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

[Nice hymer]

1 hour ago, -TLR- said:

yeah i used to really love it when the market sound systems were the late night fun - nothing fancy, no overthinking, no forced wackyness - just a market stall with a soundsystem banging out psytrance (or if you wanted something else, go to the stall up the road...)

Brings back memories of purple microdots and being inches away from speakers for hours on end - really miss the pop-up sound systems.... my hearing is grateful though!

[Bods670]

The herbal high stall or the wine bar stall was very popular for the late night parties! 

[gooner1990]

10 minutes ago, Bods670 said:

The herbal high stall or the wine bar stall was very popular for the late night parties! 

 

I recall being at one of the wine bars and they played' rock the kasbah' by the clash and a load of people got to the front and started shaking the van whilst shouting 'rock the wine bar' 😄 

[Johnnyseven]

8 hours ago, mrfunk said:

things I really miss:-

The Garlic Kitchen

 

Is that the place that did garlic bread for £1? I pretty much lived on that in 98, 99 and 2000, it's all I could afford. If I found I had a bit spare on the Sunday though i'd treat myself to an Aussie Steak Sandwich - are they still there? I'm sure i've seen them not that long ago.

[upstream]

1 hour ago, Twiggy553 said:

They still have those. I def got one last year

 

edit: or am I going mad? I haven’t slept much in the last five years 😕

you deffo did get one last year - and you deffo wont this year - sorry to break it to you 

[Johnnyseven]

17 minutes ago, Bods670 said:

The herbal high stall

 

Oh yes. Thinking they don't work, buying a 2nd batch, taking them and finding that they really do.  

[Toilet Duck]

1 hour ago, Justcalledtosay said:

Isn't that ultimately what Brothers Bar is now?

It was more a case of every little stall in the market playing music. Something that doesn’t float your boat comes on, no worries, wander off to the next one! 

[Twiggy553]

12 minutes ago, upstream said:

you deffo did get one last year - and you deffo wont this year - sorry to break it to you 

 

Boooooooo 😞

[Toilet Duck]

Don’t see much of this anymore either! 

[incident]

Just now, Toilet Duck said:

Don’t see much of this anymore either! 

 

Quite right too. It's going to be lovely and dry again.

[Toilet Duck]

Just now, incident said:

 

Quite right too. It's going to be lovely and dry again.

Actually posting that gave me the weather wobbles…such a different place when dry!

[donthaveacoolname]

1 hour ago, Twiggy553 said:

They still have those. I def got one last year

 

edit: or am I going mad? I haven’t slept much in the last five years 😕

 

Last year was the first year without them, part of the cost cutting measures, they are a big loss....

[-TLR-]

anyone remember in either '97 or '98 there was a big hole that was covered by all the mud... a crowd slowly gathered and formed a sort of human funnel that diverted anyone unfortunate enough to be walking that way straight to the hole resulting in a sort of vicar-of-dibbly moment and a cheer from said crowd.

 

it all culminated when an ice cream van was diverted into the hole, where the wheel got jammed and it had to be bumped by the crowd to get it out of the hole and on its way...

 

(the comment above about rock the wine bar made me think of it).

 

obviously this is something i do not ever wish to see again - as i do not wish to ever have the mud again!

 

[Twiggy553]

Oh yeah i think i had to keep my ticket stub safe in a ziplock bag instead of in the lanyard last year. Well annoying

[donthaveacoolname]

11 minutes ago, Twiggy553 said:

Oh yeah i think i had to keep my ticket stub safe in a ziplock bag instead of in the lanyard last year. Well annoying

yes, this!!!! it was the perfect place for your ticket!!!!!!

[toohottoocold]

I first went in 2010 and even though it doesn't feel like it changed that much a few things that stand out. The crowd was a 'bit' more crusty, legal high stalls, raves in the market, more campsite/ SH dealers, site was less "pretty", cans sold by blokes on the railway track (still going in 2019), stages were generally just tents with speakers in.

Edited June 7 by toohottoocold

[Bods670]

52 minutes ago, donthaveacoolname said:

yes, this!!!! it was the perfect place for your ticket!!!!!!

Agreed! And also a lighter. Now I lose approx 5 each festival.

[Padgey]

Mik Artistik, well for this year at least which is very disappointing, so here's his Glastonbury song from a couple of years ago.

 

 

[upstream]

1 hour ago, Twiggy553 said:

 

Boooooooo 😞

sorry - not my decision and I agree  booo

[Metal Monkey]

1 hour ago, -TLR- said:

it all culminated when an ice cream van was diverted into the hole, where the wheel got jammed and it had to be bumped by the crowd to get it out of the hole and on its way...

 

 

I remember a police van getting stuck in the main market area. There were cheers as its wheels spun, followed by clumps of mud being thrown and the police inside gradually rolling the windows up looking a bit sheepish. Must have been 97 or 98. 

[JB3]

Just read this thread from start to finish, great read.

[Nice hymer]

Does that guy still wander around the Stone Circle with a briefcase full of various substances?

 

No one approaches me trying to make a sale anymore, I guess I look like an undercover DS these days so it's understandable...

[goldfishboy]

Losing track of a mate on the Friday, and then bumping into them on Sunday looking like they've been in the wars.

 

Also: someone calling after their friend at the campsite, and the whole field chiming in "JOHN! JOHN!"

[Cat67]

 

[Sawman]

Dogs at Glastonbury!!! Can I take mine this year?