Party Vibe

God damn the weather! drove back from northamptonshire earlier toady and had to pull over a couple of times, I’ve never seen anything like it! I was almost crying at some points, i felt so helpless.:cry:

Hope glade still goes ahead and evryone manages to have an ace time!:bounce_fl

Just got back from the Glade – absolutely wicked time despite the weather…:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

We got there thursday evening, when all looked well (and sunny).. Then woke up on friday to find a river running through the middle of the tent (didn’t get the bits we were sleeping in tho’….:love::love::love:)

Music didn’t get going til later friday afternoon – the Overkill stage had a river running through it, and the genny’s were under about 3 feet of water for most of the afternoon, and the other stages weren’t much better. Respect to the organisers for living up to the golden rule of entertainment though – the show did indeed go on, and we got to dance lots (in knee deep mud, admittedly). Fantastic music from the point it got kicked off (and some superbly designed rigs – very loud, and crystal clear for the most part), and lovely people (remarkably few grumpies considering the adverse conditions too – most people seemed to have a well developed sense of humour, and saw the funny side of it all…:weee:) Don’t envy the clean up job – lots of people left swamped tents behind (although the site seemed cleaner than I expected for that many people)….

All my clothing may be covered in mud, and the 400 mile drive on sunday night was a little sore, but I’ll be going back next year for sure (even if it rains like that again)…raaaraaaraaa Got my Swamp Thing certificate now too…:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at::weee::weee::weee:

And we only got tapped a fiver for help from the local farmer and his tractor (not sure why you paid £20 – they had the charge written on a sign in the windows of all the tractors)… Pretty fair really, considering the alternative…:hopeless:

we didnt pay anything coz eventually we managed to push our car all the way across the car park, but nearly everyone we spoke 2 this mornin was sayin they were charging a fiver but then upped it to £20 coz so many ppl needed towing, n sum were paying 40 to jump the que! – tight as fuck i think

Thats nothing. I heard on the psy-forum that some people were getting charged up to £150 depending on vehicle size. I feel sorry for people with big campervans and mini busses.

my mate tried to leave friday . got stranded when the river burst its banks down the lane . you can see his car in the dreadzone vid

Well this is what I saw written on the psy-forum. Go ask on there if you like. I know they were charging a fiver when I was on my way in on sunday afternoon as I was watching them towing. My housemate told me the next day they tried charging her £40 to get her car towed out and other people were giving more money to the tractor drivers to get up the queue as some people were waiting hours.

I do see being £150 was a bit high, but if someone had a minibus to be pulled out they may have charged considerably more than a small car like my housemates.

I didnt see any cars getting towed from the no parking areas and I was quite surprised to see soooo many parked all the way round the road on both sides, which could have caused a hazzard especially to me as I walked from the gravel car park which was a 15 min walk away. I think they prolly didnt bother towing cars away as they couldnt go back into the car park.