Glastonbury - not as good as it used to be

[Minnie_the_Minx]

All the old people have gone. It's just full of people with nothing better to discuss than trivia and how much their house prices have gone up.

There's no proper discussions on the important things that matter any more. It's full of inane twats incapable of knowing good music from bad.

It was much better years ago, but now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and it's getting progressively worse by the year. I think there should be a halt on new festival goers.

[Hocus Eye.]

I am thinking of going next year for the first time. I am quite old so it will help the profile. I have no idea what is the difference between bad music and good music either (but I know what I like, boom boom). While I am away my property will have gone up in value as well, so that can't be bad.

Mind you I had never thought of a music festival as a place where discussion was the main agenda. I thought it was about listening to music. But then I have only ever been to one-day festivals.

[JTG]

It is a festival of the performing arts

We are all performers. Or should be anyway

[Hollis]

Originally Posted by JTG

We are all performers. Or should be anyway

JTG - for the first time I've noticed - you're a real optomist.

[William of Walworth]

I have this feeling you weren't there this time, Minnie, and that you're now provoking an erm discussion??

Or correct me if I'm wrong ...

[William of Walworth]

In any case ....

Not exactly the same thread, but ... Maggot doesn't like proliferation

[JTG]

Originally Posted by Hollis

JTG - for the first time I've noticed - you're a real optomist.

one does one's best

[bouncer_the_dog]

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

All the old people have gone. It's just full of people with nothing better to discuss than trivia and how much their house prices have gone up.

There's no proper discussions on the important things that matter any more. It's full of inane twats incapable of knowing good music from bad.

It was much better years ago, but now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and it's getting progressively worse by the year. I think there should be a halt on new festival goers.

Certainly not as good as it used to be.

The people I didn't have a problem with.

The shite infrastucture and unbelievable costs I couldn't stand. Coupled with trerrible sound and the unadulterated nightmare of leaving.

I am fed up with the veneration of the Eavis'. They are business people like any others - reading the festival magazine is like reading pure propaganda. "i'm glad it rained - we can test the drainage, and it works" say's Eavis. Well a) I'm not glad it rains b) it doesn't fucking work. Either way they have been solidly cashing in on this since 1970. The current state of the festival is just the latest iteration. CND and iCount won't get the punters in like it would have 15 years ago. Now uber hype in the media will suffice. All this charity bollocks is PR padding.

Anyway my complaints are legion. But the bottom line is its not worth the money to me anymore. I got Emperors New Clothes Syndrome when I was wading through the shite soaked to the skin looking for somwhere to spend £5 on a burger. Will be going elsewhere next year.

[The Groke]

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

There's no proper discussions on the important things that matter any more. It's full of inane twats incapable of knowing good music from bad.

It was much better years ago, but now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and it's getting progressively worse by the year. I think there should be a halt on new festival goers.

I bet the first time you went, those veterans present that had been going there for years before, were saying exactly the same thing about you and your mates..........

[newbie]

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

All the old people have gone.

utter rubbish

It's just full of people with nothing better to discuss than trivia and how much their house prices have gone up.

nonsense

There's no proper discussions on the important things that matter any more.

there's a small element of truth in that, but actually, there never really was.

It's full of inane twats incapable of knowing good music from bad.

tosh

It was much better years ago, but now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and it's getting progressively worse by the year.

I was there- were you?

I think there should be a halt on new festival goers.

why- what's it to you?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Was just messing around. I've never even been to Glastonbury

[Onket]

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

Was just messing around. I've never even been to Glastonbury

Well I wouldn't bother now- it's not what it once was.

[sleaterkinney]

Originally Posted by Minnie_the_Minx

Was just messing around. I've never even been to Glastonbury

The hilarity.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Originally Posted by Onket

Well I wouldn't bother now- it's not what it once was.

and this thread isn't even as good as the other Glastonbury threads

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Originally Posted by sleaterkinney

The hilarity.

enough of your sarcasm


Well newbie fell for it anyway

[newbie]

crosses minnie off xmas card list

[JTG]

Originally Posted by bouncer_the_dog

Certainly not as good as it used to be.

The people I didn't have a problem with.

The shite infrastucture and unbelievable costs I couldn't stand. Coupled with trerrible sound and the unadulterated nightmare of leaving.

I am fed up with the veneration of the Eavis'. They are business people like any others - reading the festival magazine is like reading pure propaganda. "i'm glad it rained - we can test the drainage, and it works" say's Eavis. Well a) I'm not glad it rains b) it doesn't fucking work. Either way they have been solidly cashing in on this since 1970. The current state of the festival is just the latest iteration. CND and iCount won't get the punters in like it would have 15 years ago. Now uber hype in the media will suffice. All this charity bollocks is PR padding.

Anyway my complaints are legion. But the bottom line is its not worth the money to me anymore. I got Emperors New Clothes Syndrome when I was wading through the shite soaked to the skin looking for somwhere to spend £5 on a burger. Will be going elsewhere next year.

don't go then. I don't think it was any 'worse' than 2005 so we all knew what we were getting.

can't be arsed with the other stuff. Only to say I still find it unbelievable that people seriously expect a weekend on a farm in the countryside with 200,000 other people can be done with minimal overheads (and therefore cheap food etc etc) and perfect infrastructure that will avoid flooding and mud.

If you want to be mollycoddled with easily accessible home comforts, go to reading.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Originally Posted by newbie

crosses minnie off xmas card list

Do you think JTG will cross me off as well?

[bouncer_the_dog]

Originally Posted by JTG

don't go then.

I won't be. The fact its a farm in somerset is not an excuse for slackness.

[gracious]

have to say that i was rather disappointed with the lack of post midnight activities to be had this year... seems to me to have diminished drastically since 2005... did anyone else experience this?

[gabi]

What fucks me off is all these new people coming along and saying they hate Glastonbury. I've been sayin that for years. Get the fuck off my bandwagon, newbies..

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Originally Posted by gabi

What fucks me off is all these new people coming along and saying they hate Glastonbury. I've been sayin that for years. Get the fuck off my bandwagon, newbies..

Newbie didn't say that at all

[Balbi]

Originally Posted by JTG

If you want to be mollycoddled with easily accessible home comforts, go to reading.

LOL Reading's a fucking tosshole; loads of lagered up teens trying to be 'random' and 'wacky' by acting like cunts

[Macabre]

Originally Posted by gracious

have to say that i was rather disappointed with the lack of post midnight activities to be had this year... seems to me to have diminished drastically since 2005... did anyone else experience this?

Nope, there was loads to do in LV, the park, dance field and circus area.

[newbie]

Originally Posted by bouncer_the_dog

I won't be. The fact its a farm in somerset is not an excuse for slackness.

slackness? the festi is run by volunteers who try, really hard, to make it as good as possible. Maybe it can't match your expectations in the teeth of a deluge, in which case I wish you luck at any other festival.

Be fair though- you were pissed off before you arrived, complaining all across these threads about how badly you, as a consumer, were being treated throughout the ticket process. Also be fair- you chose the unadulterated nightmare of leaving, you had a coach ticket you could have used, but insisted you had to have a car.

The cost- are other festivals cheaper? The last one I went to, Beautiful Days last year, seemed to cost much the same per meal but there was much less choice.

Why you're blaming anyone else for the fact you were soaked to the skin escapes me: I spent a week there and didn't get wet. If you've been before you should have recognised the potential and taken appropriate clothing, most other people managed.

I'm sad that your various strategies didn't work out, but you're blaming the festival for things that other people sidestepped, either because their planning worked better or because their expectations were different.