Glasto '13

[NickBHAFC18]

They will be a second release for all those who pay the initial deposit but then do not pay off the balance when it is due (in Feb I think). However this will only be a couple of thousand tickets so very tricky to get one.

Best thing to do is find 5 mates who want to go, all exchange your reference numbers and just hammer the phones and internet on Sunday morning. Use a landline, not a mobile. That has always worked for me and my mates since this registration nonsense came in.

Failing that you can usually buy a combined coach & festival ticket pretty easily. However the drawbacks being you have to travel by coach and they won't give you your festival ticket until you are onboard.

Good luck.

Thanks for that Waino, there is 4/5 of us I think who are all looking to put the deposit down on Sunday, should be fine.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Hmmm....really want to do Coachella sometime. Their line ups are disgusting, the one for 2011 was the best festival line up I have ever seen in my life ever, in my whole life, at any point, ever.

This, and Burning Man are on my bucket list. Will I need wellies?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yeah, looking forward to my 15th Glastonbury!

I do hope the Stone Roses don't play - worst gig I ever saw was when they played Reading sometime in the 90s. Absolutely awful.

My 10th I think. My wife is well into double figures and must be nudging 20 now.

For me it is without doubt the highlight of my year; I want for nothing at Glastonbury.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

My 10th I think. My wife is well into double figures and must be nudging 20 now.

For me it is without doubt the highlight of my year; I want for nothing at Glastonbury.

That's a lot of Glastos!

I've done Reading, Bestival, Dimensions, Bennacasim (sp?) but never done Glasto. Wasn't on this year so expecting a big one for next, can't wait.

 

[Mellotron]

This, and Burning Man are on my bucket list. Will I need wellies?

For Coachella? Should you want somewhere to gather all of your SWEAT, then yes.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That's a lot of Glastos!

I've done Reading, Bestival, Dimensions, Bennacasim (sp?) but never done Glasto. Wasn't on this year so expecting a big one for next, can't wait.

It's fantastic. And make sure you go to Shangri-La one evening...that's where the real magic is.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

That's a lot of Glastos!

Well, we're not spring chickens any more so we have had plenty of years to attend.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Definitely not going unless my wife is playing it next year. That must mean the Stones and some other really great acts are nailed on. I've enjoyed the last couple but I think we will be looking at smaller or sunnier continental events next year. Good luck to everyone applying though, Glasto is still the daddy of all festivals.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Definitely not going unless my wife is playing it next year. That must mean the Stones and some other really great acts are nailed on. I've enjoyed the last couple but I think we will be looking at smaller or sunnier continental events next year. Good luck to everyone applying though, Glasto is still the daddy of all festivals.

What does your wife do?

I was working with this girl a few years back, must have been 10, and she was going to Glasto to see her auntie play. Turned out it was Siouxsie Sioux and she was playing with Basement Jaxx. It impressed me anyway.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

What does your wife do?

Mrs Hotchilidog is in one of them bands, innit

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

already had sleepnights about not getting a ticket, MUST.GET.TICKET.

 

[kevo]

My 10th I think. My wife is well into double figures and must be nudging 20 now.

For me it is without doubt the highlight of my year; I want for nothing at Glastonbury.

Me too, I think - tho I also love Brighton's very own Great Escape, always one of the best weekend's of the year.

 

[KneeOn]

Hmmm....really want to do Coachella sometime. Their line ups are disgusting, the one for 2011 was the best festival line up I have ever seen in my life ever, in my whole life, at any point, ever.

Were you at the Kanye West headline set then?

Re-read your post, the LINE UP was the best you've ever seen, not the festival. Opps.

 

[Mustela Furo]

I'm not going to bother this year. Last time around it was so busy I could hardly move between sets and the prices were a joke.

To be fair the reason why it was so busy was the weather and the mud, meaning people had to use the metalled walkways and could not just hack across the field wherever they wanted

Additionally, for a reason I still have not fathomed - in 2011 people tended to congregate around the edge of the field and not go into the middle. For Paul Simon the pyramid stage was rammed - or so it seemed - so rammed that the walkways around the edge of the field were immoveable and you just could not get anywhere. It was only when watching the highlights on BBC on my return that the "overhead" shots showed a half empty field with people 20 deep around the edges, but in the middle every individual person had 10 feet of free space around them in every direction! Truly bizarre!

With regards to prices, the overall ticket price is fair for what you get I feel (compared with other festivals) ... if you are talking alcohol then those prices are expensive at any festival - Bestival were charging £4.20 for a CAN of lager! - but at least Eavis freely allows you to take your own onto and throughout the site. Food prices I found were not too bad - again compared with other festivals.

I would echo the other poster though that Latitude is the true "small Glastonbury" ... this tag definitely does not apply to Bestival after encountering it this year ... however you will still find 40-year-old office workers at Latitude!!

Anyway, I'll be online from 9am - using my VPN connection to work to use the internet connection from there.

I was told something lsat year - and it seems plausible - that because you go from your home to "your ISP" to the ticket site ... that a lot of the congestion takes place at "your ISP" as it has so many people trying to get to the same destination address.

Therefore the lesser used the ISP, the easier it is to get through to SEETICKETS itself. (am sure someone with a little more specialist knowledge than myself will confirm if this is bollocks or not) but it seemed to work for me last time anyway .. i tried for 3 hours through O2 and then when getting this advice I got a ticket within 10 minutes by using the works internet connection. (of course it may just have been a coincidence but one I'm prepared to t rust in at least one more time!)


May also explain why landlines are apparently better than mobiles (as someone else reported) although I always apply online.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Good luck everyone.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

NOt long now! Good luck

 

[Bad Ash]

So, anyone got through yet?

 

[Horses Arse]

So, anyone got through yet?

Yep - on phone and web. web got no response after entering details. Phone rang on until auto message saying no reply.....

 

[gasgull]

Not yet.already getting frustrated.Trying a few different links .cant get past first screen...

 

[brighton_girl87]

I cant even get onto the holding page any more! I keep refreshing etc and the phone line just beeps.