alsoknownas said:Party, huh?
Corrected for you ...
Glastonbury 2014
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alsoknownas
some bloke
Corrected for you ...
SpookyFrank - what was the outcome with your GF's story? Any reasonable explanation?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Well after she'd spent four days outside the gate the people she should have been working finally sorted her a ticket, because they needed replacements for three of their volunteers who had gone home sick. It seems these dropouts were victims of their own overindulgence before the festival even started properly, and unlike Mrs Frank they had never volunteered with this organisation in the past.
This lot go to glastonbury every year, and the idea is the people who work for them at more boring events throughout the year get to go to glastonbury with them. There's always a big queue of people wanting to work at glasto with them because you can get a free ticket without paying a deposit. They use this as a carrot-and-stick to get volunteers for other events, and Mrs Frank thought she'd be near the front of the queue having given up several weeks to work for them (for free) last summer. Instead Mrs Frank was put on the 'reserve list' and three people who hadn't volunteered before but who are mates of the bloke in charge got in ahead of her.
Long story short after the main crew had left for glastonbury they phoned Mrs Frank up and told her that through some blag we won't go into here, they had managed to secure her a free ticket. Mrs F packs her shit and sorts out a lift with a car-sharing scheme for later that day. Several hours later they phone up and tell her they haven't got a ticket for her after all, by which time she's already on route.
During Mrs Frank's time outside the gate nobody from this company came to talk to her, and they even denied all knowledge of her when security phoned them to check her story. They knew she had no money for food or transport home, and still they left her to rot. She only surivived thanks to the generosity of some total strangers at the oxfam stewards' camp. It turned out later that these clowns had left another volunteer stranded outside a different gate in much the same position.
As for naming and shaming, I know the main bloke from this organisation and I'm going to confront him about this, remind him that his livelihood depends on volunteers and that their welfare should be his primary concern, and invite him to make some kind of recompense to Mrs F for her ordeal. Until I've done so I'm reluctant to name names, just as I was when Mrs Frank had actually got into the festival and was working with them.
disco_dave_2000
la la lapland
glad it worked out in the end
alsoknownas
some bloke
Really nice pics. Did you shoot professionally or for fun? Any more?
alsoknownas
some bloke
Good stuff. Which phone, out of interest?
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
We did go, purely as we were crossing Dance Village and by the time we had a look-see too see what the ridiculous queue was for, some people at the front kindly didn't see that the queue had moved and we sneaked in the gap walked straight in and did a good 20 mins or so in there.
Slick, crystal clear and very (hi/mid/low) separated disco tracks that sound like the ones you know and love and have been sampled in tons house tracks since, but trendily not the ones you know/love/etc. Dismissive sounding critique aside It's all genuinely quite decent and skilful, and credit to the DJ's they're weren't all 4:4 slick house-style crossfades (some slams and needle drops etc), though it all sounds a bit too perfect, and not sure it transpired well to Glasto - not the vibe I'd assume to fit, though kudos for trying stuff like that, it can't all 'hit' (with me) and it was clearly popular enough!
You'll appreciate the review is perhaps lacking in depth as we only stayed for 20 mins - It was kind of like Silent Disco for us: a worth-trying novelty though not really in the top 100 things that you could be doing at any given time on the inside of the fence - but the overarching sentiment that I wanted to scream at the trendies AND the organisers for putting something on where people had to Q for at 2 in the morning (or whenever), and the fools (fun fascism aside!) that are willing to loose x hours of prime time Glasto peak adventure potential and queue up for it. That sort of shit is IMO/E usually reserved for SGP and its ilk.
We headed up to Silver Hayes on Friday night (the first time I've been there after dark since 1999
) and found that with the exception of The Blues there were queues for pretty much everything. The one to get into Despacio wasn't immense. Probably about 40 people. But it was only a relatively small venue and I simply don't do queueing for anything at Glastonbury so we quickly moved on.Cheers to Paolo btw for the Block 9 wristband which enabled me to queue jump at Downlow. That felt very good indeed
alsoknownas
some bloke
Yeah, I knew it was gonna be busy, and that the music was going to be obscure. Me and a couple of people were trying to work out when the optimum time to try and get in relatively hassle-free. I think we decided early Sunday. Then never mentioned it again, and I only remembered it at all when I posted about it on here 
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. The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
That's AMAZING footage. Brilliant 
"We shall return" -- even more (and maybe I'll manage actually to make some of their shows next time ).
"We shall return" -- even more
(and maybe I'll manage actually to make some of their shows next time ).I actually thought Arcadia was a bit flat this year. We saw the "Landing Show" on the Friday night but apart from a few minor tweaks it’s pretty much the same as we saw at Glastonbury last year and for the last 2 years at Boomtown. I thought the sound was also less than impressive even in what I assumed would be a plum spot right in front of the speakers. I’ll still probably go and see it again at Boomtown because it always seems to work so much better down there at the bottom of the bowl and there’s always more ravers and less gawpers. But they need to up their game a bit if it’s not going to start becoming a tad stale. Nice crew bar though with big fires & the Police Rave Unit on duty. Cheers Paolo! 
alsoknownas
some bloke
Afraid to say, I've had this feeling about Arcadia for about 3 years now. I regard it as a decoy.
Fair blew my likkle mind in 2010 though, with Lords of Lightning in tow
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Fair blew my likkle mind in 2010 though, with Lords of Lightning in tow
.hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
Don`t you think that any attraction which partly depends on surprise or awe is going to pale over the years no matter where they put it ? The first time I saw the spider I couldn`t stop talking about it , now its just an area you visit to see how it compares to last year . To get that initial WOW factor is nigh on impossible to repeat year after year . It is still a great place to spend time though . I wouldnt mind betting that those who saw it for the first time at its new site were just as excited as previous years , they have set the bar pretty high .
alsoknownas
some bloke
Yeah, but there's a very creative bunch of people behind that entity - from a variety of rave, traveller, event and circus backgrounds. There's a lot of creative competition between the various SE corner camps - I think I'm right in saying that Pip Rush who is the main honcho behind arcadia is the brother of Joe Rush, who until recently ran Unfairground, and there has always been a healthy dose of 'one-up-manship' between them and some of the other areas.
Like it or loathe it Shangri-La does an excellent job of renewing itself each year by buiding genuine narrative elements and shaking things up a bit. I'm not a fan of the Heaven and Hell storyline, but I really dug the whole fleeing the city /infected vibe, which a lot of punters brought into in a big way (I'll never forget seeing people stripping off to be decontaminated).
Just needs an injection of imagination from someone.
Like it or loathe it Shangri-La does an excellent job of renewing itself each year by buiding genuine narrative elements and shaking things up a bit. I'm not a fan of the Heaven and Hell storyline, but I really dug the whole fleeing the city /infected vibe, which a lot of punters brought into in a big way (I'll never forget seeing people stripping off to be decontaminated
).Just needs an injection of imagination from someone.
alsoknownas
some bloke
It's all relative though innit? Plenty of creativity and people having fun in that there video .
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tbtommyb
Well-Known Member
i much prefer it at boomtown where the size of the crowd it draws seems about right. at glastonbury the crowd is so big that loads of people are way too far back to have any decent sound and as my friend pointed out it's a bit crap to stand around waiting for a bit of fire. the show is still good though. plus at boomtown it seems liek the music is more appropriate.
personally I would move Glasto Latino as it seems totally out of keeping with the SE corner. Shangri La and Block 9 also seem to get far bigger crowds than the other areas. I guess the Common is mostly inside but i could never be bothered queuing. The Unfairground doesn't really draw you into it as much as Shangri La does but they did play a really good range of music.
personally I would move Glasto Latino as it seems totally out of keeping with the SE corner. Shangri La and Block 9 also seem to get far bigger crowds than the other areas. I guess the Common is mostly inside but i could never be bothered queuing. The Unfairground doesn't really draw you into it as much as Shangri La does but they did play a really good range of music.
alsoknownas
some bloke
The whole problem with developing the S.E. corner is that you can't move late night noise to other parts of the site due to local resident politics. They've already performed miracles with Arcadia. Moving Glasto Latino would mean either shutting it early or shutting it down altogether I reckon.
tbtommyb
Well-Known Member
Tbh I'm not a massive fan of it so that wouldn't bother me. Being able to go on late makes space in the SE corner valuable and I think it could be better used.
Bit that's just my view, I'm sure others love it
