Going alone

[Guest]

Hi. Really lucky to get glasto tickets but unfortunately my friend has had to drop out for personal reasons so I'll be going alone. Has anyone got any tips for lone female campers? Like where to camp, etc? And other general loner tips would help. It's my first Glasto and if it was any other festival I'd probably drop out too. But that's not an option lol

[Mich1268]

There is a group on Facebook. I think it is glasto girls or something who also organise a camping spot for single women. And there is a campspot thread run on efestivals for people camping alone. So yes, go and meet new friends! Win win

[bexj]

Come join Glasto Gals on Facebook, lots of solo women on there! 

[Guest]

Will have a looksy. Thank you

[coma girl]

Glasto Gals and Girlswhatgig are two great FB groups, really friendly and a good way to meet gig or festival buddies.

[Guest]

Never really thought about using FB groups, but will look them up.

[Pear_Cider]

Also, come along to the efests meet on the Wednesday evening at the Ridge and Furrow. You'll meet loads of lovely people from these parts, some of whom will also be going it alone 😃

[leemavey]

ahhhh, so glad this has been made a topic! another solo female right here 🙋‍♀️ Have been before a few times so not too worried about navigating myself around the festival but as balance paying day looms i started to wuss out of going alone and still none of my friends are fussed 😣

[Wherethewildthingsare]

Glasto Gals on Facebook is a great group and they organise a meet up. I think there is a splinter solo camper group. I don’t think you will be able to join now though as they’ve just closed membership until the resale is over. Try again after that. 

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[Guest]

Will do ☺️👍

[sime]

I go on my own every year and really enjoy myself. I have done the group thing but found that I prefer doing the festival on my own, now that my friends have stopped going (and even when they did go I was always off making my own adventures!). Whatever you choose to do, have fun!

[Guest]

On 3/21/2023 at 1:34 PM, sime said:

I go on my own every year and really enjoy myself. I have done the group thing but found that I prefer doing the festival on my own, now that my friends have stopped going (and even when they did go I was always off making my own adventures!). Whatever you choose to do, have fun!

Yeah, other people leads to compromise, and stopping to find toilets way more 😅

[sime]

1 hour ago, Lucy F said:

Yeah, other people leads to compromise, and stopping to find toilets way more 😅

This does tend to happen!

[Guest]

 

Just a warning to any girls going to Glastonbury alone on these forums. I was threatened in my personal messages by a user called Kalifire. I reported this to Neil, the owner of these forums, and this is how he has responded. It is shocking. I'm sure some of you will take his side, and laugh at me, but I wouldn't have a clean conscience if I didn't post this warning, because the threat I have felt is real, and it might help someone.  This will be deleted by Neil because he will be ashamed of how he has dealt with it, and I will be banned. I feel like you should know what you are a part of on this forum. 

ME:

Hi. I've spoken to a few people about this, and they've all suggested I message you, and they've ensured me you're trustworthy. I've received a threatening message from a user called Kalifire. I have screenshotted the message and uploaded it here:

https://ibb.co/b1z626c
If it's not still there, this message reads...

KALIFIRE: Please fuck off back to ######, which you had posted on your profile until recently. We are who you are. 

ME (to NEIL) :

I don't know if you know the person who sent it, but I'm taking it aeriously. My family is from eastern Europe and we've experienced racism and told to fuck off back home and stuff. I might have mentioned it in my profile and then deleted it later on. But the first thing I posted on the site was that I was a girl and would be there alone. And you know how you can see who views your profile? This user has been looking at mine a lot! And I thought my picture was just of my boots, but I just realised if you click the picture my face is visible. So yeah, bit scary and worrying. I've asked a few people for their opinion and they say I'm not overreacting about this. I don't want it to ruin my Glastonbury experience and I don't want to be looking over my shoulder the whole weekend 😓😓 I've deleted my picture but it's too late now anyway. I'm going through all my posts to see if I've given any indication of where I will be and what acts I'm going to see. I need to avoid them now for safety, I think 😢

Just thought you should know about it all. Hopefully you can do something.

NEIL:

i don't know kalifire but think i've probably met him,

i think its likely there's aperhaps  been some misunderstanding and confusion here.

the '######' bit is probably a reference to another forum, which has a word filter on it, so they can't use efestivals to advertise their other forum. i think you might have had a reference to that in your profile, as i've got a vague memory of having removed it.

i will contact kalifire and tell him not to msg you again

NEIL:

he says he won't msg you again, and says its a misunderstanding,   -it wasn't helped by the word filter on the other forums which displays it as '#####', which helped it lose his meaning,, and made it non-sensical, to anyone who didn't know about the word filter. i cottoned on straight away that it was a misunderstanding.

glad that was an easy one to clear up, and i hope you can put it to the side and move on.if you feel like anything similar happens, please let me know, as i can only deal with things that i know about.

i hope you feel this has been dealt with satisfactorily.

best,

neil.

ME:

So, I suppose I have to take his word for it that he wasn't racially abusing me. But I still feel like a lot of this hasn't been explained. Where was he actually telling me to fuck off back to? And what does he mean by "we know who you are". Who is 'we'? And why does he want me to know that he knows who I am. Like I said, my picture was on my profile (which he viewed a lot. So much that I was getting a bit wary even before the message), and he likely knows where I'm going to be and who I'm going to see at Glastonbury. 

Him not messaging me again isn't enough, really. I want an apology and an assurance from the man himself that I will be safe. If not, I want him to be banned from the site so I can safely discuss what I might want to go to see.

NEIL:

let me try again, the '######' bits were mention of a rival forum, which the word filter here changed,  the mention of your profile is a reference to the mention of that alternative forum which you'd put  in your profile, the 'fuck off back there' part was saying for you to go back to those other forums, because the people from those other forums are only here to cause trouble, it explains itself  if you know what's what.

'we' is people here, who know you (from your own mention of it) as one of those disrupters from the other forum - he thinks he was being protective of efestivals, against those people who come here to spoil things for the regulars here.

 
you need to put your paranoia away, and i'm not banning someone cos  one of the disrupters from that other site is a bit para and not taking responsibility for what she put in her profile and how it makes other's view her, you are what you did.if i can't explain it to you, then you won't get it if he explains. if  it's you or him, i'd rather loose you as you're associated with the nasty people , and he isn't.

as far as i'm concerned this matter is over, and is just more of the nastiness of the people from that other forum

ME:

You keep mentioning another forum but I don't know what you're talking about. Why did he feel the need to send all this privately if it was so innocent? I keep reading in the posts on this site that people get banned easily for trivial things. But you're taking this awful person's side for what he said to me? And the reasons you're giving just seen like convenient excuses on either his or your part, or probably both. I didn't sleep last night. And you're saying it's nothing? 

NEIL:

If you don't know what I'm talking about, why did you have a link to that forum in your profile. It didn't get there by magic.if I thought for a moment that your take was right hed be banned. At the moment you look like the one I should bann, picking an argument on stuff no one had said, and now spinning a yarn to try and get someone banned. Just looks like more arseholevstuff from that other forum to me.

 

 

 

I'm saying you've got it wrong by making up the bits you've failed to understand, same as you did in the Elton topic.

 

The awful person I'm seeing here is you.

Your innocence act just tells me you're not trustable.

ME:

Oh, this thing I had in my profile that you conveniently have a "vague memory" of removing? And you call me paranoid? At no point have I sent any threatening personal messages saying "fuck off" to anyone. And you're calling me awful. If ANYTHING happens to me at Glastonbury, the police will see all of these messages, because I will assume you and this other man are behind it. Go ahead and ban me for being abused and threatened. This is sick, and I'm going to make sure as many people as possible know how you and this other man have spoken to me and the real threat that poses to a young woman.

[Crazyfool01]

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