Glasto

Chic last night were off the scale good! Saw django django too who were mint, id been out to see vampire weekend earlier who were less good shall we say!

 

Thanks xx

 

Thing about Glastonbury is that the first problem is the weather. They always have it in June, which is probably the worst summer month you can choose. The ground is still wet from the spring rains and it often rains during which turns the site into a sea of mud. Other than this they've sorted most of the other issues. This has turned it from a Hippie fest into a corporate middle class do. However, do people really want to go back to the days when tens of thousands of squat dwellers and crusty anarchists without tickets tore down the fencing every year and overturned food stalls for daring to charge for food? Or the then primitive 'toilet' facilities were just a sea of piss and faeces? Or the police made hundreds of arrests for drugs and violence with people getting stabbed. It has gone the way it has because Eavis wanted it this way. If it hadn't they would have banned it and he knows it. Making it 'respectable' has preserved it for the future. If you actually go rather than just bitching about it from your living room because the Stones are old n crap, ( Wow who knew? ) then maybe you'd see why it's the best festival in the world. There's hundreds of acts from countless genres playing on many different stages and loads more to see as well. When I went I think I saw three or four bands on the Pyramid and that was it the entire weekend. It's an experience and long may it continue to annoy the uninspired.

 

Coachella at the minute.

 

Reckon the cost of ticket, travel, food and ale, plus taking a couple of days off work, would cost more than mi season ticket and a week's holiday in the Canaries. Having said that, I did my fair share of festivals in the 70s and thoroughly enjoyed em...but the cost was nowhere near today's rip off prices.

 

Ooooh, get her.

 

Throw us down your handbag while you climb off your soapbox there, love.

 

Well you read it Sweetpea so job done

 

Ok, it's close, but ye Coachella got palm trees so I'll give you that one.

 

I do like to have a good chuckle at "holier than thou" individuals

 

In a self congratulatory kinda way. but wait! doesn't that make you "ho….. oh never mind…..

 

Give me The Terrace at Space Sunday, Ibiza any day over all that stinky unwashed festival ballax.

 

Don't worry, I'm sure somebody was impressed by your little rant about us uninspired pencil pushers who have better things to do with our time and money than sit in a field listening to talentless individuals

 

Wow! did you read it? I made one comment about naysayers in a whole paragraph about the festival in general, and that was in response to the usual rubbish from people who've either never been or can't move from their armchairs and you call it a rant.

 

The lineups amazing every year, massive festival tons of extras. Some friends went this year and it sounds amazing, they've been to Glastonbury before too and said Coachella blew it out of the water.

 

Its all about taste,for instance if both these festivals were free i wouldnt go,theres nobody on i think are any good. But you might

 

To be honest I'm more in to city festivals at the moment. Tramlines was quality last year. I do think its unfair to judge Glastonbury on the BBC coverage though, although its not my favourite festival