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Glasto ‘24. Not a vintage one for me. Bad Stage identities As already mentioned on another thread, the demise of Avalon is very sad. More broadly I’d say it’s a trend across the whole site. Park and West Holts have lost their unique identities and become just another stage. Park used to be a festival in itself and I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Wishing Well was bang average. Just another tent. Nothing particularly interesting about it. SE Corner Crowd Management They’ve still not cracked this and the traffic flow management just reinforces a one way march around the area. Was at Peace and wanted to go back over to IICON and had to go round a torturously long route through Shangri La, Unfairground and back round which is just soul sapping in the slow shuffling crowds. Stage Placements/Bookings One easy way to fix the crowd issues for acts like Sugababes is to stop booking them. Not sure what it says about Glastonbury demographics when acts like that draw huge crowds and others like Kim Gordon don’t. Some odd stage placements over the weekend which just adds to crowd flow issues. Long drops Where have they all gone? None at Arcadia, less round the camping areas. The long drop pits are still there but just metal plates over them. Huge queues for the small quantity of compost loos. And some laughably small urinals in key areas which inevitably ends up with hedge pissing. Drone Show Get everyone to troop over to the Pyramid for a pretty crap 10 minutes of silently watching some lights followed by a crap view of the fireworks Good Woodsies It is a wonderful area now and the Tree stage a nice addition. The whole area including the woodland walk area is a huge success in creating a new area and moving on from the John Peel Tent in a field era. If they can find room for a small bands tent like Williams Green used to be then it would definitely takeover the mantle of The Park of being a festival in a festival. SE Corner Really good this year (until after 2am when it becomes hell on earth for me) and the crowds were not too bad. Peace Stage was my second favourite area. Silver Hayes In terms of stage build, visually one of the best areas at Glastonbury now. Bus links My Castle Cary shuttle to bus station to Gate A to ‘in’ was astonishing this year. Left Castle Cary at 7:30am, was pitched in Paines by 9:20am.