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I get that & its easy for those of us in Scotland (where the Tories have not won more than 30% of the vote for 40 years) to forget that Labour has to win votes in England (where the Tories have not polled less than 30% for over 100 years. I have always accepted that Labour has to moderate some of its policies to win in England. I just happen to believe they have gone way too far under Starmer.
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Plus it's an open site. So if someone needs to be onsite at all during the festival, they need to have a ticket. It's not like you can bus an artist to Croissant Neuf to play a set, then bus them back off site again. While there is some good stuff on there, there's also the same stuff they put on year in, year out and to be quite frank, some quite mediocre stuff. Astrolabe I find very hit and miss. Cabaret is similar, but most acts only doing 20 minutes. They've put on some larger acts in the former that really draw a crowd but tend to do that on the Thursday now - Jonathan Pie, Dom Joly. I do think they'd benefit from getting some proper marquee events on at all those tents. Get a really great theatre group on to do a modern play that's making waves in the West End or such (English, Buddha of Suburbia, etc) and like, really push that in the publicity, run it at 7pm, make it an event. The circus tent actually do this, they have a big, popular, accessible circus group (Fantasia/Vulgar) that do full shows which are brilliant, but they don't ever make that clear. They don't say "these are our circus headliners". And so instead sometimes you might go there for an hour and just catch some arty acrobatics which is... fine. But not the most exciting. Cabaret tent could host actual full touring shows - yes, they'd have to actually pay the acts for that, but then you could really market it. So say Nish Kumar is doing the same show you can see at your local art centre but it's £30 there and free at Glastonbury.
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Thats super value. I looked at the cost of Noel Gallagher at Ally Pally and that was coming up at £77.89 although he does have Echo & The Bunneymen as support but still 80 quid when even at full price YNot seems a bargain with the lineup it has this year.
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By gooner1990 · Posted
Ahh! Someone else who got caught up in this as well. I've got to say that really started my festival off on the wrong foot. Left Oxford around 4am, parked up in pink 49 by 6.40am. Crossed the road to the site, and could see that the queue for PGD was nearing towards the road....got part way down and stewards were directing us towards PGA. Sat against the fence in the shade from around 7.15am until about 8.45am...then we started to move....we got into the heras fencing queue outside PGA at 9am...and eventually got wrist banded at 12.10pm......5 1/2 hours after arriving on site. Friends of mine arrived two hours after us, and got in two hours before us. It was a shitshow of a shambles, and I'm not exactly sure what was going on or who was making the decisions but they were poor. Why put 1-2000 people into a holding pen then not let them move for hours on end? Why when the PGD queue had gone did they not direct anyone back in to it as a priority? The main issues were that aa lot of people started to tire or overheat after a couple of hours with all their bags on them, there was no communication from anyone from the festival and some people decided they wanted to push in or jump over the fencing (Sorry to say a lot had Scouse accents) It did eventually mean we missed out on the camping spot we wanted in Paines as by the time we'd gone from PGA, back towards PGD and up it was totally full so we ended up in South Park 1....not a total disaster but some sort of queue management needed to be in place if the PGD queue got too big. Its clear to me that most people are now arriving for gates opening and either bigger capacity needs to be provided for each gate, more gates in general or some sort of throttling (more thurs entry tickets) allowing too many people to arrive at once. -
And in 2022 we went to 40 degrees a week after the festival.
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