Load of old tosh really full of jumped up **** from the media to paying guests.

Used to like festivals etc but now nah all looks like a nightmare and far to much about the money…

Wish the media would stop telling us about the traffic and the weather – no one is forcing them to go !

Glastonbury in or out ?

I’m out !

Out.

Out

I’m sure some of the visitors these days go only so they can keep the wrist band on and let folk know theyre down with the kids and been at glasto for 6 days etc.
Me, I couldn’t be arsed with all the traffic/number of dickheads/sheer size of the event, that’s why i’ll be off to ynot festival again this year, 30 mins from my house I know all the shortcuts to get there only 9000 folk a good line up and beautiful peak district sunsets (if the weather is kind)

its a load of dreadful comercialised, sanitised, middle of the roads tedium, full of people who care about their designer wellies/shades more than they do the music or the atmos, the weather looks shit, the line up painfully dull, its a soulless sold out hell these days, the magic has long since left- its access was denied the year they 1st put up the oppressive wall, worse still the BBC will be ramming it down my throat accross all platforms for the next few days….

… my brothers going, Im still a bit jealous

Mate is going for the first time this weekend, in an RV with his kids.

How times have changed from when you had to give some scousers 20 quid to jump on their ladder to get over the fence.

I quite enjoyed it the last time I went (11 years ago 😯 ). But that was on a “locals” ticket on the day bus from Frome.

Folks have moved away from area so don’t bother now.

It’s all about the money.

Oh wait, don’t they give a lot of it to charity?

Wish I had gone years ago, no compulsion now.

I used to go to festivals when I was young to see loads of people I loved, and when they weren’t playing I’d just mooch into the nearest tent and see if I could find any other brilliant bands (British Sea Power, Ladytron, Polyphonic Spree, The Hives off the top of my head came from minor tents)

And to have a good drink and laugh with my mates.

You think Glastonbury looks bad, have you seen the V line up?

http://www.vfestival.com/lineup/

The only band I know of on the line up is coldplay, who else is there this year? Are the foos there after cancelling last year?

Deliberate typo because it’s so hard to find somewhere to sit when it rains at Glasto?

Out, not my thing at all – although probably watch watch 10 mins a year

Load of new-age rubbish, music is nothing but noise pollution.

I’m passionate about music and actually quite enjoy festivals but have absolutely no interest at all. At least the football is on so I can avoid the BBC wall to wall middle of the road coverage!

Can’t be bothered with most festivals these days, too full of upper middle class hunter wearing wannabees.

I would however make an exception for Festival No.6 which is superb, and very surreal. If you want a festival with a difference that’s nothing like the corporate wadfest that Glastonbury has become give No.6 a go.

my kind of festival is one that is largely free to attend, has a host of local bands of different ilks, where you are free to see and hear them in comfort.

so i’m out.

Any form of music festival was my idea of hell. However went last year and really enjoyed it. As mentioned on other thread was meant to go this year but so glad I’m not

Glastonburytraffic on Twitter is making me smile

My idea of hell too, cant understand how anybody would want to go!

Out, pile of overpriced tosh.
Combine that with organised crime, drugs and human excuses for being tosspots.

I think more and more that festivals are the way to go,better value for money if you choose the right one.my choice this summer

Glastonbury not popular with middle-aged IT managers then…

I’m sure there are some artists playing Glastonbury that I would love to see, but the headliners?? Get music that everyone thought was SHIT when they were current and now pretend that they are good? WTF? I don’t get that at all.
And Adele? ADELE?? Jeez. Can’t think of anyone I’d less like to see whilst stood in a muddy field. (Apart from Sam Smith probably)

Out. I’ll wait for the Proms to start.

I’m still bitter I couldnt afford / wasnt allowed to go when I was 16.

Though seeing as the overwhelming activity seems to be traipsing around in mud, i get more than my fair share racing cx 😀

…I’m sure some of the visitors these days go only so they can keep the wrist band on and let folk know…

Had a patient in with Diabetic Ketoacidosis the other day and had to cut at least a dozen, extremely manky, festival bands off their arm in order to find a good artery to do a blood gas from. They seemed more upset about the wrist bands than the fact they had a serious condition that needed treating!

Adele and Coldplay headlining? 😯

Looking past the obvious middle of the road dirge that are Coldplay and Adele, there are some decent acts, e.g. LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Beck.

Not enough to type a post about how little I care about it…..DAMMIT!!! 👿

In at 23

Very Out at 37

I went 4 times over 5 years leading up to the 2000 one, before the ‘big fence’ – I was poor and a bit of a scallywag so I never bought a ticket, I did try once but they sold out.

2 had bad weather and it was rubbish, it’s hard to move around, easy to get lost and being cold and wet is never fun, but we made the most of it, we had a large pitch of tents at the top of the field opposite the main stage, but we mostly sat on our arse smoking weed and watching the main stage.

2 had great weather and it was brilliant, we saw more acts, danced about and generally had a great time.

I think the improvement was as much because we stopped seeing it less as an opportunity to get wasted sway from our parents and more as something to enjoy.

I’m told it’s all corporate now, but that wouldn’t bother me too much, the ‘non corporate’ element used to be the ruthless security nutters dying for a fight or just punch someone in the back of the head when they weren’t looking, the aggressive drug dealers / muggers and gangs of rough lads stealing from tents and assaulting people. The busy areas were never a safe place to roam at night, even for a group of 4-5 lads.

Not to mention in the last year we went they reckon it was the biggest crowd that has even been or ever will be (last year before the BIG WALL) 250-300k people with facilities for 100k, it was chaos in a good way and chaos in a bad way.

It attracted a lot of bullshit even back then, every bad weather year the tabloids would be full of pics of girls swimming in the mud, like it happened all the time – as I recall what happened was a nervous, slightly cheesed off looking low-level ‘glamor model’ marched over to a quiet part of the main field which was under water with a photographer or two in tow, pinched her nose and sat in it, rolled around a bit with a fake smile on whilst they’re fired away with their cameras before they threw a towel over her and they all marched off with her sobbing for a shower.

My neighbours at the last house were loosely involved in the music/festival industry and used to keep their Glastonbury, Leeds etc, access all areas and shit stickers on their SUVs all year. They had so many it was a miracle they could actually see out of the windscreen! Like we should all be impressed!

Seeming as so many are there or on their way: will there be voting booths at Glasto?

I had a ticket but had to give it up (my moan about that is on another thread) but I won’t miss not seeing Coldplay – I wouldn’t have bothered going to the Pyramid stage at all (I caught the first part of Kanye last year as I wanted to go with an open mind about him).

But Adele – I think she will be amazing at Glastonbury – I think she has the sort of voice that could fill that field amazingly. She isn’t right for many festivals but Glastonbury is perfect for her.

Last year Florence + The Machine blew me away. Loved them. And loved Sleaford Mods.

Edit – I just saw the V Festival line-up. That is dreadful – worse than the *FREE* Carlsberg Festivals they used to do way back when.

Never really seen the appeal of Glastonbury personally. Probably the thought of living in my own filth for the best part of a week probably. That combined with the impersonal atmosphere standing in a field with a zillion others trying to peer past a forest of nationalistic / ‘humorous’ flags.

I go to quite a lot of gigs and I much prefer to see a lesser known band in a small intimate venue. You don’t get the fireworks, lights, lasers, other stuff, but it’s so much better for it. A gig for me is about the music.

I also can’t stand being around people who are shouting / mucking about / ‘being seen’ rather than listening to the band and unfortunately that seems to be what the big festivals are more about these days.

That said a smaller well run festival can be ace. I’ll be going to The Fling Festival again this year and probably have a jolly nice time too

I wouldn’t go there if you paid me – OK I would but it have to be at least enough to buy a new bike – £3500 perhaps?

What’s your price?

The Pinkster – Member
Can’t be bothered with most festivals these days, too full of upper middle class hunter wearing wannabees.

So you know for a fact that 100,000+ individuals, the population of a city the size of Bath are all “upper middle class hunter wearing wannabees” then?
Wow, I’m impressed at your in-depth knowledge of sociological analysis of large groups of individuals.
There are large numbers who never, ever bother with any of the bands, they go with their families and meet up with other friends and families and hang out in a safe family environment.
Who cares about the headliners anyway; there’s something like 2200 performances listed, including speakers, poetry, etc, and a standard ticket costs £228, for five days, and there are people who think that’s overpriced?
Exactly how much do you expect to pay for a weekend away? A regular gig by a band doing 500 capacity venues will cost upwards of £20 now. I estimated that the number of bands I saw at the IoW Festival last year, if I’d paid £20/act would have cost me £400, and I paid £189 for four days camping. A number of the bands I saw would have cost upwards of £60-70/ticket, and one headliner was £125/ticket for their UK shows, so any festival is remarkable value for money!
I enjoyed pretty much every minute of that festival, except for the shithead who pissed down my leg at the Prodigy show, but apparently Prodigy fans do that all the time. 🙄
Would I go to Glastonbury? Probably not, there are other festivals with more appealing lineups, like Green Man, which I’ve got a ticket for, but that ticket wasn’t much cheaper than Glastonbury.

Wish I had gone years ago, no compulsion now.

+1

You think Glastonbury looks bad, have you seen the V line up?

http://www.vfestival.com/lineup/

Well, Soul II Soul are playing…

Seems last time I did V was 2000. Also seems I also managed to miss Joe Strummer (that’s a small regret right there): http://www.songkick.com/festivals/116-v/id/667618-v-festival-2000

Sorry CountZero, only 6/10 for that rant. Adding paragraphs would have got you a solid 7.5.

However you could have just summarised with

Would I go to Glastonbury? Probably not, there are other festivals with more appealing lineups, like Green Man, which I’ve got a ticket for, but that ticket wasn’t much cheaper than Glastonbury.

Festival like Glasto ( 😈 ) and V are all just a big version of the radio 1 roadshow nowadays but with out ‘bits and pieces’ and peado’s.

I’m a grumpy misanthrope and you’d have to threaten me with violence to get me to go to Glastonbury, or a Wembley cup final etc.

Horses for courses innit. Don’t begrudge people enjoying it and and I don’t listen to R1 I won’t have to spend 6 months re-living it.