Glastonbury 2009

[sojourner]

If it was in August, on a site with good drainage, without ridiculous noise restrictions, I'd be there. But one look at the weather forecast makes me glad as hell I'm not there now.

Aye

 

[Idaho]

The regularity of mud Glastonburys does seem to support the theory that the UK weather is changing to incorporate an early summer rainy season.

 

[rutabowa]

In the absence of William, I shall assume weather duties.

Not overly optimistic.

it looks nice for an hour at 6 on Saturday...

 

[izz]

as i was about to post, before the power cuts, fiercesome storms over glasto.

Biblical even.

:-(

 

[Strumpet]

Storm just starting here in welsh (South)Wales.

 

[fractionMan]

Still got a ticket knocking about if anyone wants to make an offer (it for not-for-profit group, not me!)

I'd be up for it but I've got lil fraction this weekend. Great offer though.

 

[DaRealSpoon]

HA HA HA, tee heee heee!

Glasto here I come!!! Mwahaha


E2A = Anyone know where I could park me car??

 

[TopCat]

In, sorted had a good nights sleep. Apparently there was an accident on the M4 which contributed to the queues. Also some cunt of a coach driver got two miiles from the site, threw a strop, said he wasn't going any further and made everyone, including several disabled people, get off and walk 2 miles with all their stuff. I hope he gets sacked for that.

Here comes the rain!!

The coach driver, as a holder of a PSV licence has strict legal obligations regarding the maximum driving time allowed. If he exceeds these, he loses his licence and his job. His employer should have known better than to send just one driver, two would have been appropriate.

 

[pagan]

Aaaah, a lovely sunny day in SW Scotland.
My first Glasto - '92 and wall to wall sunshine, my last, 07, thundery monsoons.
I've just set up Radio 6 and run a couple of speakers outside, I'm going to have a fry up and eat it on a paper plate in the garden, then a few spliffs and a couple of cans of Stella.......
Jo Wiley has just reported heavy rain and rapidly expanding puddles.
Shine on lovely Scottish sun

 

[Idaho]

I thought you lived in Brighton for some reason.

 

[Crispy]

I strung the BBC webcams together for a rough panorama of the site from the farm
(automatic refresh every 10 minutes)

http://www.urban75.org.uk/glastocampano.html

 

[dodgepot]

I strung the BBC webcams together for a rough panorama of the site from the farm
(automatic refresh every 10 minutes)

http://www.urban75.org.uk/glastocampano.html

cool. i think i can see the missus and the teenager

 

[david dissadent]

Thank christ I am not at this years glasto with all this maudlin shite going on now.

 

[citydreams]

Loving the twitter blog

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/live-festival-updates

 

[Strumpet]

I strung the BBC webcams together for a rough panorama of the site from the farm
(automatic refresh every 10 minutes)

http://www.urban75.org.uk/glastocampano.html

 

[Voley]

http://www.urban75.org.uk/glastocampano.html

Still looks quite green from that. I've been to Glastonburies where it's trench-foot territory by Friday lunchtime.

 

[editor]

The Mail has spun out rather a strange story:

Why's that DJ playing Thriller? How the news of Jackson's death took a little longer to arrive at a festival in Somerset
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ury-news-Michael-Jacksons-death-sinks-in.html

Beautifully illustrated too:

Caption: "Peaches Geldof speaks to a friend at the festival"

WTF?!

 

[dodgepot]

I strung the BBC webcams together for a rough panorama of the site from the farm
(automatic refresh every 10 minutes)

http://www.urban75.org.uk/glastocampano.html

looking like the sun is trying to get through now

 

[editor]

I can almost smell the mud from here.

 

[Crispy]

Still looks quite green from that. I've been to Glastonburies where it's trench-foot territory by Friday lunchtime.

Hard to tell right now. When the crowds clear and the sun comes up tomorrow, things might look different.

Thing is, once the ground's wet, it stays wet cos the drainage is so bad. Can't be help with such clay soil.

 

[Pickman's model]

The regularity of mud Glastonburys does seem to support the theory that the UK weather is changing to incorporate an early summer rainy season.

or, there's something in the behaviour at glasto which attracts rain

 

[mwgdrwg]

When was the last desert-dry, HOT, dusty Glastonbury? I went to a couple but I'm actually wondering if I imagined it.

Really wish I was there though (and I say that every year since I stopped).

 

[Voley]

Hard to tell right now. When the crowds clear and the sun comes up tomorrow, things might look different.

Thing is, once the ground's wet, it stays wet cos the drainage is so bad. Can't be help with such clay soil.

Looking pretty muddy from the photos on the ed's link, now, mind. Inevitable, really. That bit just left of The Pyramid near the cider bus goes swampy very quickly.

 

[Crispy]

97 and 98 were mudfests. 1999 and 2000 were really hot and dry IIRC. then 03 and 04 were generally meh. 05 was hideous, 06 was a break, 07 was also wet. I think 08 wasn't too bad.

 

[Pickman's model]

97 and 98 were mudfests. 1999 and 2000 were really hot and dry IIRC. then 03 and 04 were generally meh. 05 was hideous, 06 was a break, 07 was also wet. I think 08 wasn't too bad.

which was the one which didn't happen?

 

[Crispy]

every 5th year is a break - 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and presumably 2011. Shit, I'd better go next year.

 

[dodgepot]

i better go next year, too! it's been too long (98 was the last time i went)

 

[Voley]

I'm thinking along those lines too, dodge. It's been 6 or 7 years since I've been now.

 

[dodgepot]

the first time i went was a scorcher. i was a young and naive 17 year old. so naive, in fact, that when a girl in a nearby tent asked me if i had any papers, i said "i've got the NME"...

 

[Voley]

I was 16 at my first. Bit of an eye-opener.