Pilton...I mean Glasto' Festival
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Amps for the state that farm gets left in by the tourists, you can’t help hoping for a few cases of trench foot to pop up in London and Co. in the following weeks…
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Smallman1 Overmono
pieces of eight is a reet tune. bet they’ll go down well.
ScottBailey for the state that farm gets left in by the tourists
Guessing it’s arguably left in a better state than most festivals are by their customers? Apparently 99.3% of tents where taken home in 2019?
Amps don’t know about the stats in comparison to other festivals. Know Glasto’ introduced some positive steps towards reducing waste on the site in the last few years, but I did read reports from 2019 that the place was still left like a tip. One of the things the news don’t talk about is the mess the wider area is left in too. I know local residents have had to put up with festival goers using their gardens as toilets, local property being vandalised and rubbish being discarded outside of the festival site over the years.
ScottBailey if the locals don’t like it then they can move?? A bit of piss and the odd turd in your garden once a year is not an issue? Ed must get that in a daily basis living in Tooting
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Can imagine that you also get a steady stream of ‘alternatives’ in the area throughout the year, to go with the once a year piss and turds.
(The festival is mega - wish I was going this year).
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RichM Eavis has had to do a lot of grovelling to his neighbours over the years for sure. That’s why he created the Pilton party after festival to say “sorry” and “thanks” to the local community. Needless to say they eventually cashed in on that as well and it became Glasto 2.0
I tested positive for the rona last night and it’s very similar to the delta version I had last November except I can smell and taste stuff. Got fever and raging sore throat. Glastonbury could be curtains.
Along_the_Wire an shit that’s a bummer. Hope you manage to get there
The missus tested positive last Monday, was feeling rough for a couple of days and has been fine since Thursday last week, but still testing positive
Along_the_Wire
That’s shite Granto, sorry to hear it
Along_the_Wire Oh ffs that is absolutey rotten luck, hope you get better asap
Gutted not to be there this year. Not been since 2017, and got massive FOMO..:
Along_the_Wire Oh mate, that’s fucking shite. Hope ya feel better soon.
ScottBailey Yeah, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the middle class Waitrose festival that Glasto has become is more beneficial for it’s neighbours than festivals like Leeds / Reading, where the active annual sport is setting your mates tent on fire.
Along_the_Wire that’s crap.
I’ll tell you who I will be giving the ole s to the werve.
Billy fucking Bragg.
Along_the_Wire you’ve really had bad luck with covid mate.
Along_the_Wire Sheeeeet - that is pants.
I had the Vid last week. Felt ropey on the Sunday night (but that down to boozy weekend). Had exactly the same symptoms develop the next day - the raging sore throat being the worst as was a nightmare to sleep. Felt shite for about ⅔ days but was back in the game by the Friday and produced a neg test at the end of that day. Lot quicker recovery than when I had it November which took about 2 weeks.
Hope its the same and you’re able to get down there
Like Vin have been developing a bit of FOMO through the week
I ain’t going to Glastonbury for no working class politics lectures.
I’m there to kitchen sink it!
Glasto is an event ive always shuddered at, given the sheer investment of emotion/commitment right from the booking process, to the travel and then to the sheer size of the event. I also cant bare to drink warm beer in a piss den for 3 days.
It all seems like such a palava.
Bollocks - sorry to hear that Granto! What a shitter
Smallman1 Billy fucking Bragg.
Fucking love Billy Bragg!
wrongun Hope so. The missus was going down til Friday late afternoon anyway, so got a bit of time. Cancelled transport for tomorrow because that ain’t happening from here
Sorry to hear that Grant :-(
seanc80 Would you not be better off finding a nice bar and have a few pints and a chat?
Same could be said for any holiday anywhere, not exactly novel sitting in a pub. Plenty of places to sit off and talk absolute bollocks for hours if you want to at Glasto.
It’s as good a festival as you will ever go to and the music, assuming you swerve the main stage shite, is boss.
seanc80 Was a bit dubious before I’d been. Done a bunch of other festivals around the UK, and just really didn’t get the fuss about Glastonbury. Happy to acknowledge I was being a narrow-minded fuckwit. There’s nowhere else on the planet I’ve enjoyed a party more than at Glastonbury.
Agree with others - trying to march around the site to see specific bands or artists can be a right pain in the bollocks. Most of the best days/nights I’ve had there have been the ones where we just set off with no particular place to be…
seanc80 It can be a colossal effort however if the sun is shining it is well well worth it, once you’re in and set up its just a 5 day long party with 200 000 other like minded folk
Sean’s style of footwear wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow at Glastonbury.
Anything goes there.
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Cunts constantly coming up to me, telling me im so stylish. And sexy.
Euggggh….Head would be melted.
The clobber I’m taking to Glastonbury this year, on account of it being a wash out, is nothing short of horrific.
SO NO CHANGE THERE THEN!
If Dave did Glastonbury…..
Lol!
Superb!
ScottBailey
I went to that one year as I have family who live in Glastonbury. Suade played live. I’ve never been into their music but they were brilliant
Last time I went to Glastonbury was 97. It was the year after the dance tent go sprayed with liquid shit.
I don’t really like the way festivals have become so middle class and white, a right of passage for posh cunts. I also hate the term “Glasto”.
I will go back when it becomes unfashionable again.