Three friends, three ways to do Glastonbury.

0:00Miguel Hello and welcome to GlastoCast, the unofficial Glastonbury Festival podcast. In this episode, we're gonna talk about the festival when it's fully on. If you've been following us in this journey, we talked about the magic of Glastonbury, what to pack, when to arrive, and where to camp. But now it's when the festival is fully happening, Rob.

0:25Rob Yeah, so it started now. We're there, we've got all our stuff ready, we're What do we do next?

0:29Miguel And we're going to share a lot of our own personal stories. Jessi, you have some good ones to talk about?

0:35Jessi Oh yeah, I've got many different spanning the years. I've got many different things to talk about when it comes to favorite festivals.

0:40Rob I think with any of the subjects that have got to do with Glastonbury, we've got plenty to talk about.

0:44Jessi Yeah, we definitely can't shut up about it. So let's go.

0:48Miguel I'm very excited to hear them because even though we met at the festival, we haven't really experienced the festival together, believe it or not.

0:54Rob It's actually a very good point.

0:56Jessi Yeah, it's really true. We always have these like one afternoon on a Thursday where we all meet up and get drunk together, but the rest of it we spend, you know, with our own groups.

1:04Rob Yeah, we're separately doing our own thing.

1:06Miguel So yeah, I really wanted to know how you guys— how do you Glastonbury? And as a cherry on the top, we're also going to discuss one of our favorite subjects, which is food.

1:18Rob Ah, I see what you did there. Yeah, exactly.

1:21Jessi That's good.

1:21Miguel I planned this on the way here.

1:23Rob Definitely one of my favorite subjects. Yeah, food.

1:27Miguel There's so many really good food stalls. It's even almost something I'm looking forward to, going back to Glastonbury, is just to eat something.

1:33Jessi I was actually about to say that. It's sad that I always like plan out my menu now. Like, I know that the certain food stalls are going to be in a certain place, and I go, right, I'm so excited to eat this again. And I always plan it out. I'm like, Wednesday I'm gonna have this, Friday I'm gonna have this.

1:46Miguel I don't know if you guys realize, but there's a big difference today from the last time we met. Do you know what I'm talking about?

1:53Rob I don't know, apart from where we are.

1:54Miguel We have paid our tickets.

1:56Rob Oh yeah.

1:56Jessi Ah, yes.

1:57Rob Ah yeah. I paid mine this morning. I was a little—

2:00Jessi I paid mine at 8 AM yesterday.

2:02Miguel Yeah, but by the way, we are recording this episode in the week of the balance payment, when the balance payment is due. Yeah, I did mine on Monday, first day.

2:09Rob Yeah, well, I thought I'm going to leave it a little bit later. I'll leave it a little— no, no, I can't do it. I can't do it.

2:13Miguel Isn't it good to see the final booking complete page, receive the confirmation email? But now, but now there's the wait for the tickets to come in the post. It will come.

2:22Rob It will, and it always does, but it doesn't make it any less stressful, does it? The first person, once they receive it, the first thing they do, isn't it, they tweet, and then you're like, oh, I haven't got my ticket yet.

2:31Jessi Yeah, it stresses me out a little bit because sometimes I've had like one friend once over the 10 years of going that their ticket didn't arrive, and then it was all kinds of hassle calling, trying to find out where it was going to be, what they could sort it out. And just seeing their stress makes me go, but what if mine doesn't turn up? What if it doesn't? So you're there every day like opening the door like, is it there?

2:50Miguel Do you guys have any— I'm going to call them quitters.

2:54Rob Anyone who paid the deposit and now not going? I've done it once. I mean, this year, this year, in your group of friends? No, not this year.

3:01Jessi We shame you for that, Rob. When you— I remember in that episode when you were, when you were like, oh yeah, I let my ticket go because I was going to go on holiday. Me and Miguel just looked at each other like, what? Yes.

3:10Rob Yeah.

3:10Jessi So you deserve to be on this podcast.

3:12Rob I was filled with regret. No, I lie. I do. I do have some friends who have other commitments for this one. Yeah. So whilst it's obviously a shame, but hey, there's 2 more tickets coming out in the resale. True.

3:23Miguel It's true. I mean, same. I have I think a couple of people I know, not in my group of 6, but in my bigger group of friends have been organizing, they told me they're not coming. I don't know if that happens to you, but every time someone comes to talk to me about Glastonbury and it's some sort of bad news, it's almost like they are afraid of me.

3:39Rob They try to break it to you slowly.

3:42Miguel Which, I mean, different priorities, but wrong priorities.

3:46Rob Yeah, they are wrong, whatever they say. I understand, but you are wrong.

3:50Miguel Yeah, I say like, okay, life happens, but yeah.

3:53Jessi Yeah, you're wrong. Um, I have one of my wider group who, uh, has broken up with their other half, and their other half isn't going. So I know this sounds really bad, but like all of us were kind of like, oh well, not really much of a loss because we don't know them that well. So we were a bit like, that's fine, as long as you're still coming, that's fine.

4:11Rob If Glastonbury's still there, we're talking about someone else.

4:14Jessi I'm being very, I'm being very non-specific. I'm not even saying the gender of anyone. But anyway, yes, so we're a bit like, okay, well, you're not coming, that's okay. Um, and then I did have a friend who had been to Glastonbury before a few years ago basically say— I remember texting them all week going, have you got your ticket? Have you paid it? Have you paid it? And it was only like right at the end. In fact, I think even the Monday after they went, I'm really sorry, I didn't, I didn't do it. And I was like, why? You've been, what are you doing?

4:38Rob I can never understand those tweets that come out. Oh, I can't believe I forgot to pay my Glastonbury ticket. Oh, I can't believe I forgot.

4:44Jessi Is it not everything you're thinking about every day?

4:45Rob Have you been hidden under a rock?

4:47Miguel Yes, how come?

4:47Rob Have you been away? How do you forget?

4:50Miguel What other sort of things can you have going on in your life more important than this?

4:55Rob And if I was to give a tip for anyone, advice from my own personal experience, is the year that I gave up my ticket because of a holiday of a lifetime, it wasn't worth it. The whole time I was away, I was like, oh man.

5:07Miguel Well, but in better news, 2 friends of mine decided to go as volunteers after chatting with me and learning more about my experience in 2014.

5:16Jessi Oh, awesome!

5:17Miguel Which makes me very happy.

5:19Rob How does it work then once you're a volunteer? What's the process?

5:23Miguel Well, the thing is what I explain to them, they've never been to Glastonbury, so the way I explain to them is, I think you should do it. I had a great time in 2014. Even if the downside is that you have to work, you have fun while working and you're kind of part of the festival.

5:37Rob Oh, absolutely.

5:38Miguel That's why when I was explaining, I started, because it's been 5 years since I did it, and suddenly I'm like, okay, maybe I want that back.

5:45Jessi So I've done a lot of festival volunteering. The main one that I've done most of my volunteering at was actually Boomtown Fair, and I love it. you're exactly right, you're part of the festival. You really feel like, oh my God, I made this, I'm helping make this. I would, I would volunteer at Glastonbury. I've always said it's something I would do, but, uh, the kind of 2 ways I would volunteer is, well, obviously if I didn't get a ticket. If it was now, I would probably volunteer without waiting for the resale. If I know I can get it guaranteed. If I didn't get a ticket in October and it was sign on as a volunteer now or wait for the resale and risk it, I would go for the volunteer. And the other thing is, if, if all of my friends, you know, the 30-plus group that I talk about all the time, if they all went, you know what, yeah, we're done with now we're not going anymore, and it was just me or just me and 2 others, I'd be like, come on, let's go and make some friends, let's volunteer.

6:30Miguel And that's exactly what happened with me in 2014. My group of 6 decided to— when we couldn't get tickets in October, they just gave up. And then I found my way into the festival by volunteering. And to this date, it's my best festival so yet. My best Glastonbury, my favorite Glastonbury. Can you guys? Yeah. Can you pick one?

6:49Rob I'm going to go with 2013, I think.

6:54Miguel Okay.

6:54Rob 2013 because—

6:55Miguel Rolling Stones? Was that the year of Rolling Stones?

6:58Rob So for me, my memory of it really goes back to the fact that from those first 2 festivals in 2002, 2003, it was a real long time before going back to Glastonbury.

7:09Miguel Yeah.

7:09Rob And just, it was almost like going again for the first time because it'd been so long and it was just so very different. It was so different. So I had to basically completely start again, re-explore the whole thing and just the buzz. I mean, I get the same buzz every year, but just going back to something and not that Not that I'd fallen out of love with it in any way, but I'd let other things kind of become first, if you like. Not only did I, you know, find my love for Glastonbury again, but there's no way I was going to let it go after that year. And I think it was the Rolling Stones year. It was, yeah.

7:40Miguel And it also was after Follow You. So what does it say about this coming festival? Well, exactly.

7:44Rob Yeah, no, I think I timed it perfectly. The weather was great. It was one of those years where I think it was sunny, but it was also wet and it was also a bit cold and it was a bit warm. It was just a bit of everything. But that was fine. I was more than happy. I was loving it.

7:57Miguel You know what, I was at Rolling Stones, but I don't remember.

8:00Rob Oh, really? Do you know what, I wasn't. I didn't go to see Rolling Stones. I know I was one of the very few people, as it turned out, over at the Other Stage watching Example. And it was— considering he was on just before Chase and Status, which is who we were all there to go and see, it was incredible. There was so much room. I mean, we were even stood between the stage and the booth where the mix— the sound desk. And it was— there was so much room. And, you know, considering at that time of day— and that just shows how many people were over at the Pyramid Stage. I had the best night. And I know that's kind of— yes, people are gonna find that quite strange that I did it that way around, but I loved it. I loved it.

8:37Miguel What I remember from Rolling Stones is I was right at the back at the Pyramid Field, and I was a bit out of my mind, as usual.

8:47Rob Too many whiskies.

8:48Miguel And then I was tapping people's shoulders and asking, have they played Wonderwall yet?

8:52Jessi Oh no, was that your joke?

8:54Miguel That was my joke. I really want them to play Don't Look Back in Anger.

8:59Rob You're that guy.

9:00Miguel In my head, it was a really good joke.

9:02Rob I'm sure everybody found that hilarious.

9:04Miguel And people react differently. Some of them were like, ah, I see what you did there. Some of them were like, what?

9:08Jessi Okay, so if you heard Miguel, if you were one of those people that was tapped on the shoulder and you're listening to this now, everybody else remembers the Brazilian Miguel who changed their festival. I really want to hear from you. I want to hear.

9:20Miguel I go into this weird mental state where I think I think I go around doing jokes to myself. Exactly.

9:25Rob I want to know if you found it funny or if it was irritating because you're that guy.

9:32Miguel What about you, Jess?

9:33Jessi Can you— Well, you know what, mine, mine was 2013 as well, but for like somewhat different reasons. Yeah, to you, Rob. Um, so I mean, mine, when the Rolling Stones were announced, I was literally ecstatic. I was like, this is gonna be amazing. So for me, of course I was there. I'll get to that in a minute. But for me, it was— so I'd done 4, 4 Glastonburys by then, I think, or 3. Gotta work this out. Um, but all of them had only been with like me and one other friend, or me and 2 other friends. So 2013 was the first year that I convinced a group of sort of 10 of us to go. Um, people I had who I had not festivalled with before. And it was just this weird— everything went well, everything, uh, went as good as it could.

10:11Miguel Yeah.

10:11Jessi Like, we parked in, oh, I don't know, like somewhere out, um, in the purple. We walked to Gate C. There was barely anybody in front of us when we got there at like 7 AM. We got straight made it through. Perfect camping spot. Just everything went exactly as it— like, the best it possibly could. And then, yeah, it was just— we had the best time, me and this group of friends who have now the same friends that have gone every year since.

10:34Miguel Excellent.

10:34Jessi Kind of formed our gang. Yeah, exactly. That got a bit bigger as well, but we formed our, like, core group. Yeah, everything was perfect. It wasn't too hot, it wasn't too wet, it was nice and sunny for most of the time. We just got loads of great memories, like doing the silent disco for the first time as a group, which was really good fun. Like, I'd never never done one before, and I was a bit like, well, this is gonna be lame. And then it was amazing.

10:55Rob Yeah.

10:55Jessi Um, and then, yeah, the roll— oh, the Rolling Stones. So we all got down, um, for the band before, which was Primal Scream, if I remember rightly. So we were there like 3 hours before the Stones were supposed to come on, and it was getting busier and busier and busier, like the most rammed I've ever seen the Pyramid Field. And we were about where the sound desk is, so we were right towards the front. And it was about 20 minutes before the Stones were about to come on, and I remember going, Oh no, I need a wee. And I, I sat on it for a good sort of— well, I'd probably already sat on it for half an hour, and then it got to the point I was like, no, no, I, I need to go. Like, I'm gonna have to. And all of my friends, we all managed to get together. There were 20 of us all stood together. They were like, don't go, we'll never see you again. Um, but I made the decision. I was like, no, I'm never going to enjoy it if I am this desperate. Um, I was like, I'm just gonna have to go. This is where being a boy comes in handy, right? You can get bottles and things. So I made it my mission.

11:46Miguel No, Rob carries his Fabric conditioner to the stages, isn't it?

11:51Jessi Carries it with you in the day bag.

11:52Miguel Yeah, but sorry, what you did there?

11:54Jessi No, no, no, what I was going to say was I was like, right, I'm going to make my way slowly. And I made sure I made eyes at everybody I was pushing because it was really, really close.

12:02Miguel So they recognize you?

12:03Jessi Yeah, so I went, I'm really, really sorry, I'm a girl, I just really need to wee. They were like, oh babe, good luck getting back, well done. And I got all the way out and then the last person on the end, I was like, right, I'm coming back, you see me in a minute. ran to the toilet, ran back again, found the same person, went up and down the line to make sure I found the same person and got my way back in. Yeah, all of my friends thought that is— as soon as I got back in, there was a big cheer.

12:25Miguel That's impressive.

12:26Jessi Before they started, like 10 minutes before they started.

12:29Rob Sorry. Win for you.

12:30Miguel Would you say, would you say Rolling Stones is one of your top performances then at Glastonbury or what?

12:34Jessi I mean, that's always a really— for me, yes, definitely, because I'm such a big fan. But I can understand if somebody was like, well, you know, they They are old, obviously. They just went along with the motions, but they've still got it. Like, I've seen bands who are younger than them who don't give half as much oomph on stage. I don't know, for me it was one like easily in my top 5 festival headliners I've ever seen, but that's mainly because I know every song and love their music. So.

12:59Miguel Can you name a performance then, Rob?

13:01Rob Well, I just think so with regards to that year. I mean, there were, there were a lot of, a lot of performances on at the same time, and obviously The Rolling Stones was going to be the biggest. It's, you know, one of them— the one, possibly the one time you'll— people get so excited, it'll be the one time you'll ever get to see the Rolling Stones. And yes, the Rolling Stones are massive, they're hugely famous, they've been around forever, but they've just never really been a part of music for me. Nothing that I've particularly listened to. So if I had a God, I would have been there just so I could tell people, I've seen the Stones.

13:32Jessi Yeah, yeah.

13:32Rob Oh, you know, which songs? I don't know, I didn't really know any of them. I mean, obviously, you know, the Stones music, you can't not. But for me, I just had a far better night. And actually, all of my group were in the same mindset. We were more than happy. So like I said, we had a really good time listening to Example. We had so much room. We were, you know, it was brilliant. And then you could tell when the Stones had finished because just everyone then came straight back. And it was the year at that time when Arcadia was just behind, just behind you.

14:01Jessi Oh, by the Glade.

14:02Rob Yeah. So there. So then from that finishing to Chasin' Status being on, and then everyone literally just turned 180 degrees and it just carried on from there. It was brilliant. It was, it was a great night.

14:13Miguel But not just from that year. Do you have any other—

14:15Rob No. Yeah. So I'd say that was probably my favorite year, but I think my favorite Glastonbury performance, probably Radiohead, but not when they played last year. Was it 2002 or 2003?

14:27Miguel I think 2002 as well. Yeah.

14:28Rob They've played many times. They have played many times. And obviously those first 2 years, like I said, they were a lot longer ago from the rest of the time. And the group I went with was the same both times, but for many different reasons, that Radiohead set means the absolute world to me. The person I watched it with, just the fact that at that point I wasn't hugely into Radiohead. He convinced me through, you know, I'll go and see this if you go see that, and he said okay. So I agreed to go and see Radiohead with him, but what we did is we sat right at the back. Now, I've never really watched anything else right from the back of the Pyramid Stage, but if you ever get the chance, pick a band and just go back there. It's a completely different experience watching from back there.

15:07Jessi Yeah.

15:08Rob You're not just watching the screens, you're not just watching the stage, you're watching the entire crowd. Just, it gives me goosebumps even thinking about it, just when he was, you know, Thom Yorke singing Karma Police, but then it goes off, comes back on, and does just a little a cappella from the chorus, and just my hairs are all standing on end, and I'm there with my best friend, and it was just incredible. I absolutely loved it.

15:28Jessi I was gonna say, like, you mentioned that the Pyramid, you know, seeing the crowd. The one thing all my friends will know that I vehemently hate Coldplay. I'm one of those people that just goes— I know it's, I know it's like quite fashionable to hate Coldplay, but I really hate Coldplay. Um, so what was that, 2016?

15:47Miguel Hate is a strong word.

15:48Rob Hate is a strong word.

15:50Jessi I know what you mean though. Strongly dislike Coldplay. Maybe if you ripped out Chris Martin, threw him over a bridge, and then put someone else in, like, maybe you'd like them. Sorry. Anyway, um, But we went and saw Earth, Wind& Fire instead on the West Holts stage, and it was amazing disco. That's what you want of a Sunday night.

16:09Rob Absolutely.

16:09Jessi However, when you see the Pyramid Stage— and I know what you mean— when you're from the back and you see the whole crowd laid out like that, as well as the screens, it's really emotional. And the one thing I would have quite liked to have seen from that is obviously Coldplay gave out those wristbands.

16:22Rob They did.

16:23Miguel 2016.

16:24Jessi 2016, that's it. Yeah. And there were just lights everywhere. I think You see it from the BBC, you know, I watched that when I heard what happened. I was like, oh well, I'll have a look at the BBC footage, but it's not the same as— I do kind of think maybe I should have just swallowed my dislike of Coldplay and gone and stood at the back and watched it because it would have been a spectacle to watch.

16:43Rob It really was.

16:43Miguel My first Glastonbury, 2011, I went and watched Coldplay. It was one of the headliners, isn't it? And I had a great time, man. It's just massive sing-alongs. There are some emotional moments.

16:54Rob It's good.

16:55Miguel I had a good time. Well, when I go to watch a headliner at Pyramid Stage, I like to get really close. But there's one act I kind of was just passing by and stopped from really far back to just see what happens, which is Kanye West. Oh no, it was 5 minutes of curiosity. Yeah, I was fine with it.

17:14Rob Well, you know, at least you went.

17:16Jessi Did you see Kanye?

17:17Rob Did you, Rob? No, no, no, no. That again, to keep mentioning, was the year that I didn't go. I was on holiday.

17:24Jessi So we had this whole discussion amongst ourselves, like, are we going to to go see Kanye. I won't use the word hate again, but I was like, I'm not wasting my time going to see— I'm sorry, I'm not. When the other option was Deadmau5 on the other stage, so we were all like, yeah, this is where we're going. Uh, and we had a great time. Again, like, it was so dead because I think lots of people were curious about Kanye.

17:44Rob Yeah.

17:44Jessi On, on, on the Pyramid Stage. So we got there and there was like loads of room and we got right to the front. And there's a whole— if any of you ever meet me, ask me about, um, a certain hashtag that was running on Twitter at that time. I'll tell you guys.

17:57Rob Okay.

17:57Jessi I definitely can't say it online.

17:58Miguel Oh, okay.

18:00Jessi But anyway, so we had a great time at Deadmau5. It was amazing. But again, like, afterwards I watched it back on the BBC, like, okay, let's see, was Kanye okay? As soon as he started attempting to cover Bohemian Rhapsody, I was like, I'm out. I can't ever watch this again.

18:13Miguel Nope. Well, if I would pick a gig I saw at Glastonbury, I think 2016 at the Other Stage, LCD Soundsystem was fantastic.

18:21Rob Yeah, yeah, I've heard a few people say that. Yeah.

18:23Miguel So let's go back to our favorites then. Do you have a favorite area of the festival?

18:28Rob So I'm fairly, fairly open with the fact that my favourite stage is Croissant Neuf, and generally I don't know half the people who are playing there. If I've got any time, that's where I go because I just think they play great music. In general, Avalon is my favourite. A lot of the smaller bands I like tend to play there, whether it be in the main bit or in the cafe, and it's just a great vibe over there. There's been some really good acts, so I'd say my favourite stage is Croissant Neuf. favorite area in general is Avalon.

18:56Miguel I think— is that a better word that we can use other than favorite? Because we like them all.

19:00Rob Well, yeah, best of the best.

19:01Miguel The one we choose to talk about it now for podcasting reasons.

19:05Rob Well, yeah, because it's like you say, maybe it depends on the time of day. Yeah, because at nighttime you've— again, I like a lot of the Silver Hayes stuff, but then sometimes it's there, sometimes it's Southeast Corner. It depends what you like.

19:16Jessi I think I've spent the most time in West Holts, uh, due to kind Brothers Bar being there, and I nip into the Theatre and Circus Fields. It's really lovely around there. I really like the kind of world music. I like a lot of brass and stuff. So daytime, I spend quite a lot of time there.

19:29Rob Yeah, I do too.

19:31Jessi Yeah, it's really cool.

19:32Rob I'm starting to question my decisions. I really like West Holts.

19:35Jessi Yeah. And then, I don't know, like nighttime, okay, if I was going to pick a southeast corner area, 5 years ago I would have said Shangri-La, but I think the last couple of years I've had some really great nights in The Common. That amphitheatre kind of area and you get some amazing DJ on. I think we saw Nero there in 2017 and it just— the atmosphere just goes nuts.

19:56Rob It's amazing. Seen the sun come up in there a few times.

19:59Miguel Oh really?

20:00Jessi Yeah.

20:00Miguel Oh good. I quite like the backstage area, just the area itself. Ribbon Tower, the hill. So it's an area I like a lot.

20:07Rob We're all going to go up the Ribbon Tower, aren't we? We're going to make sure we absolutely do it this time as well.

20:11Jessi It's super nice around there, the park. I just find that I never For me, it's not really my music that's on the stage. Like, I'll go to the Stonebridge Bar or go to the Bimble Inn is another one that I really love to go to, especially in the early hours. Like, normally go to Arcadia. When that closes down at 3, we nip over to the Bimble Inn. Love it. But I don't really— yeah, in the daytime, it's not really one of the places that I'll go, oh, I've got someone that I need to see there. It's normally I'll be passing through and go, they sound good, but I won't go there for a purpose.

20:36Miguel No, I'm a big fan of the lineup at the Park Stage, actually. So that's an area I really like to be around. But there's one stage I like to go without even knowing what's happening, especially because I see— even if I read the names, I don't know the acts, but I always go and have a good time, which is the Glade Stage.

20:50Rob I like the Glade Stage. You haven't finished yet.

20:53Miguel Yeah, that kind of started in 2014 when I worked at the Glade Bar, and then I saw that they have a good sound system, good atmosphere. So I always like to go to the Glade Stage without knowing what's going to happen.

21:04Rob I've seen some really strange and brilliant stuff there during the day. It's quite different, isn't it?

21:09Jessi Yeah, so the thing I love about The Glade is that it's almost like a round stage and the speakers all face inwards, like they're all up high on the trees.

21:15Rob Exactly.

21:15Jessi You've got the bit above you, the, the, the treehouse bit, the walkway as well. I just think it's really cool when you're in there. It really feels like you're in this tiny sort of area, but actually it's huge. It's a good place to dance, definitely. I think you're right, Miguel, like when we are walking down from our place up at Big Ground and we're walking sort of down to go to maybe the crop fields or somewhere down there, we always go, oh, I wonder what's happening at The Glade. And we won't even have looked at the lineup, but we always know it'll be something.

21:41Rob I think The Glade changes most between day and night out of all the areas. There's so much light there, isn't there? There's lots going on.

21:46Miguel Well, Silver Hayes, I think, maybe change a lot more.

21:48Rob Well, yeah, that's true.

21:51Jessi Well, surely Arcadia, come on.

21:52Rob Well, everything changes. Everything.

21:55Miguel There's Glastonbury at day, Glastonbury at night.

21:57Rob Well, yeah, it was a silly thing to say, really.

22:08Miguel Rob, you were talking about experience you had in the past. We know Jessi goes with a big group of friends, and I also said that we didn't experience the festival together, so I want to hear how do you Glastonbury?

22:19Rob How do we do it?

22:20Miguel For example, Jessi, you go with a big group of friends. Do you stick together? How is your— I mean, not a routine, but tell me your day at Glastonbury.

22:27Jessi Oh God, tell me a day. Well, yeah, I mean, we all come together. I think the nice thing about a big group is that you know that At any point of the day you can go home. I'm doing inverted, uh, air quotes. That's the word. You can go home and there will probably be somebody in that you can just go and chat to. We don't stick together really. There have been a few occasions that we've gone, right, we all want to see this band, we'll all make the effort. One of them was Rolling Stones, another one was, um, Foo Fighters in 2017. That one didn't go quite to plan because we all got there quite late, but still we all stuck together. Um, but in general we all break off into smaller groups. We just all sit around in the morning and go, oh, what do you want to see? What do you want to see, and we almost make plans with certain different people in the group depending on what they want to see. And I guess the day, I mean, for me doesn't usually start till about midday if I'm being completely honest with myself. Um, but off we go, go and see a first couple of artists, or we go and, you know, we decide, right, we're gonna go to the craft field, we're gonna go, uh, get a massage, or we're gonna go see some theatre and circus. We normally come back to the tent about 5, 6 o'clock as a sort of pit stop before the headliners.

23:28Rob A regrouping maybe.

23:29Jessi A regrouping, yeah, that's a good way to say it.

23:31Rob Tent drinks.

23:31Jessi Tent drinks for about half an hour, 45 minutes, where we all re-glitter, grab a few extra layers.

23:36Miguel Refill.

23:36Jessi Yeah, yeah, refill our whiskey bottles, or gin in my mind. Yes, it's almost like a regroup, and then we go off again at sort of 7-ish, and then that's normally it. If we see a Pyramid headliner, because we're camped just behind the Pyramid Stage, we normally have a pit stop on, on the way back afterwards, right, before going off to the Southeast Corner or Silver Hayes. Um, but if we're elsewhere, which is quite likely. Then yeah, we just basically leave the tents at about 6:30, 7:00, and then that's it done, and I'll see you at 7:00 AM. How about you guys? What's yours?

24:06Rob Well, I suppose it makes a really good point, and it goes on from what we were talking about in the last episode with regards to camping, about timing your pit stops really, isn't it? Because as a group, we have those, those meetings in the same way, and generally the first one is the wake-up meeting where everyone kind of, you know, in a haze discusses their plans for the day and what you kind of hope between you to come up with some sort of plan. And generally there be an act where you decide to meet up again, and you might pair off, you might just go off on your own, but generally there's those, those key points during the day where you like to kind of get back together. It doesn't always go to plan. I've tried to plan many things, and, you know, you look at the lineup, you think there's one person I want to go and see. And, you know, I must have spent about 6 months telling everybody that would listen that how I was going to go and see Katy Perry because I wanted to propose to her.

24:52Miguel Well, how did that go?

24:56Rob Well, in the end, I ended up up being asleep in my tent and completely missed it.

25:00Jessi Oh, really?

25:00Rob I still haven't really gotten over it. And on the off chance that she's listening to the podcast, maybe I'm sorry, you know, I'll see you next time, whatever. Um, but yeah, so there's, there's the best plans, and, you know, what tends to happen as well, I'll always say to people, this, this is the plan, but, you know, something comes up that, you know, you just get caught up in something. If I don't show up, you know, don't hold it against me. Exactly.

25:23Jessi Yeah, yeah, yeah.

25:23Rob Because you, you just, you can't miss some things, and, you know, you just go with it. Like you say, if you meet a group of people and you're doing other things and then you see something else that— because there's secret stuff, there's surprise stuff, and then there's just things you just don't know about. So, you know, there's— it's always good to have these set points during the day, but if you miss one, you just catch up again at the next one.

25:42Miguel That's the best way to do it.

25:43Rob That's really— and that's, that's kind of a very generic thing.

25:46Miguel I had problems in the past of group dynamics.

25:48Jessi Oh yeah.

25:50Miguel When there's always someone who kind of, oh, let's wait for this, let's— trying to stick together doesn't work. Just let it go. You can regroup, as you say.

25:56Rob It can end up ruining If you're trying to stick—

25:59Miguel trying a religious stick to it. And then someone now is hungry and needs to get something to eat.

26:02Rob Yeah, and then someone needs the toilet and then, no, I don't need the toilet. And then as soon as you finish the talk, oh, actually I do need the toilet. You're like, oh, come on, man.

26:09Miguel Then he never moves.

26:10Rob That's it. And it takes that long that when they come back, you think, oh, now I need the toilet, but I don't want to be that guy that had it. So yeah.

26:16Jessi Have you guys sent the text to your friends? I'm sure everybody's always sent this. Meet you by the left-hand side of the stage. That's like the generic, generic, you know, left-hand stage, by the front, by the speaker.

26:26Rob See you there.

26:27Miguel And then you never find them ever.

26:28Jessi By the flag.

26:30Rob Or being on the phone, I'm waving, can you see me waving? I've got my hand in the air.

26:33Miguel But that is that amazing moment when then you finally find each other.

26:36Rob Yes!

26:37Jessi You run screaming into each other's arms.

26:40Miguel That's why you should just let it go when you get split apart, because then you're gonna leave this moment of getting together again.

26:46Rob Inevitably, you'll always find, and for many, many occasions, it's back at the tent. Yeah, it can even be that you end up being split up in, in amongst the crowd. You could be 5 meters from each other and not know. It's just easier to regroup.

27:00Jessi I've just remembered, uh, on this we're talking about me and my big group. One of the— one of the times where we had a bit of a— well, I don't want to say falling out, it wasn't like that, but it's just this one thing that I always remind my friend about. We were at the Beat Hotel, we'd been there for hours, we were quite drunk, and then everyone was like— this was a Wednesday or a Thursday night, so none of the big bands were playing or anything— we were like, right, we're gonna go to Block9, we're gonna go to Southeast Corner. So me being me, because I know my way around, I was like, right, I will lead you.

27:25Miguel Yeah.

27:25Jessi So I was like Pied Piper at the front with like 30 people trying behind me to keep up with me. It took, as you can imagine, forever. We got into Block9 and then went, no, this isn't what we were thinking it was going to be. Okay, we'll go somewhere else. We came out to The Glade and we stayed there. We started to settle. We'd walked all the way across the site and then my friend went, should we go to the Stonebridge Bar? I just gave up at this point.

27:46Rob I was like, I'm not, I'm not leading this many people any further.

27:49Miguel Yeah, so that's what happened. I think one year when I had the issues, like, my group of friends were seeing me as the leader and I didn't want to be. So these days I renounce that position.

27:57Rob Yes.

27:57Miguel At the beginning, and I say, guys, I'll let you know what I've been doing. Yeah, you can come together. I would love to have your company, but if something holds me back, see you later.

28:08Rob You're welcome to tag along with the plan that doesn't really exist.

28:11Miguel It was funny when I was thinking about this episode, what to say, and then I realized that even though I say every year that one of the reasons I don't volunteer is because I always have friends coming together with me, I started really realizing I leave them.

28:23Rob You just leave them anyway.

28:24Miguel And I actually have a lot of moments with strangers at Glastonbury.

28:28Rob I think so.

28:29Jessi It's just the nature, isn't it?

28:29Rob I mean, if I If I was going to give advice about making a plan, I'd say keep it reasonably vague in that, you know, there's always room for changes, but pick general points during the day where you can possibly meet up. And for things like, if you're— a lot of you, say, at Pyramid Headliner or whatever, just say, right, we're likely to get separated because, you know, we like to dance and you just get caught up and enjoy it. Pick a meeting place for afterwards. That's the way to do it. Again, don't be too specific, like, say, right, we're going to stand by this Bin, and then you get to the bin and it's rammed, you know. Just pick a general area, and if there's enough of you, you can look out for each other. But yeah, don't say, right, I'll meet you in the crowd by that flag, because they'll move. And, you know, just be sensible.

29:15Miguel I wanted to ask how you guys experience, let's say, let's say experience the theatre, circus, cabaret, the Green Fields. Oh, the Green Fields are fantastic.

29:23Rob Yeah, I mean, I've many occasions walked past the, the cabaret tent and just thought, oh, I know that name. Generally a comedian, and I'll go in and end up spending a couple of hours in there. It's fantastic. But is— forgive me if I'm incorrect here, but is the Sensation Stage in that kind of similar area as well? Because that stage, I'd had— I don't even know if it was a thing before 2017, but I spent loads of time there. It was brilliant. Odd acts, kind of like cabaret maybe, whether it was a bit of acting and it was comedy. There was It was very, very, very strange and quite eccentric maybe, but some of the acts on there were absolutely superb. And I genuinely, having discovered it, I think on maybe the Friday, made a point of going back a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah.

30:10Miguel But let's say, have you had any massage at the Healing Fields or done any workshop in crafting?

30:16Rob You know, I can't say I have. I can't say I have. I always have a look around, but generally when I do my look around, that's my downtime. That's my recovery time.

30:26Jessi Yeah.

30:26Miguel I kind of just keep quiet and That's the thing is that those are areas I really like to go when I have some gaps in my schedule. Yeah. And I love it. I love to just be around it, but I never really had the hands-on experience. So maybe, maybe I'll carve a spoon this year.

30:41Rob A friend of mine carved a spoon.

30:42Miguel That's why I use— I always use that as an example.

30:44Rob Yeah, how many spoons are there?

30:48Miguel But why wouldn't you have a massage while you're at Glastonbury, right?

30:51Jessi Well, that's the thing. My friends have done massages, But for me, I think it's a money thing. Like, obviously they're worth it, but I think it's because normally like day 1, my friends are like, oh, I've been carrying my bag, so I'm gonna go and get a massage. And I just look on day 1, I'm like, do I really want to drop £40 right now? Probably not. But I have done the craft fields quite like a number of times. Like, I think I spent—

31:10Miguel Did you carve a fork?

31:11Rob Well, you were saying that. Real interesting cutlery.

31:16Jessi No, just literally, I'm about to— okay, you guys are not gonna be able to see this, but I wear a bracelet that has been made out of a fork, and I made that at Glastonbury. Oh wow, excellent. So there was, um, I think they're called— this is, this is PG, I can say this, right? They're called Forking Marvelous.

31:31Rob See what they did there?

31:32Jessi Um, and yeah, you go and sit down and they, um, basically teach you how either a fork or a spoon to bend it into a bit of jewelry. So you bend it around like a bangle and then twiddle it around. Um, and yeah, so I did that one time. Um, me and my friend sort of saw it and It's, uh, well, at least it was at the time, it was like £10 to do the workshop, and you pick a fork out of the kind of drawer of ones they have. But they said if it goes wrong, like if you break it, then, you know, that's it, you pay £10 for the fork, basically.

31:58Rob Oh, I see.

31:59Jessi But mine, I lucked out because I wear this every day. I sleep in it, I shower in it. Again, I'm showing the boys, but the one I ended up getting was solid silver. I don't know how, I just picked it out of the bucket, and then my friend, um, who's a jeweller, looked at it and went, yeah, I don't think That was supposed to be in there, darling.

32:14Rob Oh wow. Well, they'll be after you if they're listening.

32:16Jessi So that's my like wear it every day Glasto bit of memorabilia that I made myself. Very proud of it.

32:21Rob I'm just guessing you don't eat with it.

32:23Jessi No, I don't eat with it.

32:24Rob His eating days are done.

32:25Jessi The eating days are done. It's the, the ends are bent round anyway. I couldn't stab anything with that. But the other thing I've done was when I was really hungover one time, me, me and my 2 friends just went— as we were strolling through the craft fields, we just got chatting to this lady and she was like, I'm doing a knitting workshop. And all of us were like, I have no idea how to knit. She was like, well, why don't you just come and sit down with us. So we went and sat down, she made us tea, and I think we sat there learning how to knit for about 2 and a half, 3 hours on like a Saturday morning.

32:51Miguel And did you ever use it today?

32:53Jessi No, I didn't get to knit anything. I probably— a, uh, like square patch, that was it. But it was a really nice way of like using your downtime, if you know what I mean, like forcing yourself to get up in the morning but not doing anything too extraneous, you know. We just went down there with the notion of walking around and then ended up just sitting down and chatting to this lovely lady for hours and learning how to knit. Yeah, it was really nice. It was a really nice way to spend a Saturday morning.

33:16Rob You see, I would buy into something like that. I definitely would, if I came across it and I had some spare time, I would. Getting a massage isn't something I generally do, but then at the same time I say, oh, I don't do it every day, so why would I do it at Glastonbury? There are lots of things I do at Glastonbury that I don't do in everyday life, so, you know, which point am I making? But when you see someone having a massage, you think, oh, that looks amazing. You think, okay, maybe. But then when you see someone eating chips, they always look nice and they smell nice. I'm gonna go— I'm gonna treat massages like I treat chips. People's probably are better than what I would get.

33:45Miguel Rob, Rob, I think they use oil, not salt and vinegar. Oh, right. Okay.

33:50Rob Oh, it's not vinegar. Well, maybe I'll reconsider.

34:05Miguel Speaking of chips, salt and vinegar. Oh yeah, maybe, maybe that's a good segue into our next topic, which is food.

34:13Rob I must have food on the brain, so.

34:14Miguel That's it. Well, there's so many options. Where do we start? Let's go with food.

34:20Rob Well, I definitely have a favorite, and this is— this, regardless of all the changes and all the different things I see, I always, always without fail will have at least one meal at the Bangra Bus. The Bangra Bus is just my most favorite place to go.

34:34Miguel What type of food? Bangra Bus.

34:37Rob So it's like curries and it's Vegetarian, vegan, and it's just, it's so tasty. And if you, you can't miss it. It's an old kind of American school bus that's been converted. So the kitchen's at one end and then you've got the table, some tables inside, but you know, you can get it as takeaway, eat while you're walking, or you can go into the bus and have a sit down and eat it there. Without a doubt, every single meal I've had there has just been so, so tasty.

35:06Jessi Well, where has it been?

35:08Rob You know, again, I, I don't know where anything is and I can never find it. I could never—

35:13Jessi Until you stumble across the bangers and mash.

35:14Rob No, generally you ask me to—

35:16Jessi I have—

35:16Rob I could never find the cider bus. I can never find the bangers and mash.

35:19Miguel I'm the same.

35:20Rob I can never find them.

35:21Jessi The thing is, it's weird.

35:22Miguel I've been going for so long, I know things, but I always—

35:25Jessi Somebody will say to me like, I fancy this for dinner, and I'll be like, right, I know exactly where that is, follow me.

35:30Rob If you ask me where something is, generally I'll be able to find it. Would I be able to take you there in a direct route? Probably not. Would I be able to point it out on a map? I could give you a general area. I could give you a general area.

35:42Jessi Direction is my strong point.

35:43Rob Yeah, because one of our group generally— genuinely, sorry— knows where everything is. You, you could place him somewhere and say, get here.

35:51Miguel Bosh.

35:51Rob Not only would he get there, he'd get there via the shortest route.

35:54Miguel Yep.

35:54Rob Yeah, I'm not, I'm not good at pinpointing.

35:58Miguel I know it's towards that way.

35:59Rob And I think it's because I don't I don't— if you go the same way all the time, you, you, you might miss things going other ways. So yeah, yeah, I don't tend to work that way, but it's always a treat when I find it. It's always a treat, and I get very happy when I see it.

36:13Miguel So Jessi, where is it?

36:14Jessi I don't know where the Bangabus is. So I've had the Bangabus at, um, uh, Shambhala last year, and I agree, like, it was the first time I'd had it and it was really, really good. Um, the, the version of that that I've had at Glastonbury is the Thali Cafe, which is similar, like, you know, vegetarian, vegan, lots of— so you get almost like a plate full of lots of different things. So like 2 curries, a dal, um, some rice, like you get chutneys.

36:38Rob Yeah, mango chutney.

36:39Jessi Yeah, really good. Yeah, yeah. So I've heard— I've had the Bangabas at Shambhala. When I crave something similar at Glasto, I go to Thali Cafe. But I would love to know where it is at Glasto because I probably walked past it.

36:49Rob Well, what we'll do is we'll go for a wander and eventually we'll find it. I'll go, there it is! And then from that point onwards, you can tell me where it is to save me some time when I want to go.

36:59Miguel And on a similar vein, I'm quite fond of the Buddha bowls.

37:01Jessi Oh, the Buddha bowls there. Oh yeah, really good. Really like—

37:05Miguel that's when you feel like you're eating something healthy. Yes, exactly. Yeah, so it's good for the morning after.

37:09Rob I have a feeling we could just go around—

37:11Miguel Or to fill up, to fill up for the evening.

37:12Rob And I'll go, oh yeah, that's nice. Oh yeah. Oh, the, the round Yorkshire pudding with the potato and gravy and the mushy peas. Or you can have it with like roast dinner in there if you want to.

37:23Jessi So that's good for a Sunday when you're craving your Just—

37:26Miguel have you ever had a meal? Have you ever been to the permaculture area?

37:29Rob Don't think so.

37:30Jessi Is that the one like near the Green Fields that has the—

37:32Miguel It's like a little entrance from the railway.

37:35Jessi Okay.

37:36Miguel I think I mentioned this last time, but the railway, when you're doing this walk, pay attention to your, to your sides because there's a lot of little things you can go inside. So the permaculture area is just there and you can get a really nice plate of food.

37:48Rob Sounds good.

37:48Miguel And they have this big frying pan where they do some— is it pakoras?

37:52Rob Pakoras, yeah.

37:52Miguel And they're frying like massive ones.

37:54Rob Oh, sounds lovely.

37:55Miguel This is like different from the stalls, let's say.

37:57Rob Yeah.

37:57Miguel So I would recommend, find a permaculture.

37:59Rob Oh, absolutely. That's going, that's going on my list, definitely for this year. I always, um, this one you can ask me where it is and it doesn't matter. I can say there's various different places, falafel, because I'm sure that this thing either moves or, or there is a number of them around. But, but I always think, oh, maybe, maybe they're trying to tempt me to eat it. But I, I love falafel. Very difficult to walk past that without buying it.

38:21Jessi We're going very like veggie vegan. I'm enjoying this. So like my number one veggie vegan thing is Happy Maki, which is vegan sushi. Yeah, I know, sounds crazy. And I, I thought the same thing. I remember seeing the sign at Glasto many years ago and being like, oh, why would you want that? Or I think I went over to investigate because I do love sushi and saw it was about £7, and I was like, oh well, that's, you know, like, that's not going to fill me up or whatever. One year I got tempted to try it by a friend who was going, and I've never looked back, honestly. I— they go to a lot of festivals, and I am their biggest, like, number one fan. I want them to open a cafe in London. Oh, one they have! in Brighton. At Download Festival last year, I ate it 5 times.

38:59Rob Wow, that's a proper recommendation.

39:01Jessi Yeah, honestly. So they're like, they're almost like sushi burritos. So it's like a wrap, um, made out of the sushi, and then in the middle they have, um, different fillings. But the one I always go for is like fake duck and then hoisin, uh, cucumber.

39:13Miguel They were at Shambhala. Yeah, they were. I had a Shambhala.

39:17Jessi Oh, I'm a huge, huge fan. They're always in Williams Green.

39:19Miguel It's really good.

39:19Jessi I know exactly where that is.

39:21Miguel really good.

39:21Jessi Super, super tasty. Um, while we're in Williams Green, the other one less vegan vegetarian that I go to— well, actually what I eat is vegan vegetarian. So the rotisserie chicken place that's in Williams Green, Roaming Rotisserie.

39:33Rob Now I do know that one because that's the one with the—

39:35Jessi Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, that is yummy. They do like, um, chicken rolls, or you can get half chicken. But when I'm feeling worse for wear in the morning and I need something stodgy but easy to eat and tasty, I go down there and just ask for their potatoes. They like basically like garlic potatoes and like stuffing, and then that's just like—

39:57Rob Can't go wrong with potatoes.

39:57Jessi Because it's like mushy and, and easy to eat and just delicious and really yummy.

40:02Rob Sounds yum.

40:03Miguel Yeah, I think what it shows that Glastonbury just have varied choices, high-quality choices. It's not just burger and chips.

40:10Jessi I could honestly reel off hundreds and hundreds of these. So if you want to know more, guys, like—

40:15Rob Burger and chips is probably reasonably difficult to find amongst all the nice food, isn't it?

40:19Jessi There are, there Yeah, yeah.

40:20Miguel But saying that, I remember again 2014 when I was going back to my campsite early in the morning, there wasn't many options that were open, but there was this toasty place on the way. So I was having really nice toasty before heading back to my tent to sleep.

40:35Rob Yeah, I think one of the ones I mentioned probably on one of the, uh, one of our tweets was the Growler.

40:42Jessi Do you remember the Growler?

40:43Rob Oh, the Growler, yes. Which wasn't there last year. It was not there.

40:46Miguel Surprisingly.

40:47Rob It was, yeah, I mean, I haven't had it for a few years, but even just anything that, that you, you become accustomed to seeing, and when it goes— I know so many people loved it, and it was essentially cheesy chips and bacon in a baguette, I think, was, was what their kind of speciality was.

41:03Miguel All the sauces.

41:03Rob That's it, just all of it. And it was very, very popular, so it was sad to see them not there. So bring back the Growler.

41:09Miguel I did— you say you tweeted that. I did tweet as well one of my, my food memories at Glastonbury. was, I think it was 4 or 5 in the morning and I was around Glasto Latino. I mean, I found myself.

41:21Rob You ended up there?

41:22Miguel I'm not sure if I planned to be there, but then I saw a stall selling Brazilian food, which I wasn't aware there was this option, and I was crazy hungry. And it was kind of empty, of course, and I went there and it was a Scottish guy who was serving it. Then I asked, what's going on here? The owner doesn't work these hours, right? Okay. And then they had the sort of menu with the different options, but then I was like, dude, just give me a little of everything. Just give me a little of everything. Just give me a price, I don't care. Yeah, that's it.

41:54Rob Take my money.

41:55Miguel We're about to close anyway, don't worry. He gave me this massive plate of different types of Brazilian food. I was the happiest I've ever been at Glastonbury. I don't know if they're still there, and I tried to Google what was the name or even find some old photographs but I don't know. So maybe I'll have to look for them this year.

42:10Jessi Definitely.

42:11Miguel Maybe I'll open my own Brazilian food stall.

42:13Rob Do it. I mean, I, that time of night, I always seem to navigate towards noodles. That seems to be my dish of choice of an evening. I don't know why. It just seems to be some weird routine.

42:24Jessi Isn't that like super messy if you're a bit drunk? Like you just get noodles all down your chin.

42:28Rob I don't know what it is. It's just what I seem to crave of a nighttime. And they seem to just be wherever I am.

42:36Jessi See, my favorite is, um, a van called The Cheese Truck. Just very nice and simple, The Cheese Truck. You're talking about toasties, it reminded me. They do the best cheese toastie I have ever had in my entire life, and they always have a truck at the top of Big Ground, so perfect for me. Morning cheese toastie.

42:53Rob Your local?

42:53Jessi Yeah, my local. But they also have one on the exit to, um, Shangri-La, so as you're on your way out. And that was my favorite discovery of like when I'm really drunk and I'm like, okay, time to go home, it's 4:30 in the morning, and I'm even already thinking I'm like, I'm gonna get a cheese toastie in the morning for breakfast. Can't wait. Cheese truck. And then we're leaving Shangri-La and then I see that they have a second one right there. It was a glorious moment. Beautiful.

43:23Miguel We mentioned some of our favorites, but there are so many options at Glastonbury. So we did what we really liked, which is to ask you, our listeners.

43:32Jessi Yeah, so we kind of put the call out on Twitter as we like to do. Um, and this obviously is something that people love to get involved in. Food is obviously one of, one of the big things that gets you guys going. So we had, uh, Carl Chapman saying, have you tried The Garlic Farm? Um, their garlic and chili con carne with garlic mushrooms on garlic bread is top noms.

43:52Miguel Well, I'm sold.

43:53Jessi Yeah, right, right. I mean, garlic bread is one of your, you know, staple diet, I think.

43:58Rob Absolutely. Yeah, just, uh, not so many kisses going on around.

44:00Miguel Yeah, yeah, yeah.

44:01Jessi Don't be there with your partner. Um, I have had the Garlic Farm and yeah, big fan. It's really good, really, really good. So we had another one from Davey Boy Lee who said Goan Fish Curry from the Goan Seafood Co in West Holts, which loads of people shout out the Goan Fish Curry place. It's like a real Glastonbury kind of staple.

44:18Miguel It is, yeah. I, I heard a lot about it, but I'm not really into—

44:21Jessi No, it's not really my thing, fish curry, either, but loads of people say you should try it because it's amazing. But anyway.

44:26Rob I haven't had it there. It's like this, this year I did try fish curry, and it was really, really, really nice.

44:32Jessi So maybe, maybe that can be our— maybe that's what we'll go try.

44:34Rob We'll all go out for dinner one night, shall we?

44:36Jessi So yeah, so David, um, then also in the tweet kind of called out his friend, tagged his friend, uh, who said, best meal I've had at Glastonbury. So there we go, maybe we should try it.

44:46Rob Double winner.

44:46Jessi But they also then both said, oh, I do also like sausage time, which is, um, tartiflette and saucisson from Le Grand Bouffe. Have you had that? Like the French place that do—

44:56Rob I've heard of it.

44:57Jessi The big— they have these big, big, big, almost like the size of a person saucepans or, um, frying pans, sorry. And they fill them all with tartiflette, which is like potatoes and cream and bacon.

45:07Miguel It's nice.

45:08Jessi I mean, it's stodgy, but real good.

45:10Rob Sometimes that's good though, isn't it? That's what you need, some good stodge.

45:13Miguel Yeah.

45:14Jessi The Glazo Thingy said, the raclette place I went to last time was amazing. I think it was Le Rack Shack. Oh my word. Yep, that's another one that I've had. If you want anything with a big melted cheese blob on the top, then the Rat Shack will sort you out.

45:29Rob Oh, it's not my thing, but— No, no.

45:31Jessi Tasty.

45:32Miguel Rob, get out.

45:33Rob I know, I know.

45:34Jessi This is another one that gets called out quite a lot. So this was, uh, Alistair who said Paelleria, brilliant food and good value. And also the chicken rotisserie at Williams Green in 2017. I mentioned that one.

45:45Rob Yeah, yeah, you did.

45:46Jessi But yeah, Paelleria is another one that I see at lots of festivals and everybody goes nuts for, really. And you guys must have had this as well. So Georgina, along with many other people, tagged Anna Mays saying Anna Mays is fabulous festival food. That's the mac and cheese.

46:00Miguel Oh, the mac and cheese. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do a festival tour every year, you know. So I had it in London and in Glastonbury.

46:06Jessi They do a really good one that has like jalapeños and bacon in it.

46:08Rob Now you're talking. Now you're talking.

46:10Jessi And I'm gonna read one more, uh, from Papaphone, who I am going to have to edit slightly at the end, but you'll see why. So Papaphone said, cannot remember the name, but before the festival properly opened, I was walking across site at 1 AM starving, and there was one light in the distance like a beacon of hope. I bought 2 burritos and I ate them in my tent. My mate next to me asked if I had a girl back because she heard some noises. Yeah, which I just think is brilliant.

46:40Rob Excellent.

46:41Jessi I mean, if— yeah, the fact that you brought 2 burritos I mean, like, that's my kind of guy. Like, that's— one burrito is not quite enough, I'm gonna go for the 2.

46:49Rob You just never know. You just never know. No mention of pies though. No mention of pies. You know, there's, there's always time for a pie, innit?

46:56Jessi 100%. It's interesting you say that because we also, alongside kind of asking you for your favorites, we ran, uh, another one of our polls, which we love to do. Um, and of course you only have 4 options. So I said best food at Glasto needs to be both tasty and filling, and the options were pizza, Pie and mash, burger and chips, or curry/noodles. And the winner with 35% was pie and mash. So that's interesting. I think a lot of people in the tweet replies did shout out Pie Minister, who used to be there.

47:23Rob He used to be there.

47:24Jessi He used to be there, um, but went there in 2017.

47:26Rob I was more of a square pie man.

47:27Jessi Ah, square pie, another good one. Squye.

47:29Rob To those in the know, squye.

47:30Jessi Is that a thing? I don't know if that's a thing, but okay.

47:34Rob Well, it is now.

47:37Jessi So yeah, pie and mash came first with 35, and very close behind was curry/noodles with 32. So there you go. The one that people didn't want so much of was the burger and chips. So that shows how much festive food has that influence.

47:50Rob If I remember rightly from the poll, there were a few pictures posted as well, and I did see a couple of the big Yorkshire puddings in there.

47:56Jessi Oh yeah, yeah.

47:57Rob Yeah, it was good to see that. Good to see that. Got a lot of time for them.

48:09Miguel Well guys, I don't know about you, but that talk really got me hungry.

48:11Rob Yeah, tell me about it. I think I should apologize in case there's any belly rumbling going on.

48:16Miguel But you know what, moving on. I did say at the beginning that the big difference for us on this episode is that now we have our tickets.

48:23Rob Yes, well, we've paid for them.

48:25Jessi Paid it off.

48:26Rob Yeah, we paid for them. Paid it off. We're waiting for the postman.

48:29Jessi I'll be asking the postman every day now.

48:30Miguel But there was also another big news we've had in the last days, which is the first poster drop.

48:35Rob Exactly. Yeah, we haven't even mentioned that, have we?

48:37Miguel We haven't, because we've been talking a lot about Glastonbury, but we haven't talked much about the one that's about to happen.

48:43Rob No, that's true.

48:44Miguel Which begs the question, what are your thoughts on the lineup poster?

48:47Rob What are my thoughts on the lineup poster? Well, I'm potentially going to earn a little bit of a name for myself here, especially after my Katy Perry comment earlier. But I've got to admit, I'm super excited, and I must admit, I just like the pop side of it, and I love, I love the big shows, but I'm genuinely excited to see Miley Cyrus.

49:04Jessi To be fair, so am I. I think Miley Cyrus will be amazing. It's gonna be amazing.

49:08Rob And we— I was on the socials earlier, and, um, and someone asked, what, you know, anything stand out for you? And it was quite funny really, because I— my answer was Miley Cyrus. And, uh, Miguel actually said to me, come on, you know, don't just keep doing silly answers. I was like, no, honestly, mate, I, I think it's going to be such a fun performance.

49:23Miguel I was there for Katy Perry, so yeah, it was going to be a good— yeah, people are even calling the Katy Perry slot now.

49:29Rob Well, you know, you're just, you're just being mean now because you know I missed it, but I'm sorry.

49:35Miguel Jessi, you have any acts that stand out for you?

49:38Jessi Oh, I mean, I, I'll be honest, when I first looked at this poster, like, as I've said numerous times, Glastonbury is not about the lineup for me. I would go if there was nobody on the lineup I wanted to see. But when I first looked at it, I was actually way happier than I kind of thought I'd be. I thought I was resigning myself that 2019 wouldn't be that great and they were saving it all for the 50th anniversary next year.

49:59Miguel Yeah, yeah.

50:00Jessi But actually, like, I look at it and on every line there's 2 to 3 people I'm, I'm really interested in, which is a great number. Yeah, right, exactly. Um, so I think like the ones that really stand out for me, uh, I would say Lizzo. Like, when she self-confirmed before the lineup dropped, I was really happy about that. She's awesome and got such a good live voice. I mean, the Chemical Brothers, I've seen them at Glastonbury and they've always been amazing, so I'll most likely be there. I'm watching that. Definitely. Yeah. Uh, and probably Christine and the Queens. Like, she was fantastic. I saw her at Apple Music Festival when that was a thing, uh, in the Roundhouse, and she came out and performed with Elton John, and that was amazing. Like, ever since that, I've been like, I want to see her again.

50:38Miguel We were just talking about her. Yeah, last time she played Glastonbury was really good. She owned the stage.

50:42Rob Yeah, it was a great performance.

50:44Jessi Yeah. So how about you, Miguel? What are your, like, you know—

50:47Miguel For me, I've been happy since the rumors started because I'm a fan of The Cure.

50:51Jessi Ah, okay.

50:52Miguel When the poster came out, well, don't need anything else. I have the whole festival and then that big act.

50:58Rob From the poster then you've probably read Killers and then got to The Cure and you stopped after the second one, but it depends whether or not you read the one where Janet Jackson's name was first or last.

51:09Miguel But I mean, but there's other acts I'm really happy to and want to watch, like Tammy Power, Hot Chip. It's a band I like a lot, and especially their amazing live.

51:17Jessi I think Janet Jackson will actually be really good as well. It's all those people that don't You don't see on every lineup every year, do you know what I mean?

51:23Rob Yeah, and I say going on through this list, there's a lot of names I don't know, but again, I almost find that just as exciting.

51:29Miguel Another thing, so this festival is after a fallow year, which means they have more time for changes. One of them is, what, a 60-meter pier at the festival?

51:38Rob There's a few things, yeah. And you know what, I think there's certainly— they're drip-feeding little bits of information out. So I think definitely get a little bit more info on that. I think there's going to be some good things to talk about.

51:49Miguel Block9 expanding? I think that's another one that came out already.

51:52Jessi Yeah, I'm a fan of Block9, so I'm all up for that.

51:54Miguel And also, what else? Arcadia is going to change completely.

51:56Rob Arcadia is changing. We don't know into what.

51:59Miguel No spiders.

51:59Rob But yeah, the iconic spider. In fact, who, you know, they might be opening themselves up to be able to, to do more with it.

52:06Miguel Well, they even cancelled the London event.

52:08Jessi They did, yeah.

52:10Miguel Yeah, they said it. So they're focusing 100%—

52:12Jessi They need to focus on Glastonbury because they've got a new, you know, this new structure that they've got.

52:15Rob Considering they've had like nearly 2 years already, that's, that's going to be I think that's going to be something big. I mean, it was always— I think it was always going to be getting bigger once it got its own field or its own area, at least. I mean, I think it's going to— even for people like us that have been a few times or many times, that first day will just be almost completely different in many ways. That's a good thing. That's a great thing. It is an amazing thing. And Miguel and I were just saying earlier, from talking about planning the episode and what we were going to say, we're just getting super excited and almost like we almost can't wait No, I said I might go down there and join the queue now. Maybe that might be a bit premature. Come join me.

52:54Jessi 3-month overnight queue party.

52:56Miguel You're gonna meet Rob in June with a massive beard.

52:59Rob There's still no hair on the top though. Wow, wow.

53:14Miguel Well guys, so this is This is a sad moment. We are heading towards the end, not only of this episode but also the first series.

53:21Rob Yeah, it's big.

53:22Miguel Amazing.

53:23Rob I can't believe it's come.

53:24Miguel And it's been fantastic. It's been a fantastic journey. I remember when I came to both of you with this idea, I think the pitch I made is the first series would be a guide for Glaston newbies and to answer the question, I got my Glastonbury ticket, now what? And I think we achieved that.

53:41Jessi I think we did that. We, we sprinkled a lot of excitement in there as well, like rather than just a, here's a list of what you'll need, here's some tips. Like, I think it was really fun to sort of chat to you guys about it and get excited.

53:53Rob Not only that, I mean, people have taken to it so well, uh, which is, which has just been mind-blowing for us.

53:58Jessi Yeah, we've had to rapidly go, wow, people love this, we need to get more out as quickly as possible.

54:02Miguel That's the thing.

54:03Jessi We've had to start to think about series 2 already. It's crazy.

54:06Miguel At the moment, I wish I could drop everything and just Become a full-time podcast.

54:10Rob No, I know, and I think this is testament in many other ways to what we talk about with Glastonbury, because we don't actually live that near to each other at all, do we? Which makes it quite difficult, but that's just the nature of people coming from so far and wide, meeting at a festival, becoming friends. You then go back into the— your real life, and you can be far away. When we set out to do the series, didn't we, we didn't really know where it was going to go, so we kind of started with helping everybody out in a kind of generic way.

54:33Miguel So timeless.

54:36Rob Exactly, exactly. For whatever, whatever year you come along, you can listen to our podcast and hopefully it'll help you out.

54:42Jessi I like that we haven't really touched much on the music really, have we? Like, we've talked about everything else, and that's the way it should be. Like, over the first 5 episodes we've sort of mentioned, oh, you know, when I saw this band, or, you know, but this is the first episode that we're actually talking about.

54:54Rob Yeah, absolutely.

54:55Jessi You know, like, people were excited to see.

54:57Miguel So true. Yeah, we receive a lot of tweets asking, well, when is the next episode out?

55:01Rob And I think, you know, this is time to answer that.

55:04Miguel I think that if it was up to us, we would do one episode per week. Yeah.

55:07Jessi Oh yeah. Oh, for sure.

55:08Rob I think the enthusiasm's there and we've got plenty to talk about. And if we could, it would easily be once a week, but you know, unfortunately logistically and life is in real life gets in the way a little bit. So yeah, don't think it's, it's a lack of interest.

55:21Miguel I think we're trying to say we're just overwhelmed with the reception.

55:23Rob Yeah, very much so.

55:24Jessi Sadly, we all have full-time jobs. If any of you want to pay us full-time wages to do this, gladly, you know, we'll gladly take you up on that.

55:31Miguel Because, because there's a lot we had planned and that we do, sadly.

55:34Rob Yes.

55:35Miguel But still, there is more to come.

55:37Jessi Absolutely. Yes, for sure.

55:38Rob This is not the end.

55:39Jessi So for Series 2, we really want to hear from you guys. Like, we would love to have some guests in. I'm sure you've had enough of our voices over and over. Um, so we're looking to focus on different areas of the festival for each episode. So for example, we do one on, um, the park area, we do one on the glade area. And if you have a story to tell from that area, I don't know if you work in that area volunteer in that area, you've played the stage in that area, we want to hear from you. We want to get some guests in and, and have a chat about what makes each bit of Glastonbury special.

56:09Rob I mean, we've got general ideas of where we want to go with this series, but feel free to get in contact with us. If you come, come forward with something, we might be able to work the episode around that, we might be able to work it into the episode. It's all very much in the planning. We were overwhelmed with the response we've had, so we're working quite hard and and getting Series 2 to you as quickly as we can.

56:30Jessi You guys have been really amazing at getting, you know, replying to our tweets and things. So this is an opportunity for you to get even more involved.

56:35Miguel Well, if you think you have a great Glastonbury story, you can contact us on our socials or email at [email protected].

56:43Rob Make sure you subscribe, keep listening, tell your friends, get them to listen as well.

56:47Miguel Yeah, subscribe so you get the nice notification from your podcast player app.

56:51Rob So I think, guys, all that's left really now is— I think we don't really want to, but we're gonna have to say goodbye.

56:56Jessi Not for long, you know, we'll be back really soon, I'm sure.

56:59Miguel It's not a goodbye, it's a see you later.

57:00Rob It's a see you later.

57:01Jessi See you in the field.