Glastonbury

[gjh1971]

Anyone watching the coverage? Super Furries playing a blinding set at the moment

 

[REDLAND]

Download 2007: Excess All Areas!

Friday 22 June
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Kerrang!

A VIP pass to the 2007 Download festival, with live performances, interviews and plenty of rock mayhem.

 

[Mr deez]

aahhh making me feel so jealous watching this...

 

[Rookie]

I don't get the fuss about Glasto, load of unwashed in a field listening to bands that most have never heard of and not being able to see the big bands because they are miles from the stage for £200+

 

[Gully]

Have it blasting out downstairs as I am typing this.

 

[Mr deez]

I don't get the fuss about Glasto, load of unwashed in a field listening to bands that most have never heard of and not being able to see the big bands because they are miles from the stage for £200+

Have you been then? It's not particularly hard at all to get up close.

 

[surrey jim]

tbh its not my thing all the festivals etc but i really cant see the point in Glastonbury, i heard that it is one of the busiest places for air traffic during the festival as people helicopter in for the day,

 

[Mr deez]

I guess I was lucky - I went in '94 and it was scorching, Oasis & Blur, was fantastic and would love to go back - if the weather was good...

These days it's the Big Chill for me though, less hectic but so brilliant..

 

[Gully]

Fratellis on at the moment, sound superb, at least the sun has come out at last.

 

[Grendel]

tbh its not my thing all the festivals etc but i really cant see the point in Glastonbury, i heard that it is one of the busiest places for air traffic during the festival as people helicopter in for the day,

The people who say they can't see the point in it, or that it's rubbish are invariably the people that have never been.

Incidentally, I didn't see a single helicopter the entire week the year that I went.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Used to LURVE the Essential Music Festival at Stanmer Park

 

[Mr deez]

Used to LURVE the Essential Music Festival at Stanmer Park

Agreed was great, not a real festival though.

 

[Gully]

Just had Rufus Wainwright...an eerily haunting voice, probably one of those that you either love or hate.

 

[Cian]

The people who say they can't see the point in it, or that it's rubbish are invariably the people that have never been.

Incidentally, I didn't see a single helicopter the entire week the year that I went.

I've never been to -it- but I've been to a number of other multi-day mudfests/sunstroke-cities, and I f***ing hate them. Although at Oxegen you can usually get close enough to the stage. Is Glastonbury that much more amazingly special to outweigh all the negatives? Granted, its unlikely to have Dublin scumbags taking their one weekend a year outside of the city centre, but there'll be equivalents.

 

[REDLAND]

I've never been to -it- but I've been to a number of other multi-day mudfests/sunstroke-cities, and I f***ing hate them. Although at Oxegen you can usually get close enough to the stage. Is Glastonbury that much more amazingly special to outweigh all the negatives? Granted, its unlikely to have Dublin scumbags taking their one weekend a year outside of the city centre, but there'll be equivalents.

Yes mate, the one day festivals do not have a patch on the weekender. Ive always loved the vibes of the weekender

 

[Gully]

I have only been to one, the Belga Beach Party at De Panne in Belgium, it was for one day only...long time ago, Van Morrison was the star act and he was bloody brilliant.

 

[Cian]

Yes mate, the one day festivals do not have a patch on the weekender. Ive always loved the vibes of the weekender

I specifically said multi-day. I've done weekenders, I've done three day weekenders. I've hated them all beyond the music.

 

[Grendel]

I've never been to -it- but I've been to a number of other multi-day mudfests/sunstroke-cities, and I f***ing hate them. Although at Oxegen you can usually get close enough to the stage. Is Glastonbury that much more amazingly special to outweigh all the negatives? Granted, its unlikely to have Dublin scumbags taking their one weekend a year outside of the city centre, but there'll be equivalents.

I'm sure there are equivalents but given that Glastonbury festival has about six times more people there than the population of the town I live in, you're bound to get a few troublemakers. I can't say that I experienced it myself though. In terms of multi-day festivals I've been to, it was head and shoulders above Reading, Leeds, V, Cambridge, Green Man, Isle of Wight, Willow and Strawberry Fayre. The only festival I've been to that approaches it (although nowhere near on the same scale in terms of size/bands you've heard of) is Frogstock.

 

[Braders]

top set by the Arctic Monkeys last night weren't it?

so f***ing JEALOUS

 

[Gemini]

top set by the Arctic Monkeys last night weren't it?

so f***ing JEALOUS

Most of their songs sound the same.
A meaningful monologue & some fast guitar playing.
Its 'formula' music.

Not saying they're rubbish, just samey.