Glastonbury

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Beautiful images of beaming happy people.

I love music, I love dancing and being with friends.

But I'd hate being at such a busy festival.
The crowds and lack of clean facilities would make me miserable. I have been to other festival in my youth and just couldn't quite relax, whilst friends were having the time of their lives.

Even as a skinny teenager I would have felt self conscious and exposed walking around in a bikini at a festival.

How come they seem all relaxed?

AIBU to ask what makes people enjoy and love Glastonbury?

It's meant to be about enjoying the music, atmosphere (and drugs), not posing in bikinis or worrying about what you're wearing. Having said that I went years ago before the company executive crowds took over and the word glamping (yuck!) was invented.

We steward there most years and we live close by which is great if the weather is terrible we can come home for a shower!

I don't go to the Pyramid stage at all unless it is something in the morning before it is busy. I prefer the small stages or random stuff you come across. like welshweasel says. I usually record the big bands on TV and watch them the week after. The atmosphere is amazing.

However I wouldn't pay for it and do appreciate the backstage camping and extra space we have. I'm also looking forward to a year off next year and always like it when it finishes and I can have a shower and get back to my own bed.

You can always spot the glampers by the clean wellies!!

I'm surprised anyone makes new friends going to a festival. All the ones I've been to have been endless cliques of people who already know each other.

Maybe one of the Glastonbury veterans can help me out with something I have wondered about every year? Just how much does the food and drink cost there? Its bugging me :)

I went in the mid-90s and loved it, but doesn't appeal now I'm getting closer to 50!

I love seeing the pictures. Lots of young people with not a care in the world for a few days.

It's not for me because I don't like crowds or camping and I like my home comforts.

There's a special corner of hell reserved for the people who write Daily Mail photo captions!

Been going since 2003 (I think, the year of the fence!) and stewarded since 2005 (although this is the 4th year we haven't been 😢 We wanted to go this year for the Foos but having an 11 month old and working 3 shifts would have been doubly hard!

Been to many many festivals but glasto has a special something something that nowhere else has - I wish it could be bottled as People in the real world would be more chilled (and no it's not the drugs).

It is however hard work, moreso in the heat than the rain.

The posh bit (camp Kerala) costs around £8,000 for 2 for the weekend but comes with amazing extras!

Stewarding with Oxfam is (in my view) the best way to go though and is free!

Will be watching the Foos in the garden this weekend with a makeshift den. bunting and a Foos flag!

Did it twice and loved it, but I have an anxiety disorder and had a panic both times. Small feats - Latitude, Secret Garden, Wilderness- are more my thing. It's just a bit overwhelming!

user my friend said there are loads of places to get food so there is plenty of variety, short queues and variety of price ranges but most reasonably priced. They take drinks though so not sure about that. I asked a few years back because I expected long queues with that many people there, and high prices due to captive audience

Glastonbury would be hell on earth for me, but she enjoys it a group of them have been past few years

I've been a few times. I was on my own working one year and found it quite depressing until the Sunday when my friends turned up. Everything I wanted to really see clashed with each other.

I agree with LanaKane - I love festivals and will have been to 4 this summer but Glastonbury is shit now, too big, too pretentious, too expensive.

I've been lots and worked for festival welfare there a few times, the last was in 2015 and I didn't go anywhere near the main stages. I wouldn't pay to go again.

If you want to party Boomtown is way more fun, if you want to chill in a field there's lots of smaller ones that are lovely.

AIBU to ask what makes people enjoy and love Glastonbury?

I've been three times (dragged by DW) and I still can't figure that out. I can sit in a field and get trench foot at home.

It's PILTON!! Glastonbury is a town a few miles away. Worthy farm is in PILTON!

Sorry, as you were.

I've done it several times. The last few back stage with a band. Way better. Decent toilets, fabulous food tents, feeling of safety. Would not want to go back to roughing it.

How come they seem all relaxed?

Drugs, basically.

Before I was introduced to MDMA, I never could understand why people loved being packed together in clubs, down the front of festivals and so on. Then it all magically made sense.

I am too old for that lark now though and I'm not even 30.

I'd pay £250 alone to see the Foos, and I've seen them several times but to see them at glasto would be the ultimate gig!
I've been several times and loved it. I've only watched two headliners on the pyramid stage - Bruce in 2009 (amazing) and U2 in 2011 (shit)
The other stage/tent/glade/dance village/west holts/park do it for me. Buffy clyro rocking up for a 'secret' set at the park in 2010 was brilliant.
Drugs help 😉
And I tend to lose weight and tone up there, despite drinking several times my body weight in beer and existing on carbs for 5 days.
The after hours Arcadia and block 9 are just mental. I'd go again, when my little one is a touch older - maybe after the fallow year....

MammaTJ yes! Pilton pop festival as was

I hate it being referred to as glasto - irrational I know

It was fun when I was 16, I imagine less so now I'm in my 50's. It's now too big, too commercial and too tiring for an old biddy like me!

I went to Reading Festival a few years ago, my first and only festival to date. As we live fairly close to Reading we didn't camp, so at least we could sleep in a nice bed and have a shower before heading in each day. It made the experience much nicer! The toilets on site were horrendous, but would have been OK if they'd been cleaned throughout the day. The queues were enormous, you were lucky if there were one or two toilets which weren't blocked. There was water all over the floor, either from the sinks or sewage. It was grim. Each trip became a huge task because it took so flipping long to get to the toilet blocks and then wait in the queue.

The music was great though, and I'm glad I got to go.

I just couldn't cope with the toilets....

I've been once (2000) and the toilets near killed me. Shit literally standing up in the bucket, the stench was utterly horrendous.

Aside from that it was amazing. Or I have rose tinted specs.

Gutted I'm not there. We had tickets and forgot to pay balance. First time in 15 years. Unless you have been you wouldn't understand. We've taken my son since he was born so he's missed this year. He's five and potty trained there, (turns out 18 year olds will completely let you skip ahead in a toilet queue and explain to those further up the queue if you have a toddler clutching their bits). It's such a happy and joyful experience. People are nice, there to have fun and open to each other. I've been with and without my son and can honestly say it's a totally different festival with a child but still immense fun. The kidzfield is one of the most positive places ever. And actually the largest kids festival completely free. Last year my boy ego was 4 at the time did a carpentry workshop and made a wooden helicopter there. He was so proud abd he operated a child size drill (with help, and a safety demo) himself. So confidence building. It's just amazing.

I remember when it was all fields