Glastonbury 2024
Discussion
chrisgtx said:
Off topic slightly, but, there are so many performers, do they get an automatic pass for all 3 days? Apparently Dua Lipa has been walking around seeing the sights, although she must of gone incognito in some way.
Yes i know two small acts (Bar Stewards Sons of Val Doonican & Funke and the twon tone baby) who have played at glastonbury this weekend and they have been there all weekend with all areas access.Bonefish Blues said:
SydneyBridge said:
abzmike said:
Unfortunate enough to catch a bit of Shania Twain. Appreciate she has had voice issues, but most shocking was literally a baby being shaken in the crowd during feels like a woman… I’m all for people having fun, but hopefully at least their relatives will pick them up for it.
I saw that and could not believe it They should have been asked to leave. A kid of that age simply shouldn't be exposed to that sound pressure for fear of permanent damage.
bolidemichael said:
The National is having a great set.
I can't believe I've never heard of The National before. Loved their set, it's right up my street. A bit late to the party but I'll be checking them out a bit more.Also enjoyed Nothing But Thieves yesterday and LCD Soundsytem (Sat or Sun?)
Thought Coldplay were brilliant as usual. Love or hate them, you can't deny they put on an amazing show.
silobass said:
I can't believe I've never heard of The National before. Loved their set, it's right up my street. A bit late to the party but I'll be checking them out a bit more.
Also enjoyed Nothing But Thieves yesterday and LCD Soundsytem (Sat or Sun?)
Thought Coldplay were brilliant as usual. Love or hate them, you can't deny they put on an amazing show.
There is a well worn format listening to The National songs and albums I find:Also enjoyed Nothing But Thieves yesterday and LCD Soundsytem (Sat or Sun?)
Thought Coldplay were brilliant as usual. Love or hate them, you can't deny they put on an amazing show.
First listen: it's ok
Second. : it's ok
Third : I need to hear that again
Fourth : Hold on, this could be a bit special
Fifth. : Wow!
All the songs are like this, seemingly without exception. There is a reason everyone from Taylor Swift to Springsteen want to work with and collaborate with them on stuff - hugely respected within the industry.
chrisgtx said:
Off topic slightly, but, there are so many performers, do they get an automatic pass for all 3 days? Apparently Dua Lipa has been walking around seeing the sights, although she must of gone incognito in some way.
I can confirm that. I went down a few years ago with my son, who was performing in one of the dance tents. Free tickets for performers and a couple of mates helps to compensate for the crap rates of pay for lesser acts.
First time at Glasto and I loved (almost) every single second of it....
We camped in a camper at the Bath and West, which was 10 mins by bus from the site and then a 20-30 min walk to the stages, with the late night areas being about 45 mins away. Despite the distance it was fine, and as a bonus had proper showers and toilets which more than made up for a bit of walking. Some people camping on site had a similar distance to walk to their tents.
Arrived late Wednesday night/Thursday morning and drove straight in with no traffic at all. Loads of stewards/people about at the campsite who were super friendly and helpful.
Thursday was a bit of a let down, as everyone was there but the bigger stages weren't open yet (Pyramid/Other/Park/West Holt/Arcadia), and so any smaller stages with a known name were absolutely rammed, we explored the site for a bit but called it an early night and went home about midnight.
Friday to Sunday took the same pattern, arrive on site about 2pm, see some smaller acts with the gf, then about 5pm we'd split up to see who we wanted to see, before getting back together at 11/12pm and settling in somewhere for the evening until 5 or 6am.
Totally agree about acts being on the wrong size stages, which wasn't an issue if you had time to arrive early, but if you had expected to jump from one act to another would have been a problem. As it was there we didn't have a massive list of "must see" artists, but a long list of "wouldn't mind seeing" or "will see if we're here" artists and so we didn't struggle with the queues too much.
I don't think we saw one bad performance, and the stages, the sound, the lighting, the production was absolutely world class. Raving underneath Arcadia on top of the hill after dark was really cool. The organisation and the efficiency with which things happened was fantastic as well, when they had issues with crowding on some stages, next day there were stewards there and a long line of barriers to control people and limit the number and speed they moved into the areas.
As far as the performances, some highlights....
The Streets were fantastic, Mike Skinner simply doesn't give a s
t and is an old hand at this, he knew exactly what to do with the crowd and give them what they wanted. GF had no idea who they were but came away loving it and bought a "Who's got the bag" t-shirt.
London Grammar - one of my 2 "must see" acts, and they delivered. Hannah has the most stunning voice and Dot Major is such a talented musician, the way he's able to swap instruments and move from keyboard to drums half way through a song is so cool.
Faithless, first time seeing them since they stopped playing together 12/15 years ago, and they've still got it. There isn't anyone else who does dance music like they do, and while it was never going to be the same without Maxi Jazz it was different but good.
Ghetts bought out Kano and Wretch 32 together, nice surprise.
Arielle Free bought out Lulu for her remix of Shout, odd seeing a 75 year old dancing to a crowd of 20 somethings who had no idea who she was, but some in the crowd did know, and she's still got the voice and the lungs she had 30 years ago.
Eats Everything - the DJ's DJ, he did about 4 sets across the weekend, I saw his back to back with Groove Armada and the man is just so reliable, he delivers every single set and has the best time on stage doing it.
Gf loved Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne and the Sugarbabes, said they were all fantastic.
Weekend finished at 5am Monday morning in the Temple with a few thousands others watching it get light behind the stage. Back to bed for 6ish and left the site about 2 in the afternoon, there was a bit of traffic but nothing too bad. Thank God I am off work for another 2 days.
We camped in a camper at the Bath and West, which was 10 mins by bus from the site and then a 20-30 min walk to the stages, with the late night areas being about 45 mins away. Despite the distance it was fine, and as a bonus had proper showers and toilets which more than made up for a bit of walking. Some people camping on site had a similar distance to walk to their tents.
Arrived late Wednesday night/Thursday morning and drove straight in with no traffic at all. Loads of stewards/people about at the campsite who were super friendly and helpful.
Thursday was a bit of a let down, as everyone was there but the bigger stages weren't open yet (Pyramid/Other/Park/West Holt/Arcadia), and so any smaller stages with a known name were absolutely rammed, we explored the site for a bit but called it an early night and went home about midnight.
Friday to Sunday took the same pattern, arrive on site about 2pm, see some smaller acts with the gf, then about 5pm we'd split up to see who we wanted to see, before getting back together at 11/12pm and settling in somewhere for the evening until 5 or 6am.
Totally agree about acts being on the wrong size stages, which wasn't an issue if you had time to arrive early, but if you had expected to jump from one act to another would have been a problem. As it was there we didn't have a massive list of "must see" artists, but a long list of "wouldn't mind seeing" or "will see if we're here" artists and so we didn't struggle with the queues too much.
I don't think we saw one bad performance, and the stages, the sound, the lighting, the production was absolutely world class. Raving underneath Arcadia on top of the hill after dark was really cool. The organisation and the efficiency with which things happened was fantastic as well, when they had issues with crowding on some stages, next day there were stewards there and a long line of barriers to control people and limit the number and speed they moved into the areas.
As far as the performances, some highlights....
The Streets were fantastic, Mike Skinner simply doesn't give a s
t and is an old hand at this, he knew exactly what to do with the crowd and give them what they wanted. GF had no idea who they were but came away loving it and bought a "Who's got the bag" t-shirt. London Grammar - one of my 2 "must see" acts, and they delivered. Hannah has the most stunning voice and Dot Major is such a talented musician, the way he's able to swap instruments and move from keyboard to drums half way through a song is so cool.
Faithless, first time seeing them since they stopped playing together 12/15 years ago, and they've still got it. There isn't anyone else who does dance music like they do, and while it was never going to be the same without Maxi Jazz it was different but good.
Ghetts bought out Kano and Wretch 32 together, nice surprise.
Arielle Free bought out Lulu for her remix of Shout, odd seeing a 75 year old dancing to a crowd of 20 somethings who had no idea who she was, but some in the crowd did know, and she's still got the voice and the lungs she had 30 years ago.
Eats Everything - the DJ's DJ, he did about 4 sets across the weekend, I saw his back to back with Groove Armada and the man is just so reliable, he delivers every single set and has the best time on stage doing it.
Gf loved Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne and the Sugarbabes, said they were all fantastic.
Weekend finished at 5am Monday morning in the Temple with a few thousands others watching it get light behind the stage. Back to bed for 6ish and left the site about 2 in the afternoon, there was a bit of traffic but nothing too bad. Thank God I am off work for another 2 days.
Condi said:
First time at Glasto and I loved (almost) every single second of it....
We camped in a camper at the Bath and West, which was 10 mins by bus from the site and then a 20-30 min walk to the stages, with the late night areas being about 45 mins away. Despite the distance it was fine, and as a bonus had proper showers and toilets which more than made up for a bit of walking. Some people camping on site had a similar distance to walk to their tents.
Arrived late Wednesday night/Thursday morning and drove straight in with no traffic at all. Loads of stewards/people about at the campsite who were super friendly and helpful.
Thursday was a bit of a let down, as everyone was there but the bigger stages weren't open yet (Pyramid/Other/Park/West Holt/Arcadia), and so any smaller stages with a known name were absolutely rammed, we explored the site for a bit but called it an early night and went home about midnight.
Friday to Sunday took the same pattern, arrive on site about 2pm, see some smaller acts with the gf, then about 5pm we'd split up to see who we wanted to see, before getting back together at 11/12pm and settling in somewhere for the evening until 5 or 6am.
Totally agree about acts being on the wrong size stages, which wasn't an issue if you had time to arrive early, but if you had expected to jump from one act to another would have been a problem. As it was there we didn't have a massive list of "must see" artists, but a long list of "wouldn't mind seeing" or "will see if we're here" artists and so we didn't struggle with the queues too much.
I don't think we saw one bad performance, and the stages, the sound, the lighting, the production was absolutely world class. Raving underneath Arcadia on top of the hill after dark was really cool. The organisation and the efficiency with which things happened was fantastic as well, when they had issues with crowding on some stages, next day there were stewards there and a long line of barriers to control people and limit the number and speed they moved into the areas.
As far as the performances, some highlights....
The Streets were fantastic, Mike Skinner simply doesn't give a st and is an old hand at this, he knew exactly what to do with the crowd and give them what they wanted. GF had no idea who they were but came away loving it and bought a "Who's got the bag" t-shirt.
London Grammar - one of my 2 "must see" acts, and they delivered. Hannah has the most stunning voice and Dot Major is such a talented musician, the way he's able to swap instruments and move from keyboard to drums half way through a song is so cool.
Faithless, first time seeing them since they stopped playing together 12/15 years ago, and they've still got it. There isn't anyone else who does dance music like they do, and while it was never going to be the same without Maxi Jazz it was different but good.
Ghetts bought out Kano and Wretch 32 together, nice surprise.
Arielle Free bought out Lulu for her remix of Shout, odd seeing a 75 year old dancing to a crowd of 20 somethings who had no idea who she was, but some in the crowd did know, and she's still got the voice and the lungs she had 30 years ago.
Eats Everything - the DJ's DJ, he did about 4 sets across the weekend, I saw his back to back with Groove Armada and the man is just so reliable, he delivers every single set and has the best time on stage doing it.
Gf loved Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne and the Sugarbabes, said they were all fantastic.
Weekend finished at 5am Monday morning in the Temple with a few thousands others watching it get light behind the stage. Back to bed for 6ish and left the site about 2 in the afternoon, there was a bit of traffic but nothing too bad. Thank God I am off work for another 2 days.
Ha ha, love this, sounds exactly like my first time!We camped in a camper at the Bath and West, which was 10 mins by bus from the site and then a 20-30 min walk to the stages, with the late night areas being about 45 mins away. Despite the distance it was fine, and as a bonus had proper showers and toilets which more than made up for a bit of walking. Some people camping on site had a similar distance to walk to their tents.
Arrived late Wednesday night/Thursday morning and drove straight in with no traffic at all. Loads of stewards/people about at the campsite who were super friendly and helpful.
Thursday was a bit of a let down, as everyone was there but the bigger stages weren't open yet (Pyramid/Other/Park/West Holt/Arcadia), and so any smaller stages with a known name were absolutely rammed, we explored the site for a bit but called it an early night and went home about midnight.
Friday to Sunday took the same pattern, arrive on site about 2pm, see some smaller acts with the gf, then about 5pm we'd split up to see who we wanted to see, before getting back together at 11/12pm and settling in somewhere for the evening until 5 or 6am.
Totally agree about acts being on the wrong size stages, which wasn't an issue if you had time to arrive early, but if you had expected to jump from one act to another would have been a problem. As it was there we didn't have a massive list of "must see" artists, but a long list of "wouldn't mind seeing" or "will see if we're here" artists and so we didn't struggle with the queues too much.
I don't think we saw one bad performance, and the stages, the sound, the lighting, the production was absolutely world class. Raving underneath Arcadia on top of the hill after dark was really cool. The organisation and the efficiency with which things happened was fantastic as well, when they had issues with crowding on some stages, next day there were stewards there and a long line of barriers to control people and limit the number and speed they moved into the areas.
As far as the performances, some highlights....
The Streets were fantastic, Mike Skinner simply doesn't give a s
t and is an old hand at this, he knew exactly what to do with the crowd and give them what they wanted. GF had no idea who they were but came away loving it and bought a "Who's got the bag" t-shirt. London Grammar - one of my 2 "must see" acts, and they delivered. Hannah has the most stunning voice and Dot Major is such a talented musician, the way he's able to swap instruments and move from keyboard to drums half way through a song is so cool.
Faithless, first time seeing them since they stopped playing together 12/15 years ago, and they've still got it. There isn't anyone else who does dance music like they do, and while it was never going to be the same without Maxi Jazz it was different but good.
Ghetts bought out Kano and Wretch 32 together, nice surprise.
Arielle Free bought out Lulu for her remix of Shout, odd seeing a 75 year old dancing to a crowd of 20 somethings who had no idea who she was, but some in the crowd did know, and she's still got the voice and the lungs she had 30 years ago.
Eats Everything - the DJ's DJ, he did about 4 sets across the weekend, I saw his back to back with Groove Armada and the man is just so reliable, he delivers every single set and has the best time on stage doing it.
Gf loved Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne and the Sugarbabes, said they were all fantastic.
Weekend finished at 5am Monday morning in the Temple with a few thousands others watching it get light behind the stage. Back to bed for 6ish and left the site about 2 in the afternoon, there was a bit of traffic but nothing too bad. Thank God I am off work for another 2 days.
I’m nearly 52 so have done all the staying up until dawn stuff many times, these days I’m tucked up in my tent by 1am and awake having a brew by 8am. I always love bumping into people clearly going home to their tent as I’m getting up!
UTH said:
Condi definitely making me seriously think about going for my first time next year
What's this place you stayed? Is it not in the actual festival?
There are two 'official' campervan areas for Glastonbury:What's this place you stayed? Is it not in the actual festival?
1) Onsite campervans/caravans - a 20 min walk from the main action
2) Bath & West Showground - a shuttle bus ride away.
The latter is flat and ideal for motorhome parking, so they utilise it very well.
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information...
There is the mina scrum to get the main festival ticket first, then a smaller one for campervan tickets. It was an additional £200/£300 this year for regular/large campervans respectively. The large pitches are all at B&W Showground.
Obviously if not in a campervan/caravan your tent camping is included in the ticket price, find a space in the fields with everyone else.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Tuesday 2nd July 16:17
PurpleTurtle said:
UTH said:
Condi definitely making me seriously think about going for my first time next year
What's this place you stayed? Is it not in the actual festival?
There are two 'official' campervan areas for Glastonbury:What's this place you stayed? Is it not in the actual festival?
1) Onsite campervans/caravans - a 20 min walk from the main action
2) Bath & West Showground - a shuttle bus ride away.
The latter is flat and ideal for motorhome parking, so they utilise it very well.
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information...
There is the mina scrum to get the main festival ticket first, then a smaller one for campervan tickets. It was an additional £200/£300 this year for regular/large campervans respectively. The large pitches are all at B&W Showground.
Obviously if not in a campervan/caravan your tent camping is included in the ticket price, find a space in the fields with everyone else.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Tuesday 2nd July 16:17
Of course I'm still hoping for the lottery win to go with the £38k amazing option I saw in the paper a few weeks ago.
UTH said:
Cool thank you, I think my gut feeling is that a camper van option is more likely to get any of my 'lot' keen to think about going, sadly I think most of them are past the age of wanting to 'slum' it in a normal tent!
Of course I'm still hoping for the lottery win to go with the £38k amazing option I saw in the paper a few weeks ago.
Somewhat biased as I did the caravan/motorhome option but for an extra £200 it was well worthwhile. Proper bed, proper duvet, blackout blinds, quiet location, proper showers (not many, but it was okay), and proper toilets, as well as a gas hob (bacon sarnie and cup of tea in the morning), and no worries about having to drag the stuff over from the car to the campsite and back again. it was a no-brainer for me.Of course I'm still hoping for the lottery win to go with the £38k amazing option I saw in the paper a few weeks ago.
The guys and girls who were camping were getting in at 5 or 6am then waking up again by 9 because it was hot, or cold, or everyone else around them was getting up and making noise. Life is too short for that.
Condi said:
UTH said:
Cool thank you, I think my gut feeling is that a camper van option is more likely to get any of my 'lot' keen to think about going, sadly I think most of them are past the age of wanting to 'slum' it in a normal tent!
Of course I'm still hoping for the lottery win to go with the £38k amazing option I saw in the paper a few weeks ago.
Somewhat biased as I did the caravan/motorhome option but for an extra £200 it was well worthwhile. Proper bed, proper duvet, blackout blinds, quiet location, proper showers (not many, but it was okay), and proper toilets, as well as a gas hob (bacon sarnie and cup of tea in the morning), and no worries about having to drag the stuff over from the car to the campsite and back again. it was a no-brainer for me.Of course I'm still hoping for the lottery win to go with the £38k amazing option I saw in the paper a few weeks ago.
The guys and girls who were camping were getting in at 5 or 6am then waking up again by 9 because it was hot, or cold, or everyone else around them was getting up and making noise. Life is too short for that.
egor110 said:
Or rent one nearer to the festival ?
Local co's sell out very very quickly. One encourages you to reserve your van with a refundable deposit should you be unsuccessful in the hunt for tickets.The key is to find a company that rents vehicles out by the day otherwise you are looking at 2 weeks rental to cover the Tuesday - Monday on site.
I agree with renting a vehicle as close as you can. Flogging one down the M6/M5 really isn't fun although the vehicles up there do bigger mileages as they are regularly doing the NC500.
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