Haha I'm doing fine 🙂
Maybe the reason they're having to defer to the likes of Muse and Korn in 2024 is because festibals such as Pinkpop - festvialsthat were once the champions of alternatiive music as you pointed out - have refused to promote many of the bigger contemporary rock/alternative acts to headline slots. And as I've pointed out above, they're hardly going all in on modern music with Justin Timberlake in 2024!!!
It just seems lazy to me that they're all booking the same boring pop acts with practically no unqiueness to most of the lime-ups across Europe. But I guess if people are lapping it up and actually excited by mediocrity like this then that shows why they don;t need to think outside the box -- which was my original point...
Anyway, enjoy, boys! lol
Glastonbury don’t necessarily take into account an artist’s popularity elsewhere when making the booking. Whilst no doubt it’s great to secure an international superstar, not all their headliners are going to fit into that category. They’ve had plenty in the past that were not so big overseas at the time (britpop lot, Manics, Kasabian, etc). Whilst it is very much an international festival which attracts punters from all over, obviously the majority are bought by brits and an act like Sam Fender would be popular and attract a decent crowd
its completely normal, whatever normal is 😄 i'd say the majority of people arrive on their own, but then they may have mates they've volunteered with before who they might camp with - i think what might appear at times to be a little cliquey in the oxtent actually tends to be majority people on their own, talking to other people on their own. I like to keep my own company, and spend great swathes of glastonbury on my own, but ill have a bit of time in communal areas as well on occasion, if there's shiftmates who are around. Its nice in that you can dip in and out, if you so desire, the great majority of oxfam volunteers are good sorts, its quite low on dickheads (unless im the dickhead!)