Glastonbury - the king is wearing no clothes ..

Glastonbury is so much more than music. You could easily go and not see any of the big bands. I enjoy, and without sounding to cliche, just walking around and soaking in the atmosphere. It's just a great collection of a lot of very different people all getting together to have fun for a week. What isn't there to enjoy?
Quite frankly, it is the greatest get together in the World and even rain and mud won't spoil the fun and charm of it.
I say this, and I've only been once!
 
mattjd said:
Looking forward to Leeds festival. Muse and Deftones are suppose to be excellent live :D
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Can't wait for these!!! Glasto isn't my cup of tea in all honestly, although I'd bumlove it if I could pull enough cash together to go to Sonisphere. The line up is amazing.
 
mattjd said:
Looking forward to Leeds festival. Muse and Deftones are suppose to be excellent live :D
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I saw Deftones earlier this year (I think it was this year, or late last year, all a blur) and they were ******* amazing. Chino finally stopped being a fatty and he was jumping all over the stage and the crowd were going mental. There was a girl in front of us who was having some kind of religious experience and kept crying the whole time and singing the lyrics :D.
 
The OP has a point, watched an hour on BBC3 and thought who the **** are they? Never heard of any of them before apart from U2.

I guess though when you've been conned out of £200 and probably end up spending another £500 on top, the peeps who go will say it's fantastic no matter who is performing so to justify to themselves that the expense was worth it.
 
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fozter said:
Can't wait for these!!! Glasto isn't my cup of tea in all honestly, although I'd bumlove it if I could pull enough cash together to go to Sonisphere. The line up is amazing.
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I went to Sonisphere 2009 and it was amazing, especially Machine Head, Metallica, Lamb of God, Limp Bizkit and Avenged, but Metallica at the end of the night was definitely the most spectacular thing ever, and it was Hetfield's birthday :D
 
digipeep said:
The OP has a point, watched an hour on BBC3 and thought who the **** are they? Never heard of any of them before apart from U2.

I guess though when you've been conned out of £200 and probably end up spending another £500 on top, the peeps who go will say it's fantastic however was there.
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£500 on top??? you are sleeping in a tent for 4 nights, not the Four Seasons! £5 can get you some food easy, you can bring your alcohol by the crates!

It's easy to judge if you have never been, saying its nice and comfy sitting in your sofa with a beer, nice and dry. But that's the point, "if you never been".
 
Mumford & Sons (on BBC2 atm) sound great! Love that band.

Raymond, it's not cheap let's be honest! £500 may be pushing it but a couple hundred quid is easily spent.
 
My £500 additional costs was for:

Food
Travelling
Clothing
Alcohol
Naughties (drugs)
Misc.

If anything Glastonbury is now a very middle class festival.
 
Did anyone see that structure of the Run Down council building which was an underground club, Crazy!! Just goes to show how much effort is put in, it looked like a real street not some farm in glastonbury
 
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digipeep said:
My £500 additional costs was for:

Food
Travelling
Clothing
Alcohol
Naughties (drugs)
Misc. -

If anything Glastonbury is now a very middle class festival.
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Never spent more than £150 on any of the 5 years I've been (not including tickets obviously) and thats usually been from the Weds to the Mon, so the full 5 days.

Ok, so I'm lucky enough to live within 40mins drive, but I cant see how it's going to cost you another £350 to get there unless you charter a helicopter or so (good way to beat the traffic I suppose :p)
 
I kind of agree with the OP in some aspects.

It seems to me that there are an increasing number of acts that have massive popularity through record sales, music videos, TV appearances and general pop culture; yet when they play live they sound awful. Usually poor vocals, out of tune instruments or players that seem they don't want to be there.

With a lot of modern bands (that makes me feel old) their studio work is so massively over produced that it becomes impossible to reproduce live.

I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and name acts like Arcade Fire, Bloc Party and Florence and the Machine. I'll most likely get flamed for that, but seeing Florence shouting and wailing "you go the love" is like nails down a blackboard for me.

I think "the Emperor's new Clothes" is very apt.
 
Pendulum, enter shikari, chase and status, plan b, linkin park, borgore.

You don't know quite how amazing live music can be. The bands above are ones that I have seen live, AND BY GOD they were fantastic :)
 
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