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There are some that would rather do a hotel than a tent, I know what you mean, I love the roughing it and not knowing where you are going to end up.
I know for fact that there is still plenty or drugs, just people aint so quick to share :lol:
It may not be what it once was, but that is because it has got bigger and bigger, and bigger is not always better. BUT, I am pretty sure the average age is still eary 20s, and the atmosphere is just brilliant. I think the age range is 1 to 100, and it is all encompassing.
As for why it started… its pretty bloody obvious, the guy who owns Pilton farm loves music and the arts. Plus, he may embrace the fundamental values of the hippy culture from the 60s, love, peace, sod authority and have fun, but it is also about loving the planet we live on! But mostly it is about music. And I love it. Festivals have sprung up all over the country, but Glastonbury is still the best.
And Matty, you obviously haven’t looked at the list of who is playing if you can make a comment like that.
I was looking at who was playing and this is the list I came up with of all the people I would like to have seen if I have gone this year (some of them clash so I would have had to choose!)
Pyramid Stage
Friday
Kings of Leon
The Fratellis
Editors
The Gossip
The Feeling
KT Tunstall
Kate Nash
Saturday
Amy Winehouse
The Raconteurs
Crowded House
Martha Wainwright
Shakin’ Stevens
Sunday
The Verve
Leonard Cohen
Goldfrapp
Neil Diamond
Other Stage
Friday
Panic at the Disco
The Enemy
The Hoosiers
The Rascals
Saturday
Massive Attack
Elbow
Los Campesinos!
Sunday
Groove Armada
The Zutons
Pigeon Detectives
Mark Ronson
John Peel Stage
Friday
The Cribs
Saturday
The Futureheads
Sunday
The Long Blondes
Jazz World Stage
Friday
Jimmy Cliff
Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Saturday
Joan Armatrading
The Blessing
Sunday
Eddy Grant and the Frontline Orchestra
Dub Colossus in A Town Called Addis
Acoustic Stage
Friday
Sinead O’Connor
The Blockheads and Phill Jupitus
Saturday
Gilbert O’Sullivan
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
Sid Griffin & The Coal Porters
Acoustic Stage Blues Club with Grainne Duffy
Sunday
Suzanne VegaPlus as you are wandering about, you hear something you like and head off to watch and you discover a whole knew sound you never knew you liked!
:D
There are still 100’s of smaller type traditional festivals down in the west country with the “bearded types” that were mentioned earlier, and a lot of tiny village organised ones too where the villagers take their own instruments to the hills and gather their flocks.
I would still love to go. Where else can you squeeze so much into one weekend?
And I think it is brave of bands to agree to appear when they are considered by old fashioned types as “not glasto”… music is music and should be treated the same. 8)
You people do piss me off
Right this one was set up has a fund raise for CND. (yes them……….)
Always happened the weekend after the summer solstice, originally it was to be staged on mid summer day but people had to be at Stonehenge that weekend so they moved it back a week.
The feeling was free and easily going, all you needed was a tent, a knacker old bus and bad band to play it. It was never about “big” names or money, just friends making the most of the “last summer”.
For some of you the term “last summer” is meaning less.
For the people there back in the 70’s and 80’s it was just that, the “last summer” before the end of the world. We all lived in a time of “bomb” and Russians and Yanks where close to killing us all at any moment.
Most of us knew each other and there family’s ,we all meet on the circuit of peace rally’s and marches.
I remember Glastonbury in the summer of 1980, just after the Russians had invaded Afghanistan and “Ronny Regan” was in power, there was a feeling of “war” in the air.
This could be the “last summer”, people just lived for the “moment” . We all through if “the world was going to end, lets all be with our friends and have a good time” that summer.
It was the first time I saw a Policeman getting stoned openly and enjoying the event.
Now its run by accountants and business men, people who play on the stage’s are there for the money, the feeling has gone and its now an “outdoor wembery”
It makes me sick.
Kings Of Leon were awesome last night 8)
Uber band.
oh what a great night ! … i took a picture to send to my wee shazza,, for a wee giggle. love it noo and im pished !
oh well i LOVe CND,,lack o fecking boom boom. id like me and me alone .sitting here !
pah!
ronnie RAYGUN doa,, and yer making sense to me flower !! i remember it well!
It is big business, but the basic ethos behind it hasn’t changed. And the amount of people who go has increased so much it has to be organised like a military operation. I do agree with you in some ways though DOA because it would be nice if it could have remaied true to its origins, but it tries to, and tries hard to, and everyone there understands the basic messages. And be honest, I doubt the farmer would do it if he didn’t make money, look at the chaos afterwards.
I disagree that the people who play there are only doing it for the money though. There will always be headliners, but you look at the numbers of stages and the amount of people performing and you know that cannot be true. Everything changes, nothing remains the same, but Glastonbury is the only festival that is political in the way it is.
And there are lots of people who go who are older and want to take their kids, and why not? A lot of them have been going since they were children. Should they stop just because they are over 40? It has never been exclusive, but always inclusive, and when you see people carrying babies, and groups of young children wandering about on their own, and people of all ages all enjoying the music and the atmosphere, well I hope it carries on.
Its not the 80s any more DOA, things change. Progress isn’t always good admittedly, but you cannot halt progress.
quite right !! i think i told ye this story,, my wee man has been to more festivals in his 26 years then most adults ! when he was a baby we were at Reading etc.. even now we go and see the POgues etc every year !
I was a wild child.! and my son has seen more than yer average kiddie ! Regards the fleadth.reading,tea in the park and a few RAR festivals.
ps i look GREAT with me new hairdo ( chuckle) im all bobbed and spiral..
and id have got ya in free MIMS,,..i get in every thing with being a pal of certain people ..
Groove armada ! i have never paid as a self confessed ligger.. !
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCpBoxF2gc
on the left is patrick,, we get freebies..
on pogues gigs ,we get freebies as he was my lover ,was the bold macgowan :)
i need a scanner to put pics up !
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