[Closed] what to take to glastonbury

Spare tent and sleeping bag for when yours gets nicked/trashed 😆

Drugs.
Shite wipe.

teeto has it more or less covered. loads of cash and water proofs will be helpful also..

A pair of scissors to cut your wristband off the moment you leave. Unless you want to look like a total bellend.

An ounce would be probably be sufficient.

A ticket elsewhere.

Drugs, cider and toilet paper.

Cheap bottle of whisky or vodka and a hip flask

Cheap hiking boots, better than wellies that stink and are uncomfortable and give you foot rot. Lots of socks.

Anker portable charger.

Imodium. Hundreds of it.

And while you're there, get some Senakot for home, to get the three day Glastonbury tailback moving.

Money, lots of it.
Pack light
Umbrella for sun/rain
Imodium
Baby wipes.
Get there Tuesday night and sleep in car, park as near to exit/end of row as you can. Leave early Monday, block the toilets in first service station on M5

Last year was my first time, did get ticket for this year but got it refunded thankfully

Been a few times back in the 90s / early 00s.

Don't take anything you don't want nicked.

It's all a big trade off between how much you want to carry in and how much you really need.

Personally I took a tent, roll mat, travel pillow, torch a wallet full of cash, a slab of Stella, some deodorant wipes (for a squaddie shower) and and an open mind. Take a hat and some warm clothing for the evenings and leave your wellies in the car.

The long drops are far more pleasant for a dump than the portaloos (there used to be a very little used long drop down by the cinema).

Take a bottle of antibacterial handwash. Wash your hands with this before eating.

Go with the flow. Explore off the beaten track and don't beat yourself up about a timetable to see *ALL* the bands you must see.

Have a great time. I'm almost jealous but will be watching it from the comfort of my living room again.

Antibiotics

Earplugs.
Complan.
A small jar of maraschino cherries.
Mouthwash.
Condoms.

Earplugs !

(Not for the stage, but when trying to get some sleep)

A time machine so you can go back to when it was good!

Also, gaviscon, baby wipes, alcohol hand gel, immodium, paracetamol, booze , drugs, pillow, sunhat, water proof picnic rug, head torch , waterproofs, suncream, s ton of cash

Don't take anything that you mind being lost/destroyed/stolen.

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uselesshippy - Member
Don't take anything that you mind being lost/destroyed/stolen.

Seasoned festival goer here and other than baby wipes the main thing is something to help your tent stand out. A flashy light, a flag anything really that will help you identify it easier in the sea of misery that is the campsite when you're knackered.

2 tents. One you and one for beer / dirty clothes / food.

Food. Flapjacks. Brownies. That kind of thing

Drugs (although an once of coke, as someone suggested, is a little extravagant!)

Torch.

Sack trolly to transport everything. It's fantastic for the slabs of beer and everything else.

Drugs ,wet wipes,clean undies & tshirts. Wellies. Torch. Cash.
More drugs.trolley to transport liquids etc from car park to camping area. Spare torch.
Nurofen,barroca. Cereal bars. More drugs. Have fun.

Earplugs condoms booze plenty of uppers and a fair few downers .

Don't take a guitar , don't bother cooking food (lose time getting wasted and the campsite turns to squalor in a matter of hours)

have fun

an old pack you don't mind getting covered in crap is handy if it's wet. you spend so much time on your feet that having something with you you can sit on is a godsend.
a decent pair of comfortable walking boots.
the more expensive baby wipes are thicker, better to use, and can double as both a shower and arsewipe too, funnily enough.
berocca and painkillers a good shout.

Binliners. You never know when you might need to waterproof something.

Stick any valuables (wallet, phone) in your sleeping bag down by your toes at night.

Consider taking an old phone you've upgraded from rather than a £400 fondleslab.

A plastic bottle sans lid to hurl your warm piss over the crowd.

Two cheap plastic washing up bowls and one of those black camp shower bags

If you fill the back with water and leave it on the ground by your tent it usually gets a little warmer - sometimes really warm if you're lucky

Then you can use the bowls for

A quick wash - one bowl
A bit more of a thorough was - one bowl clean water and one bowl of soapy

A bit nicer than a wet wipe! And we have even used them for hair washing.

Then when you leave your tent fill the bowels with clean water and put your beers in them out of the way in your tent - they will definitely be cooler when you get back.

And obviously you can use them for regular washing up if you are taking cooking stuff

And a decent trolley for carting your stuff onto site with.

. . . I take a trangia - so I can cook basic stuff but more importantly have a brew in the morning!

dont take anything that you will bat an eyelid if you lose or trash
if that sounds weird, dont take your current attitude
whatever you do take, consume or carry it out

Two cheap plastic washing up bowls and one of those black camp shower bags

Christ, how long are you stopping?

when you leave your tent fill the bowels with clean water and put your beers in them out of the way in your tent - they will definitely be cooler when you get back.

Your tent will definitely be wetter when you get back.

AW > I can only assume you're either talking about camping generally or were in one of the posh camping bits at Glasto. We were in the disabled camping when we went and that sort of thing may have been practical, but if you're in with the great unwashed you'll either be doing a lot of walking or will be lucky to be able to stand next to your tent let alone fanny about with multiple washing up bowls.

Take some wet wipes and a hand sanitiser, be grubby for a couple of days.

Thought about taking my camelbak for drinking etc, but who really knows.

No - travel light. There are drinking water taps with every set of toilets so you just need a refillable water bottle. We've taken these for years - [url= http://www.rockrun.com/platypus-softbottle-0-5l-w-push-pull-cap-gray?gclid=CMqxzNnD_MwCFYZuGwod_cIClA ]Platypus flat bottle[/url] - (not sure what size we have). can fold up and stuff in a pocket when empty.

Warm clothes. You'll likely be out late, it's very rare that it's not cold at 4am. Layering is good - you need stuff you can tie round your waist.

Lightweight daysack - for stuffing clothes and things in. You don't want something that's bulky when it's empty.

Raincape - look ridiculous but much better than anything else for standing in the rain watching a band. Long enough that the water doesn't just run off onto your trousers.

Wellies. You might not need them but if you need them you *really* need them.

Raincape - look ridiculous but much better than anything else for standing in the rain watching a band.

Good point. They will sell ponchos at vastly inflated prices, and lots of folk will wear them. Better to take one with you.

Ha ha cougar- we are usually in family camping and we go down in the Tuesday night.

If you carry the plastic watercarriers or solar shower bags you don't need to make that many trips to the tap no matter where you camp.

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And they are really handy when you have kids who like to be painted!

Take an axe. If there's a Zombie Apocalypse it'll start at a place like Glastonbury.

The e-festivals website forum has plenty of info on this in the glasto sub-section, go take a look...

Wallet, shades, phone and consumables...

Don't do what a good friend of mine did . . .
Fly home from the states just for the festival . . . Loads of people going so him and his mate thought they'd be clever and take a huge tent . . . Became quite a mission getting it on the site as they decided to start on their consumables in the queue. . . .

Finally got to their chosen spot . . . Only to find they had picked up the wrong bag .... they didn't have a tent

They had an 8 man dingy (and it didn't even rain that year!)

A pair of scissors to cut your wristband off the moment you leave. Unless you want to look like a total bellend.

This. Also car park pass, remove it pronto or DIAF.

Wheelbarrow!

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Drugs, money, drugs, clothes, cheap tent, drugs, cheap sleepy bag, drugs and nothing that you'll be bothered about if it gets trashed, stolen, soaked in mud or sacrificed to a Pagan God.

I'm told it's changed a lot since I last went in 2000 - there's an even bigger bloody wall for a start (which may or may not be a reason why I've not been back since), but it always used to be a madhouse 250k-300k people the last year I went they reckon 2/3 times as many tickets that were sold.

Oh and try to remember where you left the car, all fields look the same after a few days.

I went in 90 with a lump of squidgy the clothes I had on and a pair of adidas samba. God did it rain. In hind sight the samba were a bad choice.

Best time I had there I packed the same (well almost) as donks, if your doing it right you don't [i]need[/i] your own tent. Don't take beer, it will be horrible after the first few hours - wine bags and/or vodka.

Nothing helpful here but wet wipes

I don't remember much from the one time I went to Glastonbury other than watching Rolf Harris just as a Silver Surfer was kicking in, and missing all but Gravity Grave from the Verve's set because half way through Jameraqui (or the Stereo MCs - whoever it was I didn't really care) it seemed like a good idea to return my jumper to my tent so I didn't ****ing loose it. Oh and the motor bike from the Orb echoing round and round and round.

Moral of the story: don't take anything can't let go of.

To be fair it's all reasonably priced in there so a few £££ some spirits mixed with a mixer in a *plastic* bottle and you'll be great. Buy a ready-inflated air bed in there and have ear plugs/eye mask and all will be champion.

I think I slept better than at home last year. Gutted that I had a ticket but had to give it up due to other commitments this year.

Ohh, and if you think you need wet wipes at a festival then you probably won't enjoy the festival experience with or without your wet wipes.

Houns = mumlord wtf

a sherpa, stuff carrying your own stuff around

A trade pitch. Drive to where you camp, space, clean toilets, your own tap, extra security. Bonus was fairly lax shifts and in view of the main stage.

your ticket to sell, then go to a proper festie 😉

Stick any valuables inside your sleeping bag, and sleep with your feet to the door at night.

Bin liners were a life saver when my old fishing bivvy gave up any hope of waterproofing after 24 hours of solid, sideways rain 😀

Camp near the fence, less through traffic and further from horrendous toilets - a flag is also a good call for location purposes.

Been a long time since I went so perhaps things are different these days - enjoy!

to all the people who haven't been since 2000 - it's a lot less grimey these days. Haven't seen people openly selling smack for years now, tent thefts also much less common.

My glasto pointers:

if you're over 25, bring a pillow instead of just folding up a hoodie

if you're over 35, bring whisky instead of lager, otherwise you spend 50% of your time walking to and from the bogs for a wazz

don't bring any food except for snacks

people have mentioned painkillers and berocca - these are good, also Dioralyte isn't a bad shout even if you don't have the trots

DON'T TRY AND SEE EVERYTHING. It's just stressful. Choose 2 or 3 things per day and then let the winds take you wherever they may. It's a good hour's walk from one end of the festival site to the other.

That chuffing great fence has transformed the festival for the better. The facilities now more or less match the number of people attending which has improved things no end, and despite some of the dire warnings on this thread there's very little crime. The tout-free general admission ticketing is also a big bonus. I understand the newer cleaner more polished Glastonbury won't be to everyone's taste but there's no other festival in the UK on anything like the same scale and if you're at all interested in music it's worth going at least once.

Second doris5000 - if you're going to take booze in with you spirits (decanted into plastic bottles) and 3L boxes of red wine. some breakfast food is good as it can be some time after you get up that you find good food. Flapjack/cereal bars and individual fruit juice cartons are easiest.

Regretting not going this year now - after 7 in a row a fallow year seemed a good idea but there's a load I'd love to see. . I'd have gone for LCD Soundsystem alone.

There are still a good number of thefts and when it's happened to anyone I know it has always been their first year. Wednesday and Thursday nights are the worst. Nearly always thief unzips tent - if you wake up they just claim they thought it was their own tent. If you don't they grab shorts/Trousers taken off with wallet and phone left in pockets from entrance of tent (THIS IS A STUPID THING TO DO) or have a quick feel under your pillow (Putting you valuables there isn't that clever either).

Glastonbury lost property is amazing - Scott got his wallet back less than 12 hours after he lost it (with cards, minus cash). Chris got his car keys back a about a week after the festival. (He did have to spend the Friday taking the train to London and back to get his spare set though)

And forget your iPhone/Samsung smartphone nonsense. If it doesn't get nicked, or you lose it, the battery will die in 5 minutes anyway. You'll need your phone when you're lost at 3 in the morning and you've got 'The Fear'.

So unless you want to stand in line, like a complete bell end, trying to charge a dead iPhone next to the ****ing 'Glamping' tee-pees, along with a mass of Hoxton trustafarian cockwombles, then what you'll be needing is [url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/nokia-with-broken-screen-is-best-phone-of-all-time-2013040464681 ]one of these[/url]

That, and a shitload of weapons grade MDMA and job well and truly jobbed 😀

So unless you want to stand in line, like a complete bell end, trying to charge a dead iPhone next to the ****ing 'Glamping' tee-pees, along with a mass of Hoxton trustafarian cockwombles, then what you'll be needing is one of these

Or, turn every 'smart' bit off, and keep it in your pocket. Mine comfortably does 4 days if I only use it like I would a Nokia brick (i.e. don't use it).

Ohh, and if you think you need wet wipes at a festival then you probably won't enjoy the festival experience with or without your wet wipes.

Dysentery on day 3 of Reading was not fun mid way through Radiohead. My kidneys hurt so bad I had to lie down on the hill at the back (which actually in hindsight with the lasers etc was actually a brilliant spot).

Wet wipes (anti-bacterial ones, not the cheap ones), and as much alcohol gel/spray as you can get.

despite some of the dire warnings on this thread there's very little crime.

As a friend of mine once said, "I don't care what statistics say, it [i]will[/i] be me. There may well be "very little" crime, but "very little" is still "some." Absolutely no reason not to be careful just in case, it's not like it's a massive hardship not to leave your wallet and phone lying around where any munchkin can grab it.

We are going for the first time without children since 1993 🙂

Nowadays it is so safe and tame. It is so middle class it is untrue. Put it this way, we are booked [url= http://www.deluxediner.co.uk/restaurant-bookings.html ]here[/url] for Thursday night. But you know what? I don't care, I'm middle aged now and any repeat of the madness of festivals gone by is not going to happen without serious mental issues. In any case, there is still something special about Glastonbury, despite what the naysayers say,

My take list is long as I will be in a campervan with comfy bed, power, and as much (cold) beer and whisky as I can get away with.

You need to take:

Trolley/wheelbarrow to get to your tent spot

Walking boots unless it's knee deep

Good humor

Dysentery on day 3 of Reading was not fun mid way through Radiohead.

This may be contentious but, consider going veggie for the weekend. It's a lot harder to get the galloping bogtrots from an undercooked veggieburger than it is from some scabby chicken. Also, there's generally a lot of choice these days, you're not stuck living off chips for three days any more.

I've been festival-going on and off since 1990, and veggie for almost as long (1991 I think), and I've not once had food poisoning at a festival.

Walking boots unless it's knee deep

Got to say, we were comparatively lucky with the weather when we went and dodged some of the horrors of previous years. But I was so very very glad that I was in my comfy Bergies for the duration rather than some poxy £2.99 wellies.

So, is there a cut-off age for Glasto, or do people of all ages go there?

Cougar - Moderator
Walking boots unless it's knee deep
Got to say, we were comparatively lucky with the weather when we went and dodged some of the horrors of previous years. But I was so very very glad that I was in my comfy Bergies for the duration rather than some poxy £2.99 wellies.

Aye I'd always go walking boots and waterproof socks, consider the amount of treking you do at these places, wellies would be horrendous imo..

The afore boots and waterproof socks were great first year i went, 1998, which was utterly horrendous weather wise. That and an orange survival bag saved my sanity I think! 😆 The whole place was honking! it was a 5 day jaunt aswell, turned up on the wednesday, back on the monday! 😆

Luckily next year I went in 99 it was the opposite, scorchio!

But I was so very very glad that I was in my comfy Bergies for the duration rather than some poxy £2.99 wellies

Yep, it's well worth taking good boots. You'll be on your feet a lot, especially if it's a bit damp. My feet really started aching round about sundown last year in the previously comfy but rather broken-down Moabs I'd rashly chosen. It'll be the Altbergs this year. Wellies aren't really necessary unless you're careless, I've never been in mud higher than the uppers of my boots.

So, is there a cut-off age for Glasto, or do people of all ages go there?

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And forget your iPhone/Samsung smartphone nonsense. If it doesn't get nicked, or you lose it, the battery will die in 5 minutes anyway. You'll need your phone when you're lost at 3 in the morning and you've got 'The Fear'.

So unless you want to stand in line, like a complete bell end, trying to charge a dead iPhone next to the ****ing 'Glamping' tee-pees, along with a mass of Hoxton trustafarian cockwombles, then what you'll be needing is one of these

Going back to the op's original question, someone mentioned rain ponchos, great idea, just get a couple of proper mil-spec ones, not the flimsy plastic ones. If it been raining, and the ground's wet, then a poncho makes a good groundsheet as well, good ones have eyelets for tethering, using as a bivi etc.
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