tbtommyb
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god knows... maybe i was looking back from the fire. anyway.
Glastonbury 2014
- Thread starter wiskey
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WBC-WORKER
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Must have been bloody strong Acid or you were looking in a mirror .
I started going in 1979 - this is a map from that year
http://www.wbc-team.co.uk/1979-2.jpg
so there was no old Railway Track that year in fact there was nothing south of the Pyramid
here is a photo from the 80's - note the empty fields
Vaguely, very very vaguely, reminds me of my first time there in 1984 does that picture, but I suspect it could have been taken a couple of years earlier? 
WBC-WORKER
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Vaguely, very very vaguely, reminds me of my first time there in 1984 does that picture, but I suspect it could have been taken a couple of years earlier?
these are old negatives so there is no date stamp on them
it cant be 1981 as there was no CND logo on the top { it did not fit for some reason or other } more likely it was 1982 as I think they cleared the cars close to the right hand tree in 1983 { but as I never parked there I cant be certain }
In 1984 it was the same basic area but in 1985 it was expanded
compare the map with the 79 one and you will see where they added more space
http://www.wbc-team.co.uk/Glastonbury-85-site-map.jpg
alsoknownas
some bloke
Some of the people sitting at the stone circle can see the Tor off to the right, but then they are seeing all sorts of weird stuff - the rest of us see it to the left (west).
Babylon's not a real name just a label people give the more mainstream area of the festival. Bit snobbish really (if kinda appropriate at times
).
WBC-WORKER
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that would be interesting to see as I cant recall seeing one from the early years.
wiskey
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here's a small version
As it says - taken by Nottingham CND air balloon 1984
I did have loads of my archives on a site but I just decided to stop paying for the domain so now it's just on paper and in my computer.
disco_dave_2000
la la lapland
they have a brand new shiny website - http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/ with loads of new info re: line ups etc
wiskey
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missed this because I was out of the country but it's an ineresting idea http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/glastonbury-joins-website-blackout-against-legal-highs/
tbtommyb
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is it not just more of a way for them to justify confiscating mystery white powders?
e2a: i mean if they had completely pure motives they'd say 'bring in your MDMA' but they aren't so I'm not convinced that this is anything more than a justification for them to ban people bringing in perfectly legal items.
wiskey
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I was talking about the idea of blacking out the website.
If you get busted with powders you packed badly.
deadringer
meat pie sausage roll
What would happen to a person if a personal amount of drugs did happen to be found, are they confiscated and still let in?
And what's a personal amount for Glastonbury?!
And what's a personal amount for Glastonbury?!
Depends on the mood of the people doing the findingWhat would happen to a person if a personal amount of drugs did happen to be found, are they confiscated and still let in?
And what's a personal amount for Glastonbury?!
free spirit
more tea vicar?
we ran a drugs amnesty / donations bucket when stewarding a back of beyond back stage camping gate one year. What happened to them was that we shared them out equally among all the stewards on the gates, but we still never let anyone pass though who shouldn't have. Great method of stopping people being idiots trying to get through the gate, just get them to sit down and skin up, then 20 minutes later they kinda realise they're wasting their night, and stumble off back in the opposite direction.
We also used to catch fence jumpers then really confuse them by kicking them out of the back stage camping into the festival.
tbf the festival had given us radios that didn't actually have a channel on them to allow us to communicate with security, and given what was going on in the camping area, we kinda saw it as part of our job not to be bringing security in to that area if it could possibly be avoided.
I suspect times may have changed a little.
We also used to catch fence jumpers then really confuse them by kicking them out of the back stage camping into the festival.
tbf the festival had given us radios that didn't actually have a channel on them to allow us to communicate with security, and given what was going on in the camping area, we kinda saw it as part of our job not to be bringing security in to that area if it could possibly be avoided.
I suspect times may have changed a little.
Wellllll... depends
free spirit
more tea vicar?
tbtommyb
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sounds like a great way to party on other people's drugs.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
when doing a night shift through til 8am for nowt, the results of which keep the artist and crew camping area free from thieving toe rags, and security, I thought it was fair enough really.
I genuinely don't think anyone without the right wristband got passed us in the 4-5 years we did that field without either being escorted, or being followed and watched back out of the field, and we had a higher than 100% attendance rate for the first 6 years we did it - one year everyone on our team did an extra shift for nowt because
tbtommyb
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I guess, plenty of other people are volunteering at the festival too but I suppose you could have been a knobber about it if you'd wanted to and called security.
From your perspective it seems a bit risky though, how do you know what you're got hold of?
free spirit
more tea vicar?
we weren't exactly novices, and would pick out those who looked like they were having the best time. It was much easier back then, before ket came along and ruined it all.
What other people get up to is up to them, there are some proper shitty shifts, and proper shitty crews to work for. We ran our own team, looked after our own area entirely, did the job well and got compliments rather than complaints most of the time, and pulled the areas we worked for out of the shit several times. Walked away after glasto moved us to a different area, and took the piss on coffee, food, and shifts.
Festival Republic stuff?
free spirit
more tea vicar?
yeah.
My bottom line is free coffee 24 hours a day when working, free food when working, and the ability to manage our own shifts between us.
They had me bringing down extra people at the last minute, I think we added 10 to our team from Tuesday the week of the festival, then they refused to let us swap shifts between us even though some of the shifts people missed (which others from our team covered) were shifts before they'd even landed on site after being asked to come last minute to help them out. Had people turning up for their swapped shifts being told they weren't on shift and sent away even though I'd swapped them on the schedule.
Then they tried to charge me for everyone who'd missed a shift.
Fuck that, ungrateful fuckers.
wiskey
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What people do in exchange for their ticket varies MASSIVELY... I mean there is just no way I'd spend the weekend working on any kind of catering facility. But then other people might not want my job.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
tbh I reckon the work we did would have been pretty shitty if we didn't make it into something that was actually quite fun.
Sitting on a gate at 5am in the pitch black and pissing down rain with no shelter, no light and no back up could be classed as pretty shitty.
Get a little fire going, stick up a make shift gazebo, have someone bringing you coffee round, and have the odd spliff, and it becomes a little more tolerable.
Which really is the difference between the crews that get near full attendance without needing to take deposits, and those who struggle to get more than 70% attendance even with deposits being taken IMO.
