Your most controversial Glastonbury opinions

[squirrelarmy]

4 hours ago, MaxPower said:

As a cinephile, I also think the cinema is pretty stupid to be honest. Probs watch about 5 films a week on average, couldn’t imagine watching one at Glastonbury.

I like Cineramageddon. 2017 I watched Apocalypse Now on the Sunday night. Finishing off the festival listening to the Doors sing This is The End was the perfect way to end the festival. 

Edited April 19, 2022 by squirrelarmy

[1986]

2 hours ago, philipsteak said:

As someone 15 years or so sober I have to agree. But I also have to add really shit faced people too. Good God they can be tedious at times. And I'm not some sanctimonious ex drinker who thinks everyone should do as I do. Crack on. Do what you want. Get as fucked up as you want (I certainly used to). But fuck me they can be dull at times. 

 

Was going to say this, a chatty coke-head can be an annoyance but a sloppy drunk is much worse. Bet I could tell the coke-head to tone it down a bit and they'd at least hear me.

[Wooderson]

14 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Do you really think that? The population of Glasto has been steadily ageing anyway hasn't it?

Yeh i think that in the rush to chase something (unobtainable imo) theyve lost touch with a lot. 

[clarkete]

27 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Yeh i think that in the rush to chase something (unobtainable imo) theyve lost touch with a lot. 

If you ever get the coach you'll see they're full of young pups, plus that's always apparent coming through the pedestrian gates how many of the volunteers are young 'uns. They're doing a great job attracting them IMHO, so it's very attainable. 

Edited April 19, 2022 by clarkete

[stuie]

14 hours ago, Wanderlei said:

Another controversial opinion. I think the whole SE corner is vastly overrated. Crowded, dickheads, attention seekers, a lot of crap music, and people going "wow, it looks so post apocalyptic, what a great time I'm having. I'm going to tell everyone that I had such a great night" even though they didn't, and now they have covid and are down £300 worth of Glasto ticket and wished they'd spent their time doing something that was actually engaging and not just 'facades and shouting'. Tip: do lots of drugs if you're going to the SE corner. That's the best way to get something out of it if you're not a complete simpleton.

 

This is a safe place to get things off our chests, isn't it? No judgement?

You ok hun?

[Wooderson]

41 minutes ago, clarkete said:

If you ever get the coach you'll see they're full of young pups, plus that's always apparent coming through the pedestrian gates how many of the volunteers are young 'uns. They're doing a great job attracting them IMHO, so it's very attainable. 

I've got the coach before, yep.

Guess my point is that people speak about before and after the fence went up as a demarcation, a profound change in the fest's history.

I would argue that the express strategy to attract a younger cohort (whatever that means) marked a far greater change.

Result is a more anodyne, monocultural, vapid experience vs times past. IMO, natch. 😘

[CaledonianGonzo]

Context matters, but people in festival crowds are largely there to have a good time and therefore entitled to have a bit of a chat during whatever is happening onstage.

Demanding intent, studious silence from the audience is unrealistic and in most instances if people you wind up standing beside are more interested in having a carry on than stroking their chins over the onstage musicianship it's a piece of piss to move elsewhere.

[Wooderson]

Just now, CaledonianGonzo said:

Context matters, but people in festival crowds are largely there to have a good time and therefore entitled to have a bit of a chat during whatever is happening onstage.

Demanding intent, studious silence from the audience is unrealistic and in most instances if people you wind up standing beside are more interested in having a carry on than stroking their chins over the onstage musicianship it's a piece of piss to move elsewhere.

What about swordfighting with lit flarecandles?

[CaledonianGonzo]

2 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

I've got the coach before, yep.

Guess my point is that people speak about before and after the fence went up as a demarcation, a profound change in the fest's history.

I would argue that the express strategy to attract a younger cohort (whatever that means) marked a far greater change.

Result is a more anodyne, monocultural, vapid experience vs times past. IMO, natch. 😘

Not sure I agree with your assessment of the outcome, but I don't see that they had a choice.  To remain static would be the death knell.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, Wooderson said:

What about swordfighting with lit flarecandles?

Absolutely to be encouraged.  See also jelly baby eating competitions, nipple cripple challengeds and trying to set one another's hair on fire.

[BluePaul]

2 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

I would argue that the express strategy to attract a younger cohort (whatever that means) marked a far greater change.

Result is a more anodyne, monocultural, vapid experience vs times past. IMO, natch. 😘

I might have missed it but what was the express strategy?

The type of artists booked?

Move towards more coach travel?

I think you could equally argue that there are other strategies (eg Worthy View, Sticklinch, use of Bath & West for campers) that would support the retention of an older demographic...?

[Wooderson]

3 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Not sure I agree with your assessment of the outcome, but I don't see that they had a choice.  To remain static would be the death knell.

Remain "static"? Emm not sure ye know. The fest was at the forefront of many aspects and coped perfectly fine with cultural step-changes before. Had things been allowed to evolve more organically i think they'd have been ok.

Was the 2010 decade as good as either of the previous two? Not for me, Clive. The emasculation of the Leftfield tent and the Radio1-isation of everything else two further touchpoint on where im coming from.

[Gnomicide]

99% of the time fancy dress isn't funny or clever. People wearing it are are the festival equivalent of Barbara from accounts who says "You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps".

[John the Moth]

21 hours ago, kalifire said:

I’ve also been berated for “not doing Glastonbury properly” when I dared to get a bit of shut eye on the Wednesday afternoon in the green futures field. A girl behind me said, loudly: “imagine coming to Glastonbury and just going to sleep”. 

Imagine going to Glastonbury and shouting at somebody else for not doing Glastonbury in the way they think you should. Dickheads. 

I have been berated on these very pages for once suggesting I’d stick with Mrs Moth (on her first Glasto, in a strange country, not knowing anyone else there, with no sense of direction and worried  about crowds) rather than ditch her for my preferred headliner.

[David_303]

12 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Radio1-isation of everything else two further touchpoint on where im coming from.

Glastonbury has always had popular Radio 1-type artists. I'm not sure 2010 onwards changed a great deal with regard to that. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just now, David_303 said:

Glastonbury has always had popular Radio 1-type artists. I'm not sure 2010 onwards changed a great deal with regard to that. 

Indeed.  I guess the difference is in what sort of music is now more likely for Radio 1 to actually play. 

With the outcome that Stormzy is a notably more cutting edge headline booking than e.g. Travis or the Stereophonics.

[NickM45]

27 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Absolutely to be encouraged.  See also jelly baby eating competitions, nipple cripple challengeds and trying to set one another's hair on fire.

Add to that glitter in beards - should deffo be banned 🤨

Edited April 19, 2022 by NickM45

[squirrelarmy]

2 minutes ago, NickM45 said:

Add to that glitter in beards - should deffo be banned 🤨

Now this is controversial! 
 

Glasto is one of the few times I can glitter my beard without getting funny looks. You’ll be trying to ban glitter nipples next. 🙄

[CaledonianGonzo]

As long as it's biodegradable glitter then go batshit with the stuff.

[CaledonianGonzo]

20 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

99% of the time fancy dress isn't funny or clever. People wearing it are are the festival equivalent of Barbara from accounts who says "You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps".

Preferred aesthetic as follows:

 

 

[rubick]

2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Preferred aesthetic as follows:

 

 

Nautique 2022

[CaledonianGonzo]

"See you down the front of the Pims stall lads to get the summer cups in before we see Vampire Weekend"

[mcshed]

13 hours ago, TASHMA BWABWE said:

Lots of people take drugs to alter/expand their experience of reality and not to completely remove themselves from it.

I was walking through the woods the other day and I was suddenly struck by the immense beauty of the world and how lucky we are to be a part of all this wonderousness and the thought struck me: why would anyone do drugs. And then I remembered I was on drugs.

 

With apologies to Simon Munnery.

[David_303]

21 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

 

With the outcome that Stormzy is a notably more cutting edge headline booking than e.g. Travis or the Stereophonics.

RATM in '94 was a pretty cutting-edge headliner - though, right? The stuff that was *really* on the cutting edge in the early 90s is now being used on bloody car adverts. I really don't know what point I'm trying to make to be honest. I always promised to try and keep with the music of the day as I got older, but it's becoming more and more difficult. I'm slowly turning in to my dad haha

 

[CaledonianGonzo]