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Lots of F5 fun for locals. Felt like old times!  The Inner Circle sold out in under 10 mins but managed to get tix for us, yay! Multiple devices on WiFi with single browser and phones on mobile data. iPad got through 1st followed by one laptop.

I would say JP not necessarily changed for the better and the best dance village was with east and West tent but levels is pretty decent.

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I didn't go last year, but here are all the more specific changes I can think of other than the vibe or drugs:   * Arcadia has moved to near the bottom entrance to The Park. It's also now a dragonfly rather than a spider. * There's a Co-op now, near the Other Stage. It doesn't sell alcohol. * The Other Stage is now massive. * Various sound system upgrades, most notably repeaters in W Holts and Other. * A new area has opened up called The Woods. It's basically just some woodland with decorations in the trees.  Sometimes there's a bar/food stall in there. And I think there's a treehouse or some walkways up there, but nothing major. It's very chill. *John Peel Tent moved out, to a new field near The Woods and was renamed to Woodsies. There's also a tent in that field called Tree Stage, but I've not been to it, since it was only introduced last year. * As mentioned, Silver Hayes has completely changed. It's much better. The markets on that side of the festival have been rejigged several times and you'll potentially get a bit lost in that part. * The Beat Hotel is gone, but replaced with a similar venue in much the same area. * Block 9 has two fields, one of which contains a _huge_ head that has lasers and projections fired at it.  Photos don't do its scale justice. * The Temple is much bigger, but is probably harder to get into because of the aforementioned crowd size increases. * The portaloos are all gone, replaced with more long drops and compost toilets. * Various things have gone from the Green Fields, such as Fluffy Rock Cafe, Manic Organic and the tent that showed some arty films that I can't remember. * The Glade area has had several changes over the years, but is currently a massive tent, not under the trees, called "The Glade", a smaller, open air venue under the trees called "Glade Done" and a walkway, bar and viewing platform for the tent, called Spike (I think it also has some DJ sets on in there, but nothing big) * Williams Green as a venue is gone, replaced by a carhenge sculpture  * There's a pier now called Glastonbury On Sea. * Single use plastic cannot be bought on site, resulting in a really quite dramatic improvement in litter levels.     I'm sure there's more!

Few people got spun a few incorrect bits from usually accurate people.     Problem with Victorious it does sell a lot of day tickets too and I just don’t see VW being a band that sells them in Portsmouth (APE/Lido/Crystal Palace seem more likely for that)   Are Pet Shop Boys about? They’re the sort of act I can see doing there.