Glastonbury Line Up Out

Went six times in the early 80s and loved it. Didn't pay once and loved the free and easy atmosphere when no cops were allowed on the site (except for the year the Yardies came and rampaged through the site)
Don't think I'd be able to handle all the luxury that seems to be there these days - campervans, yerts, glamping? bloody el, wonder what Gong would have thought???
 
bungydinsdale said:
Went six times in the early 80s and loved it. Didn't pay once and loved the free and easy atmosphere when no cops were allowed on the site (except for the year the Yardies came and rampaged through the site)
Don't think I'd be able to handle all the luxury that seems to be there these days - campervans, yerts, glamping? bloody el, wonder what Gong would have thought???
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Had to change when 200,000 marauded through the hedges to see Bowie in 2000 and caused mayhem. The ring of steel was born.
 
1finny said:
I’m doing a VW van this year but using The Love Fields package - lovely brekka and location
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You’ve done it before? I did the Pop Up Hotel in 2019 but it was incredibly expensive this year. I see Love Fields offers hook up facilities for VW vans as well as Yurts. Was the price reasonable?
 
Zoophonic said:
You’ve done it before? I did the Pop Up Hotel in 2019 but it was incredibly expensive this year. I see Love Fields offers hook up facilities for VW vans as well as Yurts. Was the price reasonable?
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its all relative isn’t is?
The hook up price for the VW van was £800, I think. I also booked a double tent for my son for £1200.

The last time we had a double bell tent with bed etc for £2200

The best bits are it has its own stage where bands will come and do a gig - the Magic Numbers did 40 mins for 20 of us last time.
Showers are great, nice bar and just a very pleasant albeit expensive way to enjoy the festival.
 
1finny said:
its all relative isn’t is?
The hook up price for the VW van was £800, I think. I also booked a double tent for my son for £1200.

The last time we had a double bell tent with bed etc for £2200

The best bits are it has its own stage where bands will come and do a gig - the Magic Numbers did 40 mins for 20 of us last time.
Showers are great, nice bar and just a very pleasant albeit expensive way to enjoy the festival.
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Wow. That’s mental.
 
Zoophonic said:
Had to change when 200,000 marauded through the hedgess to see Bowie in 2000 and caused mayhem. The ring of steel was born.
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It really changed from 92 onwards. In 90 new age travellers were allowed in free but amongst the community elements were problematic and frequently violent. By 92 travellers were charged but in their thousand would attempt to avoid paying to get in and they consistently were successful in their quest . In 94 Glastonbury had the daft idea of putting the Levellers on to headline the pyramid stage. The Levellers are Gods in new age culture and the crowd they drew to the pyramid stage was hundreds of thousands. when hundreds of thousands of tickets were not sold. The West Country (Somerset/Wiltshire) saw a crime wave leading up to, and after the festival, as tens of thousands of new age travellers migrated West over weeks and took weeks after the festival to disperse.

Fences in the following years doubled, ticket prices rose sharply, and the Police and local authorities sharpened up and became more authoritarian demanding more security internally and externally at the Glastonbury site, and became very vigilant into supervising the who and how of getting into Somerset occurred, Policing of travellers and the sound systems with their followers became military like.

Another thing Glastonbury did to ease out a culture was charge for pitches. Early nineties pitches for a stall were .. Well people didn't pay. By the mid nineties it was a grand, and this was enforced by security teams.
 
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