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Egg · #1 22-05-2011, 09:46 AM

I like Coldplay and Elbow and plan to see them on the saturday, but my friends are not fans and will be seeing other bands. Now in my experience of festivals you can make friends on a random encounter but not during watching a performance. Should i just expect to be a bit of a loner during the performances???

tort · #2 22-05-2011, 10:23 AM

I expect that during Elbow & Coldplay most people will be gazing at their shoes.

stardustjunkie · #3 22-05-2011, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by tort

I expect that during Elbow & Coldplay most people will be gazing at their shoes.

I wouldn't worry about it. If you like the band, you'll enjoy it whether you're on your own or not. When the band starts playing, you're not going to be chatting to your friends, are you?

RickySSmith · #4 22-05-2011, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Egg

Now in my experience of festivals you can make friends on a random encounter but not during watching a performance. Should i just expect to be a bit of a loner during the performances???

Nooo you can ABSOLUTELY make friends during performances, even during Mumford & Sons last year we got chatting to a massive bunch of people next to us, and that was absolutely heaving in the John Peel!

Also I was with my two boring mates (they'd never done a festival before, completely didn't get it) when we were watching Scissor Sisters & Muse, and I was having great fun chatting to all the people around us and dancing with them, my two friends were just standing there looking a bit lost... Admittedly the box of cheap wine I drank that afternoon may have helped me start chatting to other people, but everyone is there for the same thing and everyone just wants to have a good time. I really wouldn't worry about it!

Thankfully boring mates aren't coming this year, but I'm still going to be split between two big groups of friends which is going to be a pain

Lou's other half · #5 22-05-2011, 03:44 PM

Absolutely you can! When a band starts, you probably won't get a word out of me (apart from the appallingly sung lyrics - apologies to anyone who's ever stood in front of me

). But I've met some great people in the wait before the band comes on and made some good friends that way. More often than not we just have a great time and then go our separate ways, off to meet the next random strangers and/or mates, but a couple stuck as friends. This is Glastonbury, people are more than happy to get chatting to someone else who likes a band that they do!

But if you watch a band all on your lonesome, who cares? I've been to gigs on my own a couple of times, and that kind of sucked. But again, this is Glastonbury, you're there for six days, most of which is with your friends. So you get a bit of time to yourself watching a favourite band, where's the downside in that??

Me and Lou have an agreement that if we want to see bands that clash, we'll go on our own and meet up after. (Hasn't happened yet mind you!)

See you at Elbow!

stinkywitch · #6 22-05-2011, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Lou's other half

Me and Lou have an agreement that if we want to see bands that clash, we'll go on our own and meet up after. (Hasn't happened yet mind you!)

See you at Elbow!

Whatme and myself have a similar agreement. And the only time we wanted to watch dif people was in 2004 when Oasis and Orbital (last gig apparently) clashed. I'm a Manchester girl and we ended up watching Oasis and they were crap! We ended up going o Garlic kitchen and didn't watch either! Still had a fantastic time with garlic butter dripping down our chins for an hour!

stardustjunkie · #7 22-05-2011, 05:47 PM

We saw Rolf last year and got friendly with an older couple behind us lol. They let us use some of their suncream xD We were 18, and they must've been nearing 60! They were so nice and we had such a laugh haha.

Don't worry about it, you're going to enjoy it no matter what.

glastomad · #8 22-05-2011, 07:28 PM

I started talking to some old teachers during the national youth orchestra back in 2007 when i was only 14 on the sunday morning and to my surprise one of them had taught with my gran back in the day in Huddersfield! It was the weirdest coincidences thats ever happened to me (and i've met my old head teacher in the middle of new york) so you never know whats going to happen when you turn around and ask if you can shelter under their umbrella

If you end up on your own you won't have any problems being lonely just start some bullshit conversation or cheekyly ask for a

or a

and you'll be fine!!

Have a whale

intensify · #9 23-05-2011, 10:40 AM

Nothing like having a wonder on your own and having a chat to someone you don't know. In fact just being on your own soaking in the experience is pretty enriching.

Torcs4 · #10 23-05-2011, 03:03 PM

Yep. I'm doing the whole thing solo this year. Can't wait.

belfast_rifle · #11 23-05-2011, 06:40 PM

going with a group of 10 ... non of them like morrissey but its the highlight of the festival for me ... all our friends are into dance but i said i didnt travel all the way from northern ireland and pay x amount of money to listen to dj's

now i wouldnt mind hearing fatboy vs carl cox .. but it directly clashes with morrissey !

intensify · #12 24-05-2011, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by belfast_rifle

going with a group of 10 ... non of them like morrissey but its the highlight of the festival for me ... all our friends are into dance but i said i didnt travel all the way from northern ireland and pay x amount of money to listen to dj's

now i wouldnt mind hearing fatboy vs carl cox .. but it directly clashes with morrissey !

yeah i never see the attraction of just going to see dance acts.

Bell Boy · #13 25-05-2011, 02:42 PM

perfect advice - this is the reason why everyone joins and loves this forum, absolutley nothing to worry about by being on your own at any time or in any place.

guidarufino · #14 25-05-2011, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by stardustjunkie

We saw Rolf last year and got friendly with an older couple behind us lol. They let us use some of their suncream xD We were 18, and they must've been nearing 60! They were so nice and we had such a laugh haha.

Don't worry about it, you're going to enjoy it no matter what.

I know it's early days but Rolf doesn't seem to be on Clashfinder and someone else has said to me that he's not playing this year. Surely this can't be true? Rolf is my absolute total Glastonbury highlight, musically speaking anyway. Has anyone heard whether he's playing this year or not?

Cans O' Cannrahan · #15 25-05-2011, 03:24 PM

I don't think he's playing this year. I think it's because people keep saying ROLF all the time, and it's annoying him now.

Doesn't he draw the biggest crowd of the whole festival these days?

Mandypants · #16 25-05-2011, 05:19 PM

I ended up pitching my tent on my own as I couldn't find my mates last year, and within two hours I had a whole new group of friends who had pitched next to me

guidarufino · #17 26-05-2011, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by Cans O' Cannrahan

I don't think he's playing this year. I think it's because people keep saying ROLF all the time, and it's annoying him now.

Doesn't he draw the biggest crowd of the whole festival these days?

Surely not? He's a fricking legend, how can that annoy him?! Yes he does. Last year was unfriggingbelievable. I've never seen Pyramid that rammed, and it was 11.30am! I'd got up at 8.30 to get there on time and still had to sprint from the gate to get there for the start. I drank warm vodka and coke to celebrate!

It was the best set of the week for me, hands down. When we all sang "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory, I nearly peed my pants!

Stuboy · #18 05-06-2011, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Egg

I like Coldplay and Elbow and plan to see them on the saturday, but my friends are not fans and will be seeing other bands. Now in my experience of festivals you can make friends on a random encounter but not during watching a performance. Should i just expect to be a bit of a loner during the performances???

I think it's more a case of your friends not being fans of you Nigel! EGG!