Glastonbury '08

[Suomi Shrimper]

Went to my first ever Glasto last year and loved it despite the mud, hour long trek through the driving rain back to the car and 8 hours stuck in a car park on the way back. I've registered already and there is no doubt that I will be up bright and early to buy my ticket when they go on sale. Now there's just the small matter of this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7223232.stm

Last year we had The Who and Dame Shirley "Diamonds are Foreverrrrrrrrrrrrr" Bassey. This year, Jay-Z and Neil Diamond. To quote the mighty Eavis:

"He will appeal to the young people and under-25s for sure, so that's a big pull for them. It's not like the traditional one we do, like Radiohead, Coldplay and Muse and Oasis."

I'm young, I'm under-25: can we have Radiohead or Oasis please? Actually, Muse would be nice, and Coldplay aren't so bad really. Kanye West might even have been alright, but really not sure about this Jay-Z fella. Oh well, Glastonbury's not about the headliners anyway...

 

[MK Shrimper]

Kanye West & Jay-Z?

I'll buy a ticket just to throw bags of **** at the stage...

 

[Bluetonic]

Kanye West & Jay-Z?

I'll buy a ticket just to throw bags of **** at the stage...

??! racist.

 

[Tilly hates yellow boots]

Doing Reading, V fest this year.

I feel if your going for the music, Reading is bar far the best.

 

[MK Shrimper]

??! racist.

Numpty :thump:

This popularist toss should have no place a Glasto - not as though I'd venture within 50 miles of the place.....

 

[Suomi Shrimper]

Doing Reading, V fest this year.

I feel if your going for the music, Reading is bar far the best.

I've seen some amazing sets at Reading over the years (Muse '04, Pearl Jam '06), but after going to Glasto it really has no appeal to me any more. The Metal Sunday acts are tired and pretty much the same every year now (My Chemical Romance, Bullet for my Valentine etc) and 90% of the acts over the weekend seem to consist if whoever NME are spunking over the week the bookings are made.

More than this though is that in recent years I've gotten pretty tired of the nightly ritual of guarding your tent from drunk/high thieves and the Sunday night anarchy. Maybe I'm getting old but in 2002, trolley wars were the height of it and that's all fun and games, but when some gang of drunken chav teenagers (who seem to have taken over the festival these days) tries to set fire to your mate's tent whilst he and his girlfriend are asleep in it, you have no real urge to hurry back.

 

[Tilly hates yellow boots]

I've seen some amazing sets at Reading over the years (Muse '04, Pearl Jam '06), but after going to Glasto it really has no appeal to me any more. The Metal Sunday acts are tired and pretty much the same every year now (My Chemical Romance, Bullet for my Valentine etc) and 90% of the acts over the weekend seem to consist if whoever NME are spunking over the week the bookings are made.

More than this though is that in recent years I've gotten pretty tired of the nightly ritual of guarding your tent from drunk/high thieves and the Sunday night anarchy. Maybe I'm getting old but in 2002, trolley wars were the height of it and that's all fun and games, but when some gang of drunken chav teenagers (who seem to have taken over the festival these days) tries to set fire to your mate's tent whilst he and his girlfriend are asleep in it, you have no real urge to hurry back.

Wish me lcuk then !