Glastonbury 2013

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ceegee wrote: »

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/ticket-refund-resales-and-delivery-faq

For anyone who missed out on tickets, theres another resale on next week

You mean there's a few coach packages being released?

Interesting to note that you have to travel on the coach to get the festival ticket.

ceegee

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You mean there's a few coach packages being released?

Interesting to note that you have to travel on the coach to get the festival ticket.

A certain % age of tickets have to be coach packages as part of the festival licence, afaik its down to local authority concerns about traffic levels.

Ive got the coach package from bristol this year, not my first preference but it was a lot easier to get one of those in the resale than a ticket on its own. It doesnt cost much extra when you factor in the cost of a carpark ticket and the petrol wasted in a slow queue

innad

Hi everyone!
Haven't posted here before, so thought I'd say hello
This year will be my fourth Glasto, can't wait, last summer without it felt like winter without Christmas

markcellardoor

[url]Http://glastonbury.seetickets.com/event/glastonbury-2013-ticket-coach-travel-thursday/worthy-farm-pilton-somerset/704995e[/url] sale on right now

Quick! Go for it.

markcellardoor

That's a serious tumbleweed.

melekalikimaka

If one was to head there for the monday, what would be the best way to get there

robinph

How are you travelling?

If you are going by campervan then you can get into the camper fields from about midday on the Tuesday, but not onto the site proper.

Toast

He is working there. Your best bet is a train to Castle Cary and a taxi or lift from there to the site (about 8 miles DO NOT WALK THIS (made that mistake before)).

robinph

Traffic won't be an issue on the Monday, other than getting stuck behind lorries probably.

opr

Map for this years festival is up. I'll just post a link as it's huge.

http://cdn.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/data/image/fineguide-2013-final.png

Edit - First glance the major difference from 2011 is that they've split the late night areas. That's probably a good thing given the amount of people all trying to get to the same place last time.

Opr

robinph

Renamed the dance area and the BBC Introducing stage seems to move about quite regularly.

Toast

Arcadia is now in the glade will be an interesting one. How are they going to do the flames without burning the place down? Also that thing was loud enough when it was down in Shangri-la.. could hear it from my tent in South Park. I think Pennards will suddenly lose its appeal to a lot of people now.

robinph

Toast wrote: »

Arcadia is now in the glade will be an interesting one. How are they going to do the flames without burning the place down? Also that thing was loud enough when it was down in Shangri-la.. could hear it from my tent in South Park. I think Pennards will suddenly lose its appeal to a lot of people now.

Was thinking the same. Seems to be crew camping at the bottom of Pennards now.

Zippy1991

I just got a 97.39cr on my Credit Card from "Glastonbury" this is the card I used to pay for 8 tickets on.

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

:(:(:eek::(:(

hellosailor

Hey everyone, Glasto virgin here! just wondering if anyone would have an idea of which colour route you are most likely to take coming from Bristol (on Wed morn) by car? And if so which campsite is best coming from the route/car park? Or is it just what ever car park they fill first etc? (I hope that makes sence haha)

robinph

Zippy1991 wrote: »

I just got a 97.39cr on my Credit Card from "Glastonbury" this is the card I used to pay for 8 tickets on.

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

:(:(:eek::(:(

Two people didn't pay off their balance in time and you got £40 back from their deposits.

robinph

You will just get put into whatever car park they decide to put you in, and how close that carpark is to the gate itself will be a bit random. Arrive early one year and you'll be right next to the gate, same time the next year and you could be in the furthest field.

The popular areas like Pennards will fill up very early, but there is always some space somewhere. Been a while since I tented it as I go in a van now, but if memory serves then the top left and bottom left areas of the map linked a few posts above will be the last ones to fill up. Basically the closer you are to the middle the fuller the camping will be, and the less sleep you'll get.

hellosailor

Thanks! Think Ill just go with the flow and not worry about it so :cool:

Toast

robinph wrote: »

Was thinking the same. Seems to be crew camping at the bottom of Pennards now.

They are welcome to it. I was there in 2005 and well we all know how that turned out.

robinph

Toast wrote: »

They are welcome to it. I was there in 2005 and well we all know how that turned out.

Used to camp in Penards, but always further up the hill so we only had a river flowing through the tent to contend with then. Was scary how quick it all went wrong as in the time it took me to walk to the lockup and back parts of the roadway and various tents had all got washed away.

Zippy1991

RESALE ON RIGHT NOW. COACH TICKETS

harney

Zippy1991 wrote: »

RESALE ON RIGHT NOW. COACH TICKETS

Unless I am looking in the wrong place this is at the bottom of the page

Please note this is for coach travel only. You are not purchasing an entry ticket to the festival.

http://glastonburycoaches.seetickets.com

Zippy1991

harney wrote: »

Unless I am looking in the wrong place this is at the bottom of the page



http://glastonburycoaches.seetickets.com

Your both looking at the wrong page and over 3 hours too late.
Keep going champ!

opr

A double scoop of the weird and wonderful for Block9 this year :P

Block9's grand designs on Glastonbury's nightlife



It's 1989 in a parallel world, and spaceships have descended on New York. Manhattan is strewn with the debris of a bloody takeover, but in a corner of the city renowned for embracing outsiders, the new arrivals are fitting in rather better. Soon, the gay district is buzzing, as bug-eyed green men mingle happily with drag queens. The result is what festival visionaries Block9 are calling "Intergalactic Alien Homosexual Chaos".

Glastonbury's NYC Downlow stage is all about bringing these kind of extravagant fantasies to life. The purpose-built New York-style tenement – the brainchild of creative construction duo Stephen Gallagher and Gideon Berger, AKA Block9 – has been the festival's after-hours venue of choice since 2007. It was inspired by visits to Burning Man, with the intention of bringing some of that sense of theatre to the UK festival scene. The result is a display of hedonism-as-performance art worthy of New York's golden age. When the headliners have finished, revellers can head out towards the festival's outer limits, queue up at the "Porn Kiosk" and dance the night away in a gay Valhalla staffed by glamorous drag queens.

Each year, the Downlow has a twist: this year it's going acid house, and according to Block9's wonderfully skewed logic, that means aliens. "It felt obvious," says Stephen. "When we did 1979, there was a yellow cab crashed into the top of the Downlow – this year it's a spaceship. We had an idea a few years ago about the possibility of giving the NYC Downlow a bit of an acid housey twist, and the intergalactic alien thing just linked in with that."

Block9's Glasto operations also include the London Underground stage, a giant tower block with a tube train smashed into it that appeared at the festival for the first time in 2010. New for 2013 is Genosys, an outdoor stage which aims to take the festival back to its eco roots. With a lineup that prioritises pre-digital electronic music (including appearances by Chicago house vets Gene Hunt and Tyree Cooper), Genosys will resemble a cross between a giant oak tree and a brutalist concrete megastructure. "We're imagining a time where human beings have destroyed the planet and killed off all the plant life," says Stephen. "In a desperate attempt to clean the air, they build their own version of a tree out of concrete and glass. They go round harvesting all the plants they can find and incubate them inside the structure, to produce oxygen."

Ravers often tend to think there is a grand poetic purpose to their gurning. This time, they might just be on to something

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/11/block-9-downlow-stage-glastonbury

Opr

johnnykilo

First time going to Glastonbury so this will probably be the first of a few posts from me with stupid questions

I could only get tickets combined with a bus from Birmingham. I presume I'll have to buy cans in Birmingham and bring them with me on the bus as there'll be nowhere else to buy them at Glastonbury or on the way down?

Also what are the beer options at Glastonbury? Any craft beer available? I know it's cider country down there but cider doesn't agree with me at all!

Toast

Yeh the bus won't stop. Once you are in the festival you could get a shuttle bus to Castle cary and get drink there if you really wanted to but it is a massive chunk of time.

There is an ale tent up in the acoustic tent which has a pretty great selection of ales. Also if your cider experiences have been only based upon Bulmers I recommend trying one of the Dry Ciders from the Cider Bus as it is a totally different (and great) beast.

Main bars usually have one alternative beer and/or cider to the promoter but count on it being run out very quickly.

innad

There are off-licences on site too though

johnnykilo

Toast wrote: »

Yeh the bus won't stop. Once you are in the festival you could get a shuttle bus to Castle cary and get drink there if you really wanted to but it is a massive chunk of time.

There is an ale tent up in the acoustic tent which has a pretty great selection of ales. Also if your cider experiences have been only based upon Bulmers I recommend trying one of the Dry Ciders from the Cider Bus as it is a totally different (and great) beast.

Main bars usually have one alternative beer and/or cider to the promoter but count on it being run out very quickly.

So much like the Paulaner at EP then :P Unfortunately my cider experiences are based on my stomach condition, I can't really drink anything too acidic, but I'm sure I'll sample at least one pint of cider over the weekend out of sheer curiosity. Cheers for the info!

herny

A couple of questions....been a few years since i was at glasto and am bringing a campervan this time..



1. im arriving into pembroke on irish ferries form rosslare Mon nite/tues morn 12.30am...plan to park up for a few hours to get some kip and get on road to glasto early tues morning.....does anyone know anywhere you can wild park your camper in pembroke for a few hours overnight to get some sleep (a bit pointless going to a campsite)

2. hope to stop off to see glasto tor on way in tuesday morning and take that in before heading into campervan west...is traffic busy around then or relatively hassle free??

3. am on the 2.30pm ferry back from pembroke on monday...am i better leaving straight after the last acts and stopping off somewhere up the motorway..(any suggestions) or is it easy enough to get out early monday morn from campervan fields..

Toast

As far as I know there is practically no traffic on the Tuesday. There will be event and staff traffic but comparative to the Wednesday when everyone arrives it is pretty light.

Just a heads up to all but tickets are being posted. Got mine this morning. Registered post so keep an ear out for the postman or check for the "we called while you were away" notes as it is really annoying to have to pick them up on site if they get sent back.