tinx
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Shit line up but James live are excellent and would be worth checking out.
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V Festival 2013
- Thread starter CorgiRegisteredFriend
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Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
I wouldn't go if it was a free festival on my doorstep and somebody phoned me to request that I leave my flat and piss on the face of the musician of my choice.
............ and it might clash with The Wedding Present
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
My sister goes to this kind of shit and she's an accountant
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
yo la tengo
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,805
It's hilariously terrible - but it always has been... see you at the Great Escape...?
GingerBeerMan
3-0
- Dec 29, 2011
- 8,205
Lots of festival snobs on this thread. People have different tastes in music to your own, get over it.
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,805
Force-fed through awful bland music talent shows and the like. Surely no-one can have watched the Brits and not found it toe-curlingly terrible - unfortunately the status quo stifles real talent. There are loads of amazing bands out there, from every genre, but very few of them get the exposure they deserve for the sole reason they do not fit the formulaic corporate music industry idea of artists that have mass-market appeal and will therefore make the Simon Cowells of this world a sh*t load of dosh. V-Festival panders to this kind of crap.
Nibble
New member
- Jan 3, 2007
- 19,238
Cannot stand the way what used to be rock festivals now have ironic headliners like Beyonce or Rolf Harris or some such crap. I stopped going to Reading "ROCK" festival in 94 when they started putting mainstream arsefuckery on. Waste of time and money.
The 'people' you refer to are force-fed the formulaic, predictable rubbish on Radio 1 and know no different. Not their fault, I know.
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
- Thread starter
- #51
Well said. People often complain that there is no good music around but there always is- you just have to look for it. Unfortunately with the likes of Heart FM and The X factor it has become far too easy for people to become lazy in their listening habits. Just look at the number of live bands playing in and around Brighton over the next couple of months and there is so much good stuff. Great Escape is a prime example of a decent festival that supports new music.
burrish-gull
Active member
- Mar 24, 2009
- 813
The only festival worth going to now is Download, you'll never kill rock and metal (thank the lord) 
