Glastonbury 2015

[stfc1975]

When are The Who on?

[Sir Pissalot]

Its to shield him from the overspill of sound from the other instruments and vice versa.  Its fairly common practice with older artists with a lot of players on stage.

Its a sound shield for when the drums are too loud for the group.

Oh, OK thanks for that.  Couldn't remember seeing anyone else doing that before.  I thought maybe he was in the 'witness protection scheme' or something.

[Saxondale]

Im sure The Who have it as well on account of Pete Townsend being a deaf old fucker these days.

Hope I die before I get really bad tinnitus.

[Jamiesfuturewife]

The whole thought of Glastonbury just makes me shudder -  each to their own but it doesn't appeal to me AT ALL

[Chubbs]

The whole thought of Glastonbury just makes me shudder -  each to their own but it doesn't appeal to me AT ALL

I just cant justify paying the 250 odd quid or whatever for the weekend. The first festival i went to was reading in 1999 or 2000 i forget but i think i paid something like 60 quid for the weekend.

[Reg Smeeton]

I just cant justify paying the 250 odd quid or whatever for the weekend. The first festival i went to was reading in 1999 or 2000 i forget but i think i paid something like 60 quid for the weekend.

When I went to the first one in 1970, it was a pound.  That's inflation for you.

[WEBBERhyde]

I just cant justify paying the 250 odd quid or whatever for the weekend. The first festival i went to was reading in 1999 or 2000 i forget but i think i paid something like 60 quid for the weekend.

Again, each to their own, but despite the price inflation over the years, I still think the 220 quid (I think that's what it was this year) is incredible value for what you get at Glastonbury. It's no longer just a few bands playing in a muddy field, but a 24 hour a day assault on the senses for 5 days.
For me, spending 2/3/4 times that on some trip just for a bit of sun, coming back with a net cultural gain of finding out what a Sunday roast tastes like in a shit bar on a Majorca beach, is completely mad.

I'm certainly not saying festivals as a whole give good VFM these days. I just happened to see a poster for Cornbury festival the other day. The line up looked like something you'd be more likely to see at pontins or something these days, and all for 180 quid! Fuck me. I'm not entirely sure what the extra curricular activities are there to be fair, but they'd have to be pretty fucking special for that price.

[suttonred]

I just cant justify paying the 250 odd quid or whatever for the weekend. The first festival i went to was reading in 1999 or 2000 i forget but i think i paid something like 60 quid for the weekend.

If you went 2000 Oasis headlined. I watched Muse and Calexico in tents when they were playing

Also on I remember were Foo Fighters and Limp bizkit

[Saxondale]

I first went in '87.  It was my first festival and will always be the benchmark for me.  After that I went again and then to a few other festivals and was amazed how the other festivals had nothing except a few food stalls, a few stages and a funfair.  It just didn't compare.

The thing is it doesn't matter at all about the lineup.  Last visit we couldn't find anything we wanted to see on the Sunday night so ended up doing a combination of comedy tent and arcadia dance stage rather than any big name acts.  You can walk for hours at Glastonbury and find weird and interesting things so you are never bored.  

2013 I tour managed an act at lunchtime and stood on the side of the stage looking out thinking 'fuck, I cannot believe Im here'.

It'll always have a special place in my heart despite now having too many knobs there.

[WEBBERhyde]

It'll always have a special place in my heart despite now having too many knobs there.

Straight up.

The knob factor has certainly grown, even over the time I've been going. You could almost track it along with the popularity of laughing gas being used there. Haven't got much of a problem with people doing it (apart from the fact huffing on a fucking balloon for 20 seconds looks fucking ridiculous), but a normally fairly serene part of the site is punctured with the noise of gas canisters going off every 5 seconds, and then the twats just leave thousands of canisters strewn about the green fields and stone circle.

Like you, I've been spoilt by Glastonbury being the only thing I've known, (although I've been going to Cropredy festival since being a babe in arms, but it doesn't really compare). Can't stomach the idea of Reading, but went to Benicassim a fair few years ago and couldn't believe how shit it was.

[McGurk's Missus]

Straight up.

The knob factor has certainly grown, even over the time I've been going. You could almost track it along with the popularity of laughing gas being used there. Haven't got much of a problem with people doing it (apart from the fact huffing on a fucking balloon for 20 seconds looks fucking ridiculous), but a normally fairly serene part of the site is punctured with the noise of gas canisters going off every 5 seconds, and then the twats just leave thousands of canisters strewn about the green fields and stone circle.

Like you, I've been spoilt by Glastonbury being the only thing I've known, (although I've been going to Cropredy festival since being a babe in arms, but it doesn't really compare). Can't stomach the idea of Reading, but went to Benicassim a fair few years ago and couldn't believe how shit it was.

Yep, we call them "meatheads" where I live. Same principle - most of them aren't there for any of the performing arts. I went in 2010 (a couple of my friends* were playing in the Green Futures/Small World Tents - Incidentally one of his friends was session playing for Radiohead on the "secret gig" Park stage which we all got duly invited backstage for - enough name dropping) and although it was amazing and saw many established acts, I made sure to check out lesser known stuff too. I think (if you have a broad sense of music) it's important to immerse yourself in a wide scale of music on the whole. That way we keep on discovering new stuff for ourselves.

Living in Derbyshire, I now make the annual trip to YNot Festival, set in the Peak District. For 4 days its just a smidge over £100, which i think is a bargain, when you pro rata it to gigs attended and by days.  There are a lot of newer and less known bands and artists there along with a good nostalgic mix of older bands and current stuff too. One thing i'll say, they always book bands that perform good live.

This year they have top acts such as;

snoop dogg
super furry animals
Reverend and the Makers
Young Guns
Slaves
Honeyblood
basement jaxx
ocean colour scene
Saint Raymond
Deaf Havana
The Academic
primal scream
johnny marr
The Strypes
Rhodes
Less Than Jake
public service broadcasting
Jake Issacc
We-Are-Scientists
rae-morris
Grant Nicholas(Feeder)
Jagaara
nick mulvey
Gengahr
Pulled Apart By Horses
The Xcerts
Brawlers
Get Inuit
don broco
hacktivist
Bo Ningen
Arcane Roots
Lower Than Atlantis
We Are The Ocean
Nine Black Alps
Ash
Beans on Toast
Asylums
Bloxed Beats

and many more.

All kicks off on 30th July....
www.ynotfestivals.co.uk if you're interested.

Sorry for Spamming haha, But for a small festival i'd say they have booked some top acts.

*John Elliott and his Full strings set called The Little Unsaid. 

[4D]

When I went to the first one in 1970, it was a pound.  That's inflation for you.

On the magic bus, Reg?

[Reg Smeeton]

On the magic bus, Reg?

Ford Anglia...bit like this

[kerry red]

I was a Triumph Herald man, meself.

[Mrs Brown]

Did anyone see Suede's set at Glastonbury?