Glastonbury mud - anyone else there?

[MrMarkyMark]

Went a couple of times in the early 90s, was a lot of fun then, unsure whether I would like, what it's turned into now.
I guess getting in for free helped also

[psychocandy]

If they had any brains (yes I'm sure what I'm about to suggest is feasible ), they'd have the bands play some music that vibrates the air at just the right frequency to force the water back out of the mud and up into the clouds.

Would teach those in the audience not to piss where they stand too.

Get caught peeing in glasto and you are out. Frowned upon.

They get fined for polluting the river. Did last year when the piss tank leaked.

[psychocandy]

What, like 100 acres of wooden decking?

Never been there, but I thought the mud was part of the fun!

A bit more decking would have been better yes. Also, they decided half way through that metal roads would have been better in the fields.

The organisation was just piss poor too. No-one knew what was going on.

Appreciate its not easy getting 200K people in and out of a muddy field in somerset but it could have been better considering the money available.

[Hobosapien]

If they had any brains (yes I'm sure what I'm about to suggest is feasible ), they'd have the bands play some music that vibrates the air at just the right frequency to force the water back out of the mud and up into the clouds.

Would teach those in the audience not to piss where they stand too.

[bobspud]

My best memory of that was being in front of the stage in the student union where the bass just seemed to go right through you. Never felt it so strong since, though never been at the front of any gig since, I'd be too worried of it affecting my heart rhythm and causing heart failure.

Any deaths reported at the front of any glasto audience that didn't turn out to be drug/drink related may be due to the bass.

No deaths from that but my ears were ringing for weeks.

Watch the skepta set it won't appeal to most but you can see the sound waves at a few points in the set its distorting the air.

[rl4engc]

Complete nightmare. [...]

As a general rule of thumb:

Something which initially seems a good plan, is not a good plan if 250,000 other people also have the same plan.

[Hobosapien]

immense sound pressure

My best memory of that was being in front of the stage in the student union where the bass just seemed to go right through you. Never felt it so strong since, though never been at the front of any gig since, I'd be too worried of it affecting my heart rhythm and causing heart failure.

Any deaths reported at the front of any glasto audience that didn't turn out to be drug/drink related may be due to the bass.

[bobspud]

Standing in mud all day to get Adele screaming shouty break up music at you.

Would have rather been at the first day of the Somme.

Last year we were 4 or 5 lines from the front of the stage for the Mark Ronson Set Rudimental were on afterwards. This little old couple shoved their way in front of my kids and stood there quite smug. Then they turned the subs on and started the set. OMFG I didn't know you could make a clay field in Somerset feel like an earthquake zone

The woman just buckled under the immense sound pressure then her husband picked her up and the crawled off.

[minestrone]

Standing in mud all day to get Adele screaming shouty break up music at you.

Would have rather been at the first day of the Somme.

[Old Greg]

Complete nightmare. 5 hours to get there. (Not as bad as some)

4 hours to get the car out Friday night (to drive kids home). 8 hours to get car and caravan out and get home sunday night.

Luckily, WFH at client yesterday.

Complete shambles no organisation at all. For all the money the bugger makes out of the festival its not too much to ask for them to have a plan in place in case theres bad weather surely?

Just treat is as practice for post-Brexit UK.

[bobspud]

Sorry PC, no idea. It is an event of, for and by the chavs.

Yeah right. Once upon a time you would be spot on but Im afraid the number of normal people making it there now decreases year on year. The £260 ticket value and security fence sees to that. Its mostly middle class kids playing with too much beer and drugs in a field. Up the other end are the Greenpeace lot lamenting about our lost world.

Its great

[FatLazyContractor]

Sorry PC, no idea. It is an event of, for and by the chavs.

[bobspud]

Complete nightmare. 5 hours to get there. (Not as bad as some)

4 hours to get the car out Friday night (to drive kids home). 8 hours to get car and caravan out and get home sunday night.

Luckily, WFH at client yesterday.

Complete shambles no organisation at all. For all the money the bugger makes out of the festival its not too much to ask for them to have a plan in place in case theres bad weather surely?

The rain in the run up was the worst I have seen in 15 years. I mean time to build an ark bad. No one could have organised their way out of that. Been the last two years (missed this one) and I can say under normal pissing down conditions it works fine considering what you are trying to do. There would still be quests in and out.

[OwlHoot]

For all the money the bugger makes out of the festival its not too much to ask for them to have a plan in place in case theres bad weather surely?

What, like 100 acres of wooden decking?

Never been there, but I thought the mud was part of the fun!

[psychocandy]

Complete nightmare. 5 hours to get there. (Not as bad as some)

4 hours to get the car out Friday night (to drive kids home). 8 hours to get car and caravan out and get home sunday night.

Luckily, WFH at client yesterday.

Complete shambles no organisation at all. For all the money the bugger makes out of the festival its not too much to ask for them to have a plan in place in case theres bad weather surely?