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  • glastonbury… up it's own ar$e?
  • mrblobby
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    Been a few times in my youth and thought it was ok, but never was my fave festival. Listening to the coverage on 6 music you’d think that attending would be some sort of life changing revelation of an event.

    Am I missing something?

    Though when I have a family I’d like to take them there and suspect I’d see it in a different light.

    terrahawk
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    Reading kicks it’s arse all over the place IMO (well it did when I were a lad)

    deadlydarcy
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    It is what you make of it really.

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    binners
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    If you don’t think Glastonbury is a life-changing event, then your clearly not taking anywhere near enough drugs! 😀 Everyone should do Glastonbury at least once.

    I didn’t really like Reading Jason. I went a long time back at the height at the height of the Criminal Justice Bill nonsense. The Policing was outrageously heavy-handed I lost count of the amount of times i got searched

    emsz
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    When I’m there it’s the best thing in the world, this year not going, I’m all “mleh..U2?”

    Dad was talking about it, but we never got round to getting it sorted. Coverage is sooo good for bands though.

    Prob go next year

    pedalhead
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    I grew up in Pilton, used to get free tickets every year to the festival. Could also just about see the pyramid stage from my bedroom window. Ah, good times 🙂

    Brycey
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    While there are good points about watching the (top notch) BBC coverage from the comfort of my living room, it’s a dagger through the heart every year I’m not there.

    The other festivals can’t touch it when it comes to all the madness that goes on up the back after hours. IMO.

    user-removed
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    Went once, in the early days (the next year someone got stabbed, and the year after there was a gun scare). We paid some dude with huge dredds £5 to crawl through his hole (oo-er) under the fence 🙂

    Lifechanging? Not sure, but it was most certainly a new experience – just being able to smoke with loads of other folk with no fear of arrest was extremely uplifting…

    yunki
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    It’s probably quite a good experience for the children of middle england so that they can get an experience of some extremely good quality anarchic chaos and a taste of the counter culture which I believe is still very much present and thriving beneath the corporate shell….

    It was frowned upon in my family to attend the festival after the Hells Angels lost the security contract as it was too commercialised after that.. 🙄

    I went for a few hours in the late 90s but the choking smog produced by 3 million burning plastic water bottles soon had me beating a hazy retreat.. 🙁

    slightreturn
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    It is a brilliant festival to attend, which you are pretty much left to your own devices unlike other festivals like v, which is just a mass cash till constantly trying to take take take.

    Im not there this year as i broke my leg last wk in spain, i have my ticket sat next here, seven of my friends went on tues night. The best weekends i have ever had. class

    xherbivorex
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    never been interested, but then again these kind of things are clearly not aimed at people like me…

    yesiamtom
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    I like the comments about smoking weed etc and endorsing it. Kind of ruins it for anyone who isnt into that doesnt it?

    yesiamtom
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    double post!

    user-removed
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    Eh?! Your experience of a festival would be ruined by someone else getting high?!

    gwj72
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    Glasto just got to big and weary for me. I needed a week off after going.
    Been checking out smaller fests the last few years, big chill and green man notably.

    Going to Latitude this year.

    tang
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    If you really want to feel the chaos take some strong acid on Saturday night and take a walk about. I was chased by a fire breathing dragon, danced with jay k, made up a new language and ended up in a naked sweat lodge then onto a tent with a festi chick, sunrise with some random sound system….
    My dad has sold his pots there since nearly the first one and still loves it. Not for me anymore

    Junkyard
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    whay yunki said it used to be real now it is for straights to be crazy for a weekend like they are all counter culture…that said I am old and cynical but U2 headlining FFS they would have been a riot at the very thought of this

    tang
    Free Member

    I’ve still got the 1982 poster.8 quid for the weekend with U2 playing!

    Kevevs
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    it’s certainly a big logo money spinning cash money maker. I’m not sure how much it is about good music.

    yunki
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    I’m not sure how much it is about good music.

    with around 60 official stages and more going on besides.. I’m sure that it’s possible to winkle out a whole host of great things for yer ears..

    yunki
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    For nearly all of the acts it’s going to be one of the highlights of their career.. if not THE highlight to date.. a lot of the acts are there to have a good time too so they end up giving an extraordinary performance.. and the buzz of being amongst that many buzzed out people is pretty electric..

    I would say that you’d have to be pretty shallow not to find it at least inspiring if not life-changing..

    xherbivorex
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    i would say you’d have to be pretty shallow to assume that everyone will feel the same way you do about everything…

    sc-xc
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    Went a few times in the early 90s….memories of sunburn and baked earth rather than the mudfest you sometimes see.

    Couldn’t stand Reading – a big gig rather than a festival.

    Nowadays, it’s the likes of Beautiful Days/Bearded Theory/Endorse it/Rogues Picnic for me…

    RichPenny
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    Most of you aren’t in the demographic any more. You’ve all got old and dull 😉

    Houns
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    Hell on Earth. In fact that’s my view of all music festivals

    yunki
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    i would say you’d have to be pretty shallow to assume that everyone will feel the same way you do about everything…

    yeah man.. you’re probably right.. although with the quantity and variety of diversions available at the festival I’m sure most people could find something to gain from the experience if they were willing to apply themselves to the task..

    Junkyard
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    that is really unfair yunki is totally shallow not just a little shallow

    yunki
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    I couldn’t have put it better myself junkyard.. 🙂

    anagallis_arvensis
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    I went a couple of times in the early 90’s had a great time, dont take drugs anymore though so doubt I’d enjoy it now.

    neilsonwheels
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    If you don’t think Glastonbury is a life-changing event, then your clearly not taking anywhere near enough drugs!

    😀

    thebunk
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    If you love music and have never been then that’s a shame.
    If you’re just going to see the crusties and set up your chair at the back of the Pyramid Stage and watch effing Mumford and Sons on the big screen, then you’ll have a great time, but no, it won’t be life changing.
    If you’re on drugs then good luck finding your tent or your mates!

    carbon337
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    I want to chill for a weekend in a tent with Ferne Cotton thats for sure – mud or not im not bothered…

    Haze
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    ’95 was my one and only year, baking hot and all for free 😉

    Pretty sure it’s just media, there’s probably a good festival there beyond what the beeb decide to show you…

    CharlieMungus
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    I went in 1989, Suzanne Vega, Elvis were the big names, but it was the summer of love and we were groovy. Had my cider glugged by by a giant biker, paid over the odds for fags and ran out of money.

    Reading kicks it’s arse all over the place IMO (well it did when I were a lad)

    I think you’re probably right now, so I’m staying at home with a good book

    deadlydarcy
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    Radiohead have just turned up on the Park Stage for a surprise gig! 😯

    onehundredthidiot
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    Its full on money spinner, once TV got involved in round the day coverage they became all about being there. But then let the kids and others enjoy themselves.

    Then again last big one i was at was Reading ’93. New Order, Evan Dando, Juliana Hatfield 3, Dinosaur Jnr. and some recreational pharmaceuticals. So i’m not one to talk.

    So old now that the people i was at Reading with have kids a caravan and she is a Tory Councillor and they’re at “Glasto” in a caravan.

    carbon337
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    Some of the beeb coverage better improve. Bloody Chimpunk I hate that p###k!

    These vaccines are fairly lame too – hopefully it will get better later.

    muddydwarf
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    Only been the once and i was working, was an experience!

    It was 1992 and i got involved with a group called the ‘Dogs of Heaven’. They were the ones who built the 50ft-high, 5 ton Wicker Man and burnt it on the Sunday night – i originally signed up as a backstage crew type but soon found out i was expected to be a performer as well…

    …So spent the three shows naked apart from a coat of fire-painted body paint, a pair of para boots and a horned helmet! 🙂

    Christ, was it nearly 20yrs ago now?

    thekingisdead
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    I dont think Glastonbury is up its own arse, but the bbc coverage certainly is. Just play the bands & stop the w@nky presenters ruining it.

    If Jo Whiley is wheeled out Im switching over.

    tang
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    That burning man was fantastic!

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