Glasto 2008

The Great Wallsendo

The Great Wallsendo

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Tickets go on sale tomorrow...so I'll be up early (for a sunday) again ready on the phone and web trying for tickets!!

If we get tickets this'll be our 3rd Glastonbury...will we be without rain for once:question:

Anyone else out there registered for tickets and gonna try for tickets tomorrow?

If so - good luck :exclam::)

(I hope we get 'em...I'll have a very sad little lady on my hands if we don't :()
 
Done most festivals in the past Tony,never got round to doing Glastonbury,its quite worrying the price of the tickets these days,i quite fancied the Monsters of Rock (Download) this year but would cost us £400 plus for my wife and my eldest two children to go,i just could'nt justify paying that money out,i've got back into the live music scene the last few years but much prefer the smaller venues for live gigs
 
The wife and I (oh goodness age is coming out now) done a few in our times weeley probably the best .. (down south norfolk somewhere)
remember the tickets were about £6 for the 3 days and that was the year after decimilisation (1972) which at the time was a weeks wage to me :)

Stars were Maggie Bell, Rod Stewart, Barclay james harvest (complete with 30 pc orchestera)etc etc . zero cost in travel as it was hitch down and hitch back but unfortunately the hitch back was on a bank hol so no lorries on the road (took us 3 days if I remember correctly)

Does anyone understand the term "Wally" well .... seriously (and I`ll fight anyone who says I`m wrong cos I was there !) this was invented at weely festival when one of the stage crew called walley(obviously quite senior in status) was keep being asked for over the mike during set-ups, it became a joke over the 3 days and the whole festival was buzzing with the call of "Wally ?", "are you there Wally" etc. and in the weeks that followed the term right wally came out bit by bit , still to be utilised today ....................... there ya go a real fact I promise.

Norm

(ex of the long hair and stratocaster) :) :) ..... hope tickets work out Tony , enjoy mate
 
Aye 'tis daft money to be sure...it'll cost us nearly £500 just to get there and back...and then there's the spends...:o:o

Part of me kinda hopes we don't get them for that very reason (hope she doesn't read this LOL)...but saying that it's pretty cosmic and an experience not to miss :D
 
The Great Wallsendo said:
Aye 'tis daft money to be sure...it'll cost us nearly £500 just to get there and back...and then there's the spends...:o:o

Part of me kinda hopes we don't get them for that very reason (hope she doesn't read this LOL)...but saying that it's pretty cosmic and an experience not to miss :D
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Cheap at half the price - if it get's you points ;) Enjoy!

You're just thinking what tackle 500 quid could buy you aren't you :D
 
Never payed a penny to get into Glastonbury (never, ever call it Glasto, that's just pure shan :red:)

Been loads of times - under the fence, in the boot, slunk in looking at the sky, hands in pockets and whistling a lot, buried myself in the middle of the main stage area once, 3 weeks before the "Festy" :D started - 4 foot down with a couple of ginsters pasties and 4 cans of Tennants Super. Emerged on day 2, slightly out of breath but mad for it ;)

Before I got old, spent the last few times guest listed or working, free stuff or even getting payed for being there - I can honestly say that, bar the odd classic moment, I've hated every second I've been there.

Or most festivals I've ever been to - and while I'm on the theme - never had a good time in Amsterdam neither (Not "The Dam" cos that's double Shan)

Have had memorable occasions in what might loosley be termed "Free Parties" though :D:p
 
Norman said:
The wife and I (oh goodness age is coming out now) done a few in our times weeley probably the best .. (down south norfolk somewhere)
remember the tickets were about £6 for the 3 days and that was the year after decimilisation (1972) which at the time was a weeks wage to me :)

Stars were Maggie Bell, Rod Stewart, Barclay james harvest (complete with 30 pc orchestera)etc etc . zero cost in travel as it was hitch down and hitch back but unfortunately the hitch back was on a bank hol so no lorries on the road (took us 3 days if I remember correctly)

Does anyone understand the term "Wally" well .... seriously (and I`ll fight anyone who says I`m wrong cos I was there !) this was invented at weely festival when one of the stage crew called walley(obviously quite senior in status) was keep being asked for over the mike during set-ups, it became a joke over the 3 days and the whole festival was buzzing with the call of "Wally ?", "are you there Wally" etc. and in the weeks that followed the term right wally came out bit by bit , still to be utilised today ....................... there ya go a real fact I promise.

Norm

(ex of the long hair and stratocaster) :) :) ..... hope tickets work out Tony , enjoy mate
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Now that's special Norman - the birth of a word - I am being serious - wish I was there - honest. Honest. Could probably have ran up behind Sir Rod and been able to kick him up the bum as well pre 9-11 and that!
 
glasto used to be good 20 years ago, its all media and radio 1 now and little wannadoo kiddies. if you want a good festival try the wickerman
 
I came on this morning to add to this and Mark left the prompt..........
My wifes mate said she's going to the Wickerman this year as Chili Peppers are Headlining.............i thought ffs that unusual as its normally a low key festival or should that be traditional festival............i went online to suss it out,Gary Numan is Headlining,Red Hot Chili PIPERS are playing lol,tribute band ffs :D.
£75 a ticket and probably worth every penny just for the scenery
 
Im off to the isle of white again in june sex pistols and police are headlining ..weathers usualy good!!(fingers crossed) was there last year and it was scorching ..always a good atmosphere :)
Rolling stones last year were excellent!! managed to get into the main area before everyone else last year ..long story :D..and sat gettin hammered in the sunshine watching the bands do sound checks ..cant wait :):):) four days on the cheese burger and beer diet get in!!:D
 
Got through loads of times but it kept crashing out :mad: not good for the blood pressure...finally got through and got to the end screen saying thankyou for ordering :D

....I won't get excited until the email confirmation comes through ;):D which can take AGES...

Fingers crossed :cool:
 
not been to glastonbury as a punter since '87, used to go regular, never paid once, always went with or stayed among the travellers. Worked it a couple of times early 90's, about the Time Michael Eavis morphed into a corporate greedhead. Cosy £6000 for a 10 foot stall pitch for 4 days :o

The way its developed and the atmossphere these days, you get just as much of a buzz pitching your tent on the bigg market on a friday night, and have an equal chance of still waking up with your pockets 500 quid lighter

not many proper laid back festi's left these days, Cambridge is about the only one I reckon, where you can still have a fairly relaxed and chilled time, was there a few years back, half a dozen coppers policed the whole event, living in a 14foot caravan on site, 6pm every night they were to be found in the Guinness tent getting slaughtered
 
Got to agree - it's a totally corporate event...even the hippies go home in 4x4s and to their middle class suburban lifestyles...

that said...the email has come through I'M GOING TO GLASTONBURY 2008 :D:D:D
 

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