What have the noughties ever done for us?

[stuartbert two hats]

Whenever the changes in Glastonbury are discussed, it's always about what has been lost, but we have gained so much this decade. I know I'm just over a month early with this celebration of a decade, but I'd just like to celebrate some of the great additions since 1999

• The Glade(2000)

• Family Camping(2000)

• Current look of Pyramid stage (2000)

• Leftfield(2000)

• Superfence (2001)

• Leftfield Tower(2004)

• Dance Village(2005)

• Silent Disco(2005)

• Pie Minister - YUM(2005)

• The Park(2007)

• Trash City(2007)

• Screens at the Other Stage at last!(2007)

• Shangri La (2008)

• Dairy Ground (2008)

• More Drainage!

• More Toilets!

• Less crime!

• Flags!

Ok, Leftfield has gone and the Silent Disco wouldn't be needed if it wasn't for all those darned licensing restrictions, but look at all the progress we've made over the past few years. Things that I think are somewhat taken for granted when there are laments made about the old days.

Discuss!

[ukslim]

TBF there aren't that many laments about the good old days seen around here. It was good, and now it's good in a different way.

Now I'm going to go off on a tangent, and talk about what I assumed the thread would be about just from the title.

I'm 35. I was 17 in 1990.

My heart sinks when I see a 15 year old wearing a Nirvana T-shirt. When I was that age, listening to Public Enemy and A Guy Called Gerald, my parents, aunts and uncles couldn't make head nor tail of the noises I was listening to.

I want teenagers today to be listening to stuff I can't comprehend. I think donk is awful, but that's fine, because people my age *should* hate what the younger generation enjoys.

Enter Shikari, then, is fantastic. I don't understand it at all. But seeing people enjoying it brings me out in a huge grin.

[NowhereMan]

What did the Pyramid look like pre2000, anyone have any pictures?

[stuartbert two hats]

What did the Pyramid look like pre2000, anyone have any pictures?

[jameshunt]

It looked quite a lot like the Other stage, except bigger. Like any old festival main stage basically.

[sammysundae]

I want teenagers today to be listening to stuff I can't comprehend. I think donk is awful, but that's fine, because people my age *should* hate what the younger generation enjoys.

Enter Shikari, then, is fantastic. I don't understand it at all. But seeing people enjoying it brings me out in a huge grin.

[alframsey]

Now how about this Question, What have the Noughties done for music?

I was watching the recent Pop On Trial series, and it seems all the decades since 1950's have gave something new to music which had a main stream attraction, I don't see this from the 'naughties'. Do you?

[G1T]

To be fair, The Glade was actually a product of the noughties, it was only formalised in 2000.

[ukslim]

Now how about this Question, What have the Noughties done for music?

I was watching the recent Pop On Trial series, and it seems all the decades since 1950's have gave something new to music which had a main stream attraction, I don't see this from the 'naughties'. Do you?

[Kyelo]

Now how about this Question, What have the Noughties done for music?

I was watching the recent Pop On Trial series, and it seems all the decades since 1950's have gave something new to music which had a main stream attraction, I don't see this from the 'naughties'. Do you?

[Joshuwarr]

TBF there aren't that many laments about the good old days seen around here. It was good, and now it's good in a different way.

Now I'm going to go off on a tangent, and talk about what I assumed the thread would be about just from the title.

I'm 35. I was 17 in 1990.

My heart sinks when I see a 15 year old wearing a Nirvana T-shirt. When I was that age, listening to Public Enemy and A Guy Called Gerald, my parents, aunts and uncles couldn't make head nor tail of the noises I was listening to.

I want teenagers today to be listening to stuff I can't comprehend. I think donk is awful, but that's fine, because people my age *should* hate what the younger generation enjoys.

Enter Shikari, then, is fantastic. I don't understand it at all. But seeing people enjoying it brings me out in a huge grin.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

TBF there aren't that many laments about the good old days seen around here. It was good, and now it's good in a different way.

Now I'm going to go off on a tangent, and talk about what I assumed the thread would be about just from the title.

I'm 35. I was 17 in 1990.

My heart sinks when I see a 15 year old wearing a Nirvana T-shirt. When I was that age, listening to Public Enemy and A Guy Called Gerald, my parents, aunts and uncles couldn't make head nor tail of the noises I was listening to.

I want teenagers today to be listening to stuff I can't comprehend. I think donk is awful, but that's fine, because people my age *should* hate what the younger generation enjoys.

Enter Shikari, then, is fantastic. I don't understand it at all. But seeing people enjoying it brings me out in a huge grin.

[krisskross]

my favourite post of the day.

[vicky=)]

I was about to say i was born in the noughties. but then i realised that would make me nine and actually was born in 91 so the nineties.

[alframsey]

I think since the internet made it big, everything's gone into a big blender, so there's lots of cross polination, but at the same time it's easier to communicate with fans for more niche music. I can't think of a brand new revolutionary style of music that's arisen since 2000. Drum & bass double speed breakbeat type stuff is the last really major new thing I recall happening. Lots of evolution, not so much revolution.

And almost everything filters up in a diluted manner into the mainstream. Girls Aloud singles have D&B-ish breakbeats. Monster Metal wins Eurovision...

[mandypants]

I'm 36 and have an 18 year old son so I'm seeing this in my everyday life. The boy has been into heavy rock stuff for ages but he's always trying to find something I don't like, and I don't make it easy for him. I like Enter Shikari and Hadouken! He's found his niche now though in this really screamo stuff that sounds like the singer is making similar noises to a really big pig on the rampage, and finally he's found something I really don't like! My 12 year old daughter has gone the other way and is into terrible mainstream charty pop rubbish.

I know what you mean about when we were teenagers, we had the explosion of the rave scene, we had Madchester and all that, as well as Grunge coming from the US, we had a massive scene to be part of and there doesn't seem to be a scene like that nowadays.