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I did this on one of the days between Christmas and NY (my favourite new albums pictured). A belated response but I am not a great fan of NYE (too much reflection on top of festering on the days between Christmas and NY when I have too much time to think). But was at friends and coincidentally took a few cans of Brothers cider and the Coldplay set came on their TV after the fireworks etc. I was ready for home/bed at midnight as had stayed in Mcr the night before for the football with too little sleep. But we were half watching the set with friends asking what it was like and it cheered me up reflecting on how great a week we'd had. My wife not one for showing too much emotion said how she'd had a tear or two at Paul Heaton and I reflected on that Fri dream of LCD Soundsystem and Fontaines DC. -
Remember that its still gate kept from the rest of the world. The BBC keeps all this footage literally to themselves. The event would def be viewed much differently if in the current world of streaming it was literally open to anyone to watch. Broadcasting to one country is a big hindrance in the big picture. Theres a new revenue stream to be had but they dont want to even dip into it which is madness. When they had the livestream event in 2021 they made a pretty penny but somehow never thought to try it with the festival. Blown chance right there. If I needed to I wouldnt take issue paying £20 to watch all the channels live and direct over the course of the festival. Plenty of people would. I mean there def would be some illegal streaming happening anyone when one person buys and just shows it on twitch but thats happening anyway. And their viewership nimbers might be skewed a little anyone with people who use vpns to watch live anyway. But they dont seem to care. Like Im sorry but Coachella being shown on youtube in its entirety both weekends for free and for anyone makes a much larger impression and gets people to want to go to the event. Excitement builds for the second weekend because everyone saw what happened and now cant wait to see it themselves. And a bump in ticket sales happens. The ad buys are big and the revenue is too. And every artist gets to have clips put back on youtube and monetized. Some get to have their entire set put on their channel with a license for a certain amount of time. That benefits everyone involved. Google aint stupid. -
Old man behaves like child. Considering his track record I shouldn’t be surprised. -
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Without TV coverage it’s highly unlikely it would have become anywhere near as big as it has. It wouldn’t have required so many staff or as much infrastructure. The demographic would be very different and wouldn’t demand or think they “need” the world’s biggest stars. Continuing as it was certainly was an option, although the super fence was needed, which kinda illustrates why it would have been fine, we didn’t need to TV to tell us what to attend. Personal experience tells me that just as much, if not more, fun can be had at smaller events, they’re certainly more comfortable. Big acts aren’t necessarily better. Try some of the smaller events and be surprised as the headliner you’ve never heard of “blows your mind” I’ve said before, but an “out of control monster” has been created and there’s no obvious way to put it back in its box: Re Glastonbury getting almost uncontrollably big, I often think “just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should”
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