Glastonbury - the king is wearing no clothes ..

As everyone else has said the actual music is only a small part of it. All the rain, the mud and the **** shrinks in to insignificance as you pile around drunk, drugged up and in a giant happy fest along with tens of thousands of other people. It's quite raw.
 
I'm with Britboy on this. Glastonbury looks like hell. I was on the train going past this year and the number of idiot girls getting off the train wearing Ugg boots, LOL!

The only music festival worth going to is Cheltenham Jazz Festival, good music, good venues, friendly folk, good food and drink and no idiot hippies prancing around or wasted "lads" ****ing on your tent (also no tent anyways, get to go home and sleep in my own bed :D)

My housemate at Uni was a big festival goer (V, Reading, Download, Bestival etc. Norwegian Wood and other Continental ones as well) and he said that Glasonbury was hell. He said it was so big that he missed most of the bands he wanted to see as he couldnt get around the stages fast enough.
 
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gropingmantis said:
I'm with Britboy on this. Glastonbury looks like hell. I was on the train going past this year and the number of idiot girls getting off the train wearing Ugg boots, LOL!

The only music festival worth going to is Cheltenham Jazz Festival, good music, good venues, friendly folk, good food and drink and no idiot hippies prancing around or wasted "lads" ****ing on your tent (also no tent anyways, get to go home and sleep in my own bed :D)

My housemate at Uni was a big festival goer (V, Reading, Download, Bestival etc. Norwegian Wood and other Continental ones as well) and he said that Glasonbury was hell. He said it was so big that he missed most of the bands he wanted to see as he couldnt get around the stages fast enough.
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That's because Glastonbury not just about music.

And yes, there are people who turn up dress in nice clothes, and you will see them in a few days and they will embrace the mud :)

P.s. You sound like one of those girls in UGG boots if you like to sleep in your own bed. :p (at least they've gone!)
 
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Hey I embrace mud in all its glory and can rough it with the best of them, hell ive spent a week living in a shelter I built myself (bushcraft course, fun fun). I just hate crowds, drugs, hippies, drunk people and that kind of music so a festival like that is my worst nightmare.

These things aren't for everybody but I agree with Britboy that I do not think that Glastonbury deserves the hype it receives. Although he is a retard for suggesting that live music is in any way worse than recorded music.
 
Will people please stop calling it Glasto! GEEZZZ.

Oh and I went in 1999, did far too much acid and started getting paranoid thinking the hare krishna family I was staying were practising Satanism :D

Music was good too!
 
gropingmantis said:
. Although he is a retard for suggesting that live music is in any way worse than recorded music.
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If live music sounded as good as recorded music, they woudn't bother with studio time they'd just record a gig.

The fact they spend months in the studio and send THAT out rather than a CD of their live performance means that BE DEFINITION even THEY think it sounds better from a studio than the live thing ... otherwise they wouldn't bother with the expensive old studio malarky at all! :)
 
britboy4321 said:
If live music sounded as good as recorded music, they woudn't bother with studio time they'd just record a gig.

The fact they spend months in the studio and send THAT out rather than a CD of their live performance means that BE DEFINITION even THEY think it sounds better from a studio than the live thing ... otherwise they wouldn't bother with the expensive old studio malarky at all! :)
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You are so wrong, its not better they are totally different, recorded live music sounds like pants THAT is why they spend so much money on post production and recording studios but ACTUAL live music, live in the room being performed, right here and now, is amazing.
 
britboy4321 said:
If live music sounded as good as recorded music, they woudn't bother with studio time they'd just record a gig.
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Live music and recorded music can't be compared at all. They're completely different.

A live performance is intended to be heard live. What drives it is the atmosphere and ambience of the venue, created by thousands of people singing their hearts out. If you play a CD of a live performance on your stereo in your living room, it will probably sound flat and unfocused.

A studio performance is intended to be heard in your living room. It's supposed to sound balanced and intimate. If you could somehow recreate that sound at a festival, it would probably sound clinical and uninvolving.

Of course the quality of a studio album is technically better. But live music is as much about the 'live' as the 'music'.
 
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britboy4321 said:
If live music sounded as good as recorded music, they woudn't bother with studio time they'd just record a gig.

The fact they spend months in the studio and send THAT out rather than a CD of their live performance means that BE DEFINITION even THEY think it sounds better from a studio than the live thing ... otherwise they wouldn't bother with the expensive old studio malarky at all! :)
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Wow. Just.. wow.
 
britboy4321 said:
If live music sounded as good as recorded music, they woudn't bother with studio time they'd just record a gig.

The fact they spend months in the studio and send THAT out rather than a CD of their live performance means that BE DEFINITION even THEY think it sounds better from a studio than the live thing ... otherwise they wouldn't bother with the expensive old studio malarky at all! :)
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Have you actually ever been to a live gig?
 
UncleRuckus said:
Will people please stop calling it Glasto! GEEZZZ.

Oh and I went in 1999, did far too much acid and started getting paranoid thinking the hare krishna family I was staying were practising Satanism :D
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Sorry about that, it was just a phase ;)
Joking aside, my last glastonbury ended in a similar manner. Luckily a good friend handcuffed herself to me before the christmas cracker lattice covered the whole sky...

Since then I've been happy to watch the music on tv. Got guilty pleasure watching Beyonce - weirdly the sound was crap through the tv but the live stream was spot on, possibly due to the 5.1 hooked up to it. Doesn't hurt that she's still hot ;)
 
Taziir said:
Sorry about that, it was just a phase ;)
Joking aside, my last glastonbury ended in a similar manner. Luckily a good friend handcuffed herself to me before the christmas cracker lattice covered the whole sky...

Since then I've been happy to watch the music on tv. Got guilty pleasure watching Beyonce - weirdly the sound was crap through the tv but the live stream was spot on, possibly due to the 5.1 hooked up to it. Doesn't hurt that she's still hot ;)
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Much the same mate, almost feel like an old man now at 28, barely even drink these days ;)

Oh and Britboy, for the love of god go to a concert, it's not all about the music; you'll understand one day.
 
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