Glastonbury 2011

Griff77

Thanks for the quick replies and links! Legends! I'm sure I'll be on again to pester you all with questions.

Griff

Cleo87

I wish it would hurry up and be tuesday so the fun can begin!

Chardee MacDennis

i've sooo much work to do before getting the ferry Tuesday it's not even funny, hopefully there will be somewhere in Holyhead to get a nice kip for the 4 hours i'm hanging around there...

cant believe its so close though

youcancallme>al wrote: »

When it comes to the weather and it looks like its going to rain or whatever I just read a few posts from this thread and I feel a little better.
Don't think I would handle the severe heat of last year well at all!

i cant handle heat at all and i did fine* last year - i just dont know how i'm gonna handle rain...

*reading through that link, i'm reminded about the mornings, waking up at 8am every morning is not pleasant...

Blisterman

Does anyone know if there's an easily printable timetable, so I can see at a glance which bands are playing at what times?

Chardee MacDennis

Blisterman wrote: »

Does anyone know if there's an easily printable timetable, so I can see at a glance which bands are playing at what times?

you'll get one on a lanyard when you arrive, hold onto it as it's a lifesaver!!

Blisterman

I'm trying to remember from last time. But if I recall it's listed by stage, so to see which bands are playing at a certain time, you have to look through every page.

Anyway, have found it here: http://clashfinder.com/s/g2011/#none

Chardee MacDennis

Blisterman wrote: »

I'm trying to remember from last time. But if I recall it's listed by stage, so to see which bands are playing at a certain time, you have to look through every page.

Anyway, have found it here: http://clashfinder.com/s/g2011/#none

ah cool, you could also use the official android app

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.orange.glastonbury

or mine

https://market.android.com/details?id=ie.princesolutions.glastonbury

Cleo87

So who do we think is gonna be the 'special guests' on the park stage??

rumours going round.... arctic monkeys, pulp, kings, foo's....... ??? :cool:

Kentish

ys the kings would be a whopper surprise!!
its so hard to pick who to to...spoilt with choice but here are some im looking fwd to seeing
Naked & famous
coldplay
fight like apes
the coral
devotchkas
friendly fires
fleet foxes
professor green
pendulum
plan b

any reccomendations for the acoustic stage??

opr

Great Glastonbury documentary on BBC2 at the moment.

Opr

Toast

That would have been Julien Temples 2006 Glastonbury Film. I came home from the pub with the intention of watching it and promptly fell asleep on the couch. :mad:

Blisterman

Are any of the acts on Wednesday or Thursday worth seeing? Only know a handful of them.

robinph

Just back from a trip to pick up various essential supplies.

Picked up a small amount of apple based alcoholic drinks as well:

http://yfrog.com/kg5ubmj

Goat_Boy_jones

Cleo87 wrote: »

So who do we think is gonna be the 'special guests' on the park stage??

rumours going round.... arctic monkeys, pulp, kings, foo's....... ??? :cool:

Maybe Mr Noely G...

Also Wayne Rooney is going so maybe it's the Stereophonics...

Last year was amazing tho, I was pissing in a bush and heard Thom Yorke coming on the Park Stage, was running while zipping meself up...

crock9000

Hi, this is the first time me and my mates are going to glasto, we are driving down and i just wnated some advice on the best time/route to take to get to the festival. We live close to birmingham so i was planning on taking the M5 then the M4 down to the A37 and leave about 6 in the morning. Sound like a good plan or does anyone have any other advice on times/routes?

robinph

^ Doesn't really make much difference I think. Can't quite remember if it was last year or year before, but the police closed a section of the M5 on the Wednesday due to an accident and so loads of people were stuck for the day trying to get around that, and anyone going the M4-M32-A37 route were also stuck for the day there because of the volume of traffic.

If your confident of your map reading skills, and know how to ignore what the sat nav keeps on telling you, then you can try some alternatives once you get stuck in a queue on an A road. You can't do that on an M road, but the capacity for them to carry traffic is obviously much greater. The M5-A39 option will probably get you a lot closer to the site before your hit proper traffic and there is more carparking on the west side and you don't have to negotiate the "Hill of death" on the walk in.

Flip a coin and take your chances.

robinph

Decided to dress a bit smarter this year so if you see someone in something along the lines of this then say hello:

I also may be seen in Londain GAA jersey at times if any of ye know what that looks like.

melekalikimaka

anyone else working at glasto?

richardtauber

Quite the dandy robinph!

Fair dues re the London Jersey.

Have to say (being just back from the Tipp match) that county colours - especially Kilkenny - are very noughties.

My missus is doing a thesis on the diaspora (and their childer) at the moment, so I think I'll let you off with a London jersey.

(Had Tipp ribbons stolen from my tent in '98 - suspect a number of Cork feckers)


ps Still looking for taxishare from Bristol Airport Thurs 17.00 ish.

robinph wrote: »

Decided to dress a bit smarter this year so if you see someone in something along the lines of this then say hello:

I also may be seen in Londain GAA jersey at times if any of ye know what that looks like.

youcancallmeal

Forecasts are beginning to firm up and most are loosely in agreement now, basically looks like a mixed bag. Bit of sun, bit of rain. I'm happy enough with that

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/forecast-15day.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&postalcode=BA6%208AE&metric=1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/3076?area=Glastonbury

http://positiveweathersolutions.co.uk./Glastonbury-Festival---Wednesday-June-22nd-to-Sunday-June-26th.php

Bit of a sensationalist headline from Sky News even though their article goes on to say sunny and dry Thursday and Friday?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201106116014806

demixed

Weather doesn't look too bad, just about to hit the road now

Toast

Reporting Glastonbury as a mudfest the moment there is a drop of rain or even a threat of it is some sort of tradition with the UK media. I came back in 2008 to find that most people thought we'd have spent our entire trip swimming between stages. Way I recall it there was some rain on Thursday and Friday but wellies were retired by midday Saturday and Sunday looked like this.



I reckon we're in for similar again.

robinph

richardtauber wrote: »

Quite the dandy robinph!

Fair dues re the London Jersey.

Have to say (being just back from the Tipp match) that county colours - especially Kilkenny - are very noughties.

My missus is doing a thesis on the diaspora (and their childer) at the moment, so I think I'll let you off with a London jersey.

(Had Tipp ribbons stolen from my tent in '98 - suspect a number of Cork feckers)


ps Still looking for taxishare from Bristol Airport Thurs 17.00 ish.

You certainly don't see as many jerseys around there these days, but it is only very recently I think they have gone into hiding. The London one is still good for spotting confused Irish people though, a slightly quizzical look on their face as they try and figure out what it is. I am the opposite of the Irish diasopra though so think I can get away with it.

Professey Chin

If it stays dry while im getting setup Im happy. Anything else I can deal with :pac:

Toast

We might not be so lucky on that front. First year I have an outer pitching tent and looking like it might pay off. If anyone in your group has a popup or outer pitching tent get them to put that up first and throw everyones gear into it and then sort the rest of the tents and once their up dry the insides completely before putting anything into them.

Professey Chin

Unfortunately just me & a pop up.
At least i can work fast :pac:

Professey Chin

Meant to ask, is there anyone else on the 6:35 Ryanair Wednesday looking to share a taxi?
Already been talking to lindnu & shes sorted so I was wondering if theres anyone else around here?

robinph

Probably not really any good for you guys without postcodes, but this shows how big the site is:

http://howbigreally.com/dimension/festivals_and_specticles/glastonbury

Then think about fitting 200,000 people in that space.

Edit: It does actually work if you just put in Dublin

Lumbo

Done some last minute shopping today. Anything else I need, I would assume, is available there. Just hope that the weather holds out. I'm not young enough anymore to deal with a mud fest.

robinph

Yeah, basically everything is available on site.