2013 Lineup

[thetime]

How I tell how many punk bands are at Galsto is to count the mohawks on the bands playing when I'm watching them on BBC. Last year I got 0.

[AcademicPistol]

Punk is no longer with us guys.

[eFestivals]

Neil there is no alternative to Download, Soni got cancelled

I was suggesting that the alternative to making Glastonbury like Download is just to go to Download.

[eFestivals]

How I tell how many punk bands are at Galsto is to count the mohawks on the bands playing when I'm watching them on BBC. Last year I got 0.

yeah, but the BBC get a nosebleed if they film anything away from the two main stages.

For many people who go to Glasto, their experiences barely include those two stages. The better music is - on average - always away from the trendy acts.

[lharris92]

Punk is no longer with us guys.

[jump]

yeah, but the BBC get a nosebleed if they film anything away from the two main stages.

For many people who go to Glasto, their experiences barely include those two stages. The better music is - on average - always away from the trendy acts.

[jump]

Punk is no longer with us guys.

[AcademicPistol]

http://www.efestival...bellion/2012uk/

[AcademicPistol]

That's not true, Cribs are playing this year and all they seem to do keep banging on about how they are a real punk band.

Edited June 15, 2012 by AcademicPistol

[mrtourette]

what you're missing from this mrtourette, is that if someone wants (say) the Download line-up, guess where they can go instead of Glastonbury?

[lharris92]

this is what summer holidays do to me... make me bored enough to do stuff like that

[mrtourette]

Thing about Glasto is, there's more to it than just the bands. It's hard to explain but you just have to go and see for yourself to fully understand. There were only four acts I really wanted to see all weekend (Blur, Springsteen, The Specials and Spinal Tap) but it was the best weekend of my life.

[AcademicPistol]

this is what summer holidays do to me... make me bored enough to do stuff like that

[thetime]

Lucky! wish i had summer hoildays!

[eFestivals]

That's my point, when people say "I go to x because I don't think the music at Glastonbury" they seem to get a response like "then you don't like music" or "Glasto has everything, you aren't looking hard enough". The truth is that Glasto doesn't have everything (or at least everything in equal abundance) and that for a minority of people other festivals are more suitable, so when people say that they should be believed rather it being suggested that the only reason they think that way is because they're mentally defective.

care to show me any fest that has everything or even some things in equal abundance? Reading which is meant to cover modern punk doesn't even manage what you're suggesting of Glasto.

My point is that Glasto does have (just about) everything. Just because it's not what you know or want or not in the right quantities doesn't make it not there.

Of course other fests are more suitable for some. I've never said different to that, I've merely corrected a factual error.

[AcademicPistol]

Me and you both, get bout 5 weeks leave..although I only work weekends now and get 5 days more or less every week of haha.

[lharris92]

Lucky! wish i had summer hoildays!

[thetime]

Sounds like one big holiday

I kind of wanna know what you do now but you don't have to tell me.

[thetime]

only 3 more months

[AcademicPistol]

Haha nothing exciting I'm afraid, just gives me all week to spend with daughter doing.nursery runs etc etc. Earn more doing weekends than I would do all week.

It just cuts down in festivals that I don't plan but go if good weather/ spare dosh etc.

[thetime]

Damn i hoping you were working for MI5.

When i first read that i thought "nice he gets to spend time with his daughter" then straight after dumping her at nursery

Are you cad driver then?

[jump]

Damn i hoping you were working for MI5.

When i first read that i thought "nice he gets to spend time with his daughter" then straight after dumping her at nursery

Are you cad driver then?

[mrtourette]

care to show me any fest that has everything or even some things in equal abundance? Reading which is meant to cover modern punk doesn't even manage what you're suggesting of Glasto.

Edited June 15, 2012 by mrtourette

[thetime]

What's that got to do with anything? I'm not suggesting Glasto should be doing these things, just that people shouldn't be claiming that it does something that it doesn't.

It might not make it not there but it still makes it sub-standard when compared to others, if that's your thing. Essentially you're saying that Glasto covers all the bases because at some point somewhere, no matter how shit they are, there's a band that fits into a slot and that every slot is covered by at least one band, which whi;e making it technically correct doesn't mean the festival claim cliam to 'do' every kind of music. It's a pretty cheap boast by those who try to peddle it. The assertion that Glasto does have everything is based on your view of what level of coverage means that can claim to be 'doing' or to 'have' someting. I don't think it adequately covers some of the genres that other festivals do, but then again I don't expect it to.

You can say all you like that it does and the only reason I don't think the same way is because I don't experiment or aren't aware of what's going on there, but for me it doesn't and therefore for me it doesn't scratch that itch. My interpretation of a decent level or quality of punk/hardcore/whatever is obviously different. For you or anyone else what they have may cover the punk or metal or hardcore spectrum and that's great, but me me and others that it isn't enough or isn't good enough so we go elsewhere.

[Hart Attack]

then your mate doesn't like music.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Hart Attack