How to get tickets for Glastonbury 2017
It’s not even the end of the year, and we’ve only just hopped out of our liftshare home from the 2016 festival circuit, but alas, tickets have ALREADY sold out for Glasto 2017. Worthy Farm re-opens its doors on 22nd June, but are there still ways to get tickets? Thankfully, there are, and we’re going to tell you…
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Summer 2016 sees a plethora of festivals take place, and more events than ever are encouraging revellers to liftshare there and back – to help keep the sites green, cut back on traffic queues, and extend your journey into a proper road trip!
So, where to go this summer? Allow us to advise…
Isle of Wight Festival – June 9th-12th
Seaclose Park, Isle…
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Oxfam Stewards provide volunteer staff at the UK’s top festivals whilst raising vital funds for famine relief, emergency aid, and injustice causes across the globe.
Today’s the day that volunteer applications open, and the Oxfam Stewards Liftshare Group launches. Stewards will be travelling together and sharing lifts to and from festivals and events all over the country, in order to help…
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Festival season is almost upon us, and revellers everywhere are booking up their Liftshares to get to and from this summer’s best events as easily and cheaply as possible.
But now there’s another way to make your festival experience hassle-free and cut down on the time you spend sorting out your essentials. Enter Camplight – and here’s their…
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Coldplay will headline the infamous Pyramid stage on the Sunday of the 2016 Glastonbury festival, it has been confirmed – making them the first act ever to headline Glasto four times!
The only festival show of the year for the alt-rock four-piece, the performance will be the culmination of their A Head Full Of Dreams tour, which sees them visiting…
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Going to Glastonbury? Wickerman? T in the Park? Boardmasters? You’ll need to take your smartphone to help capture the adventure for Facebook. You might even use it as a phone too, maybe. There are lots more you can do with your smartphone while you’re out so let’s take a look at 10 apps to consider…
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Glastonbury is arguably the UK’s biggest music festival, and it’s all taking place 24-28 June at Worthy Farm in Pilton. Many Liftshare staff have been going to the festival for years, so it’s hands-down the office favourite. In fact, Liftshare members have registered over 1,000 journeys to Glastonbury every year since 2008, so it’s a community favourite too.
Because we have so…
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Liftshare members regularly travel to UK festivals each year. But whether they’re going to the sprawling epicness that is Glastonbury, or smaller community-led events like the wonderful Village Pump Folk Festival, waste and green concerns are being cast under greater scrutiny than ever before.
That’s why we always encourage our members to travel together via car shares to keep carbon emissions…
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Liftshare is always keen to see festivals reduce the amount of waste they produce each year, which is why we encourage revellers to share cars together as a way of cutting down on emissions.
But what about the material waste left behind after a big open-air festival? We recently spoke with Kes, editor at the Festival…
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Festivals exist for music-lovers to let their hair down, ignore their work inbox for a weekend and just cut loose while shaking to some class acts. It’s easy to overlook just how much of an environmental impact large festivals have on their surrounding area, and this is one of the many reasons Liftshare exists.
Not only does sharing lifts together cut…
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Students and driving go hand in hand. Picture the scene: you’re a fresh-faced high school-leaver about to embark on the next phase of your educational journey. You roll up for day one of your life as a uni student in your first car, and just like that you become known as the person everyone can tap up for lifts….
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