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Yeah I noticed that on the BBC glasto site. People complaining about these changes and some interjecting that it was a sensible idea. People would like to attend that cant put up tent or from abroad where its not necessarily practical, they just leave them.

125 quid for a ready erected two man, better loos and showers. Outside the fence. Its not uncommon in other festivals so why not Glastonbury?

Its a huge modern festival.
 
No
IM worried about not being able to sit at my tent and listen to the accoustic field...
I have a son with autstic spectrum disorder who really enjoys the festival but needs a break every now and again so I take him back- every now and again the action gets too much and he has a complete meltdown if he isnt taken somewhere peaceful

so stick your gentrification up your ass :)
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
No
IM worried about not being able to sit at my tent and listen to the accoustic field...
I have a son with autstic spectrum disorder who really enjoys the festival but needs a break every now and again so I take him back

so stick your gentrification up your ass :)
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Opps, sowwy :)
 
No probs, things arent always as clear as they might seem....

at least i dont get to miss out, last year the proclaimers were fab resounding up the hill.... Im sad thats gonna be spoiled
 
Gerry1time said:
Sorry if it's already been posted, but wtf? http://www.praxistent.com/pages/pv.asp?p=ptent802

I thought the people who liked this sort of stuff had to stay on the other side of the train line, not have their own exclusive gate into the greenfields and stone circle side of things.
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Just picked up on this.

The exclusive gate thing is new I guess, but otherwise this is just a new version of the already existing Kamp Kerala isn't it? In addition to it, or just a relocated update? Not sure, but either way it's not been set up on the actual festival site, and it's being put up on some other (opportunist) farmer's land adjoining the main site, and is not part of the official Glastonbury set up -- this camp is being advertised separately.

People with more money than sense who have bought tickets but can't bear to rough it with the rest of us on the main site :rolleyes: , and who somehow think it's necessary to go exclusive -- well that's the sort of people this nonsense is aimed at.
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
Thats gonna project over the acoustics and straight into cockmills....:hmm:
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I don't think you'll have too much to worry about. By all accounts the giant screen won't be there. It'll just be a tented cinema and I very much doubt they'll have a big PA firing up the hill and directly at Pilton until 4am. :)
 
Ah right, so coming in along the railway line past shangri la then, not straight into the sacred space? Looking again there's no gate marked there on the new fineguide map.

Not so bad then, but still feel it a shame that the greenfields element of the festival has been getting eroded year on year. The greenfields side of the valley was that made Glastonbury special for me over all the other festivals. If i wanted to go to a commercial festival with people 'roughing it for a weekend' there are loads i can choose from. Having the avalon side of things there, somewhere to go and chill out, meet interesting people from all over the country and have some fun parties at night was something special. 1997 greenfields changed the way i looked at the world pretty substantially, discovering undercurrents, the traveller scene, the IDMU, all sorts of interesting stuff. The old tipi field's gone (although it had become a tourist attraction before it did anyway), Williams and Dragons are now rammed the whole time, and the park encroaches from the other side.

Meh, nothing ever stays the same, but I miss that part of the site not bringing the variety that it did.

Dunno, never thought I'd become an old hippie, but perhaps I am.
 
Gerry1time said:
Ah right, so coming in along the railway line past shangri la then, not straight into the sacred space? Looking again there's no gate marked there on the new fineguide map.
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Keep going right to the end of shangri la and then bit more, where the fence (and a real road) crosses the railway. The bridge (over both) wasn't on the map last year either, but the area that was pay tipis last year is again shown as crew/performer camping. It's not part of the public festival, access to the bridge was stewarded.

it's a guess :)
 
newbie said:
but the area that was pay tipis last year
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That was crew camping last year - it was rental tipis only in 2007. If you saw other tipis nearby, they were Cockmill Hideaway, run by Cockmill Croft farm.

r0cky said:
Don't think so. The new campsite is at Pennard Hill Farm, I would guess that the entrance might be nearby to that location.
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Yep. Being very precise, it's the East site of Pennard Hill Farm (the West site is uber-luxury accomodation). They have the fields that look down onto Kings Meadow and Pennards Hill etc.

My guess is that the gate will go into the latter, rather than Kings Meadow.

Although the private gate thing makes me wince a bit, I think this particular campsite, which price/facilities wise is fairly basic, is genuinely useful to some people. Like, as Sunray says, people flying in. Weight limits make it difficult, so those people often end up buying a rip-off leaky tent from Joe Bananas, then dump it afterwards.

BTW I've marked the field where I think this will be - along with all the other known changes - on www.glastoearth.com
 
Cheers Paolo, will check that out on your map. Agree that a setup like this is definitely useful for people, just think it could have been more appropriately put somewhere else.
 
I've recently found that I CAN go to Glasto this year as my sister has postponed her wedding. Not so I can go to Glasto you understand, but I'm not complaining...

So, I've obviously missed the main sale, and the recent resale of tickets. Does anyone know if they'll do a final sale of remaining tickets? I know that you've got until some date in March to return tickets if you want a refund, so I guess that something has to be done with those tickets. Anyone any idea?
 
Private Storm said:
I've recently found that I CAN go to Glasto this year as my sister has postponed her wedding. Not so I can go to Glasto you understand, but I'm not complaining...

So, I've obviously missed the main sale, and the recent resale of tickets. Does anyone know if they'll do a final sale of remaining tickets? I know that you've got until some date in March to return tickets if you want a refund, so I guess that something has to be done with those tickets. Anyone any idea?
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What seems to be happening this year is that Seetickets are selling the spares ad-hoc as they go along.

Ring them, say you've heard there might be cancellations for sale, and ask them to *check*. And if you don't succeed, try again at least once a day.

Quite a few people have got tickets this way.

Based on that, there might not be a proper resale after May 9th cancellation cut off.
 
paolo999 said:
3D stuff coming to Silent Disco apparently. I've not been tempted into the headphone wrongness so far, but this looks interesting. Here's my news story, which is roughly the official festival thing with less fluff and more facts. Oh and I've updated the map too. :)

http://www.glastoearth.com/news/dancevillagegetsanewdimension
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I love the way the big announcement on the official website includes a photo of the old mega-dance tent circa 2004!!!! :hmm:
 
paolo999 said:
What seems to be happening this year is that Seetickets are selling the spares ad-hoc as they go along.

Ring them, say you've heard there might be cancellations for sale, and ask them to *check*. And if you don't succeed, try again at least once a day.

Quite a few people have got tickets this way.

Based on that, there might not be a proper resale after May 9th cancellation cut off.
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Thanks for that. Just tried them and they were adamant that they weren't selling them individually, that there would be a date set for when all the last remaining tickets would be made available. Still going to keep trying them though :)
 
Must admit I've not heard any success stories for a few days now, so it's possible they've stopped that.

Best of luck though. If you fancy working (5 x 4 Hours) PM me.
 
Talking of work, we've just both had our ticket-deposit cheques cashed, so it looks somewhere betweeen extremely likely and certain that we'll be there again to answer again your questions, simple ("where's the Cider Bus?") to less so ("where's my tent, I think it's a blue one") :p :cool: :)

:D
 
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