Dasha & Nick
I (Nick) went first with my friend Matt. I never wanted to go, hated camping, and only agreed because I thought we would never get tickets! We did of course and I had the time of my life.
Two years later I was living in New York and met Dasha on Tinder. We soon found we enjoyed a common love of music and I jokingly said; “Let’s go to Glastonbury”. We landed tickets but having known each other for only two months and still seeing other people, I worried we might not last. We booked separate flights to the festival and then waited to see what happened next. Of course we stayed together and headed to England in June 2015. My family and friends frustrated at the separate flights to ferry us to and from Heathrow!
2015 was a great festival, my third and thanks to Matt I knew my way around, strangely the only place on Earth I don’t get lost! Dasha, with no expectations, was stunned at the sheer scale of the festival and sense of freedom that Glastonbury promotes. Lionel Richie was and is still our best set of Glastonbury and any other event or concert they’ve attended. Dasha was in awe of the British crowd singing along to all of Lionel’s songs, as was Lionel himself!
2016 was wet, very wet, but once you’ve been to a good Glastonbury the weather can’t get you down. Dasha met Kate, a friend of mine, through Matt and some others from around the world, closing that loop of friendship that had brought me to the festival originally. We saw both of Caravan Palace’s sets and have since seen them twice back in New York.
2017; we took a bunch of American friends and unbeknownst to Dasha, I took her engagement ring. We had discovered the Deluxe Diner in 2016 and Dasha was not suspicious at the large group of friends that sat down to dinner, and who eventually witnessed my proposal and her acceptance.
2018; for the fallow year we went to Burning Man. We would like to officially ask for the fallow years to be cancelled, I do not want to go back to Burning Man!
2019; we wed in November 2017 but with family spread around the world eventually married four times, in LA, Russia and finally England. What better way to celebrate your wedding and start your honeymoons than Glastonbury? Everything was arranged around the dates of the festival. In Russia we were blessed with a perfect full moon for the canal trip in St Petersburg and the weather in England was just right, it had been raining the previous weeks. Both serendipitous events only happened thanks to Glastonbury, so we went back to diner in full wedding garb to celebrate!
The acts we’ve seen over the years; Underworld, Justice, Carl Cox, Earth Wind and Fire, Miley and Kylie, Clean Bandit, Grimes, Fatboy Slim (& Eats Everything), Late Night Tuff Guy, Burt Bacharach, Madness, The Chemical Brothers and all the other acts large and small. These are just part of what makes Glastonbury special, the feeling of love, inclusion and general good spirits is what keeps us and many others coming back. In fact, for 2021 we are working on coming back as three! When 2020 was cancelled we figured it was the best chance we would get to have a baby and keep coming!
