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Glastonbury 2012 is not happening partly because all the loos are heading for the London Olympics. Cropredy will coincide with the Olympics that year. Are we all going to have to dig our own holes? Or should we just be buying shares in the portable loo companies?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/17/glastonbury-2012-london-olympics

What are they on about, Glastonbury is a month before the Olympics. If anything I would have thought there would be an over supply.

And this is a public topic. Keep the toilet jokes in the Arms, if they must be anywhere.

"Eavis said Glastonbury's banks of lavatories were provided by four different suppliers, but the Olympics meant 2012 would be a toilet-supplier's dream year and prices would inevitably be pushed up. "I can see it getting very expensive," he said. "So we looked at the timing and thought that a year off seemed sensible."

In preliminary discussions with Avon and Somerset police, he was also told that all the 600-odd officers usually deployed at Glastonbury would be needed in London. The festival generally takes place a month before the games open on 27 July, but the capital's security will have already been beefed up in June."

Glastonbury has fallow years regularly, most of the time with five year gaps, to give the locals and the cows and the farm a rest, they were due one next year but put it to 2012. This was confirmed last year, just the papers making up stories as usual.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/09/090723c.shtml

However Cropredy 2012 would be during the last week of the Olympics, which could be a problem.

Yes, but can anyone see FC not celebrating their 45th anniversary with a Cropredy festival ? Maybe shifting it for one year only to the week after ?

Er, I wasn't serious! So no rumours, please.

Presumably, the Olympic venues should have adequate facilities, they won't want people wandering in and out of stadia to go to the loo.

More of the typical British 'any excuse to make a fast buck' syndrome, I'd wager.

Plenty of evidence of that in other countries too - last time I was in New York touts were selling little photo albums featuring planes being flown into the WTC and all the aftermath. Taking advantage of a situation to make money comes from enterprise not being British!

I believe the loos would be required to supplement the venues' facilities and would be situated on site so people wouldn't need to wander.

have you evidence of this? I believe you have nothing to go on

Oh...I don't think we will have either in 2012

No toilet crisis at Cropredy!

Pee in the hedge
Pee in the hedge
When I need to go
I'm gonna pee up the hedge
 ;)

Our version of that is 'the fence'.
When dusk falls, there seems to be a regular procession through the gap between the bar and CD tent.
The rubbish skip must be really p****d off. Or on.

Olympics is a one off eveng as well - surely business sense would prevail with a regular (no pun intended) customer for future trade.

DW

Very few do now - one, thee rubbish skip wasn't there this year, and two, the loos in Field 6 aren't much further.