There are still people stuck there having to fork out 40quid plus to get there cars towed out!

Can people please stop with these silly chinese whispers. £40?? They were charging a fiver! Maybe £10. And that had nothing to do with g tickets, that was local farmers.[/quote]

We paid £20 after a 16 hour long wait in the car to be towed. It went up from a fiver on Sunday night to twenty the next morning. Capitalist w*nkers Making so much money out of people's misery! It was rubbish because you had to pay unless you were up for leaving your car in the field...
Amazing festival, such fun had but if I hadn't been with my two lovely friends, those 16 hours would have killed off a lot of the good vibes that I've taken away!! Definately should have been more organisation. There was an average of four tractors towing cars all night, a HUGE queue that barely moved in the five hours I was stood in it on Monday morning, and no help from stewards.. none to be seen actually... messy ending but what can you do?

I don't think anyone could have suspected that we were gonna get just as much rain as we did. There's severe weather and then there's what happened from 10pm thursday to 2pm friday. I've never seen/heard so much rain in my life.

In the morning I kept waking up and going "i'll sleep a bit more and then it'll have stopped", sadly I was very much mistaken

I had that attitude too, I also didnt think it could be as bad as it sounded. I had a rude shock getting up for a lash.
It was really relaxing lying in my tent listening to the rain splatter on the roof.

What a fuckin weekend guys.... I did have the best weekend i've had in a long time!! So before I let you know about my experience remember I'm not really knockin the festival I loved it.

I am a little pissed with G Tickets it was all a bit of a shambles in the end and their lack f organistation set me back about 5 hours on Thursday... All thos activation issues were more hassle than they were worth. I ordered my tickets on my Dads Portuguese card - so G told me they had to send them to Portugal.. No biggy - my dad will send them on to me. Last weekn still no ticket - I had the email like everyone else asking me to reply to email to recieve tickets 4 days passed and still nothing. How was I supposed to activate a ticket I didnt have? They then emailed me asking me to collect on the door of glade as thet'd ballsed up....

So get to Glade for the opening at midday and wondered down to collection point - there were loadsa people sat on the grass... Bearing in mind if they'd sent me my tickets I would have been in by one as we were close to the front. The G ticket guys had only started to set up their wireless internet connections at 10 am on Thur morning rather than making sure it all worked the night before. So we all had to wait for internet to be connected to activate my f***ing ticket! I had done everything they had asked me throughout the ticket process and I still found myself waiting for 3 hours to pick up my ticket I then had to go que in the main que for a further two hours - think I finally made it in at 6 after arriving on time at 12!!

As for leavin - yeah the rain was a laugh didn't bother me too much, but those tractor drivers were ass holes... They did put the price up from £5 to £20 on the monday, I got in the que for tractors at 2ish think we got towed at 9 last night... Not very "helping thy fellow man" is it? I think Glade should have covered a bit of the cost as we'd already paid 115 for the ticket. Everyone knew it was gonna rain last week, did Glade not put in any exra precautions.

Tents got a little too quiet in the late hours but I understand why.... Mentool Weekend - Did anyone see Uberzone and Mea Katie 'avin it on them drums!!?

Yo Miss Bristyle I saw Beardy Man - He was fuckin insane... I enjoyed it however I would have like to hear him do some straight beatboxin as that is what hes best at!
None the less it was still phat! What was that home and away mix all about?

The tractors, who told us it would cost £20 (which we didn't have..) were the one's fucking up the car park most! I saw tractor after tractor ripping up the grass around the entrance forcing people to fork out money.. Bet they made shitloads of people who got stuck.

Who they have charged people in Gloucster or Tewksbury??? Course not, but festival goers are easy targets. Fair enough, it's not really fair to compare the mud and the floods, but people were stranded in need of help, and some people decided to make money out of it. Fuckers.

i had an absolutely fantastic time

the only things which annoyed me a bit were the lack of water points by the stages (again, thought they were supposed to have sorted that out?) and the fact I heard one of the marshalls in the car park on monday say that they were supposed to be helping push people who had got stuck but she was getting too muddy - so she was ignoring people who needed help. Fortunately some other festi goers helped me out and we helped them too - now that's the spirit!

Eamonn wrote:I don't think anyone could have suspected that we were gonna get just as much rain as we did. There's severe weather and then there's what happened from 10pm thursday to 2pm friday. I've never seen/heard so much rain in my life.

In the morning I kept waking up and going "i'll sleep a bit more and then it'll have stopped", sadly I was very much mistaken

This is the thing - all the weather forecasts I saw right up until Thursday said "rain from 1pm to 5pm Friday, no rain for the rest of the weekend". Then suddenly monsoon conditions set in. It was way beyond anything that was anticipated and the laying of gravel/wood chippings would have done little considering the majority of the site was like soup rather than simply wet mud.

Hard for me to comment on the tractor situation as we got lucky - the person I got a lift back with had been parked in the overspill section and after a quick scouting mission we worked out an easy way to get off the site. Feel sorry for those who were stranded for hours though.

I've been to the last three glades and have to say that this one sucked big time! Can't be bothered to detail it too much but queuing for eight friggin' hours yesterday to get towed out by a tractor for £20 was a shi* end to a pretty shi* weekend!
Glade is meant to be sunny and hot not bloody wet, windy and muddy!!! I've been looking forward to this for so long and it really wasn't worth the wait for me but well done to people who enjoyed it.

Yeah, I don't think hay/straw/woodchips would've made any difference to 90% of the site... it was just too muddy everywhere. They'd laid down metal plates along the path leading past the Liquid stage leading out, and they'd just sunk under six inches of mud.

Nobody could've predicted that weather, well done to the organisers for managing as well as they did!

Hi,

Ok, The tractors charging £5, £10 or £20 depending on the "customer" face and/or car was crap. I think that £5 max was a reasonable amount for 5 minutes work, and if each one towed away 100 cars (they probably moved a lot more); they would still had made £400 benefits minimum.

I must praise the organisation, which manage to avoid total chaos. The only (minor) issue were the ticket scanning not working and the toilets state on Friday morning/noon as the cleaning truck were unable to empty them. A situation resolved by friday evening or sat morning.

This could have been really, really worst.

Of course the traffic chaos to reach the festival was a nightmare, but the organisers are not responsible for the rain and British Rail not able to cope with flooding.

The worstly affected area was in my view the ID Spiral, as usually everyone is relaxing, sitting done on the grass, chilling out; and it's still easier to dance in the mud than sit in it!

I suspect it's the last year we'll see Joe Bananas, as with all the wellies he managed to sell at Glasto and Glade he can now retire!

See you all next year (or before...)

I think that the fact we even had a festival after the scenes on Friday morning was totally amazing, well done to the organisers for that!!! NICE ONE!!!

I know it is " supposed to be sunny " But so is summer and has it been no!! Just get on and enjoy it enough said!!!

Hi,

Ok, The tractors charging £5, £10 or £20 depending on the "customer" face and/or car was crap. I think that £5 max was a reasonable amount for 5 minutes work, and if each one towed away 100 cars (they probably moved a lot more); they would still had made £400 benefits minimum.

I must praise the organisation, which manage to avoid total chaos. The only (minor) issue were the ticket scanning not working and the toilets state on Friday morning/noon as the cleaning truck were unable to empty them. A situation resolved by friday evening or sat morning.

This could have been really, really worst.

Of course the traffic chaos to reach the festival was a nightmare, but the organisers are not responsible for the rain and British Rail not able to cope with flooding.

The worstly affected area was in my view the ID Spiral, as usually everyone is relaxing, sitting done on the grass, chilling out; and it's still easier to dance in the mud than sit in it!

I suspect it's the last year we'll see Joe Bananas, as with all the wellies he managed to sell at Glasto and Glade he can now retire!

For the people complaining that for £120 organisers should had alternative plans for every emergency (like worst flooding ever recorded - worst than 1947, nuclear explosion, aliens invasion); I must point out than I pay more than that EVERY month as council tax and still had the only access to my village flooded, no alternative provided; that I pay my water company every month and still can't open my tap... so please stop moaning, the festival would probably have been funnier and more colorfull if it was sunny and 30C but come on, be realistic the festival ran quite well especially under the circumstances.


See you all next year (or before...)

No amount of forward planning can prepare a fragile event of this nature from all eventualities. Despite the most horrendous rain in sixty years, most of the event went according to plan. There will always be cases where some people are going to be severally affected. I trust those people that are ranting away will be writing to the event organisers? Repeatedly rubbishing the event on here in my opinion will have minimum effect and more likely piss those off that actually had a good time and thought the event was well managed under the circumstances.

Oxfam will be taking a donation of around £40,000 from this event. Some guy you don't know from a country you've never heard of just might get that water pump fitted for the village after all and save him from walking six miles a day to collect ten litres of water from the polluted river in the hope the only child he has left out of the original four just might get past her fifth birthday.

Come on guys. Be upset. Be constructive.

only gripe i had was on friday morning when my mate wanted to pick up his ticket we went to gate 1 and asked a steward (who looked FUCKED) where to pick them up from, and he sent us to gate 2 (in THAT rain), obviously only for us to get to gate 2 and them to send us back to gate 1!!!!!!!!
CHEERS FOR THAT YOU TIT!!!!

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I was having a think about the whole car park situation. Bearing in mind there was a severe weather warning I think the efforts of the organisers were more focused on sorting out the mess left by everyone, as well as getting the tents and all the equipment away so as they didnt get ruined. One or two more stewards in the car park providing info would have been helpful though.

ahh comeon guys freedom to speak an all that!!

aren't i allowed to reply to mashed in the hed anymore?
why ever is that?

i feel sorry for everything downhill, the AAA, the stalls.... alot of things set up like bedouin tents in the desert, with no thought of what would happen if it rained. why lay things out on the grass like that? wishfull thinking of repeat heatwaves. the stages looked ok enough though (apart from overkill)

Cos its annoying and irrelevant. Take it to PM if you really wish to persist with it.