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By RandomEnglishPerson · Posted
not surprised tbh, btw did you see it somewhere on the BBC website -
Caught them at Boardmasters and they were ace, definitely going to watch them again
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So, I can't believe its taken me this long to write this up but I think I am only just getting over the Glasto blues! Plus I knew it was going to be a long write up. Anyway, had I not read this thread before we went this year things could well have gone down a different route but anyway, there we were Thursday night, probably around 9 or 10pm 6 adults and 3 teenagers all sat around the campfire cooking chorizo and other such fun things like marshmallows all staying warm, plenty of room between the fire, us and the tents. Bucket of water on standby. 2 of us were nicely spangled but I am one of those people that you would never tell from the outside but on the inside I was going a million miles an hour, anywayyyyyy the top of our flag pole had just decided to snap on us so we were doing a quick repair job, when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a yellow tee-shirted (helper, marshal, I dunno what to call them) just as we were popping the flag pole back up. When I heard the words from my mate "Yeah we will put it out mate, sorry". All of a sudden I was back in the room! Ermmm excuse me what's going on? Mr yellow tee-shirt then told me open fires were against policy and we had to put it out, I started out with the usual but we've been doing it for years, blah blah blah, we are right at the back of the field in Baileys not a tightly packed camping field, bucket of water, nobody off their faces (small lie) and clearly all is safe and well. "It's policy mate, put it out", I see a different tactic is going to be needed here. So, I opened the front of my tent and showed him the best part of tonne of wood we had carted up from the car, through all the security with no issues what soever. "So are you telling me it's policy to allow people to carry this much wood onto site, only to then be told we can't have a fire?" "I've told you multiple times now, it's policy, no open fires, put it out now" Okay, and here's when this thread saved this escalating! I said to Mr yellow, "Can you call the fire marshal please?" With a shocked look, "Really?" "Oh yes, really!" Mr Yellow took out his mobile phone, made a call .... "What's our policy on open fires? uhu, yes, yes, mmm yes, yes, uhu, okay" hangs up phone and says "Make sure you keep it safe" and walks off!!!!! Now let me tell you, I engaged smug mode like you have never seen before lol kids were cheering, adults were like "WTF how did you do that?" I simply said to them I had read this happening to someone last year and recalled the fire marshal trick. We never saw Mr Yellow again, although a different Mr Yellow came over the next evening and just popped in to make sure the fire was attended, no issues, no power trip, nice guy. So there we are, not in 20 years have we experienced that but this year we did, had it not been for this forum I imagine an almighty argument would've kicked off, the moment they ban fires at Glasto I am done! Good luck in this years ticket sale all!
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