Any joy with the house?

ah thanks guys. Im staying round my Nans at the moment. We have an insurance assessor coming out Friday. If he decides we defo cant live at home; me and my housemates get money from the insurance company to stay in a hotel untill the house is made good again!

My room is upstairs so none of my stuff is ruined; everything downstairs is. House stinks too!!!

Eugh that sucks. *Fingers crossed* everything gets sorted out.

yeah hopefully should be ok.

Thanks.

When did you guys head back?

I left my wallet at your camp and had to come back and get it about 7am yesterday. Who was the bird that was still up? I'm rubbish with names...

Smiffy1001 wrote:yeah hopefully should be ok.

Thanks.

When did you guys head back?

I left my wallet at your camp and had to come back and get it about 7am yesterday. Who was the bird that was still up? I'm rubbish with names...

Claire? She was awake all night drinking hot chocolate and stuff.

We left at around 11? Took us till 12:30 to find Becky's mum and get our stuff in. We had some help along the way. I was really quite surprised at how alert I was on Monday. We were totally methodical and stuff haha

Being alert is out of the question for some days to come for me i think!!!

First off I'd like to say fair play to the orginisers for getting throught it,

I've done things like this before and now how hard it can be,

but..................

There are a few things i'd like to say,

A big trench at the bottom of the hill and trenches at angles up the hill feeding in to it,and a fucking big billage pump (which aint to hard to get,local transport probs aside) at the could have sorted out a hell of a lot of the build up arounf the overkill/joebannas ect,provided there was and area to spill it in to...

I thought the sound was quite good (hell of a lot better than last year) the quality was amazing,levels were ok,well better than ok

and the overkill wasnt F1, it was opus as far as i could see... I was only in there for Neil Landstrumm and Beardyman (both of which were fucking amazing) and a few others who were gr8 2, and didnt think the sound was ridiculiosly quiet, but would have liked a bit more...

And A big shout to Joe!!!!! Who seemed to shift about 2 40ft containers full of wellies, @ ! QUID A POP !!!!!! so im sure he probably made twice as much as the glade did!!!

Neway a had a gr8 glade, thx

When it comes to the whole getting to the site thing in the weather conditions its your responsibility to check the weather and to sort out a time table and route to get there.
There was 50 of us coming from Glasgow and we left at midnight on the wednesday/thursday and were there for 8am on the thursday morning so we were front of q and got good camping spots and got to enjoy a almost full day of nice weather.
Think use need to accept some responsibility here yourselves. Doesnt take einstein to check the weather forecast and to plan ahead.

Had a great time at glade but for £120 quid it was a pisstake

There was no reasonably priced food on site (seven quid for a breakfast roll and a cup of coffee - wtf)

the sound systems were both quiet AND poor quality

poor facilities

bars were also extortionate - e.g. £3.20/can red stripe

it just seemed the entire festival was geared to make as much money as possible, even down to punters trying to sell balloons of nitrous for £2.50 each. LOL

it doesnt have to be this way. Dour festival [belgium] four days - 50 times better lineup - 6 sound systems all the size of glade's put together blasting for 19hours/day. cheap beer and food. Ticket price: £50 quid four day pass

Would be interested to hear organizer's take on that
cheers

transmit101 wrote:Had a great time at glade but for £120 quid it was a pisstake

There was no reasonably priced food on site (seven quid for a breakfast roll and a cup of coffee - wtf)

the sound systems were both quiet AND poor quality

poor facilities

bars were also extortionate - e.g. £3.20/can red stripe

it just seemed the entire festival was geared to make as much money as possible, even down to punters trying to sell balloons of nitrous for £2.50 each. LOL

it doesnt have to be this way. Dour festival [belgium] four days - 50 times better lineup - 6 sound systems all the size of glade's put together blasting for 19hours/day. cheap beer and food. Ticket price: £50 quid four day pass

Would be interested to hear organizer's take on that
cheers

As festivals go, you'll be hard pushed to find food at any of them for less than £5-7 a pop. Difference with Glade is that rather than get a bollock-burger with no sauce and wrapped in an iced bap, you actually get some good quality food (The mexican stall, the potato wedge breakfast, the sausage fest (ha), the tempura noodles...). Bar prices, yeah, not great. Solved that by bringing in a crate of bevvy myself.

Sound system was only really a problem in the Overkill tent as far as I could tell - the Glade, Origin and Vapour stages were booming all weekend, Breaksday didn't seem to suffer from the small amount of time I was in there and my mates who spent most of the weekend in there didn't complain about it.

Facilities wise, I never had to queue for the toilets for more than 2 minutes, they were in a fairly good condition considering the problems getting the sewage disposal trucks on site. Plenty of food on offer, places to get your blankets, wellies, waterproofs (again hindered by the weather, out of their control). Not fussed about the showers, that's what wet wipes are for, they'll do for one weekend. Cash machine issue needs to be sorted.

And I don't get the amount of people I've seen on this forum and others complaining about the line-up. We knew what a lot of it was in advance of getting the tickets, so if you didn't think it that good why buy a ticket?

Possibly a fair comment on the Belgian festival, but I'd be interested to know how much it costs to get a licence over here and to cover the other overheads of running a festival compared to other countries. I dunno, I've been to three of these now and had a blinding weekend at all of them - I feel they're worth the money.

I have been reading through all the reports and I am now going to give my twopenneth.

I had been looking forward to Glade for ages, especially living with Dave who is always saying about it being the best festival he has ever been to – I was actually looking forward to experiencing it for myself.

Some of you may know I was apprehensive about it all. Not only was this the first festival that included camping I have ever been to but it was also the first festival with this kind of music range – most of the festivals I have attended before being more commercialised ones like Global Gathering and Gatecrasher Summer Sound System.

We arrived on Thursday around 1.30pm after taking some stuff out of the car and joining the large queue we eventually made it to the searches. The search wasn’t that strict and we got in pretty quickly to be honest. We then started the trudge up to the area we camped in up by the wicker ladies but a bit further down on the slope.

The first thing that put a dampner of my weekend was losing my toiletry bag. I’m not sure if it dropped off my bag as I wheeled it up the hill or if while we were setting up the camp it went for a walk with someone it didn’t belong to. We put the tent up and got our little camp set up – we managed to get a good spot with a good sized group of us in the same area.

After a little walk to the information centre to report my lost bag we then had a walk around the site to work out where things were. Dave and some other friends showed me where all the main things were I needed to know (toilets, taps etc). We then headed back to camp and sat and chatted for a while. A bit later we headed for some food – the toasties were delicious and very reasonably priced too.

It started raining about 10pm Thursday I think we all huddled under our gazebo and sheltered from the rain, then the thunder and lightning started. I was knackered so about 11.30pm I headed off to bed. I was amazed how comfy the tent was and how easily I slept on Friday. Dave came to bed (a bit drunk and apologising for being drunk ) a bit later and despite the crashing rain we both managed to sleep.

At about 9am we both braved the rain to go to the toilet then came back took off our wet clothes and climbed back into bed all snug and warm. I got up about midday and went to the toilet again armed with our massive umbrella – I actually quite enjoyed this trip and even had a dance to The Happy Mondays Step On in the rain

We spent the afternoon at the camp and walking around getting food and drinks. We visited a few friends at their camps and then some friends visited us. I was going to the information tent at various points to find out what was going on as Dave and I had spoken about leaving. They were extremely helpful every time I went down there and were keeping people constantly updated with information.

Friday night was a bit hellish. When we were in the tent in the night I could hear someone walking round all the tents in the vicinity opening up the zips and going through peoples bags which made me a bit paranoid. I didn’t sleep a wink as I was so scared someone was going to come into our tent so I spent the whole night listening to Dave snoring :rolleyes:.

We eventually left at around midday on Saturday – the trek to the car was harsh. The mud was so slippy and you couldn’t tell how deep it was until you actually stepped into it. I was so glad when we got back to the car that at least we were out of the site, we did get stuck coming out of the car park but a kind man helped push us so thank you to him.

I do agree with some of the comments – more information on the website for those who were wondering whether to come on Friday may have been helpful. Putting hay or bark down to try and soak up some of the worst areas of slippy mud would’ve been a good idea for the people inside the site as it was very dangerous walking around.

However I feel that from what I witnessed the staff at Glade were all helpful and professional throughout what was a bad situation. The Police did their best as not only were they having to deal with the problems at Glade but also problems relating to flooding in the local and extended areas too. There is not just the people at the festival to worry about but people who live in the area, and people trying to get to and from the area as well.

I think that putting information up on the video screens may have been helpful for people and possibly making announcements over the PA system. I heard a couple on Saturday morning but that was it.

Obviously I haven’t been to Glade before but I can see how friendly people are there and how people do pull together as people were helping each other all over the site – by pulling and pushing cars, carrying people, lending clothes etc. As usual there were a certain amount of knobheads though…..on one occasion we went to get some food and somebody threw a large block of wood which missed my head by about 4 inches I’m all for having fun but in situations like that I just don’t think that is acceptable, if that hit someone in the face that could’ve done some real damage.

I was sorry to leave so early but we sat down and looked at what could possibly happen if there was more heavy rainfall over Saturday and Sunday and at that point decided to leave while we could still get out. Fair play to everyone who stayed and had a wicked time.

I’m not sure if I will go next year as I don’t know if I want to run the risk of going through all that again as I found it quite stressful. However I am disappointed that I didn’t get to experience Glade as it should truly be experienced, in glorious sunshine.

Theres always someone isnt there - try comparing it to another english festival. The food at Glade is far better than most, and the Lebanese place sold a plate piled a mile high with the best festival food Ive ever tasted for £3.90. Bar prices yes it's steep, but more value for money than when you pay those prices in a club/in London. The sound systems (ok apart form overkill) were pretty much the best money can buy - whats the problem?

i live local and i'll tell you that a pint in the nearest pub is near £3, so taking your cans through the mud & refrigerating them (I didnt get a warm one all night) was it so bad? at least it was red stripe and not some other pissy pissy lager like the isle of wight festi last year, you want to have gone to that one m8, that re-wrote the bible on taking the piss out of punters. Food again, about the same as anywhere else but most was much better made and healthier than i usually see

All i can say is with all the problems - I saw more grins per capita than ive seen in many a year. if u dont like it, youve been - vote with yer feet

AND - big name dj's???? fuck em - do you want some twat in dolce and gabbana poncing round in his own helicopter or jumbo or whateva trying ta shag yer bird or get a blowjob behind the desk?? I can do that 4 free, gimme a call next year, i b there xxx

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that a couple of years ago, pints at glade were £4, and they brought the prices down in subsequent years because of complaints. How often would you see that at Reading or Isle of Wight?

mr.digs wrote:Theres always someone isnt there - try comparing it to another english festival. The food at Glade is far better than most, and the Lebanese place sold a plate piled a mile high with the best festival food Ive ever tasted for £3.90. Bar prices yes it's steep, but more value for money than when you pay those prices in a club/in London. The sound systems (ok apart form overkill) were pretty much the best money can buy - whats the problem?

Well the overriding opinion from the people I spoke to (alot) was that it was a rip off

I am not talking superstar djs here either - check out the Dour lineup at http://www.dourfestival.be/en/band
Just imaginative, high quality alternative music from across the board.

The food there was on a par with glade too both in quality and diversity. Just cheaper.

And sorry, since when did £3/pint compare with £3.20/can?

And the sound systems the best the money can buy? Please - they were ALL poor to mediocre, particularly the outdoor origin(?) trance stage which sounded pretty appalling all weekend

I'm not trying to be negative with no reason - I had a great time and will go (and pay) again. I'm just trying to highlight the differences and possibilities

All I'm saying is that it CAN be done cheaper - and better. If you lot want to continue to be blind, and ripped off by English festivals, then that's fine with me............

transmit101 wrote:And the sound systems the best the money can buy? Please - they were ALL poor to mediocre, particularly the outdoor origin(?) trance stage which sounded pretty appalling all weekend

Get a hearing test asap, sounds like your ears are fucked to me.

Hearing is a very subjective thing - but everyone who knows what they are talking about knows the Funktion 1 rigs are the best there is and the consensus is that the Glade sound systems were amazing. So either you're being a contrarian for the sake of it or your hearing is fucked. Go for the test, so you can at least eliminate the latter.

It costs a fuck lot more to put festivals on in this country hence the reason it costs more. Also the food prices are set by the foodstalls, they need to cover their overheads and gain profit.

As far as line up goes, Glade is billed as an electronic music event, so having a line up as varied as Dour as what its really about. Although the Dour line up looked amazing.

Efflux-J wrote:It costs a fuck lot more to put festivals on in this country hence the reason it costs more. Also the food prices are set by the foodstalls, they need to cover their overheads and gain profit.

As far as line up goes, Glade is billed as an electronic music event, so having a line up as varied as Dour as what its really about. Although the Dour line up looked amazing.

Point taken about the lineup although i was really only trying to illustrate the point generally

admin wrote:

transmit101 wrote:And the sound systems the best the money can buy? Please - they were ALL poor to mediocre, particularly the outdoor origin(?) trance stage which sounded pretty appalling all weekend

Get a hearing test asap, sounds like your ears are fucked to me.

Hearing is a very subjective thing - but everyone who knows what they are talking about knows the Funktion 1 rigs are the best there is and the consensus is that the Glade sound systems were amazing. So either you're being a contrarian for the sake of it or your hearing is fucked. Go for the test, so you can at least eliminate the latter.

Well I can only go on what I heard

Contrarian for the sake of it? I am simply not scared to voice my own opinion. Is it against the rules of this board to go against the grain

Really no need for that tone tbh, especially from an admin.

Each to their own, but I think I would describe the Glade lineup as imaginative, high quality alternative music. The only problem I have with it is that I think there isn't enough diversity in the choice of psytrance, that's always been the case. But I can't see any psytrance in the Dour lineup at a glance, so for me, it's not even twice as good, on par at best.

Basically, english festivals are expensive. If you want to rant at somebody, rant at the authorities, not somebody managing to put on, against all odds, what many (more than you spoke to) people who go consider to be the best festival in the country.