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3 day ticket & camping booked!!!

See y'all in August...…...

 
Ditto.....well nearly  ;)

Field 8 and 3 day ticket booked

see you at the Pavilion on Thursday 8th!

It's a date!  ;D  {:-)

Tickets booked
Field 8 camping ticket

Roll on August !!

Tickets Booked - we're staying at Bridge Meadow again - let's hope for a dry one !

Anyone taken the glamping potion yet. Tempted.....

Option! 😂😂

Your pic looks like you've just a swig of the glamping potion, Darren... perhaps that explains the painted toenails, or did I dream those...

Two more booked over here. No glamping for us - hoping to be back on Field 4 as usual.  :)

I’d have to have a fair bit of ‘potion’ first, to agree to cough up that much dosh!

Well by the time we subtracted 2 rooms at the Premier Inn on the Wednesday night it was a bit more palatable so here we go Cropredy glamping! ☺

Field 8 sold out already.

Add another 2 3-day tickets for me and my friend Tracy (my wife knows naturally  ;) ) and accommodation booked. Expensive but worth it at Hellidon Lakes! Maybe this year I’ll get to meet some other Talkawhilers for the first time since I joined the forum...failed to do so in recent years but that was my fault

Tickets booked, failed to get Field 8 as already sold out even though we got straight through at 12:00!
Did get 7B though so we can still get there on the Wednesday.

3 days for me, staying at the Premier Inn (again!)

Yup, three day ticket secured. At Bridge medows for camping, booked in August, so can arrive on Wednesday. Looking forward to it.

Booked our tickets including 7b - so we'll hopefully get all sorted out early enough to enjoy a pint or two at the Brase on Wednesday.

Delighted to get wednesday arrival as we usually head for field 7 anyway.

Vince

I couldn't make this year for various boring reasons. I really hope I can make it in 2019, but as I'm on the waiting list for a knee replacement operation I'm loathe to shell out just yet. Hopefully things will be a bit clearer in the next couple of months. Fingers crossed.

We missed you this year Mick! Hope your knee gets sorted so you can go   [;-)

3 day booked. On foot so no camping ticket needed. Should I cash in my "running away" money for glamping? Hmm?

To answer my own question:No. Running away fund doesn't cover £480

Cheapskate - not even going luxury ;D

Mind you probably cheaper than renting a campervan plus I do fancy the buggy ride to the arena field.  I wonder if they can pick up from the Brase?

I think the buggy ride back from the arena at night is probably more essential

Ticket no. 48, stickers, signed greeting card delivered today.  :) 8)

Yup, Bridge Meadow perfect for flexibility, near the village, and cheaper than the official site. And no issue with arriving on Wednesday.

Same here. Tickets, sticker and Christmas card arrived yesterday. Bit of a traditionalist, travel overnight Wednesday and try for field 4 or 5 as early as poss Thursday. Been doing it for years, don't feel the need to change now.

Same as us.

I see all the Glamping has now sold out!

 ;D

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the glamping facility could change the dynamic/clientele of the festival?

 :-\
Think Larmar Tree, think Latitude.
They’ll be spraying the sheep purple next! ;D
Then a nice little VIP area down the front
....and a seperate bar for performers so you can meet the artists ...if you have bought a VIP ticket!
Don’t worry it won’t happen while Simon and Peggy are there......though it is a model for some gigs and fests.
I won’t post a link but have a look at the Consequence of Sound website . They review fests including VIP areas. Some of which charge 10 times normal admission.
Your own entrance, your own viewing area , drinks package etc.
It does reinforce how special Cropredy is. One stage. You can take in your own alcohol and water. Artists mixing with ‘punters’. You can sit down. Etc
I have attended a lot of other larger fests...trust me Cropredy is very special.
.....and Lorna , I think the clientele/ dynamic is continually changing. We will see what a more ‘ traditional Cropredy line up’ attracts this year.

I would have thought it's exactly what's needed to keep the clientèle. At 60+ crawling into a little tent in a tempest wears a bit thin. Glamping is probably a minimum standard.

I didn’t say negative or positive, was just wondering. Throwing it out there.  :)

Well, apart from the fact I couldn't afford it, I would agree that this facility would be welcome to those of us who may be struggling healthwise. I'm keeping an open mind, though.
 

No. This year I was at Cropredy in my little one man tent having backpacked down from Lancashire on the train. Next year I will be glamping,I'm the same person. There were a 60 bell tents available (I think),if each one holds a maximum of 4 people,that gives 240 punters. If we assume an attendance of 20000 you have just over 1% of the campers in that field. I suspect a number of these would be people who did B&B elsewhere previously. Obviously the changes in demographic are relevant as someone else has said but that has always been the case,I've been going to Cropredy on and off since 1989 and I've certainly changed. I'll promise to behave badly just like always though.  [;-) [;-)

 ;D


That’s reassuring.

Glamping.. I too suspect it is the same punters who have been attending Cropredy for years. Me & the Mrs and our two chums have been attending since the early 80's, indeed in my Cropredy debut I slept in the back of a small car  :-\.  In our case it is not a health decision (we are athletic types) we simply thought we would treat ourselves to this new level of luxury and see if it enhances our enjoyment of the festival.
I can assure Dad Volt that we too are very well behaved - I will be the chap in the black velvet smoking jacket and cravat clutching a glass of Pimms, occasionally dipping into our Fortnum & Mason hamper for fine cheeses and other treats.  I don't have any green wellies though, this must be attended to.

Frankly, this is the level of sophistication to which we all aspire. I once saw FC at an outdoor show in Great Hadham to which someone had transported a dinner table, complete with candelabra, around which a party of evening-dressed and dinner-suited folk had a substantial three course meal. More of this sort of thing, I say!

Don,t ask me the year, it is lost in the murk of history  but there was one year we were camped next to some guys on Field 2 who had a standard lamp , couch, coffee table which we helped to transport to the fest field on our wheelbarrow(!!!!!! there were 18 of us we transported a lot of stuff!) whilst humming the theme from the Dambusters , with the necessary wing men! Happy days
Oh , and the standard lamp worked. Car battery!

Yes, I remember coming across this as I crossed the field. A touch of class and what a laugh.

Definitely '96 and they had a framed portrait of the queen mother on the sideboard. Class.  :D  

Not sure of the year

Like the telly but as it looks like they’re all sitting watching the car park the telly looks a better option  ;D

I now have cropredy tickets  ;D but no..We're going to Cropredy sticker?? Is this normal? :-\

Wasn't that for the first thousand only?

Don’t know but I did get a Christmas card  :)

Do you mean the camping sticker?  In the past everyone has had one of those, but only the first so many have had a 'Going to Cropredy' car sticker.

First 1000 should have got a Christmas card
First 2000 should have got a car sticker (I'm going to Cropredy sticker)

Didn’t get a car sticker though  :-[

I have a car sticker but no car so it's available to the first person who wants it.

oh Ive always had one in the past ..must have been earlier getting tickets....

Ticket purchased.  See you at the cricket club in 148 days, 20 and a half hours...!

See you there Will!  {:-)

Could anyone tell me the dates for the ticket price rises, please?

From the website:

3 day Weekend - 8, 9 & 10 August 2019

Before - June 1st                   £ 140.00
June 1st - July 31st               £ 145.00
After July 31st                      £ 150.00

Thank you  :)

Wasn't a question about if we were going,we are but wasn't sure about the format of offspring attendees,but happy to announce that the full Volt family (plus one) will be in attendance!  [;-) [;-) [;-)

Update for those glamping.. apparently the company will send out an email about 4 weeks before Cropredy with all required info for admission etc.  
Don't make the mistake of taking a synthetic duvet however - you might be told if your name's not down, you're not coming in. ;D

For all the years we've been going to the festival we've always headed to the tent at the end of field 2 to get our wristbands. Always enjoyed the stroll there from the cricket club with mounting excitement and happiness. But I've sometimes wondered if there was anywhere else on the site that did the wristband exchange?

Field 7a

"What number is this, Chip?"

Jules

I'm not sure you can get the wristbands at Field 7a, can you?  I've camped on field 7 several years and never noticed it if so.  I've always gone to the one by the barn entrance.

Field 8 on the Wednesday too, although we went in the evening and they'd shut up shop.

Hmm..maybe it was Field 8. Apologies.

Love it Jules!  ;D ;D ;D

I see what you did there!

I don’t  :(  :-\

Yes I do!!!

neither did I, until..

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/the-monkees/daydream-believer

the power of the Googleverse...

Warm-up shows (usual Monday/Tuesday Aug 5/6) on sale via FC's webshop @ £25 each. Special guests for both nights

Giving the weekend a go this year after taking last year off. The 10 piece Fairport extension really clinched it for me.

DW

We are going    :D thanks for tickets Tasha  :D

However we have two morre tickets for sale  our usual friends can't go due to illness and have asked us to sell their tickets 3 day  see the tickets bought and sold page.

Hello Sweden here.  :D
Was at the big 2017-bash - lovely.
Me and my brother are coming this year, friday/saturday.
 8) 8)

Hello Sweden!!

One Field 7b 4 Day Camping sticker no longer
required. Anyone need one?
Think they were £50?
Any offers?

Selling 2x weekend festival tickets and a camping pass for £280 including special delivery. Cost £326 off the website. Please drop me a reply, an e-mail to danrobottom24@hotmail.co.uk or a call on 07515 144 491 if interested. Firsts year I’ve not been in 29 years so whoever buys them please have an especially beautiful time on my behalf. Really need to get these sold so please ask your friends if they need tickets! Much love. Ran



Edit: Sold- Andy

we got tickets!!!

A large Pastie(Me) a medium Pastie (son aka Jibbs) and a small Pastie (Grandaughter aka Kyra ). Two pints and a Fruit Shoot .

Selling for a friend who has sadly acquired last-minute commitments; two tickets for tonight's warm-up ; and a three day ticket for the Festival proper. Will split. Best offer secures. PM me with offers (tonight's can be left on the door for you ) Thanks !!!

Collecting van from Leeds this afternoon... yippee!!

I'm not going (again) this year, although I wish I was (again). I hope you all have a great time and best of luck with the weather.