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Am I the only person who hated Glastonbury?

81 replies

breathslowly7 · 26/06/2022 21:19

I really did hate it there, skanky, expensive, didn't sleep, HATED the toilets, couldn't wait to get home.

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TheMushroom · 27/06/2022 20:10

I went once and I fucking hated it. Awful. Too big. Like a grim endurance test.

Smaller festivals are much nicer and less like hard work.

NippyWoowoo · 27/06/2022 20:11

breathslowly7 · 26/06/2022 21:19

I really did hate it there, skanky, expensive, didn't sleep, HATED the toilets, couldn't wait to get home.

You have described everything I imagined it would be, which is why I would never go. What inspired you to go?

Drunkandalone · 27/06/2022 20:11

swedex · 27/06/2022 20:00

4 Month old twins? How on earth did you manage??

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Glamping and bottle feeding! We met with a few other babies and parents and they all had a great time. Takes planning ahead but wouldn’t have had it any other way and we didn’t want to risk our girls missing Paul. He’s not been in great health and it may have been their last chance we’re a big beatles family x

A580Hojas · 27/06/2022 20:13

If you like your home comforts and don't enjoy huge crowds Glastonbury and similar festivals will never be the place for you. I love music and live gigs with a passion but ev

A580Hojas · 27/06/2022 20:15

... but everything about camping and shared toilets and no showers and perpetual noise and thousands of people all day and all night means I don't have the fomo about it all.

Crikeyalmighty · 27/06/2022 20:16

I work in music- but as a 60 year old veteran I don't do festivals unless it's backstage with seats, catering and semi ok loos. Otherwise I hate them, I struggle a bit to get up and down from sitting on grass, nearly always get the shits and end up with a UTI as hold off going to the loo

BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants · 27/06/2022 20:17

I watched it from home and only enjoyed a few bands Fontaines DC were brilliant but overall sound for most bands not great. I would love to have gone when I was younger just for the overall experience but now no thanks like my home comforts. Be different if had luxury facilities like the celebs and rich do with lovely loos, food and showers.

Whatafunnylotyouare · 27/06/2022 20:20

I've been just once, in '86 with my friend and his family, I was 12. Saw Madness, Housemartins and Simply Red. When I think back I remember lots of mud, awful toilets, a drugged up man rolling on the floor with no-one taking any notice of him, lots of litter and listening to England lose against Argentina in the World Cup on a battery powered Red alba radio/tape player! Never been since and probably never will again.

RampantIvy · 27/06/2022 20:25

but everything about camping and shared toilets and no showers and perpetual noise and thousands of people all day and all night means I don't have the fomo about it all.

That sums it up for me as well. I did enjoy my day visit to Leeds festival seven years ago. DD worked at Leeds festival three years ago and said that the facilities for them were much nicer than those for the people who had bought tickets to camp and go to the festival.

TheZenOne22 · 27/06/2022 20:26

I love festivals and Glastonbury is my fave. What a lot of people don’t like about it is what I enjoy - the number of people, the noise, the size. I obviously have more fun when the weather is nice but I’ve never wanted to leave a festival early when the weather has been bad. I missed out this year as I’m pregnant but will go again

DappledThings · 27/06/2022 20:34

Love festivals, go to one nearly every year plus an extra camping trip. But can't imagine ever wanting to go to Glastonbury. Latitude was on the big side for me, I like bring able to walk from one side to another as many times as I want.

Isn't it frustrating getting stuck at one stage and having to plan the whole day to see who you want to see without being able to be spontaneous?

Simonjt · 27/06/2022 20:35

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/06/2022 21:31

I only like it when I'm backstage with the band. Warm, dry bed, flushing toilets, less mud.

I know I'm not hard enough to be amongst the Great Unwashed.

Same here, I’m not built for a full weekend festival if its standard entry.

oakleaffy · 27/06/2022 20:44

Relative went in early 1980's when it was just two fields, and the Pyramid stage was new.
There were no barricades, they went into the farmhouse where Eavis lived..
It evidently was much more low key then.
There was no crime to their knowledge, but farmers were helping people with cars escape the mud one year, towing them out with tractors.

buckeejit · 27/06/2022 21:03

My first Glastonbury I was 16-went on boat & bus from NI with friends. We had no tickets, friends pretended they were under 12 so got in free & we bought wristbands for £10ish & some went through a hole in the fence courtesy of the hunt saboteurs

I saw Jonny Cash- didn't even like him at the time but my God, I had a electric Charge through my body from the crowd & had an amazing time. Went most years after until the year before my first ex was born 13 years ago. Been in extreme mud, extreme heat, with a broken foot, camped backstage, been in tiny & big tents & just love it.

If I was to go now though, I'd get a teepee or fancy glamping of some sort. Would love to take the dc sometime though. I prefer smaller local festivals for now - like the one I'm going to on Thurs, yeeeoooow!

ChloeHel · 27/06/2022 21:06

I hated it, and that’s from watching it on my tv.

MargotMoon · 27/06/2022 21:16

I got back this afternoon after a brilliant weekend. Saw so many different bands/artists, from reggae, hip hop and rap to pop, rock and disco with loads of dance music genres inbetween.

It is vast and busy and a bit overwhelming but it's also magical and extraordinary and exciting. A proper escape from reality, which is exactly what a middle-aged mother needs now and then!

It helped that it stayed dry! I had a really bad mud experience when I was in my early 20s which was horrific but that's just the luck of the draw...

honeybushbunch · 27/06/2022 21:18

I don’t mind some of the smaller festivals like latitude or bestival (especially if staying in a cottage nearby!), but even then it’s a little bit like paying hundreds of pounds to briefly revisit the 1990s, but this time with more dehydration, bladder pain and sorer feet.

I absolutely hate the loos and the traipsing for ages, and you never know if that fab goat curry or mezze box is going to have you running to the loo all night, plus the alcohol is normally absolute shite too. (Cambridge Folk Festival is really good - proper good g&ts with ice, quiet places to sit and chill out, hardly any litter!)

But honestly even with the top of the range glamping, Glasto would be everything I hate….

Ilovedthe70s · 27/06/2022 21:40

Went in the 70’s and loved it.

Cannot imagine much closer to my idea of hell than what it’s grown into.

SheSaysShush · 27/06/2022 21:50

buckeejit · 27/06/2022 21:03

My first Glastonbury I was 16-went on boat & bus from NI with friends. We had no tickets, friends pretended they were under 12 so got in free & we bought wristbands for £10ish & some went through a hole in the fence courtesy of the hunt saboteurs

I saw Jonny Cash- didn't even like him at the time but my God, I had a electric Charge through my body from the crowd & had an amazing time. Went most years after until the year before my first ex was born 13 years ago. Been in extreme mud, extreme heat, with a broken foot, camped backstage, been in tiny & big tents & just love it.

If I was to go now though, I'd get a teepee or fancy glamping of some sort. Would love to take the dc sometime though. I prefer smaller local festivals for now - like the one I'm going to on Thurs, yeeeoooow!

Love this

Lonelygal22 · 28/06/2022 17:24

I absolutely loved it. We took our 14-month-old and even changing nappies in the portaloo was fine! Loads to do, great array of food, loads of bars so kept the little one hydrated.

bowchicawowwow · 28/06/2022 17:36

I've been four times when I was younger. I do remember feeling pretty miserable and peopled out at times and just feeling grubby and in need of a shower especially in 1998 when I was caked in mud for days and you couldn't sit down and relax anywhere as it was just a swamp. I ran out of cash fairly quickly and felt cold and damp the whole time. I remember watching Robbie Williams doing his iconic set and just feeling totally pissed off and tearful as I felt so rubbish

Drunkandalone · 28/06/2022 19:12

Lonelygal22 · 28/06/2022 17:24

I absolutely loved it. We took our 14-month-old and even changing nappies in the portaloo was fine! Loads to do, great array of food, loads of bars so kept the little one hydrated.

did you attend the baby group on Saturday morning? I seem to remember you brought up jäger bombs on another thread and we consumed many at the group meeting

NecklessMumster · 28/06/2022 19:38

My first was in 1979😮then I went to lots in the 80s and 90s and a couple in early 2000s. I have had extreme highs and lows and would love to go back but don't know if I could cope now but have been researching the clamping options. Every other festival I've been to I think 'this is so much easier than Glastonbury' then 'but it's just not the same'. Looks like really over crowded this year tho?

Cheeseandlobster · 28/06/2022 19:50

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/06/2022 21:41

What bands have you been backstage with?

A couple

Why stealth boast then be so coy when someone asks? It's not like it will out you. I bet loads of people were backstage at the same time

Drunkandalone · 28/06/2022 19:52

Cheeseandlobster · 28/06/2022 19:50

Why stealth boast then be so coy when someone asks? It's not like it will out you. I bet loads of people were backstage at the same time

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