Glastonbury alcohol email?

[_jojo_]

I am the weakest person ever and can barely manage to carry one crate for longer than 5 minutes.

[dub-tech]

The email says 'to the gate' rather than through it. So presumably you must carry your booze on your approach to the gate then once you are there you can load it on to your trolley and saunter across the threshold unperturbed

Edited June 13, 2013 by dub-tech

[Teddington]

A lot more difficult to re-sell spirits, though.

Which goes to show they are not concerned about our health, just the impact on the brewer's profits.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

What is stopping people making more than one journey back to their car during the week?

[1mills]

Would it all be to do with the number of trolleys etc left there each year?

There's a hell of a lot of broken cheap ones and always see loads of people sat there next to 10 crates waiting for their mates to do another run to come back and get them.

Edit- As above, we've always carried our beer in. Bring a crate on entry between us, along with tent etc, another walk Weds afternoon for 2 crates each and a Thursday morning walk carrying 2 crates each and then we're sorted.

Edited June 13, 2013 by 1mills

[siblin]

Seetickets on twitter said: "you must be able to carry any alcohol brought to Glastonbury your self."

[Teddington]

3. You must be able to carry your alcohol yourself, without using any wheeled devices, including trolleys, wheelbarrows and wheeled suitcases.

If I show that I am perfectly able, but then proceed to put it back on the trolley, would this be ok?

[mail1234]

I can't wait to see Glastonbury's reply. If they don't retract this whole thing they're doing nothing other than piss almost all of their customers off massively. I've not heard one person (apart from some twat called Matt on facebook) who accepts this in the slightest. What were they expecting to happen? Expect more from them (though I am enjoying some of the more witty comments on this admittedly)

[pedmills]

What is stopping people making more than one journey back to their car during the week?

[mrtourette]

Anyway what actually is classed a reasonable personal use? granted 5 or 6 slabs on a trolley for one person might be deemed a bit excessive but what guidelines do they actually follow?

Edited June 13, 2013 by mrtourette

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I can't wait to see Glastonbury's reply. If they don't retract this whole thing they're doing nothing other than piss almost all of their customers off massively. I've not heard one person (apart from some twat called Matt on facebook) who accepts this in the slightest. What were they expecting to happen? Expect more from them (though I am enjoying some of the more witty comments on this admittedly)

[Rufus Gwertigan]

What about all the people who take the bus in, or get dropped off, and were bringing small trollies?

[Amii]

Logically speaking now....

It is a holiday, people drink more.

For the most part, we are there from Wednesday morning, until Monday morning.

That is five nights.

At (lets say) ten cans a day, that's 50 cans across the festival. Or two 24 can boxes.

10 cans is a logical consumption, as for regular cans, it works out as just over seven pints. Spread across a 16+ waking hour day.

Conclusion: How anyone can be expected to carry 50 cans is just beyond me.

[Ruwise]

A lot more difficult to re-sell spirits, though.

Which goes to show they are not concerned about our health, just the impact on the brewer's profits.

[Keithy]

the sad thing in all this is Glastonbury will have lost a huge amount of goodwill and rightly or wrongly, it will just feed into the the growing feelings of the festival moving away from what it used to be.

i suspect in the bigger scheme of things and when the rule is clarified that it will not affect most people however it just feels very authoritarian and has put a lot of people on a bit of a downer. its certainly tempered my pre-glastonbury enthusiasm.

Despite the fences, the ticket lottery, the weather, the poor planning and organisation, the perceived lack of imagination at times on the bands, the perceived creeping commercialisation, people have generally still stood by Glastonbury.

Just don't bloody mess with our alcohol consumption!!

[TheBoz]

This is ridiculous.

All that is going to happen is people will wheel their alcohol up to the gate, carry it through the gate and then put it back on their trolley. I guess it stops people taking extreme amounts in but it just creates so much extra hassle for the other 99%.

Bad move

[olive123]

I'll be honest it doesn't really bother me. I usually take a couple of crates split between my backpack and in my hands, it's pain but for me it's part of the festival.

Another consideration may be that they are trying to limit the amount of non decomposable litter left around, the more cans people bring in the more are left laying around either empty or full by the end of the week.

Either way does it really make that much of a difference to anyone, yes the timing is bad, would have been better being said a while back but is it going to ruin anyone's festival.

[JennieT]

if so why would they bring booze into it? they'd just say, keep 'em in your tent or take 'em back tothe car.

[storm]

I just got this email and came on here to see what it's all about.

It doesn't bother me personally as I would never bring more than a few cans in my rucksack(I think I had 6 cans in 2011) . But that's because I'm not a big drinker and have the money for the bars if I want a pint. And I've never used or even owned a trolley. If I can't carry it, it doesn't go is how I work.

However I know many people bring crates of beer for personal use and generally bring it in on a trolley so I can see how making this condition so close to the festival was going to be controversial.

I suppose we just wait and see what the official statement will be

[rexclark]

So you're not allowed to bring in alcohol in on a wheeled device. Perhaps a series of balloons could work.

[5co77ie]

That gives me an idea for a stall. Bring the bin up to the stone circle on the Saturday night and reverse the flow - lucky dip!

[Calvin Klein]

just put everything in a big blanket when you are close to the door and drag it in.

[snipe]

Stack four crates of non alcoholic beer to a trolley. Pack a couple of bottles of your favourite industrial strength 100% alcohol in your backpack. When inside combine. The alcohol wasn't on the wheels so problem solved!

[siblin]

On a lighter side of things, am i the only one (at the age of 31) who wants to get the extra wristband as a souveneir?

[garethslee]

Find a friendly campervan field person (me for one) and leave all your booze and make return journeys. Shorter than returning to the car parks.