Should Glasto be moved on a month to the end of July?

[DrRingDing]

Eavis is banging on about bringing more young people onsite but as moose pointed out on the other thread many people still have exams about that time.

Personally if young'uns put education before Glasto they wouldn't pass my test to get in anyhoo.

More importantly the last weekend of july has much more reliable weather.

We can all put on a brave face for the mud but it does take away part of the magic away from the festival.

So, should Mr Eavis knock it on a month?

 

[moose]

It's traditionally been around the Solstice in recent years, and I can't see that changing, but again, that's the kind of Glastonbury tradition that the younger people ME is keen to attract probably care less about than the old hippies. This year, I think you'd get mud at the end of July, too

 

[newbie]

No

 

[William of Walworth]

This year, I think you'd get mud at the end of July, too

I believe mud is thinner in Wiltshire

 

[William of Walworth]

The above was a WOMAD reference.

Ludicrous fucking suggestion from the OP anyway.

You do appreciate that as soon as you move Glasto from late June to (say) [July or] August, that would very likely (given sods law and statistical probability) be cue, as soon as it's done, for the hottest late June in years ... and quite possibly for several years?

[People] will be watching a scorching hot Glastonbury in late June next year on TV .. or avoiding the TV

Moving Glastonbury to July? Well look at the July weather so far, with little better/more settled likely to come for a while longer yet maybe by the end of the month, with any luck

Ludicrous to make panicy changes like that on the basis of an excessively (to the point of freakishly) muddy and rainy festival this time. Far worse than 2005 ... we're overdue a dry one now and it's quite unlikely (IMO) that it won't come ... statistical balance of likelihood for next year, I'd say ...

In any case, Michael Eavis won't move the date and I doubt Emily would either. It's a non starter.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yes. Also for those of us teaching abroad, it would be much easier to make it in july. Also can christmas be moved to mid January.

Ta.

 

[William of Walworth]

Come to WOMAD, RD. In a fortnight, w/e tix still available ....

</spam >

 

[JTG]

Also can christmas be moved to mid January.

Ta.

become Russian/Greek Orthodox then and you'll be sorted

 

[William of Walworth]

Crap poll options. Mud is not inevitable at Glastonbury in late June. I can even remember an almost completely dry one back in ... ahem ... 2003

But that reinforces my point that swings and roundabouts strongly point to the dry and sunny one next time that we're well overdue .

Moving the festival's date would provide a near guarentee that late June would be dry, but I bet that will happen anyway in 2008.

 

[newbie]

better idea: can christmas be moved to a galaxy far, far away.

 

[William of Walworth]

As for kids, they'll just have to learn the virtue of patience!

Or bunk off, like they did back in 'the day'

Kids today are rubbish. No initiative ...

 

[William of Walworth]

better idea: can christmas be moved to a galaxy far, far away.

Can the need to be getting up in the morning be abolished by law?

 

[newbie]

no laws, no masters, no gods. free yourself. maan.

 

[William of Walworth]

Buys truck in readiness ...

Can Glastonbury be moved to 1987??

 

[belboid]

fucking hell, ya being a narky git william. nowt wrong with the suggestion in the OP, it is not inherently 'nonsense' - or at least if it is you coulld post up some evidence, rather than some vague 'law of averages' bollocks.

Eavis claims to have actually checked out other weekends, and found them to be just as likely to have crap weather, but I wouldn't trust the bugger personally. Anyone else attempted such a thing? If not you're just spouting bollocks

 

[aqua]

I don't disagree with the OP either, if more young people are required then a look at the date is what is needed, and maybe a third ticket price bracket for people from 15-18 maybe?

 

[bus]

no

the whole "more kids" thing is just eavis being mental again, and is irrelevant.

as for moving the thing to july, i'm sure i read something that july has been no drier statistically over the past decade than june.

I do think it should be moved back to 1987 though, I'm with the boy walworth there

*waves at william* morning hippy

 

[aqua]

hey, at no point did I say *I* wanted more kids, nor that *I* thought it should change

 

[bus]

i didn' say you did grumpy pants!

don't bloody start on me!!

hey, at no point did I say *I* wanted more kids, nor that *I* thought it should change

 

[Rollem]

heart says no, but if moved to the end of july would be near my birthday so woudl be good

 

[aqua]

i didn' say you did grumpy pants!

don't bloody start on me!!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

It should be moved to the fucking Falkland Islands if you ask me.

 

[Maggot]

Eavis is banging on about bringing more young people onsite but as moose pointed out on the other thread many people still have exams about that time.

But Glasto is already over-subscribed, if more young people went who would have to miss out?

The main reason there aren't more young people these days is cos they can't get up early on a sunday to book the tickets!

 

[newbie]

Eavis claims to have actually checked out other weekends, and found them to be just as likely to have crap weather, but I wouldn't trust the bugger personally. Anyone else attempted such a thing? If not you're just spouting bollocks

what's the weather got to do with it? I mean, I know Brits are obsessed with talking about the weather, but it's hardly the only factor.

The weekend after the solstice gives the longest days and shortest nights. For an awful lot of students it comes immediately after their exams, and can provide a great release. It's not in the peak holiday season, so booking time off is less of a problem than later in the summer. It only clashes with the most boring part of Big Brother and once every 4 years we can watch the world cup on the big screen. these things are important, the weather is a minor issue.

 

[belboid]

sod this bloody student obsession! fer starters, as has already been pointed out, not all of the have finished - moving it two weeks back would make all the difference there. as to the longer nights, a couple of weeks would make about a quarter of an hours difference or summat, so that is pretty irrelevant in the wider scheme of things. and anyone concerned about big brother or the football just shouldn't go, simple as that.

and nice weather may not be absolutely vital, but it is kinda nice.

 

[newbie]

tsk.

they're not moving it, and that's final!

 

[wiskey]

Ludicrous fucking suggestion from the OP anyway.

jeez get you

 

[wiskey]

tsk.

they're not moving it, and that's final!

lol and you

the old grumpy folk have spoken!

 

[DrRingDing]

The above was a WOMAD reference.

Ludicrous fucking suggestion from the OP anyway.

William think about the weather that WOMAD has had say in the last 5 years and the weather Glasto has had to cope with.

The end of July is drier than the end of June.

 

[William of Walworth]

Dr Ring Ding, while that's (kinda ) true, I just think the provable and predictable benefits, in terms of reliability of weather, would be limited.

I believe in the law of sod. Move the dates of Glasto to later, and late June, once vacated by the festival, would straight away and pretty likely become MORE likely to be hot and sunny again. Just to annoy me and you. And hot and sunny in late June Glastonbury has been, many many many times, in the past. There was no serious mudbath between Glasto 1984 <ETA next day : that was a stonedly uncorrected typo, I meant of course 1985 > (1985 being the first, and worst mudbath) and Glasto 1997/98, and the 1986-1995 period was noted for the many dry and sunny Glastonburies ....

We will resume that cycle again, starting in June 2008 ...

Of course that's just a hunch, but I'm prepared to bet beer on it .... or cider if you prefer ....