Glasto Mudbath

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Glastonbury 'set to be mudbath'

The last Glastonbury in 2005 was also a wash-out

Revellers at this year's Glastonbury Festival are in for another wet and muddy year, forecasters have warned.

Rain is expected before and during the legendary music event, Met Office forecaster Stewart Wortley predicted.

"Given that we've got a wet week, I think it's going to be the normal quagmire," he told the BBC.

But festival founder Michael Eavis has improved drainage since the floods at the last event in 2005 and said they were used to "the occasional shower".

His Somerset farmland opens its gates to campers on Wednesday, with the music running from Friday to Sunday.


We're almost looking forward to the rain, in order to see the pipes working after all this investment


Michael Eavis



Two years ago, more than 400 tents were submerged after a storm hit the Somerset site on the festival's opening day. A month's rain fell in less than two hours.

"We've probably spent £100,000 on the drainage and the flood relief stuff and everything," Mr Eavis told the BBC News website.

"We've got huge concrete pipes that will take the water from A to B and take it to the river and then it goes to Burnham-on-Sea, so it's a great system.

"So we're almost looking forward to the rain, in order to see the pipes working after all this investment." He has also promised more covered stages.

This year, general showers are expected, rather than the intense downpours of two years ago.

The Met Office's Mr Wortley said it would be "quite wet" when the bands kick off on Friday.

"It will be cloudy with rain turning showery later in the day," he said. "Some of the showers could be heavy."

The flooding of 2005 hit thousands of revellers

Much of Saturday would be cooler and "cloudy with light rain, moderate at times", he forecast.

"Sunday might start with a little bit of sun but showers developing, and then more general rain at the end of the day. So typical Glastonbury I think."

The Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and The Who will headline the event.

Festival-goers will be given the option of leaving their wet tents behind so they can be dried out and reused in impoverished countries. The Give Me Shelter project, launched by charity Global Hand, hopes more than 1,000 people will leave their camping equipment for countries such as Botswana and Sri Lanka. Glastonbury Festival director Melvin Benn said the environmental impact of tents being left behind was "immense", adding that it could be used to help other parts of the world.

 

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What a surprise

Hope none of you drown in the mud...although it would be fucking funny, what an undignified way to go!

 

Aye good luck out there, still they said Sunrise was going to be wet and all we got was sunburn.

Think we might have the gods involved though.

 

Oh them rich people fackin luv it dont they it will be like this when they get home

"O I say mumsie oh like wow yeah we were so lucky it rained it was what they call 'a real experience yeah' and like we had to actually walk in our wellingtons through real mud - yeah I know, unbeleivable - and you know I am such a rebel yeah because there was like this one real guy standing around obviously on heroin, wow we were like lucky not to get mugged. heard these street bands like wow didnt understand a word they were saying but I know we are now so cool for seeing them "

do me a fackin favour give glastonbury back to people who know what a fuckin festivals supposed to be about and the fuckin toffs who want to pay £100 a night to stay in the glasto caravans hotel can fuck of back to Ascot

ps only a complete tosser camps at the bottom of a hill the idea is to pitch the tent about 3/4 the way up big enough hill to avoid being flooded

 

:lol: very true... make sure you get a nice high-up spot to pitch!

 

tickets are £145 thats from wed to monday so 5-6 days, and if you dont fancy that its a easy event to work most of the people who go to glastonbury are not toffs no more than people who go to any other big festival .

and when you had lots of fence jumpers you also had lots of thieves and people pulling knives on people I had to fight off a group of people by trying to cut them with a knife in either 98 or 99 .
you could still fence jump we helped a guy fly in over the fence either in 2005 or the one before and people have beat the fence line , I think I still could although I dont fancy falling these days after been paralysed
the fence line is not as easy as it used to be but a interesting training project for a anarchist Im sure .

rain or mud wont stop me from having a good time 2005 was a great glastonbury I have everything I need in my bergan to live in most conditions

 

i like playing in mud. it's fun.

 

Sounds like Fort Knox

 

spot on man

 

first you have a exclusion zone where they check you have a ticket thats a distance from the actual site ,then you have a outer fence which is manned 24/7 with people telling you not to cross it .

Then you have the main fence which is topped with angled aluminium to stop people climbing it and the fence itself doesnt have anything to climb on it, cant be rammed or easy taken apart .

Then when you get over that theres a inner fence and a cordon of clear ground thats patroled by landrovers and transits 24/7 between the main and inner fence

along the fence line there are watch towers with people with binoculars and radios these towers arent that far apart .

oh they have police helicopters with infra red scanning looking for people oh and theres some closed circuit cameras too
it is mighty tempting


watchtower


my friends 6.1 to give you a idea of the height the second picture shows a watchtower and the inner exclusion zone

people have tried ramming the fence with lorrys or mass break-ins

 

whatever happened to FREE FESTIVALS such as hawkwind stonehenge 1984.............

 

what my friends standing on is the old fence the one I helped take down, thats stapled to the ground in front of the fence so you would have to start at least 6 foot out if you fancied digging not sure how far the fence goes down .

you have picture Id on all the tickets not sure about workers tickets

 

well health and safety and local councils the cops charge to police festivals now too

 

that as well maybe jonny but to me it seems a bit of an overkill by the authorities man .

 

well its partly my fault they had to build that big wall so I cant say anything

 

glastonbury is just a farce these days they killed the spirit of it - when they stopped people breakin in

about 60% of the cost is to pay for that fence

 

look I took down the fence that caused all this they had no other choice they had nearly a million people there .
The site isnt big enough for all the people who want to go really i should have taken photos in 2000 but it was totally packed with people .
The toilets were the worst Ive ever seen it was a health hazard

 

As has been for many years. People I know say, when they went it was muddy. They came out of the concert covered in mud. Well Gadget and My cousin Stuart went to one last year. Stuart nearly drowned and well Gadget looked more like Homer simpson as Bigfoot.


Glastonbury gets a lot of rain. also because it is in a field it kind of figures as many people come into the field like a stampede of bulls.

 

Well I'm going to enjoy it rain or no rain. I doubt it can be worse than 2005. And it gets a bit tiring hearing people constantly put Glasto down. Yeah it might have been so much better before, but at the end of the day it is a commercial event, there's no point pretending otherwise. It's about the entertainment as much as anything else, and as far as I'm concerned it's still the best weekend of the year and I'm going to have a good time....

 

message from showmet whose there dangerously incipient quagmire conditions downpour earlier bring wellies....


I cant find my size 9 wellies so may bring a pair of size 8 and my sorel boots which are heavy but can survive -60 temps thats in case we get freak snowstorms