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Glasto... oh dear

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M0nica Thu 23-Jun-16 15:25:13

Hate crowds and lots of people milling around. Prefer small local musical events held in chuches, village halls and schools.

Anyway my taste in music is classical.

Willow500 Thu 23-Jun-16 14:09:24

Not one I've ever wanted to go to - musically or the camping! I go to Leeds and Download and have been in some really bad muddy situations but as I stay in a hotel have always been able to get myself and my clothes cleaned!

loopylou Thu 23-Jun-16 13:42:25

I genuinely cannot think of anything worse than Glastonbury ?, probably my idea of hell.

Riverwalk Thu 23-Jun-16 12:36:03

Charley the tickets cost £233 - but that's for five days so not too bad!

Maggiemaybe Thu 23-Jun-16 12:10:44

I had a romantic notion last year (while watching it on TV, sitting in comfort with a bottle of wine) of applying for tickets and reliving our youth. Lord, am I glad now that I missed the application deadline. I'm looking forward to watching the highlights though.

merlotgran Thu 23-Jun-16 12:06:16

Ah but the telly coverage should be good.

Comfortable sofa, wine and the volume up loud. grin

Liz46 Thu 23-Jun-16 11:54:22

My daughter and her husband are going tomorrow, leaving us looking after the children and the cat. She goes every year but it is the first time for her husband and probably the last if it is all rain and mud!

Charleygirl Thu 23-Jun-16 11:21:12

Did I hear on the news that people had paid £200 a ticket to camp in that mud? It does not appeal to me now and certainly would not have when I was 17. I also saw on the news three youngsters rolling around in the mud- totally mad- I am showing my age.

jusnoneed Thu 23-Jun-16 11:05:50

Glastonbury (the town) is my family home, it was absolutely chaotic yesterday with the roads gridlocked. Caused a lot of problems but a few laughs for locals, it's amazing how many people think the festival is in Glastonbury. People were getting off coaches stuck in roads near the town to walk (Pilton is 6 miles away)and someone heard a girl in Tesco saying, to someone on her phone, that she was in Pilton Tesco. He just laughed to himself and thought "ooh nooo you're not, long way to go". My cousin lives in a village on Mendips and the traffic was at a stop/start along their road. One chap was moaning that it had taken them 8hrs to get that far, from Manchester, then his wife realised she had forgotten the tickets!! You can imagine what was said. Kept my cousin amused for hours.

Riverwalk Thu 23-Jun-16 10:36:39

My DIL and GS are going tomorrow!

tanith Thu 23-Jun-16 10:19:37

Wild Horses! Up to your eyeballs in mud before you even get your tent up..

Nonnie1 Thu 23-Jun-16 10:13:02

Glad I'm not there in the mud this year. Mind you - it's not my idea of fun. I've been to the Leeds Fest and enjoyed that, although it was over ten years ago, but Glasto is just too much, too big and especially in the rain..Nooooo sad