| Glastonbury 17:45 - Jun 27 with 8320 views | textbackup |
I’ve never been, would love to.
Anyway, I see people arriving on like the Wednesday, can you leave site to restock on beers/food?
Often wonder as some people go walking in with hardly anything on them. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 17:55 - Jun 27 with 5284 views | Mookamoo |
Unless you're staying offside, leaving isn't really an option. It just takes too long. There are shops onsite and you can normally find a bunch of Mancs in the camping area selling knocked off Tennets Super |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 18:08 - Jun 27 with 5235 views | factual_blue |
| Glastonbury on 17:55 - Jun 27 by Mookamoo |
Unless you're staying offside, leaving isn't really an option. It just takes too long. There are shops onsite and you can normally find a bunch of Mancs in the camping area selling knocked off Tennets Super |
Is there a nearby Premier Inn one can stay in? |  |
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| Glastonbury on 18:10 - Jun 27 with 5224 views | wkj |
| Glastonbury on 17:55 - Jun 27 by Mookamoo |
Unless you're staying offside, leaving isn't really an option. It just takes too long. There are shops onsite and you can normally find a bunch of Mancs in the camping area selling knocked off Tennets Super |
What about Fosters? Can't be acting like a tit and scaring everyone in a drunken stupor without it |  |
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| Glastonbury on 18:20 - Jun 27 with 5185 views | BABLUE |
You can go back to your car for extra supplies, but any beer will be warm unless you have it on the floor under the car where it will stay cooler.
You see lots of beer fridges kept cool with ice blocks that work for a few days, especially if you put some 2 litre bottles of frozen water in them. |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 18:51 - Jun 27 with 5116 views | WeWereZombies |
| Glastonbury on 18:20 - Jun 27 by BABLUE |
You can go back to your car for extra supplies, but any beer will be warm unless you have it on the floor under the car where it will stay cooler.
You see lots of beer fridges kept cool with ice blocks that work for a few days, especially if you put some 2 litre bottles of frozen water in them. |
Does Glasto have any decent bars with cask beer on the go ? |  |
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| Glastonbury on 18:57 - Jun 27 with 5088 views | WeirdFishes |
Best place in the world.
I’ve never left the site and don’t know of anyone that has. They have a coop tent on site for snack food etc. but if you buy beer on site it’s £££ compared to bringing it in crates. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 19:53 - Jun 27 with 4998 views | Oldsmoker |
| Glastonbury on 17:55 - Jun 27 by Mookamoo |
Unless you're staying offside, leaving isn't really an option. It just takes too long. There are shops onsite and you can normally find a bunch of Mancs in the camping area selling knocked off Tennets Super |
I worked for the Bristol Post as a runner one time. Nice little earner and I got to pitch my tent in the backstage area. Even had a chat with Jarvis Cocker one morning. He came over to ask me for a tug on my blunt. We talked about Sheffield. I used to live there.
At midnight when all the photographers had finished taking pics they'd come to the backstage area behind the Pyramid stage and I would get about 30 rolls of film. Drive like crazy to the Newspaper offices to get there by 2am to be developed.
Friday midnight was OK as the traffic was all going the other way.
After that, the roads were relatively empty.
Sunday midnight run was done by a photographer who wanted to get home as he'd had enough of hippies.
Fine by me. He got home about 7am as there were loads of breakdowns which blocked the exits.
The next year it was all digital cameras and the pics were transmitted over the internet. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 20:26 - Jun 27 with 4924 views | factual_blue |
| Glastonbury on 18:57 - Jun 27 by WeirdFishes |
Best place in the world.
I’ve never left the site and don’t know of anyone that has. They have a coop tent on site for snack food etc. but if you buy beer on site it’s £££ compared to bringing it in crates. |
Blimey!
How many years have you been there?
I didn't realise they allowed you to live there all year. | |
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| Glastonbury on 21:03 - Jun 27 with 4853 views | Guthrum |
| Glastonbury on 18:51 - Jun 27 by WeWereZombies |
Does Glasto have any decent bars with cask beer on the go ? |
Yes, or it always used to have. Plus the utterly lethal Cider Bus. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 21:08 - Jun 27 with 4841 views | Guthrum |
People aren't carrying much because you can buy beer and an extremely wide range of food on site. The main shopping area is about the size you'd expect to find in a fairly large town (which the festival site is - about a quarter of a million population, if you include crew). Then there are all the other food outlets, cafes, bars, etc. | |
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| Glastonbury on 21:40 - Jun 27 with 4783 views | DinDjarin |
Middle class snobfest. Died after they banned the travelers, double died with the super fence and triple died when they allowed Emily to start booking the bands.
Just a glorified pop festival these days. And yes I have been about 10 times. |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 22:02 - Jun 27 with 4717 views | Oldsmoker |
| Glastonbury on 21:40 - Jun 27 by DinDjarin |
Middle class snobfest. Died after they banned the travelers, double died with the super fence and triple died when they allowed Emily to start booking the bands.
Just a glorified pop festival these days. And yes I have been about 10 times. |
First went in '84 when I was 30.
I was in Bristol and had a car and the yoofs at the pub called me grandad.
They persuaded me after the pub on Friday night 11:30pm to give them a lift to Glastonbury. They were going to cross the fields and jump the drainage ditches to get to the site.
I got there and they all jumped out (no tickets) leaving me to pay at the gate 'cos once you're in the road you can't turn round. I ended up paying the guy on the gate (it was 2am ish) a fiver to drive in. The ticket was way more.
No tent, no change of clothes, no toothbrush etc.
Got to see the kids the next day and we eeked out the smoke and what little cash we had between us.
Except for a few old hippies, I felt like I was the oldest there. [Post edited 27 Jun 2024 22:04]
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| Glastonbury on 07:51 - Jun 28 with 4401 views | urbanblue |
| Glastonbury on 18:20 - Jun 27 by BABLUE |
You can go back to your car for extra supplies, but any beer will be warm unless you have it on the floor under the car where it will stay cooler.
You see lots of beer fridges kept cool with ice blocks that work for a few days, especially if you put some 2 litre bottles of frozen water in them. |
I went a number of times in the 90"s. We used to take beer in with us and mix it with beer purchased on site. Save money and to cool our beer down when it got warmer. |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 08:10 - Jun 28 with 4364 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Surely simply watching 5 mins on the BBC will put you off for life?
I went to the first two at a cost of precisely nothing. It was a music festival back then and primarily for young people with a smattering of eccentric hippy types. It’s far from that now. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 08:24 - Jun 28 with 4330 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Glastonbury on 21:40 - Jun 27 by DinDjarin |
Middle class snobfest. Died after they banned the travelers, double died with the super fence and triple died when they allowed Emily to start booking the bands.
Just a glorified pop festival these days. And yes I have been about 10 times. |
The Levellers still hold the record for the biggest stage-front crowd in 1994... because so many people would get in for free, it would triple the number of people on site.
The super-fence was inevitable, it was always going to come, but the first year they had it, everyone who paid and went said how empty it was - which just showed the scale of the number of people that used to bunk in.
Emily has absolutely killed it. R&B and pop acts shouldn't be anywhere near Glastonbury... each to their own etc, and there is a place for them if that's your thing - but Glastonbury isn't it. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 09:48 - Jun 28 with 4185 views | leitrimblue |
| Glastonbury on 21:40 - Jun 27 by DinDjarin |
Middle class snobfest. Died after they banned the travelers, double died with the super fence and triple died when they allowed Emily to start booking the bands.
Just a glorified pop festival these days. And yes I have been about 10 times. |
That stupid fence and the over the top security that went with it for a while in the mid 90,s killed it.
It was good enough craic up til then,but not good enough to pay to get in  |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:12 - Jun 28 with 4133 views | Cotty |
It's part of the right of passage to carry as much beer in with you as possible. Anybody not doing that is doing it wrong. |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:26 - Jun 28 with 4071 views | Gogs |
| Glastonbury on 08:24 - Jun 28 by ITFC_Forever |
The Levellers still hold the record for the biggest stage-front crowd in 1994... because so many people would get in for free, it would triple the number of people on site.
The super-fence was inevitable, it was always going to come, but the first year they had it, everyone who paid and went said how empty it was - which just showed the scale of the number of people that used to bunk in.
Emily has absolutely killed it. R&B and pop acts shouldn't be anywhere near Glastonbury... each to their own etc, and there is a place for them if that's your thing - but Glastonbury isn't it. |
That levellers story from 94 is a total urban myth. I was there in 94. Yes, the fence got broken down and a few people got in, but nowhere near the numbers claimed. As for the reported 300,000 odd watching the levellers, don’t make me laugh, I doubt there were even half that many people on site in total, let alone watching them. |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:38 - Jun 28 with 4030 views | Mookamoo |
| Glastonbury on 08:24 - Jun 28 by ITFC_Forever |
The Levellers still hold the record for the biggest stage-front crowd in 1994... because so many people would get in for free, it would triple the number of people on site.
The super-fence was inevitable, it was always going to come, but the first year they had it, everyone who paid and went said how empty it was - which just showed the scale of the number of people that used to bunk in.
Emily has absolutely killed it. R&B and pop acts shouldn't be anywhere near Glastonbury... each to their own etc, and there is a place for them if that's your thing - but Glastonbury isn't it. |
I have no problem with R&B acts, but it's got too big and formulaic. It can't be everything for everybody. Once the BBC got involved it became just a broadcast event.
Was there when Tom Jones played and that was a giggle, but that has become a legend slot - it has lost that organic feel which is a shame, but I wouldn't want to be the one trying to hold a festival in all the chaos pre 1990/1991 | | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:49 - Jun 28 with 4001 views | solemio |
Ah, you're all talking about the Shepton Mallet Noise Festival.
Somebody described it as the best place in the world. I can think of 43 places in Somerset that are better. | | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:51 - Jun 28 with 3980 views | Meadowlark |
| Glastonbury on 21:40 - Jun 27 by DinDjarin |
Middle class snobfest. Died after they banned the travelers, double died with the super fence and triple died when they allowed Emily to start booking the bands.
Just a glorified pop festival these days. And yes I have been about 10 times. |
Same as Wimbledon then.... |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 10:54 - Jun 28 with 3960 views | Herbivore |
| Glastonbury on 10:12 - Jun 28 by Cotty |
It's part of the right of passage to carry as much beer in with you as possible. Anybody not doing that is doing it wrong. |
This. I've been twice in the 90s and made the long trek from the car loaded up with as many tinnies as possible. I noticed the festival starting to change from my first visit to my second and it's changed beyond all recognition now. Very different acts playing and very different demographic in attendance. The youngsters seem to enjoy it though. |  |
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| Glastonbury on 10:55 - Jun 28 with 3958 views | jontysnut |
| Glastonbury on 08:10 - Jun 28 by ElephantintheRoom |
Surely simply watching 5 mins on the BBC will put you off for life?
I went to the first two at a cost of precisely nothing. It was a music festival back then and primarily for young people with a smattering of eccentric hippy types. It’s far from that now. |
For the full effect put your TV at the end of the garden then have someone stand in front of you with their girlfriend on their shoulders waving a giant Wolves flag |  | | |
| Glastonbury on 11:13 - Jun 28 with 3902 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Glastonbury on 10:51 - Jun 28 by Meadowlark |
Same as Wimbledon then.... |
Come on Tim! | |
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| Glastonbury on 11:17 - Jun 28 with 3878 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Glastonbury on 10:26 - Jun 28 by Gogs |
That levellers story from 94 is a total urban myth. I was there in 94. Yes, the fence got broken down and a few people got in, but nowhere near the numbers claimed. As for the reported 300,000 odd watching the levellers, don’t make me laugh, I doubt there were even half that many people on site in total, let alone watching them. |
300k is probably an exaggeration, but it still probably is the record and is widely regarded as being so.
Trouble was, the Levs admit themselves it wasn't their best performance - decent, but not their best.
They enjoyed their set in 1992 more than in 1994.... and shortly after, Jez of the band reached the point of no return with his addiction - thankfully he realised he had to make a choice, and he chose life. | |
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