Things that don't happen at Glastonbury anymore...

[Troop Dogg]

Posting purely cos I'm bored out of my brains in covid isolation (day 12 and counting...), and was thinking about what used to happen at Glasto that you don't see any more? I'll get the ball rolling with:

* Queueing up at the Natwest bank by the farmhouse to withdraw cash with your cheque book.

What ya got?

[Crazyfool01]

 fires and 3 for £5 wax flares .... 3 for £5 carlsberg traders 

[chuckles07]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

 fires and 3 for £5 wax flares .... 

Beat me to it. I remember the pyramid field in 2009 for Neil Young, my first Glastonbury, it was like a mediaeval encampment. Amazing. 

Edited April 10, 2022 by chuckles07

[zero000]

Setting off hundreds of Chinese lanterns on the Wednesday. Utterly shit for the environment but it was beautiful to see. 

[al_coholic]

1 minute ago, zero000 said:

Setting off hundreds of Chinese lanterns on the Wednesday. Utterly shit for the environment but it was beautiful to see. 

I was gonna say Chinese Lanterns as well. It was an amazing sight.

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, chuckles07 said:

Beat me to it. I remember the pyramid field in 2009 for Neil Young, my first Glastonbury, it was like a mediaeval encampment. Amazing. 

this is a great video for me reminiscing about those scenes 

 

[Neil]

mutant cars driving through the site, mad-max style.

[Crazyfool01]

[Beaver89]

The Green Police

[MaxPower]

42 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

 fires and 3 for £5 wax flares .... 3 for £5 carlsberg traders 

I’m sure we paid a fiver for the wax flares at the stone circle in 2019

[BreadMakesYouFat?]

I haven't heard the random cheers that go around the campsites on Wednesday afternoon/evening in years. Do they still happen?

[Troop Dogg]

4 minutes ago, BreadMakesYouFat? said:

I haven't heard the random cheers that go around the campsites on Wednesday afternoon/evening in years. Do they still happen?

I've not heard that in years either, the roar of 'BOLLOCKS!' booming across the whole site is something I feel great nostalgia for! I think there is so much late night entertainment options these days that people have probably got better things to be doing sadly!

[dogeggs]

Didnt there used to be a hefty pile of (presumably free) firewood logs stashed at the side of the railway track - that everyone used to help themselves to?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Freaks, drongos, drop outs, misfits, and the criminally and clinically insane.

[buddiepaul]

The late night entertainment was Joe Bananas blanket stall

 

[TheGChild]

People giving a band their undivided attention and not sticking their tongue out and throwing up peace signs for gram selfies. 

[MrZigster]

12 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Freaks, drongos, drop outs, misfits, and the criminally and clinically insane.

I fit at least two of those. One of them twice.

[Wanderlei]

Mexican raves

[Splonk]

Queues for the dealers at the Pyramid.

Spontaneous litter picks in the crowd before an act started.

 

 

[whitehorses]

Motorcyclists riding round selling acid.

*not something I witnessed, so open to being told this is a fable. 

[chuckles07]

1 hour ago, crazyfool1 said:

this is a great video for me reminiscing about those scenes 

 

The first 2/3 mins of that get close. It’s the actual fires that I remember, the smoke swirling in the dark, it was fabulous. Elfnsafety nowadays wouldn’t allow it. Should bring it back. 

[Crazyfool01]

32 minutes ago, chuckles07 said:

The first 2/3 mins of that get close. It’s the actual fires that I remember, the smoke swirling in the dark, it was fabulous. Elfnsafety nowadays wouldn’t allow it. Should bring it back. 

theres more of a feel of people needing to be entertained , than being able to be or provide their own entertainment these days 

[tarw]

Milky milky driving through the campsites. Have to park up on the edges now

[sedra]

Shouts of Hash Brownies, ALAN! And sound systems in the car park from Bristol. 

[westholtschic]

Big bottles of Brothers cider