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Twickenham has excellent access to the A316 and getting on the M3 and a303 - it would make a lot of sense. Bit of a twat to get to on public transport, but a taxi from richmond tube station would be easy, or walking up from twickenham overland station would be fine. It makes so much more sense than the 02, which is only really better on tube access alone: get it changed seetickets!

It’s the absolute best thing to go solo, and also know a few people to meet up with and have a few drinks/walk around with before the music starts. Now I don’t know if this is searingly mercenary or owt, Imbut I tend to drop my friends from Friday onwards and operate on my own schedule 🤣 might meet up for a band, or maybe at a particular performance, but I’m 90% on my own and it’s absolutely brilliant. I went with my then girlfriend the first few times I went and we were very happy to split and see what we wanted to, after the debacle that involved me seeing Clean Bandit . . . After that, I swore I wouldn’t sit through anything shit just to be polite, cos I’d have had a much better time just outside the tent having a nice beer or a mooch around a stall, or perhaps some halloumi fries. Basically, don’t do crap things when there’s an ocean of brilliant things in every direction!

If I was wandering around a festival site and happened upon someone who I knew skipped out on their shifts, I’d pull their wristband off and alert security about them. Don’t knacker up the other people on your shifts, have a bit of team spirit about you ffs!

I had a lovely little twenty minute nap at a tesco in Shoreham when i drove back last time. Big can of caffeinated nastiness, little bit of kip, and onwards. definitely better than stacking it into the back of someone 😬

Ive got one of these in the cupboard at the mo, bit of an impulse buy as it was on offer: every now and again i do like a can of terrible shite on toast, and i have no doubts whatsoever that this will satisfy my cravings for a few months 😄 i also 'like' those really plasticy cans of macaroni cans on toast too, they remind me of being a kid!

ugh, Candle in the wind is dreadful, the only crap tune on the otherwise majestic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album - its what the skip button was born to deal with edit: even Jamaica jerk-off is alright 😄

seen them a couple of times since, i'm sure they played it - i'll have a butchers at the setlist.fm. Very good live band, i'd love to see em again

i snuck in a bottle of (bundaberg!) rum and arsed the lot by midday. Not wise in that heat! Had a splendid nap in the shade before the Flaming Lips on the second stage though 😄

They're at Graspop the week before glasto, and then nothing til september! (admittedly graspop is listed as a european festival exclusive, dammit, but they can be a surprise act 😄 nothing would surprise the Other stage 11.30am crowd more than machine head playing!)

Robb Flynn said it best - 'let freedom ring with a shotgun blast'

i went to a Big Day Out in melbourne, australia many moons ago (good christ, it was 2004, itll be twenty years in january! i'm really old) and that was a festival that cordoned off its drinkers into a bar/pen well away from the stages - it feels really counterproductive, cos a) it just means that people end up sneaking booze in and b) means that people in the drinking pen are smashing it down them quickly to get buzzed before they head back off to the stages. Which isnt much fun in 35 degree heat, at all 😄 admittedly there's differences in the drinking attitudes of Brits/aussies (who are quite similar) and americans (who cant even trust twenty year olds to have a drink with their dinner ffs)

Emperor’s stuff is pretty much all north of 12%, I’m well on board with that as a tactic 🤣 one can is a nice quick ticket to squiff city, and you won’t need a wee within ten minutes

Peach ice tea, possibly a rehydration thingo in it if required - some kind of cereal bar or two, banana and apple, and finally a big dirty chai latte. (The chai latte powder with half a spoon of instant coffee in - I hate coffee but in a dirty chai it’s fine, as long as it doesn’t taste too coffee-ey!)

The oxfam field is next to the fence where people queue up for gate B, so Tuesday night I’m lying in my tent listening to them chatting all night just a few metres away from me - I don’t mind the hubbub, I like it, I just feel sorry for them sat in chairs all night while I’m flat and cosy in my bed

I look forward to everyone massacring the high bit in tiny dancer! And GYBR, too 🤣

Bennie and the jets (which I’ve always fancied as a big slow doom/sludge metal cover, for some reason - get to it Green Druid or Mammoth weed wizard bastard!)

Setting off about 6-7am on the Monday, it’s about a 4hr drive so will be there mid-morning. Volunteering with Oxfam so I’ll get me shifts and wristband, sort my tent and bed etc out, and then head onto the site for a good walk around and couple of beers in the staff bars . . . planning on getting up to Glastonbury Tor on the Tuesday, weather permitting etc - then a bit more of a site wander while it’s lovely and quiet, see some other worker bees, ahead of Wednesday morning and all you bloody lot turning up and making it noisy and packed 🥳

Yeah, Madri is palatable. I’m right with you on the pretend European cultural providence though, it’s such horseshit 🤣

Coors ffs! the most well known of their brands is Carling, which is actual horse piss and extremely unwelcome. It makes Carlsberg appealing, which is kind of an achievement

I never drink on the Sunday at all, and always pack most of the stuff in the car first knockings on the Sunday - so it’s a reasonably chill day, head to bed after whichever headliner I watch and a last final stroll around the site, then I’m up at 6:30ish to take down the tent and head back down south. Porcelain poop at Southampton services, and I was back on my sofa by midday last couple of years - traffic is fine when you get off the a303, the rest of the route is a breeze. I always get trippy as fuck dreams for a few days (and I don’t drink to excess or take drugs) but will be off work til the Thursday. I need to reconcile being back among the humans!

£40 -£50 a day for food and beers sounds about right for me: two decent meals for about £12 to £15 apiece, a couple of pints, and maybe a couple of other things that take my eye: a cocktail, a foot long fizzy cola thingo, perhaps a churro. I tend to have a couple of cans of something select on me each day as well. I normally make a little bit of breakfast of a morning, but it’ll be fruit and cereal bars with a tea, nothing complicated.

yeah, they're a bit of an acquired taste 😄 I've got great big feet, so i embrace their use for buoyancy 👍 i can probably walk to france in them!

Download have a thursday bill this year, dont know if its just as a one-off (its their 20th anniversary) or itll be for every year from now on - they've not really announced what the craic is, start times, all stages being open etc etc but itll be interesting to see if glastonbury see that and think of upping their thursday offerings. A bit of Other stage radio/spotify type event would be good, though.

I normally have a pair at any one time, and they're lovely to drive in, but for trampling around a farm for a good fifteen miles theyre just too harsh on the feet. I go for hiking boots or more robust trainers (and crocs for around the campsite 😆) i have a pair of the massive oversized ones with huge soles at the mo, theyre alright! they dont actually shoot you up in height, the soles are a normal depth, they just look like crazy platforms . . . https://www.asos.com/converse/converse-run-star-hike-hi-trainers-in-black/prd/201219936?currencyid=1&browsecountry=GB&affid=25897&_EAIaIQobChMI_ZW0mvzx_QIVxvftCh3sPAKyEAQYAiABEgKKUvD_BwE&channelref=product+search&ppcadref=12029787983|117574734673|pla-1980842794023&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_ZW0mvzx_QIVxvftCh3sPAKyEAQYAiABEgKKUvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

It takes a bit of planning, but going up one size on converse and putting proper insoles in them makes em a lot more comfy and supportive. They're a bit of a disgrace in foot comfort after a day if they're standard soles.