[Closed] Music festivals have now gone properly mainstream 🙂

There's music festivals....and there's big corporate outdoor gigs that last a few days.

The latter attracts the kind of people that would want to bring a chair, the former wouldn't care if you bought your own settee. I know where I'm happier.

Plenty of small festivals for all types of music. Just avoid the big/bland MOR fests.

this thread is 20 years too late

I have no idea what point you're trying to make. But, the folding chair villages at festivals are really annoying, especially when it comes up to the headliners and you find yourself stuck miles back behind people sat down with the wagons circled, not even attempting to watch the bands. Especially at Reading where the main stage is inexplicably blacker than the bottom of a coal mine and the first warning you get is when you fall over someone.

OTOH for anyone that's older or physically not in good shape banning them is very poor.

There's music festivals....and there's big corporate outdoor gigs that last a few days.
The latter attracts the kind of people that would want to bring a chair, the former wouldn't care if you bought your own settee. I know where I'm happier.

I have no idea what point you're trying to make. But, the folding chair villages at festivals are really annoying, especially when it comes up to the headliners and you find yourself stuck miles back behind people sat down with the wagons circled, not even attempting to watch the bands.

CountZero - Member

I always make sure I'm at an advantageous position to watch the headliner, so I dont have to fight my way through the crowd sat down at the back.

Which is fine if there's nothing else on to watch before.

Don't recall seeing them in my Reading days of the late 70's

I think the hint here, is the fact that they are selling them in the festival grounds!

More like commercial greed than the paying public getting a better experience of the festival!

PePPeR - Member

I think the hint here, is the fact that they are selling them in the festival grounds!

Ah! Yes, that's bad. Though probably not a case of corporate greed since it would be the traders profitting from that not the festival. Seen this at Reading too, they were confiscating deodorant aerosols on the door but you could buy them in the shops. More likely just down to mixed messages/bad execution.

Ka'Ching! More money please as we are "cool" corporate people. 😆

Please pay to worship the celebrities ... otherwise you are not cool.

Did Glastonbury twice with a sofa, once in 98 ( a very wet year) when it was so nice to ave somewhere to recover after a dat in the bog, and again the year after when it was also used to bring all manner of extras in it (the marchalls never stop to search a sofa laden with beer.

We took chairs in no problem on Friday and yesterday (sacked it off today, not really interested in standing around in a hurricane to watch Liam Gallagher). I suspect the news story is the result of the over-zealous meatheads that police the IOW festival getting ideas above their station, as usual.

And yes, as a festival it is an exercise in corporate dullness, it's taken 4 years to get me back there, and I don't think I'll bother again.

once in 98 ( a very wet year)

festivals all went downhill pretty much a few years after this...

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That Reading poster takes me back 🙂

in 92 - i was 6 - that appeals more than the current line up !

glasto died when they started putting this around it
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Now this was a good one, Lizzy blew out, but The Scorpions put on a great set

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Mmm, think I'd take this year's over that thanks. Though I wouldn't mind getting Therapy and the fannies onto it.

^^^ a weekend ticket for the price of 3 pints of cider in paper cups 😮