Glastonbury - the king is wearing no clothes ..

Welcome to the music industry britboy.

No (Hardly any) live performance will sound as good or clean as CD/MP3

The amount of mastering that goes on in the studio is vast.

Also it is more about the atmosphere then sound quality.
 
BUT most of all I think it's a case of 'the king has no clothes'. That is, it is uncool to slate it, it is uncool for anyone to say 'hold on, its a cold, rainy field, with 4 kind of stoned looking hippies badly singing a song I've never heard of'. Glastonbury is supposed to be loved by the young and cool, whatever it's actually like. Well, the king is wearing no clothes!
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Bang on mate, I know a lot of people that aren't overly keen on it but just do it because it's the "cool thing to do". You can tell everyone that you were there and you got off your **** . I've never been keen on them, I enjoyed one at the IOW festival because I was with a load of friends and we were hammered but we barely listened to the music - we could have been in a pub or nightclub and had just as much fun and not have been soaked!
 
Never been to Glastonbury but I went to T in the park last year. Best weekend I have ever had. Eminem was superb and even Muse who I never thought I'd like.... well I now like them. They were superb and the show that they put on was just mind blowing. Unfortunately I miss it this year as Im in Magaluf but considering going to V festival but will be paying over the odds if I do go. Festivals = Awesome
 
britboy4321 said:
Watched a load of Glastonbury on telly out of interest.

All my mates say it is INCREDIBLE. It's AMAZING. AWESOME. Here is what I think

1) Apart from the headlines, the acts seem rubbish people you've never heard of, playing songs you've never heard of. Normally sung by some almost-not-quite-punk with a mohican and 62 earrings, who can only play the tamborine. Awesome.

2) About 60% of the acts involve hippies stringing 4 chords together whilst madly shaking their heads. Or a kind of mess of sound .. with some bloke with dreadlocks shouting swear words as three of his mates hit bongos :/

3) Lots of cold rain, just kinda everywhere

4) I am amazed at just how bad the sound quality is. Seriously. Apart from U2, the bands all just sound a shambles. I mean, kind of like pub bands down the dog n' goat, being paid £80 for a Friday night ... a LOT WORSE than CDs. Why do people like live music, when it seems to be 20 * WORSE quality than if someone banged on a CD through exactly the same sound system?

5) What is it with people kind of shouting rather than actually singing? And a LOT of their notes are off tune .. Why can't singers sing on tune nowadays? Is it not the 'done' thing?



BUT most of all I think it's a case of 'the king has no clothes'. That is, it is uncool to slate it, it is uncool for anyone to say 'hold on, its a cold, rainy field, with 4 kind of stoned looking hippies badly singing a song I've never heard of'. Glastonbury is supposed to be loved by the young and cool, whatever it's actually like. Well, the king is wearing no clothes!


What am I missing? (Apart from about a kilo of drugs inside me with 9 pints of cider?????)


U2 were passable admittedly
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You're not actually missing much as that's what Glastonbury was like for me as well. However, to be kind, I have seen a few quality bands there who sounded excellent live and even went out and bought a few CD's of them. But yea, most bands there is laughable at best but people do support them and their half-ass efforts and I find that strangely endearing. I wouldn't quite use the adjectives of 'Amazing,' Awesome, as such, but it's worth seeing once and as long as you don't expect too much, you'd enjoy it.
 
This year's Glastonbury I'd tend to agree. I went in 2003 (when the £90 ticket seemed expensive haha) and it was amazing, but then we did have REM, Radiohead, Moby, Sigur Ros, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Feeder, Mogwai, Sparta and Idlewild.
 
IceBus said:
This year's Glastonbury I'd tend to agree. I went in 2003 (when the £90 ticket seemed expensive haha) and it was amazing, but then we did have REM, Radiohead, Moby, Sigur Ros, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Feeder, Mogwai, Sparta and Idlewild.
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Did the Manics headline? I think i was there!
 
Its Emperor not King.

I hope it rains so much that Beyonce gets very wet....
 
To be fair I feel much the same, most of the festivals I've been to haven't been to actually listen to the music, more the general ambience and with mates.

I literally don't get the Muse love though, they headlined the IoW festival and there was a better response from the crowd when recorded Reef played over the speakers before they came on - just whiney boringness that people shuffle around to like zombies. :confused:
 
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