DH and Glastonbury

[Bobthecatnapper]

DH was invited to Glastonbury this week by a male work colleague and his wife who apparently have one of these 2 bedroom glamping accommodations at the festival. I asked if I could go with him and he said that he wanted to take his mate (will call him G.) I know G and he has recently split with his wife, very upset about it all, a bit lonely and has apparently "always wanted to go to Glastonbury." OK.

Fast forward to tonight, DH announces he is actually travelling down to Glastonbury on Wednesday and will "work from the festival" until the weekend. I went on the website and while it lists 22nd June as a start date (Wednesday) nothing actually starts until Friday.

I am suspicious about all of it, as DH has some form. Can any Glastonbury expert tell me whether people go on the wednesday to "work from the festival?"

DH is lying to his employers, saying he'll be working from home when he's not-working at a festival. Potentially endangering confidential information on work equipment.

Or if he's self-employed, he's lying to himself and potentially his clients too.

Or he is somehow going to work, leaving his very upset friend in the festival scrum on his own. That won't end well.

Consensus is tickets are not transferable, so DH and G have had their tickets for a while and didn't tell you.

G has only recently split from his wife, so DH had already invited him - it's not an act of compassion.

Or G is the cover story, and DH is going to Glastonbury with someone else, and it's been a longstanding plan.

It all feels a bit like quicksand. Are there any facts you can reliably confirm, to establish some solid ground? Do tickets have an issue date? Emails/texts between DH and G, and between DH and the couple?

When and why has DH lied to you previously?

He is really only likely to get in if his mate with the tickets is a VIP, say with one of the bands/presenters/talent of some sort or their family - you'd know if they fell into that category I think!

Similarly any ability to work would require the accomodation that the above types get, even the 'luxury glamping' that regular people can buy the wifi/power isn't good enough.

I'd be suspicious.

It'd be pricey even sharing.
How does someone else 'invite' someone to Glastonbury. Will he bring a laptop to or does he work off his phone? Guess he could lock laptop into his car.

Having been to Glastonbury a few times pre kids, I wouldn't buy the taking his laptop to work line. Yes, there are places where he can pick up wifi, but Glastonbury is a vibrant festival and you would definitely want to be exploring the huge site and not sitting on a laptop working!

As for the tickets, I would only believe this if they were hospitality tickets that the Yurt couple have been able to secure and swap the names. Some people have had tickets since October 2019.

I'd ask to see the tickets

Play along with it. Let him head off on the Wednesday.

when he gets back, say you'd love to see all the photos on his mobile.

get him to talk about the acts he saw, who was his favourite.

ask about the accommodation, was it comfortable, good facilities?

chat away as if you're really interested.

you'll soon know if he's telling porkies.

oh and don't forget, on here if you start a thread you have to give hourly updates (at least) even in the middle of the night and even if you've got nothing to say otherwise you get accused of abandoning your thread or telling porkies - it's da roolz

Do you all have Find my phone set up if you have iPhones?

All thoughts of the festival aside I would be highly suspicious of a husband/partner who chooses a mate over me very often, particularly a newly single mate

Or he may not even be going to Glastonbury. Do you know any of his friends? Are you friends with G?
I would do some digging around.

I'd be very surprised about an invite this week we have similar tickets with friends and had to confirm names (non changeable) 2/3 weeks ago so if they dropped out we'd lose the tix rather than be able to invite someone else

He was handed an amazing opportunity - glamping at Glastonbury - what a fantastic thing to be offered! And he won't take you. You want to go. And he gave that holiday to a friend.

Not for the first time.

You don't need any further information, OP. It's not 'suspicious' , even if everything is just as he said, that's devastating.

He is actively choosing to spend a luxury holiday with someone who is not you. That's all you need to know.

I work there every year, weds is a totally normal time to go, also if the tickets are crew/artist etc it’s much easier to get the tickets last min as you don’t need photo ID, totally different ticket system. I wouldn’t worry about it.

I live near. Wednesday normal time to go and sensible as traffic will be less. All local roads get clogged completely by Thursday. There are loads of tickets that don’t require photo ID and loads of wristbands that will get you in. I wouldn’t buy the fact that he is working from the festival though! That sounds ridiculous I would assume he’s booked leave but doesn’t want to tell you?

Phone and 4G signal for the duration of the festival is a nightmare so if he’s planning to use his own data to run his laptop he will be disappointed. My experience is that even trying to text or message each other on-site was a pain as texts didn’t arrive for hours.

Lots of posters clearly don’t know about the ways of getting into the festival that don’t involve public tickets; yes, they are absolutely non-transferable but it doesn’t sound like he’s got one of those.

Gates open to the public 8am Wednesday,

Lots of music industry people I know got tickets this week. I got mine 2 weeks ago. There are lots of ways to go without registering and doing the ballot in October. And the majority of people go weds. That’s totally normal. So it is all believable. Whether you trust him is a different kettle of fish.

Totally feasible and not a meat market at all. Usually big groups of friends or couples or families having fun.
the people telling you he is lying don’t actually know what they are talking about in terms of how people get glasto tickets sorted outside of the standard public route.

Surely he'll have photos on social media to back it all up.

As for transferable tickets they aren't like passports or anything, the young kids on the gate aren't overly forensic. I know people who've gone with other people's tickets as long as the correct sex and could pass for the photo I reckon it's all very plausible.

It opens Wednesday. He's a lucky bugger!

Not true
hospitality tickets have no photo just a sticker with your name on

The car park opens Tuesday, 4pm this year because they’re expecting more people to drive because of the rail strikes.

The campervan fields open at midday on Tuesday too so I wouldn’t be surprised whatsoever if off site glamping opened that early too.

It’s very normal for people to go on the Wednesday. Many people do.

If you don’t trust him that’s another matter.

Depends on his job as to whether he can work from the festival. I’m not convinced he would be able to do conference calls effectively but if he does something less IT focussed maybe he can…

I live near. Wednesday normal time to go and sensible as traffic will be less. All local roads get clogged completely by Thursday

We live lane within the controlled zone: there will be stewards 24/7 preventing cars driving in and out of our road. That’s how close we live. I can categorically say that Thursday the roads will be clearer and not clogged: most people that are going in, will have gone in.

In previous years when the traffic has been appalling it’s because the ground was very wet in the weeks leading up to the festival and cars etc had to be towed in. Those queues were through the day Tuesday and all day Wednesday.

This year apart from heavy rain last night it’s been incredibly dry, so there shouldn’t be that problem.

and the car parks open at 9pm Tuesday night (it’s on the website!) People arrive from Tuesday to sleep in their car, and then the camping opens on Wednesday.

but I digress. OP your DH’s story is incredibly fishy. All you need to do is ask him specifically what his ticket is. Unless he’s crewing, he’s lying for the reasons others have explained.

Just having glamping tickets doesn’t mean they’ve got crew/hospitality tickets - anyone can book glamping.

Unless his mates are getting those kind of passes it’s still suspicious and surely then he’d have said that’s how he’d got the ticket?

Why are you with him if you don't trust him?