Do you regret not going to Glastonbury now?

[sojourner]

Couldn't afford it, and wanted to do lots of smaller festies instead this year (which hasn't worked out as I've spent all my money on beer and gig tickets instead ), but yeh, when I watched a snippet of the TV coverage to check the weather, I was a bit gutted, has to be said.

Having only been twice, 2002 and last year, it is a totally different experience when the sun is shining.

 

[paolo]

Everyone should go at least once, IMO. There is nothing quite like it on Earth. It is a life changing experience.

But like all good things, its good to know when you've had enough.

Fair dos, good post. I'm sure I'll hang my boots up one day, but I'm relative newbie, so I'm sure it won't be for awhile yet.

 

[Yetman]

Fuck that. And sure, you get free tickets - but this year there were last minute tickets going for £10.

No there wasnt, I was trying to find them to go on Saturday.

I was gutted, esp as I actually had a ticket but then the mrs talked me out of it

Shouldnt have watched it on telly really....didnt help

Neither did finding out that cos I live next to it I COULD HAVE GOT FUCKING SUNDAY TICKETS

 

[pk]

No there wasnt, I was trying to find them to go on Saturday.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/lat...ets-being-sold-on-ebay-for-10-89520-20621268/

 

[Rollem]

i dont regret not going, as i couldn't afford it. i therefore regret not being able to afford it

 

[DJ Squelch]

Nope, enjoy it much more from a distance these days.

I prefer the smaller festies, big crowds just freak me out and I cant cope with all those youngsters off their tits . Its official I am an old fart

I did Eastern haze last year, which was pretty good. Its such a shame they've folded already

Love your username.

 

[zenie]

No there wasnt, I was trying to find them to go on Saturday.

I was gutted, esp as I actually had a ticket but then the mrs talked me out of it

Shouldnt have watched it on telly really....didnt help

Neither did finding out that cos I live next to it I COULD HAVE GOT FUCKING SUNDAY TICKETS

Make sure you get some more next year then! For your friends!

Where did you see these 10 quid tickets PK?

 

[tarannau]

I think he's suggesting that you could purchase a last minute ticket with somebody else's photograph prominently printed on it, drive and queue for umpteen hours on the off chance of having your ticket inspected by Ray Stevie Charles Wonder and be waved in. Not a risk I'd like to take if I'm honest

Unsurprisingly, there was a reason why these tickets only reached up to £10 each.

Hospitality tickets (without photographs) were still trading hands for near the full ticket price or more.

 

[Voley]

I didn't regret it when I saw the weather on the Wednesday and the Thursday but when it all brightened up I wished I'd gone.

Still think the lineup was shite, mind. And don't 'it's vibe, not line-up' me before you start. I know what I fucking like, thanks.

Seriously thinking about next year, though, for all that.

 

[pk]

I think he's suggesting that you could purchase a last minute ticket with somebody else's photograph prominently printed on it, drive and queue for umpteen hours on the off chance of having your ticket inspected by Ray Stevie Charles Wonder and be waved in. Not a risk I'd like to take if I'm honest

Unsurprisingly, there was a reason why these tickets only reached up to £10 each.

Hospitality tickets (without photographs) were still trading hands for near the full ticket price or more.

£100 for hospitality, according to the Mirror link above...

 

[tarannau]

You just know that it'll rain for the next few years NVP, allowing us all to point and laugh at your misfortune.

 

[Yetman]

£100 for hospitality, according to the Mirror link above...

What the mirror report and what is actually true are two different things.....

I was on ebay all day Saturday trying to find these mysterious £10 tix and there wasnt any.

 

[tarannau]

£100 for hospitality, according to the Mirror link above...

Just clicked that, but I know that a fair few were trading on ebay for over the ticket price on Monday. No idea afterwards, but surely The Mirror could have been, ahem, selective in choosing when it looked at the winning bids and which ones it highlighed.

The £10 ticket claim was effectively a misleading load of bollocks though, wasn't it?

 

[mr steev]

I didn't regret it when I saw the weather on the Wednesday and the Thursday but when it all brightened up I wished I'd gone.

The weather was great on Wednesday, and most of Thursday too. It only started to rain Thursday night (iirc ) just as I went into a tent to see the Slackers, when I left there a few hours later it had virtually stopped. It did rain a bit more on Friday but mostly only drizzle.

Don't let a bit of water put you off

 

[pk]

What the mirror report and what is actually true are two different things.....

I was on ebay all day Saturday trying to find these mysterious £10 tix and there wasnt any.

Oh I know the Mirror Group are mainly composed of lying retarded Murdoch-loving cunts who should really take a flying leap off one of the towers at Canary Wharf... but it was on the wires, so not just a Mirror story.

Saturday might have been a little late - Weds or Thurs perhaps may have been better...

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

No, but I will however regret not going to Rockness, The Green man festival(if it's on, i don't keep up), and several others.

 

[Pieface]

£100 for hospitality, according to the Mirror link above...

you need more than just a ticket to get into all that stuff. I'd be dubious of the Mirror's stories about bargain VIP entry magic.

In any case - the touts got beaten which can only be a good thing.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Everyone should do Glastonbury at least once fella

This is why I don't want to do it, cause everyone says that. Maybe there's a wee punk in me somewhere. Maybe it's because of my heart, my braveheart. Oooh, I think I'll watch some Stuart Lee.

 

[pk]

you need more than just a ticket to get into all that stuff. I'd be dubious of the Mirror's stories about bargain VIP entry magic.

I had no problem getting VIP entry in all but the first of the six times I've been... but then I'm good at blagging that shit...

In any case - the touts got beaten which can only be a good thing.

Agreed. Shame the tent thieves weren't soundly beaten off-site too, but that's hippies for ya...

 

[Pieface]

Good grief man, we've all spotted by now that whereever you go you get the best, the shiniest of everything. I'm very glad you're good at blagging that shit - you can stop telling us now

 

[Voley]

Don't let a bit of water put you off

I've been to three muddy ones.

I had a good time at them but it was hard work and I was younger and fortified by stimulants more in them days.

Honestly don't think I'd have a good time at a muddy one any more. Simple as that.

 

[pk]

Good grief man, we've all spotted by now that whereever you go you get the best, the shiniest of everything. I'm very glad you're good at blagging that shit - you can stop telling us now

Says she with the posh Mercedes bus!!!

At least I slept in a tent!

Did I mention the helicopter that took me to the backstage area, and the free Bolivian cocaine that the pilot insisted I kept with me...

 

[pinkmonkey]

Yes I do regret not being there, but I don't regret that stayin at home meant having the money for our biggest bill of the year and paying it early getting us a 10% prompt payment discount. I had to be a grown up for once.

In the end I heard that there were a few free tickets going around here, but no one wanted them!

 

[moomoo]

Naaa, been there loads of times before... had a great weekend in Londinium instead. It would have taken a full week out of my life at least, and childcare ain't cheap. I wouldn't take the nippers until they're older.

The weather was good for a change though, and I'm sure I'll be there again if I blag the old Access All Areas... might give it a go for next year, and if I can't show up then some lucky Urbanite can pretend to be me, grab a black/gold wristband and get the free food, and the clean loos, and the hot showers, chat drunkenly to the performers, watch Winehouse get wrecked... etc.

*Looks interested*

 

[Eva Luna]

I regret not going yes.

 

[chemn]

...Still, I couldn't afford it, £150 for a ticket, £40 petrol money, £150 spending money and another £100 on buying crap like sleeping bags and tents... nope, sorry.

Although what I've heard from friends suggests that I did miss out slightly the above quote over rides any regret I have about not going!

... Though I think I might go next year or the year after with my boy

 

[pinkmonkey]

My neighbour took her four month old nipper - she loved it!

 

[bluestreak]

I'd like to say that, due to the pain and the comedown and the serotonin shocks and the tiredness, that i regret at least some aspects of my attendance at glastonbury this year. but it turns out i don't.

 

[ozrictentgal]

Love your username.

Cheers!

 

[tarannau]

I'd like to say that, due to the pain and the comedown and the serotonin shocks and the tiredness, that i regret at least some aspects of my attendance at glastonbury this year. but it turns out i don't.

Christ, tell me about it. Tired and emotional now to say the least, probably not much helped by taking enough MDMA to affect the seratonin levels of the world's largest happy clapping convention in Positiveland.

Hell, I was just remembering what an unexpected highlight Eddy Grant was and a tear of happiness rolled down my cheek. Sunshine, a bouncing, broad-smiling crowd and just the right level of cheese. Glastonbury moments to treasure