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Keef my dear chap.. as a Reading (*bleuuughhh*) ticket-holder, you must be enlightened as to the true nature of Glasto.

Forget who's on the main stages, I say! Mooch around the small tents to seek-out those little nuggets of joy and quirk. That Ukelele band doing Oasis covers! A bit of Cuban ska! Tony Benn holding sway with a tent full of people who clearly haven't slept for three days! People dangling heavy weight from their genitals - for your pleasure! It's all there.

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> Keef my dear chap.. as a Reading (*bleuuughhh*)

> ticket-holder, you must be enlightened as to the

> true nature of Glasto.


As someone who has been "enlightened" a couple of times in my life, I'm not a huge fan of the whole dirty smelly experience.... I also think "Glasto" is the most pretentious festival of the lot. Going to Reading because I like 2 bands on the line-up, but a big bunch of us are going to spend the weekend absolutely off our trollies... Too be honest though, I'd rather watch a band I like in a little indoor venue with a bar...

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> Each to their own.

> Though you'll be missing out: The CPT has a tent

> there this year..



;-) Tuche. Funnily enough, the vast majority of the CPT staff are in our Reading party...


Have you ever heard of the Ashton Court Festival in Bristol? Thats a lovely little festival with local bands and things going on.

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Have to agree about the Latitude line-up


Would recommend the End of The Road festival in Sep as well


But having done all of the big festivals nothing but nothing compares to Glastonbury. "It's not about the bands" is a cliche but really is true..


*Bob* loses points however for calling it a weekend tho.. As IF. It's a whole week or nothin


Newsflash. Tickets arrived today - bonus points!

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I have to agree with some of the posts here about glastonbury - the loos are awful and I found it a bit big but the atmosphere is fab and I did get engaged there so it has a special place in my heart.

Mr Cupcake organised his own festival last year - Chickenstock which was a very small festival of 20 people. The food was good and we had a good old fashioned sing song!

I'm looking forward to Chas and Dave. Really.

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Ah yes, the windsock is the major 'things' thing. Thought it would be a bit of fun, as well as being a way of finding the damned tent. And it was the chili that swung it.


The pillows are more 'we are always carting around our house pillows to festivals (heavy/big to carry)' or 'we never get a good night's sleep owing to no pillows' (cycle camping, with clothes stuffed under head), and trying to resolve that once and for all, so that we have useful camping gear that is small and light and bike-friendly - important when you do a fair amount of camping throughout the year.


The tent in a 2-man (mini!), so we're going pretty minimal otherwise.

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