also, last years festival had Emilys name written all over it! It was like an NME readers wank list!
Get all the travelers back in. Don't let any scenesters in with Toni and Guy haircuts, Make all the areas bigger, Let Emily have control over the other stage and nothing else and the most important thing... On the Sunday night we should be aloud to the throw into a fire Colin Murrey, Edith Bowman and any other radio 1 morning/afternoon dj.
Ahh, I feel better for that.
jontz01
taking refuge in the loft
Cheers for the info dervish and paolo, from what I've seen so far (I think it was green stewards) most are already fully staffed for the whole summer season. - ETA: Gah, it wasn't green stewards, it was the litter picking/recyling crew....
I'm gonna try my best to work it, if not, I'll just have to join the masses in redial/refresh hell again....
Either way, I can't wait.
