So anyone adamant they are not going next year ?

[cidy]

So this yer was my 25th glasto and have decided thats me lot, i admit i have retired from going more times than sinatra announced  he retired from touring ,but times are a changing .

Enjoyed this year immensely but the buzz seems to have gone so at 60 seems a good time to quit ( remember my late dad saying when i was 40 ,"dont you think its time you gave up Glastonbury,")  over the years both my kids have gone and finally mrs cidy made it twice .

It is truly a magical place and i have plenty of fantasic memories and will look forward to watching it on tv next yer in me garden

Finally got to see cat Stevens so not a bad way to bow out.

Peace and lurv ppl

P.s

Off to hyde park tomorrow for billy joel another tick off me bucket list .

 

 

 

 

[Neil]

yeah, me, but not my wife, so things might change.

I went for the 30th time this year and mentally approached it as my last so I'm ready to finish if that's what I do.

Edited July 7, 2023 by Neil

[clarkete]

45 minutes ago, cidy said:

So this yer was my 25th glasto and have decided thats me lot, i admit i have retired from going more times than sinatra announced  he retired from touring ,but times are a changing .

Enjoyed this year immensely but the buzz seems to have gone so at 60 seems a good time to quit ( remember my late dad saying when i was 40 ,"dont you think its time you gave up Glastonbury,")  over the years both my kids have gone and finally mrs cidy made it twice .

It is truly a magical place and i have plenty of fantasic memories and will look forward to watching it on tv next yer in me garden

Finally got to see cat Stevens so not a bad way to bow out.

Peace and lurv ppl

P.s

Off to hyde park tomorrow for billy joel another tick off me bucket list .

 

 

 

 

That's a great track record, congratulations. 

Neil and I have both been going since mid eighties and we all know there can be a few challenges going as an old git 😊

[kerplunk]

A fine run I salute you

Not missed it since i was 26 and I turn 60 this year. Holy sh*t!

Not adamant about stopping by any means, but I feel my luck could run out anytime - and I'm ok with that

I think

No, actually - ignore that 😄

[Sawdusty surfer]

I regularly have the same thought, but...... 

[Neil]

29 minutes ago, kerplunk said:

A fine run I salute you

Not missed it since i was 26 and I turn 60 this year. Holy sh*t!

Not adamant about stopping by any means, but I feel my luck could run out anytime - and I'm ok with that

I think

No, actually - ignore that 😄

Getting old sucks Badly.    Do it disgracefully.

[cellar]

The first time I went, I said I would go until I died.

It gets harder as the years go on, but I can't ever imagine not trying to be there 

[gigpusher]

I know a couple of first timers (friends of a friend) who didn't like it at all thought it was too crowded and went home Sunday morning so that's a few less in the battle for tickets.

[FuzzyDunlop]

2022 was my last, but was convinced to try for 2023. 

2023 was my favourite festival since 2016 (my favourite ever festival). So I am back on the hype train... but I am expecting my luck to run out for tickets soon. I've done 10.

My mates are talking as if they want to do something else too.

In a way, if they all decide to do something else, I'd be fine with that. I'd rather not try & have made the decision myself, than to have it made for me by missing out on a ticket.

You've had a good run! Hope you enjoy next year as much as you would Gladtonbury.

[sisco]

After watching Macca last year (someone who I’d always wanted to see) I was content with not going again.  In the end we decided to try again this year and had an amazing time so will 100% be trying again next year too. 

1 thing I would say now though is that I always had the fear of missing out on a certain act however after Elton this year I’m not sure there’s anyone I’m remotely worried about missing on that famous stage anymore (maybe an Oasis reunion) so it does make it easier to miss out if it happens. 

[gooner1990]

I'm not adamant that I'm not in next year, but I think a massive change of how I approach the festival is needed if I am to continue going.

The class-A drugs need to be stopped (or consumed in much smaller quantities), failing that, a day less on site or something like Sticklinch as I'm starting to struggle with 'standard' camping.

[Skip997]

An friend occasionally reminds me that I announced it was to be my last one at some point in the 90's. "It's gone too mainstream"

After last year's debacle, my thought was I'll give it one more go and if it's as bad as last year I'm done.

This year was fantastic for me, one of my fav's.

So now looks like I'll be giving it another go next year.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Yep. My weekend days are over. It would take something huge to get me back.

I'll be doing Sunday only in 2024, and that's my plan for the foreseeable future. 

Eleven in a row is a very fortunate run.

[miffmiffy]

After 14, I think this is my last.

Had a cracking time and it was a vintage year so it feels good to end on a high.

I'm also selling my van and I just don't want to do it in normal camping in future. Plus my girlfriends birthday is during next year's Glastonbury and she wants to be out of the country - which is also a good way for me to pretend it's not happening at all. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

We are prepared not to get tickets especially with all the increased demand and the possibility that the sale will go ahead in the same way as the April resale did. Of course we will be disappointed but we’ve had a good run. Elton was a great way to sign off though we are adamant that we will try. It will probably be our last. 
 

[ukmountie]

This was number 10 for me and I turned 60 in April. A late starter but the only ones I missed were 2014 where birth of my second child was imminent and 2019, when though I had a ticket I was out of the country.

I seriously thought this might be the last. I had a very quiet Wednesday, and thought the crowds were too big where anything was on on Thursday. By Friday though normal service had been resumed and by Sunday I was already thinking about tickets for next year. No rest for the wicked 🙂

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems I don't really get into the groove until Sunday. Then of course it's a frantic run-around to do all the stuff I want to mixed in with some headliners. I think for next year I will have to take additional steps to make sure I'm fitter going in.

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, ukmountie said:

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems I don't really get into the groove until Sunday.

Often the case for me and it's usually my best day.

[Hugh Jass II]

After 22 I was ready, if not to bow out altogether, but certainly to strip back my attendance to every other year at best. I figured that year was so good that I could happily step for a few years without too many regrets. And in a way I did...

Approached the 23 sale with an attitude of "if I get through brilliant, if not then it's not a disaster" and I was lucky enough to get a ticket. Mrs J and I decided that we would take the kids for the first time and the way they enjoyed it and embraced it all (already posted about this elsewhere so won't get back into it) has relit a fire.

We'll be trying for 24 and they are desperate to go again, I'm now fully committed to embracing the new way of doing the festival we had this year. The days of late nights and hard partying are over for me (can't physically or mentally hack them anymore anyway) but I'm excited to spend the next few years experiencing the festival from a whole other perspective and watching my kids grow into it.

[CaledonianGonzo]

We'll try to go again. Unlike 2019 and 2022, 2023 didn't crack my top 5 festivals, so need to go out on an all-timer.

[stuartbert two hats]

I'm a noob at only 17 times compared to most on this thread, but I need at least one year where I've decided not to go, rather than having my hand forced by getting married/having children/not getting a ticket or leave.  And I haven't since 1997.

I found myself talking about old times and things I'd done 10 years ago in the place I was standing rather than getting on and enjoying things.

It's great to know so many people from here, but to catch up with everyone meant using this stupid black mirror far more than I wanted to.

It's a big old world, I want to go on holiday to different places with my family and attend my daughter's last sports day next year.

I'll be back, just not in 2024. I think I'd made my mind up before the bands started this year. I need a way to approach the festival that's appropriate to my age - I was 18 when I started and I most certainly am not any more!

[fullfathom5]

This was my 15th, been going since 2003 and only one I didn't do was 2005 (but I didn't try for tickets that year). 15 is a nice number, but I'm 42 and don't think I'm quite ready to hang up my boots just yet.

[Hugh Jass II]

7 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

 

I'll be back, just not in 2024. I think I'd made my mind up before the bands started this year. I need a way to approach the festival that's appropriate to my age - I was 18 when I started and I most certainly am not any more!

 

This is definitely where the kids come in to play.

[chuckles07]

It’s interesting to read every one above, i am a relative newcomer compared to many but as i started late i am 63. Have done 10 since 2009, missing 2015, and i remember vividly in 2009 having a chat with an older guy, well into his 70’s, who was in an electric 4 wheel motability scooter. He said he had been going since the 80’s, and i got the impression he was from a traveller background. I spoke about how it had been an ambition for many years to go and i was quite overwhelmed about how it felt to be there at last. I just loved it from the moment I arrived on site.  He said he still came with his family even though he was struggling with getting around now, and he said something about the ‘spirit’ of Glastonbury is derived and exists because of the people - their attitude and behaviour. That has nothing to do with age,  which is a number, it’s how you feel and behave. That’s how i see it. I will be going as long as i am contributing by enjoying it and caring about what happens to the festival. And i will hold out getting Worthy View/Sticklinch/glamping for as long as i can. I want to be ‘in’ the festival. But i understand completely the reasons why people choose other options.

[Gnomicide]

Next year will be the 10th anniversary of a number of us getting together as solo campers through this forum, that group is still going. We've lost a few along the way and added almost as many, 2 more saying this year they won't be trying for next year (one higher up this page) but I'm not done yet, unless my hand is forced. 

Although there were no acts for me this year that absolutely blew me away, there were many that I enjoyed a lot, I think I paced it well and spent more time wandering through T&C etc. than I did in 2022.

I think not investigating loads of names on the lineup helped. My first run through on Clashfinder gave me enough to see, why add to the pain?

tldr, 2023 felt like one for the ages, bring on 2024.

[Hugh Jass II]

Next year will also be 20 years since I first set foot on the farm.

Can't miss that.