I'll be there. Giving camping a miss and hired a motorhome.

yeah me too, they totally killed the vibe with the big fence and anti-traveller angle..

Yea it'll be nice to have a shower! We are going down on the Tuesday too, so avoid the mad rush and queueing on the Wednesday.

Going too ! Campervan as usual... The only way to fly

Nice lads, a growing Glasto contingent and mini party within the campervan field by the looks of it!

Any artists on here painting?

LOL, still good.

Soon it'll be you remember it at the old site.
They're moving it to Longleat apparently.

The mega rich artists could afford to play for free and fund the festival.

I don't blame Eavis, he owns quite a lot of property now

He used to be a poor farmer too. I heard a rumour Greenpeace funded the festival at the start in order to be able to set up there and tout for donations. Via Greenpeace Entertainments.

Longleat should be less muddy.

It's a lot of money but not overpriced, especially when you compare it to gig prices and pretty much every other festival these days - Reading, Leeds, and all the other big festivals are a similar price and you get a hell of a lot more for your money at Glastonbury over the 5 days than you do anywhere else. We got to a lot of small festivals and even they are pricey these days - I've just come back from Lunar just outside Birmingham and even that was £119 for 3 days of acts on two stages. Even my absolute favourite festival in the UK, Supernormal, is 80 odd quid now and many of the other small 500-2000 capacity ones like I am fond of have are around the £100 mark. There's exceptions obviously but it's just a fact that in general festivals are getting very pricey.

I think it's also important to appreciate how the festival has improved over the years since the superfence stopped everyone getting in free, and even in the last decade or so it's come on so much that many parts of it are completely unrecognisable. It's now a lot more than just the standard 'bands in circus tents' you get elsewhere. I love all the newer additions and the structures in Block 9, Unfairground, The Temple etc are all still mindblowing each year.

When you look at the price of gigs these days, it makes it incredibly good value for 5 days entertainment with camping included. People were reportedly paying £100's if not £1000's just to see Adele...

Well what do you expect? That Glastonbury won't change and that the rest of the world will go further? You can't compare things with the past. I have been going to festivals since the early 90's and yes it was different back then, but ten years ago was different as well. Its just the time you are living in now.

A three day festival in Netherlands will cost 200 euros so for five days at Glastonbury GBP 228 is some money but not expensive compared with the rest of the festivals. Its worth the cost, and since I come from the netherlands, I have to make my travel expenses to Glastonbury as well.

Me too! Will arrive Tuesday night, going by campervan tbh (sorry, in my 40's and first time festival visit by campervan). Anyone who's going from here with campervan?

I'm in a tent this year, but will be camping in the East side campers fields...... somewhere.

I was there that year. Rivers popped up everywhere. I remember there was one big one separating tents from the rest of the festival.
We woke up to find tents to the left and to the right of us washed away. Never been so wet!
My ex and I used to go every year. We stopped the year that we were turned away from lost vagueness as it was full! It just seemed to have got too big. For us, anyway.