Glastonbury 2024

[VincentHanna]

Anyone actually going? It's my 15th one this year.

Glastonbury Festival - 2024

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts

glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

I saw somebody in the last thread commenting on drinks prices, but it's the only big UK festival I know of, that lets you take your own alcohol in and doesn't separate the camp sites from the festival site.

 

[doodah]

Not been for 11 years now (back when tickets were around £210), was epic every time I went. Just don't know if I could handle the mass standard camping and mud/**** these days.

15 - that's impressive! I might try a glamping version in the future with the wife.

 

[VincentHanna]

Not been for 11 years now (back when tickets were around £210), was epic every time I went. Just don't know if I could handle the mass standard camping and mud/**** these days.

15 - that's impressive! I might try a glamping version in the future with the wife.

Yeah, been to them all since 2004, except 2016 and that was intentional, and it turned out to be a complete mud-fest so dodged a bullet.

2005 and 2007 were bad though.

Last year we took a Quecha fresh and black inflatable and it was lush compared to previous tents, nice and dark in the morning and stays cooler

Weighs 14kg so but I use a trolley anyway.

 

[Worthy]

Not going but I’ll be glued to the BBC coverage for most of the weekend. I so need to get there one year - I think it’s the last festival that someone of my age can still go to and not feel like everyone’s dad.

 

[pepp77]

I went to Glastonbury in 1994 and had a great time, but for many different reasons haven't been again. Was a good one to go to though.

 

[VincentHanna]

Not going but I’ll be glued to the BBC coverage for most of the weekend. I so need to get there one year - I think it’s the last festival that someone of my age can still go to and not feel like everyone’s dad.

Oh yeah, the age range of ticket holders is huge. I don't feel too old for it at 42.

Whereas when I went to Creamfields in 2023 we were top 5% oldest there.

 

[Feek]

I’m still disappointed that Murder’s set wasn’t recorded or broadcast last year.

 

[VincentHanna]

We're leaving at 5 a.m. Wednesday and expecting to arrive about 9:30 a.m. (185 miles)

Weather is looking good, a bit hot on Wednesday when you have to lug everything in, but good festival weather on the whole.

I've been there when it's been 32°C and when it's been a washout and both aren't nice.

Pilton - BBC Weather

14-day weather forecast for Pilton.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I once tried to get Glasto tickets in 2004. Not a sniff of a ticket as the phone lines were permanently on hold and the web site timed out. Apparently sold out in record time in that year and has been selling out even quicker year-on-year ever since. So never tried since as it's a lost cause.

The biggest act on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage this year isn’t Coldplay or Dua Lipa. In fact, you might not even have heard of them.

Seventeen: The K-pop band making Glastonbury history

They're the biggest-selling act in the world, and they're about to play the Pyramid Stage.

www.bbc.co.uk

I certainly haven't heard of them.

Oh yeah, the age range of ticket holders is huge. I don't feel too old for it at 42.

Whereas when I went to Creamfields in 2023 we were top 5% oldest there.

Interesting about age and Cream. I went to Cream in Coventry Kasbah nightclub in June 2023 and I never felt out of place age 44. In fact, I had the best night out ever! On the flipside though, I went to Cream in Liverpool (where it originated) at the Blackstone Warehouse in February 2024 and everyone there were practically children, barely age 18. We had to leave early as we felt out of place.

 

[inogen]

I did about 10 years straight from 1993. I've not been back since. Last time I went I bought a ticket outside. Once I bought a VIP ticket (bar that the bands go in under the Pyramid, a straight walk from the Pyramid to the other stage through the VIP campsite and actual plumbed in porcelain!) for less than face value, I think of even a standard ticket off an internet forum. I cba with the prices and the faff getting tickets nowadays. There are other festivals that are nowhere near the bother.

 

[Shamikebab]

I've never been but I usually check out the streams. This is the worst lineup I've ever seen I think, only 3/4 artists I'd like to see. I know Glastonbury is more than just the lineup but it's still abysmal imo.

 

[Apex]

The line-up this year is abysmal - Dua Lipa? and Sza?

Jesus Christ, two completely anonymous nothings cut from the "Solo female artist" meta that dominates the truly dire state of popular music these days. I wouldn't give you ten bob to see them, the lineup taken as a whole is absolutely dismal.

I think next year is a fallow one IIRC and Glastonbury looks like it needs it to me. I thought last year was poor as well.

 

[VincentHanna]

I think Dua Lipa is pretty good to be honest, though I won't be going to watch her.

Plenty of decent bands on, if you ignore most of the main stage headliners.

 

[McGray]

Used to go every year and 2014 was my last one.

Doubt I'll bother again now, not quite the festival it used to be is it?

Shame but I understand why.

 

[Apex]

I think Dua Lipa is pretty good to be honest, though I won't be going to watch her.

Plenty of decent bands on, if you ignore most of the main stage headliners.

That good you're not going to watch her...

 

[Apex]

Used to go every year and 2014 was my last one.

Doubt I'll bother again now, not quite the festival it used to be is it?

Shame but I understand why.

They took the money and ruined it, it was once an "alternative" event, now it's just another corpo theme park.