What does your first hour at Glastonbury look like?

[Jacko45]

You've arrived on site, you've found your spot, you're laden with goods and excitement.

What you doing? It can be obvious or even boring but let's get the imaginations racing, it's time to start getting giddy.

For me I can only go on previous experience at numerous other festivals (Glasto virgin) here goes...

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Get in, park up the motorhome.

Absolutely certain someone...likely my missus will need to immediately go find the toilets for a wee, unbelievably transparent avoidance of setup duties btw.

Get the awning whacked out, few chairs thrown under it and start to sort the external areas.

Camp table and cooking station quickly setup. 

Speaker will make its first appearance, big pressure on the first song of the weekend.

I believe then when we've got a basic camp setup, it'll be arse in the chair and beer cracked open.

Yours??

[Steveb72]

Get off the coach.

Get the tent up in Darble.

I’ll pump the air bed up why my Mrs decorates the outside of the tent with lights and flags.

Crack open a can and sit outside watching people walk by with excitement on their faces.

[Crazyfool01]

Open cider …. Set tent up , spill cider while setting tent up , open another cider . Unpack and visit the lockups 

[-TLR-]

first hour is pretty standard - have a tantrum in the style of a toddler whilst putting up the tent.

only open my first drink after the tent is up - so for me the sound of that first can opening is also sort of symbolic of the start of my festival - the next hour is then taken calming down from getting pissed off with the tent and off we go! 😀 

i know its pathetic, but i basically hate everything it takes to get to that point - the journey to site, getting onto site, getting to the camp, getting the camp set up... i just find it all too stressful... so once thats all sorted... ohhhhh yeah....

[sime]

Have a happy and well earned rest at my tent for a couple of hours, with a quick scan of the programme, bite to eat, drink some water, have a nap and then get myself together and have a wander with my first opened beer.

[Jacko45]

8 minutes ago, -TLR- said:

first hour is pretty standard - have a tantrum in the style of a toddler whilst putting up the tent.

only open my first drink after the tent is up - so for me the sound of that first can opening is also sort of symbolic of the start of my festival - the next hour is then taken calming down from getting pissed off with the tent and off we go! 😀 

i know its pathetic, but i basically hate everything it takes to get to that point - the journey to site, getting onto site, getting to the camp, getting the camp set up... i just find it all too stressful... so once thats all sorted... ohhhhh yeah....

 

Can certainly get on board with that, Latitude couple of years back - 28c dragging a huge trolley through a mole-hill long grass field. I was stressed, sweating and dehydrated haha. 

But it does make that first can taste much sweeter. 

[Skip997]

Arrive at Dragon field, greet whoever of our crew and general Green Field crew are about, have a chat. Basic set up of the van and then either go on shift or take a wonder around Green crafts and Undle ground to see who else is about.

[fullfathom5]

Crack open a beer, then set the tent up.

[BambooShanks]

First trip in will be just taking the tent and absolute essentials, so once the tent is up, it's back to the car for the rest of my stuff.

After I've done that, I'll be cracking a very celebratory beer (though not likely my first of the day) and either a nap or a little wander around depending on energy levels.

The last few years, my wednesdays have been increasingly sedate so I'm more than happy to have a nice bimble in the evening, find a spot to watch the fireworks that isn't completely rammo (if we get a space in Pennards again, I'll just watch them at my camp) and get a relatively early night so I'm somewhat fresh for thursday.

 

[stuie]

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Pretty much a mixture of what everyone's said above.

Find a spot to camp - we change our site every year. Get all the tents up.

Empty the bag so that it looks like an absolute dive and impossible for a thief to nab from.

Crush the crystals into powder.

Wait for stragglers. Help them set up to speed everything up.

Lock up and go for a wander, inevitably finding some shade if it's hot or raining, preferably with background music, play cards, chat, hang out, somewhere with equal distance to bars/toilets.

Edited April 13, 2023 by MEGATRONICMEATWAGON

[rwoo]

Definitely echo the mini tantrum feels. But when the tents up and the first cider is cracked then that all goes. I’ll generally sit down at the camp, roll a zoot, crack a can of cider and have a chat with the gang around who we’re looking forward to seeing. Can almost taste the cider already!! 

[gfa]

tend to put my tent up!

Can't even remember what we did last year, think the first hour was just spent catching up with everyone and cracking some cans open

[cdm22]

Mostly sweaty from lugging all the crap from the car and then setting the tent up. Then it's chair out and crack open the first can.

[a6l6e6x]

Chair out, few drinks, regret not setting the tent up while I was sober

[Simsy]

1 hour ago, Jacko45 said:

Absolutely certain someone...likely my missus will need to immediately go find the toilets for a wee, unbelievably transparent avoidance of setup duties btw.

Are you my husband? 🤣

I'll inevitably need to go once we've found a spot for the tent, it's not my fault if he sets it up while I'm otherwise engaged.

Then grab the programmes, go for a wander, find some food/drink and somewhere to chill.

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

14 minutes ago, rwoo said:

Definitely echo the mini tantrum feels. But when the tents up and the first cider is cracked then that all goes. I’ll generally sit down at the camp, roll a zoot, crack a can of cider and have a chat with the gang around who we’re looking forward to seeing. Can almost taste the cider already!! 

Pop up tents reduce any tantrums. I love mine so much, literally 3 seconds and I'm done, albeit putting in a few pegs to keep the thing down.

[Gnomicide]

This...

[Pipine]

Get tent set up, head off to the brothers bar for a nice cold cider (traditional first drink) then do a massive lap of the site to see what’s new / changed and get giddy with excitement about being back on the farm.

[jamesrfisher]

chair up, so i can rest can of beer in the cup holder, open can and first few glugs. Tent up, second beer whilst sitting watching it all unfold, watch @-TLR- have a tantrum, read the programme then off for a bimble to see what's new. 

[balti-pie]

get to oxfam field on the monday, likely midday-ish. park up and take tent/sleep stuff in - first off is get shifts and get wristbanded, and then bung the tent up while i think about how the weekend shapes up with me shifts - then another stroll to the car to get me other bits, before getting onsite through gate B and first off walking down muddy lane into the top of t+c 😊 From there its dab my moistened eyes, before walking to the cider bus for a pint and a sitdown with barely anyone there!

[RichieSpenno]

Set tent up, first drink, then just have a pootle round, probably get some food, eventually work towards brothers bar.  

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

This...

If that’s gate A the right corner fenced off curently is my own hill of death where I did my leg in 

[rwoo]

10 minutes ago, MEGATRONICMEATWAGON said:

Pop up tents reduce any tantrums. I love mine so much, literally 3 seconds and I'm done, albeit putting in a few pegs to keep the thing down.

What’s it like putting it down though? I’ve got a blackout three man so not too big, the blackout bit is essential these days. It’s normally the carrying everything in heat/rain that gets me in the tantrum 😂 

[the_arsonist]

Set up my tent, crack the first can and get it down me sharpish, help other less practical members of the camp set up their tents while drinking further cans.

Once everything is set up, get the chair out and bask in the glory of being at Glastonbury with several more cans