what would make you boycott a festival?

[thefuse]

Just out of interest when was the last time anyone managed to sneak into Glastonbury?

i know about 15 people who sneaked in 2 years ago.
it'd be silly to say how they did it on a forum though

 

[Dubversion]

got a free backstage pass to V 2 years ago - if i got another i wouldn't make the mistake of going.... its a truly awful thing

ditto a few years ago. went just to see the Flaming Lips. They were great, everything else was an abomination

 

[thefuse]

......... Hmmmmmmmm? Let's see ???



This year I won't be boycotting :-

thats a cool line up

john cooper clarke is an absolute class act.

 

[Iam]

I've got more talent up my arse than there is on that entire bill.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I would boycott a festival if I thought it was likely to be full of stupid fuckwits hurling bottles of piss, long queues for toilets, or twats singing along with shite lyrics by talentless mediocrities.

 

[spanglechick]

ditto a few years ago. went just to see the Flaming Lips. They were great, everything else was an abomination

epends what you want from a festival. If you just want to sit outside while a parade of bands come to you - and if you like the xfm style lineup (which i generally do), then what's wrong with it?

if you're looking for free flowing, surprising experiences - well you will be disappointed. but that doesn't mean that sitting outside watching bands you like is a bad way to spend a weekend.

i've been to lots of V festivals - because the music taste is generally in line with mine, and because it's pretty local. i've always enjoyed them for what they were.

 

[kakuma]

ok can we change it to 'what would it take to make you boycott glastonbury?'

 

[Dubversion]

epends what you want from a festival. If you just want to sit outside while a parade of bands come to you - and if you like the xfm style lineup (which i generally do), then what's wrong with it?

if you're looking for free flowing, surprising experiences - well you will be disappointed. but that doesn't mean that sitting outside watching bands you like is a bad way to spend a weekend.

i've been to lots of V festivals - because the music taste is generally in line with mine, and because it's pretty local. i've always enjoyed them for what they were.

but the queues. and the tokens. and the security. and the lack of atmosphere.

I'll happily watch bands all day, but i don't want to have to queue up, one-in, one-out, to get into a tent to do it. etc.

 

[thefuse]

ok can we change it to 'what would it take to make you boycott glastonbury?'

i pretty much have.
it took a fuckin huge fence, loads of coppers and years and years of being up to my arse in mud.

 

[Dubversion]

I would boycott a festival if I thought it was likely to be full of stupid fuckwits hurling bottles of piss, long queues for toilets, or twats singing along with shite lyrics by talentless mediocrities.

So that's Glyndebourne out then

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I could possibly stomach these festivals if, instead of playing what passes for music, the bands took the stage to confess and beg mercy for their sins. I'd watch it on the big screen and everything.

 

[spanglechick]

but the queues. and the tokens. and the security. and the lack of atmosphere.

I'll happily watch bands all day, but i don't want to have to queue up, one-in, one-out, to get into a tent to do it. etc.

i've never queued - if i know something'll be busy, i'll get there early - or i'll piss it off and go see something else.

tokens aren't so bad now they do buy-back at the end of the day. you queue for those, but never for beer. what you didn't raise, but i'll conceed is that the choice of beer/cider is shite, but i don't think V's alone with that.

Never had a prob with security.

atmosphere? i'm always with a big crowd of family and friends - that's a nice atmosphere to me. sitting in the sun with my favourite people. getting wankered.

but it's horses for courses. if you don't like the majority of the lineup, i can see why you'd not go.

 

[blues]

ok can we change it to 'what would it take to make you boycott glastonbury?'

Boycott's a bit strong, but 2000 could have put me right off. If it weren't for the superfence, I'm not sure I'd have gone back.

 

[kakuma]

Boycott's a bit strong, but 2000 could have put me right off. If it weren't for the superfence, I'm not sure I'd have gone back.

i'm the opposite me, i loved the craziness, the fact that it was totally out of control

and i bumped into people i recognized from glastonbury further along the festival trail that year. but the sort of person i was back then would never get into glastonbury now, shit i was on the dole, wsa i gonna save up 3 weeks worth of payments to sit on the phone with my mastercard number at hand on the off chance?

i should have just called this thread 'glastonbury' instead of a festival cos i didn't take into accout the pish that passes for festivals. i was interested if people thought that glastonbury would ever come to a point where it was still going but the people who went to the earlier ones thought that it was too much......

 

[Velouria]

I dunno ... every year it gets harder and harder to get a ticket for the damn thing... to the point where I am beginning to think, am I old enough and hippy enough to get on the fringe of the Old Hippy Network yet, and get in as crew? Maybe one day ...

Dunno what would stop me .. incredibly heavy police presence and bastard security usually for me are the mark of a festival to avoid. As for lineup, I and everyone else gets tix for Glasto without having a clue who's playing ...

Even though it's just up the road, I can't be arsed with T in the Park anymore. Some great bands, but about as much atmosphere as Mars ...

 

[In Bloom]

A bill as shit as this:

*bill that includes Pearl Jam*

I've got more talent up my arse than there is on that entire bill.

Is it that you hate music, or just artistic genius in general?

 

[BEARBOT]

yet another reason to hate vince power(mean fiddler) other than his well known associations with erm not very nice men with guns...
back in the 90's when he owned powerhouse and some other smallish indie rock venues in london his policy was to EJECT people selling fanzines from his venues.not ask them to stop selling but to EJECT them.cos apparently selling a 50p zine will affect the bar takings! NOT a way to make freinds with regular gig goers(ie the people keeping yr business going)

im pretty much OFF going to large festivals,even glastonbury.
have been twice to glastonbury did cleanup crew in 97(after festival so i got to enjoy festie itself)in 2002 helped cook for greenpeace crew worked DURING festie so saw a lot less

there is a logistical problem at glasto...
its just too big/crowded to get from one stage to another..
takes too long and if i go again i'd be stewarding so what with working and walking an hour to get to a stage you wont catch much

all large festivals are corporate to one degree or another...
glastonbury is still a charity event AFAIK which does set it apart.truck in oxfordshire is getting a bit bigger but it is still a charity event
i have been to a large-ish festival recently (latitude)working as a steward..
suprisingly the corporate branding wasnt in yr face

i didnt care for the security there,i dont think it was aggressive but there was a lot of prove yr age to drink malarky going on,as a steward on one of the nights i was expected to act as a bouncer and ask people their age
the large man working behind me (in fact many of the security staff) seemed nice but didnt speak a great deal of english
it didnt go down well all this prove yr age nonsense.the production staff kept coming out telling me to ask EVERYONE who remotely could be 17,nightmare!
thankfully i only had to do this for a few hours..
i wonder if this is a coming thing for festivals being ultra strict about licensing?
it doesnt go down well with the public tho..i guess i would boycott a festival
if there was "heavy security" on entry

 

[strung out]

I've been to Glastonbury twice and Reading, and T-in the park. Glastonbury was the only one i truly enjoyed and i only saw about 4 bands over the entire weekend. That was a quality year last year

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it that you hate music, or just artistic genius in general?

He obviously has exquisite taste

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Indeed

 

[foo]

no toilets.

 

[Orang Utan]

no toilets.

Toilets

 

[In Bloom]

He obviously has exquisite taste

It's a simple matter of fact that people who don't like Pearl Jam are paedophiles.

There's no real evidence for it, but it's a scientific fact.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a simple matter of fact that people who don't like Pearl Jam are paedophiles.

There's no real evidence for it, but it's a scientific fact.

Pearl Jam are horrible - one of the shittest bands of the nineties - all that was wrong about grunge - and that cunt of a singer has a disgraceful thing he calls a voice

 

[Donna Ferentes]

or just artistic genius in general?

It's the high standards of pop music that I respect so much. And the absence of hyperbole.

 

[strung out]

Pearl Jam are horrible - one of the shittest bands of the nineties - all that was wrong about grunge - and that cunt of a singer has a disgraceful thing he calls a voice

they were on jools holland i think a couple of months back doing new material and stuff. my housemates tried to make me sit in silence throughout the entire thing. i made a point of making a very loud phonecall that went on for the entire thing. i fucking hate pearl jam

 

[pinkmonkey]

I went off Big Chill last year, not so much because of the commercialisation, more the way it had changed. There was tons of rubbish last year (I used to like the festy coz people had enough respect to not throw their crap down everywhere). Also, the toilets were a fucking disgrace. Plus after years of being able to leave all your wine and spirits out at your campsite untouched (for example) and the place being crime free, someone obviously cottoned on. There were loads of thefts and it wasn't properly dealt with.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

There's nowt wrong with Pearl Jam, well not their first 2 albums anyway, I really don't know why they were called grunge either ,i've never thought of them as grunge before I always thought of them as just a standard rock band but a pretty good one IMO. Any album after Vs is shite though, I will agree with all your Pearl Jam Haters on that one.

 

[In Bloom]

It's the high standards of pop music that I respect so much. And the absence of hyperbole.

Not that I could have been employing hyperbole deliberately for effect or anything like that

Do you ever post about anything you like on this forum? And if not, can you not just fuck off and take your whiney, elitist, sneering purism elsewhere?

 

[In Bloom]

Pearl Jam are horrible - one of the shittest bands of the nineties - all that was wrong about grunge - and that cunt of a singer has a disgraceful thing he calls a voice

Don't you think you should include the words "driver's seat" in your location, for the purposes of honesty?