June 25, 20197 yr I've been to 100s of gigs, and a good few day festivals, but never had the full camping experience. That's something I hope to change, but is the big un all that? Does it retain the same ethos as it did years ago, or is it just some commercial cash cow for faux hippies and hipsters to milk? Is it not just middle class folk hanging on to their youth? The line up, as eclectic as it is, as good as much smaller festivals? Is the diversity the charm? Is it simply a box on a bucket list? Thoughts?
June 25, 20197 yr Does it really matter as long as you enjoy it. Too many people seem to only want to like something that is out there etc. 100% its commercial, imo it always has been. If it wasn't you wouldn't know about it. I would be all over it if i could justify the cost v the cost of going to a festival of just the music i like.
June 25, 20197 yr Purely from a music perspective it cannot be faulted, something for everyone. However, I've never been as I hate camping, mud and big gigs. Undoubtedly to be pyramid headline act is a defining moment in the career of any performer. My favourites from TV watching are Radiohead (90's one), Muse and Foo Fighters.
June 25, 20197 yr The music there has never been to my taste so I always did Donnington or Leeds (though that looks shite this year) if you've gone with a few mates it's always fun. That said last festival I went to was Leeds in 09 so fuck knows what they're like anymore.
June 25, 20197 yr "Glastonbury? It's just the most incredible atmosphere. If you reckon that the atmosphere in medieval England - plague, filth, disease and billions of mud-splattered tolers everywhere would qualify as incredible, then Glastonbury is indeed incredible." Kill your friends - John Niven.
June 25, 20197 yr I learnt the other day that Pink Floyd have never played Glastonbury Surprised me a little that
June 25, 20197 yr I’d love to go. off what people have told me, there’s a hell of a lot more to enjoy than the mainstream stuff you see on the telly. Couldn’t face camping though, would need one of them lodge things or summet.
June 25, 20197 yr Used to be able to get in for nowt when I was a lad. My mates drove into the travellers bit and kipped in the car. I thought, fuck that. Wasn’t part of the Henley, Wimbledon social scene back then. That’s for sure.
June 25, 20197 yr I've never done a festival "properly", because it looks like a nightmare in many respects did V2004 because we got wristbands that meant we got into the nice area where the toilets/portaloos were clean, there were benches to sit down at where you could have the food and ale that you had queued for 2 minutes for. We also went to a hotel in the morning to shower and freshen up. the bands we saw tip top though and it was sunny. I did try the "public" toilets once and it was fucking grim if I had to do it now, it'd be in a camper van and at one of the smaller ones like Kendall Calling or Y Not there's loads to do at Glastonbury but I reckon I'd get stoned and lost and end up wandering around on mi todd in semi monged state most of the weekend, trying to avoid having a shit
June 25, 20197 yr I first went as a 15 year old in about 1993. Nothing will ever touch that weekend. Spoken to a few people my age who've been recently and they've universally said it's a completely different feel to back in the day. Not just looking back through rose tinted spectacles either - these are people who like me, still go to numerous festivals every year. Back in the day it still had that hippy, traveler, free party feel. People jumping over the fence and a genuine celebration of counterculture. That's pretty much gone now. You almost need a biometric scan to get in. A bit like football I guess - they're killed a little bit of it by making it less appealing to the people who made it edgy and exciting in the first place. That said - I'm sure you'd have a brilliant time if you went. Providing you aren't a massive soft arse and the weather stays decent.
June 25, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, DirtySanchez said: I learnt the other day that Pink Floyd have never played Glastonbury Surprised me a little that I watched Roger Waters on the Pyramid stage in 2002. It was incredible. Followed by Rod Stewart, which wasn't quite as good.
June 25, 20197 yr Went in 97, it is immense. You can't even begin to imagine the size of it from the telly. Bucket loads of other stuff going on, not just music.
June 25, 20197 yr Seen a map overlayed onto manchester, covers Victoria over to Deansgate and up to Piccadilly.
June 25, 20197 yr Nah, not for me. Mud/shit/piss and air beds- fuck that. Big questions last year over the hundreds of cheap single use tents that were left abandoned- flies in the face of the eco warrior/festival types' mantra.
June 25, 20197 yr I did Leeds Festival in 2001, and it was fantastic although that festival seems to have lost it's identity most festival lineups these days are littered with shite I wouldnt be paying near £300 for Glastonbury, it's looks really poor
June 25, 20197 yr One of my lads and some of his mates were having a look at one in Bucharest, £26 for 2 days with Liam Gallagher, Kaiser Chiefs, and Disclosure confirmed. Not sure how much travel etc would have been on top but as they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery he never did find out.
June 25, 20197 yr 3 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Nah, not for me. Mud/shit/piss and air beds- fuck that. Big questions last year over the hundreds of cheap single use tents that were left abandoned- flies in the face of the eco warrior/festival types' mantra. Iirc oxfam gather them up and use them in disaster relief.
June 25, 20197 yr 8 hours ago, DirtySanchez said: I learnt the other day that Pink Floyd have never played Glastonbury Surprised me a little that Probably never will now. Shazza sorting a permanent residency in the Premier Suite as we speak. YHIHF ITK.
June 25, 20197 yr 31 minutes ago, frank_spencer said: Iirc oxfam gather them up and use them in disaster relief. Ripped up and filled with shit/piss/spunk and drugs? Reckon I'd take my chances with a sheet of polythene and some branches.
June 25, 20197 yr 42 minutes ago, frank_spencer said: Iirc oxfam gather them up and use them in disaster relief. Not true. Most of them end up in landfill. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48184756
June 25, 20197 yr That's shown me. Always had a decent tent in my yoof so always took it down and with me.
June 25, 20197 yr 8 minutes ago, frank_spencer said: That's shown me. Always had a decent tent in my yoof so always took it down and with me. Ashamed to say, me and my mates always left ours. Like you, we were under the impression it would be recycled for a good cause. In reality, we were just being a bunch of lazy selfish cunts who didn't really give it a second thought.
June 25, 20197 yr 4 hours ago, L/H White said: I did Leeds Festival in 2001, and it was fantastic although that festival seems to have lost it's identity most festival lineups these days are littered with shite I wouldnt be paying near £300 for Glastonbury, it's looks really poor Think I was at the same festival. Cheese was there too ...the line up for last year was fookin terrible. I did V festival twice and stayed in a little cottage just up the road. Chemical Brothers on the main stage one year and Sasha and Digweed in the dance tent. Ace stuff. I’d love to do Luminosity before I hang up my glow sticks.
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