#301

That was great! The only time I got to see them as well (having cancelled their UK tour a year or two later). It wasn’t all bad (alcohol and drugs helped me power through) but it was fairly grim and I’d just go home now, I reckon.

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#302

The first year we drove was 2017. We got to the car about 11am but there was an accident on the roads and we were in the furthest away car park. We ended up not even moving a wheel until the evening. Had a lovely day sunbathing on the grass and reading (for some reason my flatmate had packed 6 novels). Didn’t actually get back to Manchester until 1am but I’d considered that day a write off anyway and there was no traffic on the motorway by the time we got onto it.

#303

The best way of leaving the site is at 2.00 on the sunday/monday. Drive somewhere and sleep in the car for a few hours and drive home avoiding the 303.

It’s not fun but you get out quickly.

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#304

We got home at sunrise one year doing this and we all went for a walk down to Salford Quays and watched the sun come up still in the clothes we had worn on the sunday. Good times mainly becuase I was the 1st drop off and I was the one that lived at Salford Quays.

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#305

There is a local hotel option. Leave the site on the Monday afternoon, go to hotel, have a bath, eat food and sleep for 12 hours.

#306

Quite nice to hear that as had been a fan for ages but my first time seeing them. Was amazing. I remember Losing my Edge being phenomenal.

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#307

Was just one of ‘those’ moments. I’d had a pretty heavy weekend & dragged all my mates over there who’d never heard of them to arrive to an empty tent about 3 mins before they came on. Then of course they were amazing and everyone loved it, and then I looked round near the end and the tent was full and everyone was singing and I burst into tears. Ha. I’ve never lived it down…

Yeah, I had much more capacity for awful weather at 23 than I do now, and I’ve never had such a muddy one since (although I’ve had some biblical storms), so I’m not sure how I’d react now. But in later years I’ve had some hot ones and found them equally tough going. I’ve done a lot less during the day when it’s hot and then gone longer at night I guess.

God, I miss it though. Because my normal life is quite stressy a lot of the time I just love that feeling of forgetting the real world exists. So the weather kinda doesn’t bother me too much. You just have a different Glasto depending on what it’s like. My girlfriend was pregnant in 2016 & we did Power Ballad Yoga and all that stuff and it was great - despite my reservations - just another totally different side to it I’d never seen.

Fingers crossed for next year!

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#308

Yeah I can see that, sounds alright actually! I normally have to be at work on Monday (hard getting Thurs & Fri off most years) so Monday is always a stress for me!

#309

Loved that show so so much. I love it when the band you most want to see is the last thing on, or the last band turns out to be the best. That’s been the case for the last three on the bounce for me with LCD Soundsystem, Justice and The Cure, and will be again if Miss Taylor is still on for the Sunday night of whenever it ends up happening.

We had a massive group that LCD Soundsystem year and every single other one of the bastards went to see Coldplay so I remember feeling very seen when James was singing where are your friends tonight.

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#310

Was that 2016? They were sooooooo good.

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#311

Yeah, I can never forget exactly what year it was because of The Politics.

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#312

That Friday morning was so weird wasn’t it?!

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#313

a bunch of our friends fucked off to see coldplay but me and my bro headed for LCD, was fucking immense.

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#314

There was something very cathartic about ‘All My Friends’ being the closing song of the last act. Had been a truly sodden festival and had a similar situation with most pals going to Coldplay. Just the two of us going bezerk.

Can’t remember what I did after mind, probably went and watched fire come out of that big spider.

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#315

Yeah, the entire weekend had a feel of Not Quite Real to it. Then entering reality again afterwards after so much had happened was even weirder.

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#316

yeah it was pretty fucking hard work at points that weekend but like you say a nice cathartic end with LCD :+1:

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#317

Ahhh I’m getting all whistful now, Glastonbury is so fucking great.

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#318

Yeah, just waking up to everyone shouting in their tents… Went to see Damon with the Syrian Orchestra At 12, he was fuming and it was so surreal.

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#319

I’ve never seen Glastonbury give up like it did in 2007. Even on wet Glastonbury’s there’s normally a good thousand people at the Stone Circle for Monday sunrise. in 2007, there were about 40 people.

The sun in 2010 was utterly exhausting and actually pretty dangerous there isn’t enough shade to be had in those fields in the height of summer, but at least you can collapse on the floor and the night time hours were much more enjoyable. finding somewhere to sleep without being boiled was a bit difficult. A gazebo probably would have been more use than a tent that year. I’d still rather have a dry festival than a wet one though.

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#320

Howls of anguish ringing across the fields and tent tops. Weird morning

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