Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 29/6/2013
Helicopters have been overflying our house all day doing the London/Glastonbury run. Disturbing our quiet enjoyment of our estate but I suppose the rich & famous have to get there somehow.
And sick people. A lot of the flights out are air ambulance (privately hired in by the organisers) as its hard to get people out that quickly by road.
Quote: Originally posted by bigtoe on 29/6/2013
Theres a bigger mix of ages at Glastonbury than other festivals. The recently introduced ready made tents and teepees (someof which are 500 quid) indicates the way things are going. Not the preserve of students but I must admit a king sized bed and my own shower and kitchen would be a nice place to retreat to when the musics over
It's fair comment re the price not being too high for what you get. As for Formula 1, I don't really consider to be a sport, more a test of engineering, but its fans are seriously committed followers. Whatever floats yours though eh.
£500? That's cheap. A tipi with nothing inside can cost over £2,000. Did a quick google earlier and one was £4,000.
Well it was mainly dry just for once. Been out today and went the opposite direction. The radio was giving out major traffic jams all around but we managed to avoid. Don't fancy the A303 today!!!!
Quote: Originally posted by chelsea girl on 28/6/2013
I have always been curious - how on earth in the depths of darkness and possibly intoxicated do you find your own tent out of the thousands of tents pitched???
Best plan is too tie a colourful helium filled balloon to the entrance to your tent and then its easy to find.
Make sure you always have somethng sharp on you though to burst the balloon of anybody else who had the same idea !!!!!!!
Finding tents is easy, you remember which field you camp in, you get to the field, you look at the flags, or in my case for the gazebo hub our camp had, and bob's your uncle. Really easy. It's not actually as packed as it looks, especially further away from the pyramid etc. We had a fair bit of space around our tents, and we managed to get 80 people to camp together, many of them people who came alone.
As for the pre-erected tents, after one of the companies went bust in 2011 GFL decided to run their own this year called Worthy View and offered the tents at relatively reasonable prices. Can't remember off the top of my head but if you split the cost between a few people it worked out not too expensive. I'd rather be in the thick of it though, pounding basslines until 6am and all!
The pop stars in my day used to perform at the local cinemas on their tours. Very personal as they always used to come outside the stage door for a chat and to sign autographs. They sometimes went to local cafe for a burger or coffee too and sat with us youngsters.
Met Charlie Watts one day in Debenhams and he invited my friend and I to meet the show performers in the cinema restaurant for tea that afternoon. We had a great time with all the rolling Stones, Roy Orbison and many others who were polite and really interested in us in a totally nice way.
The shows were amazing and I really am spoilt from going to a huge festival and maybe getting a glance at a perfomer from afar.
One of the nicest people I met was Dusty Springfield, she was so nice to her fans and totally unpretentious.
But it is just what you get used to and these huge festivals have a different atmosphere that youngsters seem to like.
Quote: Originally posted by JoMarch on 28/6/2013
I really cannot think of much that I would rather do less than go there. You can keep your fantastic bands, your side shows and your free love, I'd much rather be in my own tent, somewhere quiet listening to woman's hour.
I'm getting old!
That was my thought EXACTLY.
I got palpitations just looking at those photos of how busy it was.
Quote: Originally posted by lissabuff on 27/6/2013 the tent "left overs" at glastonbury are now collected officially by the festival organisers, and are recycled and the greater majority are sent abroad ,charities such as.africa aid and other such like benefit from these unwanted weekend "hotels'!! .
Unfortunately this is not the case. They tried it one year and it was not successfully. It took too much time to check the condition of the tent, poles, canvas etc. Some tents are taken by people working after the festival, but the vast majority are sent to landfill. All through the festival itself there were signs/videos etc telling people to take their tents home, but some people are just selfish and plain lazy.
It would be great if they could enforce a fine on anyone not carrying a tent off site (or not able to prove they stayed in a pre erected one). If they charged enough it would soon make people think about taking their tents with them. They could make people stay and help clear up if they couldn't prove they hadn't left a tent. I suppose it would be highly impracticable though and slow down exit significantly.
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Topic: The tent village at Glastonbury
I suppose it would be highly impracticable though and slow down exit significantly.
