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Is anyone else on ticket duty on Sunday morning?

I fucking hate the apprehension of trying to get tickets and frantically opening new browser windows for a good few hours.

I'm too stint again.

I do remember the joys from previous years. Good times.

My other half's parents are. Although I have a feeling I will be roped into doing it for them.

Getting tickets for the Rock Werchter Festival in July, apparently got voted best festival in the World 4 out of the last 5 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Werchter#2008_Festival

Giving it a miss this year as i managed to stupidly book a course at work the week before and after the weekend.  Going to do Roskilde instead though which should be ace

Hopefully will get tickets, plan is to go on the wednesday and get back on the sunday as usual. Highest point possible for the tent i think haha. :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

That looks like an awesome line-up to me! If only I could go!

I have a quiet night in with the wife planned Saturday so i can be up with breakfast at 8 and prepare for the rush at 9... fingers crossed and all that!

The line up is fab but theres noway I could stand the mud and yukky toilets.  :P

Thats why I could never attend glasto - It would be OK if you could like - stay in a hotel or something - I dont like getting muddy

Last time I went the toilets were literally underwater and spilling out everywhere. :(

The toilets are fine these days... there is a good 5-6 metre drop to the piles of poo and its open air so you dont get the stench of a portaloo...

And ladies get the She-Pee now... a funnel to piss in standing up!

No splashback then? :soapy tit wank:

WHAT!!!!  :shock:  :shock:

Im defo never going now!!

Apparently it's ace! Come with me one year, you'll love it.

Do you have a winnibago with its own loo??

I dont want to wee in a funnel  :(

You don't have to we in a funnel, it's just an option!

I'm tempted by a pop up tent that takes 3 seconds to erect... anyone used one before?

I've just bought a tent for the IOW festival. The advice I got in Millets and Blacks was to steer clear of pop-up tents. They are great to put up but gettting them down again is a nightmare. Also, they rely on their guy ropes structurally alot more than 'normal' tents. So, when you get people stumbling back to their tents in the dark if they trip and kick your pegs out, the whole thing will come down on you.

it's lost its fun for me after 2 trips. seems more like V than glastonbury nowadays.

i demand more hippies or at least plenty of nutters at festivals. may go to big chill instead.

I thought that last time Oxford.  To many people and not enough hippies but we're going to venture a little more beyond the big stages this year and get to see some of the new acts on the smaller stages.

As for pop-up tents McLovin go for it.  Mine has lasted five festivals now and is still going strong.  Go for the Decathlon brand or dome style rather than the tube shapes, which are a bit cramped.

They're incredibly light and easy to carry and the satisfaction of throwing it like a Frisbee and seeing erect it self in a second as people struggle with poles etc is most satisfying.  

Folding them away is a piece of piss there is a technique and you just need to practice a couple of times to pick it up.  Once you have it sussed its simple and it’s away again in seconds.  They don’t collapse either when a tent peg goes in fact they’re sturdier than a standard tent and will quite happily stay up with no ropes/pegs at all.  Plus unlike a standard tent you peg the front and sides of the actual dome so you only require very short ropes, which is less of a falling hazard.

Debit cards only for Sunday, max of 4 tickets per-booking and refresh will not work (new browser window every time!).

Ahhh, cool... I'll do a bit of digging and have a look then, cheers.

yeah, the trusty 'back' button cheat won't work this year. Alll hands at the ready it is...

Were pre - registration numbers down this year?

They were, but they've not revealed how many... it's rumoured to be down by nearing on 100,000

I'm loving that avatar :mrgreen:

Is that 100k of registrations or down 100k?

As capacity is supposed to be 180K 100k registrations would be a bit of a headache!   :D

100k less registrations than last year...

The line up so far is as appealing as Judith Charmer's spitroast.  Except for Neil Diamond and a look at the Verve there’s not much to wet the appetite and Jay Z is going to end up as a round peg in a square hole.

No Lost Vagueness this year either it’s been replaced by a new late night area.

Understandable why sales are down but hopefully the lack of ‘big names’ will stave off some of the plastic fantastics back to V and give the place a little more character back and encourage people to venture beyond the two or three main stages.

Get in! Sorted...

everyone I know who wanted tickets seems to have got them. I guess there were a lot fewer people trying this year.

im working there again this year :)
 no ticket scramble for me. anyone who likes lost vaugness pm me i have some ace news.

my brother always camps by lost vagueness and the tipi field. nice area and it's near the glade too which is nice.

And I was spot on. Only took 3 new browsers to get onto seetickets  8)

Is it back Mex? Share the love!   :D

Ended up getting tickets sorted after 4hrs this morning with a raging hangover.

They're still available now so demand must be down.  Didn’t help that one gyppo in our party couldn’t remember his postcode so after 6 attempts of form filling we nailed it down to the address where he crashes with a hangover on Saturday nights.  Cunt.

No Tipi love though the line was jammed solid so we hedged our bets and booked regular tickets.

Hopefully it’ll be less crowded this year anyway.

no its not back, ah fuck it , im taking over a club in brighton full time and i have got lost vaugeness in every friday night.