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There's music at these festivals? I too am one of the older STWers and went to many free festivals in the 70s but I'd be hard pushed to remember where, when, and who I saw... maybe it is just [i]all about the love[/i] 8)
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Never bin, never likely to go, unless someone sorts me out a hotel or at least a proper decent mobile home thingy (y'know, one of those F1 style artic lorry ones), cos the idea of schlepping round in the mud and filth does not appeal to me in the slightest. A mate of mine goes every year, and every year tries to get me to go along. Just not my cup of tea. I know plenty of folk who love it though, although they all say it's become commercialised beyond belief and lacks the chilled out atmosphere other festivals have.
Too big for my liking. I prefer smaller, more intimate gatherings; think BigBikeBash over Mayhem. Used to go to all sorts of free festivals and outdoor raves and stuff back in the 90s. Couple of hundred people or so, some banging tunes, everyone chilled and relaxed, no heavy attitude, that's what I like.
Oh, and the idea of paying several thousand pounds for a few days camping and music? Pah! I can pitch a tent in WCA's garden and listen to me MP3 player for that authentic festival feel....
I can safely say that doesn't surprise me at all Effin.
What doesn't surprise you, DD?
What doesn't surprise you, DD?
Your reasons for not going to Glastonbury. I wouldn't have had you down as a big festival type tbh...not criticising or on the wind-up or anything, just saying like...
Probably all started getting far too commercialised when they started putting in toilet blocks instead of an overflowing ditch behind a bit of corrugated iron 😯
if you got to pay its shit, i remember so amazing times in muddy forest fields and empty buildings, never paid a penny... Glastonbury is for sad losers that think you can buy an alternative lifestyle... for ****s sake U2 was there, id rather sit down and eat a large bowl of new age traveller shit.
You silly billy.
Police on site was a change, it really was like a subculture city without them, albeit a little sketchy in places. The early ninties were good up to 95.
I grew up nearby & have attended a fair number of times (er, 12). Regardless of debate about how it's changed, I [i]always[/i] find something to enjoy. Not being there this year, I can't say that I miss the mud - but my mate built the Greenpeace recording studio thing & I would have liked to see that. And the Wu-Tang Clan.
Fave years: 1992, 1993, 2000, 2003.
Glasto is like life. There's loads you'll love if you go and look for it. The mainstream stuff that loads of people go for is often the least fulfilling... Go with a closed mind and you'll miss all the ops to have some fun.
Who cares if it's more mainstream, it's still a top weekend...
Personally I quite like the fact I don't have to worry about having my stuff nicked cos of the fence and the middle-classness of it all. Although now some people go for stag dos I realise the mass appeal may have attracted people who don't quite 'get' music festivals which IMO spoils it a little.
tbh the worst festival I've been to was V. When people fell down at the front, people just looked at you while you struggled to breath cos 3 fat lads were on top. At the front of Metallica at Donnington the only problem you had when you were on the floor was which of the hands reaching down to offer help you should choose from.
I'd do Sonar or Cochella if I had the money. Glasto has never appealed to me though.
and the middle class, middle age, dinner party background muzak rumbles on
just turned over to see coldplay , yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn
Coldplay...bored within a minute.
oh muddy hell. everyone knows glasto is a corporate sell out. it's a money maker. not about good live music.
everyone knows glasto is a corporate sell out. it's a money maker.
That explains why Michael Eavis has sold the expensive advertising space on the front of the Pyramid stage to those well known corporate behemoths Greenpeace and Oxfam 🙄
Lauren laverne summed it up very well, i thought. These bands are perfect for the glastonbury crowd.
lauren lavern is seriously annoying.
i see your lauren laverne and raise you a fearn cotton
Lauren Lavern is as shit a presenter, as Coldplay are a band.
Wunundred! 🙂
Festival version.
Fred 99 is the new 100. Do you know nothing?
and the middle class, middle age, dinner party background muzak rumbles on
just turned over to see coldplay , yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn
Couldn't agree more, Akira's on SyFy HD and thumbing through a book about Sonic Youth, I stood about 3 minutes of Coldplay
I went to Glastonbury pretty much every year from 1989 to about 1996.
Glastonbury was always about much more than the music. Its the random stuff that you encounter that made me laugh, and off beat stuff like the burning wicker man for instance, or taking some time-out to listen to a story teller.
A little anecdote from 1989 that plagues me:
The ONLY thing I can remember about the 1989 one was leaving the Pyramid Stage area at the end of Saturday night. For some reason, there was a hoofing great ditch to cross, and the only means of crossing it was over a long plank that someone had improvised. As we approached the ditch, there was a crowd of hundreds going nowhere fast, what's the hold up I thought as I pressed forwards. There was some guy completely toasted beyond belief stood in the middle of the plank. He had his trousers around his ankles, covered in filth, mucus dripping from his nose, masturbating FFS. Nobody was willing to try to get past him, hence the hold up. He eventually tripped over his trousers and fell in the ditch, thus enabling everyone to get past. Fair play to the chap that dived into the ditch to help the wa@nker though.
I feel robbed that this is my only memory of that year, as I was quite into The Waterboys and have no recollection of their performance.
Much prefer to watch Glasto on telly at home these days
Cheers Dogbert, good vid.
not sure what people have against Lauren Lavern, i think she's a refreshing change to the vacuous bimbo presenters that bbc yoof/4music turn out. She's great on the culture show. she's like Fearn but with brains, and less tatoos, and not an ex ballerina
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mrmichaelwright - Membernot sure what people have against Lauren Lavern, i think she's a refreshing change to the vacuous bimbo presenters that bbc yoof/4music turn out. She's great on the culture show. she's like Fearn but with brains, and less tatoos, and not an ex ballerina
But she cant present for shit..... Really, she is awful.
Cheers Dogbert, good vid.
Welcome, in fact see my newly constructed thread regarding "better than Glastonbury" music videos
Chemicals were good (as usual). To be honest In about half a dozen visits I bet I only saw 4 bands. So U2 and Coldplay are boring - who the **** goes to the headline acts anyway?
Fearn Cotton is seriously annoying. She is though! I'm not wrong.
If I hear the word AMAAAAAZZZZIN again I'm gonna lob a bottle at the tv.
who the **** goes to the headline acts anyway?
about 100000 people
that's what persuaded me to put my name down for 2013 tickets
if all those people are watching the headline acts then there'll be more space for me to watch some random german hippies performing folk art with feather dusters and tractor engines or something
Anyway, Jo's back on HD now 🙂