Worst things about Glasto..?

[rexclark]

Hit the sauce straight away, something like a two litre bottle of wkd or any other alcopop can be good for when you don't feel like drinking.

[deanieo]

The worst thing about Glasto..... threads like this.

[iwalker]

Lack of showering opportunities.

People who make noise in the middle of the night for no good reason other than making noise (different to making noise because they are having a good time)

Waking up in a tent thinking you are in the Sahara then opening then door and you being in a damp morning

[Bisque]

Carrying cans/crates of beer.

Running out of loo roll after too many jerk chickens from Shangri La.

[tommmy]

Waking up in a tent with a Clown with Stilts on fumbling with my bits.

[miss_jane]

just the overwhelming smell of poo is the only thing i hate. everything else i can deal with

[hashcity]

There are loads of things I don't particularly like at Glastonbury. This would appear to be a controversial or confrontational thing to write on this forum, but if you think about it, it's madness to try and pretend otherwise: people don't really spend an entire week walking round in a big field permanently smiling. Over the course of the week, you will encounter some objectionable behaviour and a whole spectrum of other minor and not-so-minor irritations.

Consequently, in the aftermath of the festival, there will be a noticeable sea-change in the tone of some of the posts on here. You'll get a load of people complaining about stuff and a few declaring they'll never go back again. But gradually, between then and 2013, we'll all brain-wash ourselves that the festival was actually 6 days of uninterrupted bliss without any low-points. And so the glastobating cycle continues.

So my answer to the question: the worst thing about Glastonbury is the escapist nonsense of setting it up as some impossible-to-achieve nirvana, and then feeling cheated when it inevitably fails to deliver.

[ICGenie]

For me it's the tiredness. I don't do drugs and alcohol just makes me sleepy. A late night driving down on Tuesday, an excited but fitful night of sleep, an early start to get in the queue, standing around for three hours in the blazing sun with a heavy backpack and realising I'd forgotton my inhaler meant I was already pretty drained last year before it started. It meant I felt like I was doing a lot of sitting around feeling like I was doing nothing and should be doing something else.

So my aim next year is to have the mindset that I AM doing something at all times - I'm doing Glastonbury!!!

[Joanne]

Not having a ticket! No contest!

[LORD ALAIN DAMAGE]

Being unable to find a suitable place to press ones trousers

[hashcity]

For me it's the tiredness. I don't do drugs and alcohol just makes me sleepy. A late night driving down on Tuesday, an excited but fitful night of sleep, an early start to get in the queue, standing around for three hours in the blazing sun with a heavy backpack and realising I'd forgotton my inhaler meant I was already pretty drained last year before it started. It meant I felt like I was doing a lot of sitting around feeling like I was doing nothing and should be doing something else.So my aim next year is to have the mindset that I AM doing something at all times - I'm doing Glastonbury!!!

[hashcity]

Being unable to find a suitable place to press ones trousers

Edited April 16, 2011 by hashcity

[Guest musiclove123]

Worst thing by far is the sweaty morning tent feeling and the feeling when you just really need a shower. Also the queue to get in-horrific!

[BlackHole2006]

The people that have a go at the people that say it's not all about the music. It's called a performing arts festival for a reason.

Edited April 16, 2011 by BlackHole2006

[Spindles]

Is it just me that finds the whole gas thing a bit disturbing ? A lot of the kids camping around us spent an inordinate amount of time compulsively doing balloons (very noisey). What's the point though? There's so much to do, why spend half the festival in the tent trying to get high? I can get wrecked any time and much more effectively

[ian the worm]

1) An already overheated tent when going to bed at breakfast time. IE: The only time available with no lures to the surounding delights.

2) too much too do and too little time. It needs to be a 10 day festival!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spindles]

Amen to that. Most of the friends I see every year work the festival and arrive between the saturday and the tuesday, then spend the next 2 days of the festival complaining that the punters have arrived and spoiled the place

I'd love to be able to spend a couple of extra days or so onsite before the gates open and am insanely jealous of those who get the privilege.

[Bobs]

LEAVING.

that's it.

[Jackmypie]

LEAVING.

that's it.

[Harsim]

Security Checks

Personally someone who suffers from anxiety, even if i didnt have any naughties on me i would without a doubt be shivering in my boots during security. But as a person whos partial to a cheeky toke, i normally carry a small bag of the naughty grass with me into the glastonbury world.

I understand why theyre there, but quite a horrible experience to start the festival. Living 6 hrs away, i worry about losing my ticket ect if caught, even knowing full well they wouldnt take my ticket for a small bag of the naughties.

Damn Anxiety.

You should see me at airports.

[TwistedReligion]

I know when I first started going as a younger bloke the city of oddballs, misfits and people out to party where no one was going to tell them how to behave was a massive part of what attracted me and my mates.

[marvyn]

definite second to the guy who said the security checks. i shit myself every time, and it's hard to relax on the bus up!

that aside, the only thing that gets on my wick is that sour smell that lingers by saturday and especially sunday around the stages.

but these are minor quibbles. what i love about glastonbury is that people are sound and kind and friendly everywhere you go. lineup dosen't really matter, it's the people that make it.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

The unfathomable horror of having to return to reality when it ends,knowing full well that you are a little bit 'under the weather'.This coupled with the knowledge that your arsenal to deal with the afore mentioned affliction is so deplete that you become seriously unhinged.

[freeak]

Getting rid of the cinema field. It was the best place to go to if you wanted to chill in some shade for a few hours.

[CiderFiend]

Haters be hatin'.