Glastonbury alcohol email?

[Midnight Man]

Cue 'Off their trolleys!' headlines in crapbloids tomorrow...

[pedmills]

Eavis to the rescue! PR disaster (slightly) averted. How did it get past Eavis in the first place or has he changed his mind on this after the backlash?

[Rosstitute]

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/bringing-alcohol-to-glastonbury

sorted

[FTHC]

ha. bit farcical but the right result anyway

[sinhala]

As per ME's request I hereby resolve to drink less ....

... thereby, giving me more to sell on !

[lcb172]

thank god this means i can stop thinking up a back up plan, just still don't get how the email slipped its ways though

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

That e-mail would have been fine if it hadnt go into the detail. None of this uproar, the vast majority of punters are taking alcohol in for personal consumption.

Sometimes less is more...

[michael eavis' beard]

For a moment there my Glastonbury excitement level almost dipped!!

Eavis to the rescue - I bloody love that man!!

[mrtourette]

What you say makes perfect sense and exactly what I would expect of competent, trained bar staff. However, it doesn't fit in with the email's line of "only show ID once.....you can also deposit your ID in the Lock-Ups for safe keeping"

Now, I'm not arguing with you at all as I think its better to be certain of a persons age when serving them than risk upsetting them by asking for ID even though they have a wristband.

I can see a fair few youthfull looking over 18's with wristbands getting miffed about being asked for ID even though they have the wristband as "proof" of age and have been advised by the festival that their ID could go in the lockups.

[Poliwhirl]

Well in Micky!

[Tiller1986]

Panic Over!

[russycarps]

anyone else regretting burning their ticket in protest???

[scmusic]

Storm, meet Teacup.

Mountain, meet Molehill.

Nanny State, meet Michael Eavis.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

my bet is we'll see a tweaked rule for next year but i'll worry about that then. onwards and upwards.

and kisses to uncle eavis xxx

[Rufus Gwertigan]

If I have to, that's what I'll do. But don't you think it's kind of ridiculous that I would have to do that? Makes me feel like a child.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I genuinely believe that there's been a serious lack of communication between certain people at the top of the festival and the Eavis' this year. For me, the Eavis' have been making as encouraging statements as ever about keeping the ethos, limited commercialism, and I reckon there's decisions being made without them being informed.

Edited June 13, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[funksoulfever]

Update on twitters official postings and website is Eavis says you can take what ya want wether its on trolleys or not. Hed rather people drank less but its still only festival u can bring ya own on trolleys or not

[siblin]

Eavis to the rescue! PR disaster (slightly) averted. How did it get past Eavis in the first place or has he changed his mind on this after the backlash?

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

It's a problem at all festivals that run this system - the festival issues the wristband but the WBC run the bars, so if the festival issue the wristband to someone underage and WBC get caught serving them it's the WBC that get fined and not the festival. Unless the WBC can completely trust the person issuing the wristbands - and when it isn't someone that's working for WBC that's very hard - then they are right to check even if someone has a wristband.

[michael eavis' beard]

anyone else regretting burning their ticket in protest???

[sinhala]

20+ pages and 400+ posts in under 4 hours is pretty good going.

[BlackHole2006]

Here we all are worrying about carrying our crates of cider, whilst other people going to other fests are still trying to figure out how to smuggle their booze into the arena!

[caroldecker]

I go away for a couple of hours and ME settles down this whole rotten debacle in one message!

Thankyou Michael you lovely man!

[siblin]

The quickest u-turn since nick clegg made his election promises.

[revert]

Long live the king.