Glastonbury tickets on sale today
Fri, 2002-02-22 11:27
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Glastonbury tickets on sale today
...at the bargain price of £97 + £3 booking fee.
Before people start moaning about cost consider that 20% of this goes to charities (Oxfam etc).
Running costs have risen especially security (the 2 million quid fence etc) because of people insisting on getting in for free in the past. On the official Glasto website there is a section entitled getting in for free which explains job options for free tickets etc.
Anyway, go to e-festivals.co.uk which shows the excellent music line up.
I'm still hoping abctales get a slot in the poetry and words tent but if not, the tent has open mike sessions on all days including a "Poetry Slam" on the Sunday, where the loudest applause wins. I intend on putting in a good fight this year not by the merit of my writing but by the many friends, aquantainces, friends of friends, aquantainces of friends, friends of aquaintainces and aquaintainces of aquantainces who I will badger into coming to clap for me!
Hope to see you there
Jude
mississippi
I admire your enthusiasm Judith, but you are forgetting that a large proportion of the forum users, especially the trappy ones, did all this 25yrs ago! What the oldies want now is comfort, not spending nights in leaky tents, surrounded by quagmires (on the wet years at least), only to get back to said tent in the early hours, to find some bastard has looted it, or worse still, stolen it and re-pitched somewhere else for their own use! I wouldn't piss on your parade but you are a kid compared to some of us aging, arthritic, half-deaf, myopic flower-power children.
Judith
There are old people at glasto too. I saw them with me own eyes I did, in the "family field" for quieter camping. I have never been robbed and my tent has never leaked although I did have to bottle some northen bastards who were trying to nick my friends camera etc from tent.
I even persuaded my mum to come one year, although she insisted on taking camper van with all mod cons...
But OK , I shall readdress this message to members on the forum who are also members of the chemical generation/ walkman generation/ jilted generation
Ralph Dartford
Judith
I am 37 years old and can still have it large.
Should I grow up or should I get loaded?
Advise please
Yours as usual
Ralph
Judith
contrary to popular belief maturity does not mean losing passion for life. I think its more of a case of growing out of things. I for example, at the tender age of 25 have become weary and disillusioned with the London Club Scene. However I still go to lots of Festivals, outdoor dance events, Clubs out of town and can't imagine a time when I get tired of the scene, but who knows.
Just do whatever you enjoy doing and when you no longer enjoy it, stop!
Martin_t
i'm nearly 37 and am thinking of going to glastonbury this year......should i stay or should i go...
Judith
GO...we can have a convoy of vans/cars all the way from the Crooked Billett to Somerset
Ralph Dartford
Martin
I am with you mate, there is still time to go underground. We will not CLASH on this subject.
Ralph
mississippi
See what I mean Judith, I'm old enough to be their father! Hold on a minute, your mums didn't go to the first cambridge folk festival did they? I have faint recollections of being reduced by two wanton hussies!
Judith
at Earthdance 1999 I was accosted by a (not too) wrinkled, well tanned and not bad looking man holding a didgereedoo and adorned with flourescent tribal paint. He informed me he was 59 so their is really no excuse
Judith
i mean there really is no excuse#
whoops
andrea
It's not the age, Judith - it's the dosh thing. And I'd have to get to the bloody UK first of course.
Actually, it was a bit of a joke, 'cos I ALMOST made it last year (good job I didn't 'cos there wasn't one!). Trouble is, is clashes with the school hols here but maybe he could bunk off for a week for a family...um... funeral.
I can see it now...
Teacher (sorrowfully): 'And how was the funeral, Jesse?'
Sprog (brightly): 'Oh WONDERFUL, ta...there were thousands and thousands of weird people and the smoke was great...mum got completely out of it...'
Ralph, what with your blackberry bush and my hazelnut...
*mind boggling madly*
Mykle
What's this about Rolf Harris accosting you at Earthdance 2000 Jude?
Judith
actually I saw Rolf at Glastonbury 1999...
performing
I still know all the words to "Two Little Boys"
Mykle
OOppss - you're right I got the year wrong Jude - so you're not sure exactly which festival it was then?
I quite liked Rolf's version of "Stairway To Heaven" but then I have dozens of versions by different artists and I like almost all of them. Just tell us what Rolf got up to with his digereedoo Jude - we're all ears ;-)
Judith
Stephen,
I actually own a tent plus two spares which I always end up lending to tentless folk at festivals, I have a made a reservation on one of them for you.
Judith
I couldn't actually get close enough to the stage to see, because of the crowds of overexcited parents with bored/indifferent children on their shoulders.
Mykle
Having been stuck in a giant collapsing inflatable tent on a bad trip in a gale driven downpour that made Woodstock look like a slight shower... I remember all the screaming and people trampling on each other in their haste to try and get out of the tiny exit as the plastic walls fell in because the power had failed. I think in the end everyone got out safely - if a bit bruised and battered. All the transport had gone and there were hundreds of bedraggled people sliding around in the mud with blankets over their hears to try and get some small protection from the roaring gale and the pouring rain. It might have been better if all the bands hadn't been pissed by the time they got on stage. You would have to give me £100 to go to another of these survival specials.
Stephen Gardiner
Jude Dude,
Can I borrow your tent?
andrea
Not for a 100 quid, you won't...
Ralph Dartford
Andrea
Come to London, and you can wacth it from the comfort of my sofa.
You can help me in the garden during the dull bits.
Ralph
Judith
My argument is that to see a band you really like, in concert is about £25 - £35 , so see 4 bands you REALLY want to see, and you're saving money already.
This year my fave's include Moby, The Prodigy, Coldplay, Radiohead (rumour) Chilli Peppers (Strong rumour) and Faithless are playing and seeing all these would in concert cost you at least £150
andrea
Pity I've never 'eard of any of 'em or I might be tempted.
Er...what were you actually thinking of DOING in the garden, Ralph?
Ralph Dartford
Oh just some re potting.
Maybe some de weeding.
I have a blackberry bush.
Ralph