Cropredy Pavillion Bar Thursday at 12.00

[Jim]

Can anyone tell me what time the ticket exchanges start on the Thursday, please ?

And maybe they will open early this year in anticipation of more people wanting to be there for Fairport ?

It's usually not possible for us to leave Leeds before mid-day, but working on it for this year. It would be a shame to arrange everything and be stuck in extra traffic or wristband queue when Fairport are playing.

they started quite early last year, i think we had ours before 2 o'clock

[Metro96 (Keith)]

Can anyone tell me what time the ticket exchanges start on the Thursday, please ?

And maybe they will open early this year in anticipation of more people wanting to be there for Fairport ?

It's usually not possible for us to leave Leeds before mid-day, but working on it for this year. It would be a shame to arrange everything and be stuck in extra traffic or wristband queue when Fairport are playing.

We picked ours up from a small trestle table that had been set up outside the campsite control for the backpacker's field.
This was on our way to the Pavilion so around about 11:15 -11:30ish.

In fact I have just checked a photo taken of me with a pint in one hand and a band on the opposite wrist stamped as:
12/08/10 11:43.

[Ian W.]

Thank You !

So if we can set off at 10am, we should be tents up, pint at Pavilion and wristbanded by 3-ish.

[Jim]

Thank You !

So if we can set off at 10am, we should be tents up, pint at Pavilion and wristbanded by 3-ish.

drunk as a skunk by 4

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

I know it's not quite the same as being in the field, but you'll be able to hear FC from all the approaches to the field, and the wristband queues are tiny (in our experience) on the Thursday.

I have a really good feeling about this years festival. I think it's going to be one of the best ever.  

[peterwales]

One of my fondest memories of recent Cropredy's, is being in a seemingly massive long queue for the wrist band exchange, about 4.00pm one very hot Thursday, just as Wishbone Ash loudly tore into "Argus" from the nearby main field. Bliss.......we got in pretty quickly as well, and did manage to see most of what was one of my favourite band's of the long-gone 70's as well. Sure a similar thing will apply to acoustic FC.

[hendo (Dave)]

One of my fondest memories of recent Cropredy's, is being in a seemingly massive long queue for the wrist band exchange, about 4.00pm one very hot Thursday, just as Wishbone Ash loudly tore into "Argus" from the nearby main field. Bliss.......we got in pretty quickly as well, and did manage to see most of what was one of my favourite band's of the long-gone 70's as well. Sure a similar thing will apply to acoustic FC.

Wristband exchange 1 o clock before a pint on the gravestones at the Lion (No honestly we are not hidebound by 20 yrs of tradition!!)
It used to be arrive on thurs and spend all day and eve in the village(lots of pints on the gravestones) cos bands weren't on till 5 pm Fri

[davidmjs]

It used to be arrive on thurs and spend all day and eve in the village(lots of pints on the gravestones) cos bands weren't on till 5 pm Fri

I really miss that 'Thursday in the Village' tradition...  Less is often so much more...you can have too much of a good thing.

[bassline (Mike)]

I tend to agree, I find I'm always hoping the thursday headliner will get on with it so I can go to bed, having had a very early start,drive,tent build etc.In the old days you could chill on thursday and be ready for a couple of days concentrated music and drinking over the weekend.

[Tertonmike]

I tend to agree, I find I'm always hoping the thursday headliner will get on with it so I can go to bed, having had a very early start,drive,tent build etc.In the old days you could chill on thursday and be ready for a couple of days concentrated music and drinking over the weekend.

That's the sort of thing old farts like me (cf. newly minted photo, left) think - and sometimes even say - but you look like a young buck who should be able to keep going all weekend    

I don't know.....young people today      Tsk, Tsk (as we used to say in the old days)  

[Nick the Stick]

One of my fondest memories of recent Cropredy's, is being in a seemingly massive long queue for the wrist band exchange, about 4.00pm one very hot Thursday, just as Wishbone Ash loudly tore into "Argus" from the nearby main field. Bliss.......we got in pretty quickly as well, and did manage to see most of what was one of my favourite band's of the long-gone 70's as well. Sure a similar thing will apply to acoustic FC.

Wristband exchange 1 o clock before a pint on the gravestones at the Lion (No honestly we are not hidebound by 20 yrs of tradition!!)
It used to be arrive on thurs and spend all day and eve in the village(lots of pints on the gravestones) cos bands weren't on till 5 pm Fri

That's exactly what we've done forever.
Are you me? (My brain hurts).

[bassline (Mike)]

I tend to agree, I find I'm always hoping the thursday headliner will get on with it so I can go to bed, having had a very early start,drive,tent build etc.In the old days you could chill on thursday and be ready for a couple of days concentrated music and drinking over the weekend.

That's the sort of thing old farts like me (cf. newly minted photo, left) think - and sometimes even say - but you look like a young buck who should be able to keep going all weekend    

I don't know.....young people today      Tsk, Tsk (as we used to say in the old days)  

That's very nice of you to say so, but looks can be deceptive.It's a genetic thing.My grandad was informed that a tea dance he attended was for over 65's only.He was 78.

[Chris]

One of my fondest memories of recent Cropredy's, is being in a seemingly massive long queue for the wrist band exchange, about 4.00pm one very hot Thursday, just as Wishbone Ash loudly tore into "Argus" from the nearby main field.

Hmmm - Wishbone Ash opened the festival?.....Are you sure? Which year was that then?

[MikeB (Mike)]

One of my fondest memories of recent Cropredy's, is being in a seemingly massive long queue for the wrist band exchange, about 4.00pm one very hot Thursday, just as Wishbone Ash loudly tore into "Argus" from the nearby main field.

Hmmm - Wishbone Ash opened the festival?.....Are you sure? Which year was that then?

Well, Peter's memory timewise could just be a little faulty. If he was queuing for a wristband around 6 rather than 4, he would have heard Wishbone Ash, who were third on on the Thursday in 2007 (after Anthony John Clarke and Kerfuffle) although I suspect that you already knew that Chris...

[jaypeter (Peter)]

I tend to agree, I find I'm always hoping the thursday headliner will get on with it so I can go to bed, having had a very early start,drive,tent build etc.In the old days you could chill on thursday and be ready for a couple of days concentrated music and drinking over the weekend.

That's the sort of thing old farts like me (cf. newly minted photo, left) think - and sometimes even say - but you look like a young buck who should be able to keep going all weekend    

I don't know.....young people today      Tsk, Tsk (as we used to say in the old days)  

I loved Mickey Flanagan's routine on clubbing for the older person, he says now if he sees a club with a big queue outside he thinks "ooooooh no, I'll never get a seat in there".

[Jim]

wishbone were on while we were queueing up for tickets in 2007 i think, possibly 2008
a more lumpen leaden noise ive never heard
well maybe the strawbs  

[hendo (Dave)]

wishbone were on while we were queueing up for tickets in 2007 i think, possibly 2008
a more lumpen leaden noise ive never heard
well maybe the strawbs  

Jim.jim jim! Wishbone Ash were fabby IMHO But then i was down the front to see the king and not still shopping in argus.

[hendo (Dave)]

It used to be arrive on thurs and spend all day and eve in the village(lots of pints on the gravestones) cos bands weren't on till 5 pm Fri

I really miss that 'Thursday in the Village' tradition...  Less is often so much more...you can have too much of a good thing.

David, we're both old farts who can't live  on past memories. BUT thurs nights in the lion followed by a late and slow breakfast on field 2 having picked up a dingbats  to do from the canoe club, are good memories.
18  of us on field 2 , village hall table, candelabra and white picket fencing. A guy ,jet lagged from a flight from Australia walked through our 'camp 'about 10 on the fri morning. We 'kidnapped' him forced him to have breakfast, drink beer and re enact the ashes at the cost of 2 frying pans. don't know his name but we called him Sydney for obvious reasons. His sister found him 2 and a half hrs later developing an understanding of the restorative powers of the Newcy Brown/Chardonnay chaser combination. Nice bloke but with a really boring job cleaning the outside of New York skyscrapers which he explained at length. Happy days.
In the Wishbone Ash yr I lent the guys in the next tent a tape! of Wishbone Ash live. They gave it me back on Sunday Morning explaining it was Jennifer Rush!!! Any of my credibility gone , Sheen still refused to admit how Jennifer Rush had got in to the car. B......s! Happy days!

[Big Dave]

wishbone were on while we were queueing up for tickets in 2007 i think, possibly 2008
a more lumpen leaden noise ive never heard
well maybe the strawbs