Glastonbury 2022

Effectively every last decent indie act we've enjoyed over the past three years is going to be there Rubick. By late June it'll be a case of spotting the odd missing outlier.

Bdrmm were here in Galway in Nov, supposedly great. Back again this Nov (they obviously enjoy our climate that particular month) but no northern date yet, I'd expect that to change.

A fair few of these acts will be EP bound also.

A thing of beauty. Not glanced at one since 2014. Where you camping? My last time was in Bailey's which was a real slog. I may try the Pylon Field again, that was pretty quiet as seemingly very few wanted to stay there. Great for John Peel, Silver Hayes and the Pyramid.

Aren't there shuttle buses running from Bristol as always? There were always a dozen outside as I was leaving on Monday morning. I never took any as I was always heading to London so is my assumption wrong?

I'm arriving at Bristol Airport very early on Thur so was hoping there were direct buses there also. Naive of me?

And Worthy View, posh Nordies eh? 😁

Ever get a whiff from the sewage processing out by Michael's Mead? That put me off in the past. Last time I was in general camping I stayed in the field beside John Peel but they seem to have extended that now and part of it appears to be family camping? I might go to Lower Mead but I still have nightmares from 2005 in my head so want somewhere with a bit of a hill. The worst walk is the walk Monday morning to PGA for the coaches so I always try camp with that in mind.

Baffles me every year why people camp in Oxlyers. Flat, windy, smells of **** (human and bovine) and generally just dirty with all the worst food stalls on site. That area is the worst part of the festival. Don't really like the Other Stage.

Arcadia/Park are busy. Lots of yoof off their crackers. I wouldn't camp there to be honest if you're planning on kipping well. Too busy and loud. And goes till fairly late as its the nearest camping spot to the SE Corner.

The other side of the festival or the Big Ground are great. Big Ground fills up quite quickly. Ill be heading for Michaels Mead/Hitchin Hill/Lime Kiln regardless of what time Im there.

And yeah, Oxylers is right behind the farm that does all the slurry/cow **** stuff.

I think it is actually the Download stage. But yeah, not my go to area. 99 was before my time.

Cheers Seath - but we're having to go from the Tuesday this time out due to easyJet wanting £808 for x2 seats Belfast - Bristol return from Wednesday - Monday. We're staying at a hotel at Bristol airport on the Tuesday night and the Monday night after so were hoping to avoid having to do the Airport>Bristol Bus Station>Pedestrian Gate A Bus Station>Worthy View Shuttle busarama that we've done in the past. Still working out much cheaper than £808! We've even going to try to get a booze delivery to the airport on the Tuesday night or failing that a click-and-collect on the way, only way to fly baby!

We've never had this issue before as we've always used the multi-bus runs or had Coach Tickets from Bristol. Plan is to get up about 6am on the Wednesday morning, wolf the breakfast into us and jump in a taxi straight to the site if we can. I can't tell you the jealously we had of heads we knew from Belfast that just jumped in a taxi from the airport straight to festival times back in 2016 which was a melt for traffic. I think that was the year we were stuck in Bristol Bus Station for about 4 hours on the Wednesday morning, was mid-afternoon before we got to WV having been at the bus station from about 10am.

Worthy View is great despite the climb, the pre-erected two-man scout tent is great without being glamping material. Plus there's a food stall up there that does duck egg, bacon and brie omlettes which are some kit of a morning!

The Flying Machine Cafe that pitches just out the back of Body & Soul at EP are usually there too just at the top of the hill, but this year they are down in Field of Avalon.

According that map the coaches drop us off right beside gate A which is where the ticket booth is so I think i'll just collect mine from there.

Pylon Field is a major option, the most spacious camping area I've seen on site and thus the toilets and water queues were pretty quick. Why so quiet though, people wary of Pylons or a poor location otherwise?

And the map has disappeared, updating it I guess.

My very first year (2000) we arrived in the middle of the night and had no idea about the layout or anything else for that matter and just plonked ourselves in the middle of what turned out to be Big Ground in the first empty space. We woke up in the morning thinking it was raining but it was the sound of static from the Pylon line directly above us. I'm sure it won't have any health impacts but the sound was good enough reason to give them a wide berth from then on.