Drone show

[Sawman]

Not much more tbh - being here is obviously flipping great but the drone show was a waste of time for me 

[Jacko45]

That was visually impressive but zero vibe with no audio.

 

Literally boring.

[wozwebs]

Needed audio for sure. Impressive but imagine it with booming sound accompanying it. 

[BookAngel]

We decided not to go to the Pyramid and were glad because the drones looked impressive enough from the top of the Park hill. Some lucky sods even managed to be at the top of the ribbon tower at the time!

[Suprefan]

5 hours ago, al_coholic said:

It was a complete waste of time. Dragged everyone to the pyramid field for 8 mins of f**k all. Fireworks a lot better

Made the hill less crowded so theres that. Next year theyll probably add music and everyone who saw it this year will tell the rest it was shite so they wont bother

[Avalon_Fields]

It was OK but I don’t see why it couldn’t have been safely done directly over the Pyramid stage and visually better, rather than for many on the field appearing behind and remote. 

[kpins]

I don't think they can legally play music to accompany the drones on a Thursday 

[dulcificum]

Lol that was utter shite. Like a sixth former's a level project. Uncreative tick box crap. A 3d pyramid, CND sign and glasto logo.

 

Worsr bits were the 2 fps butterflies, "love" and the shite hovering hummingbird. 

 

It can't have been cheap, you would have thought they'd get someone on board with a modicum of artistic talent... 

[Pr0paneNightm4re]

I was actually quite impressed. I was at Stone Circle so had a brilliant view for it whilst the people there read poems and did their thing. Then we had the fireworks and effigy straight after. Don’t think it would have been as exciting from the pyramid area but loved it from where I was

[Dg_vic]

There’s a suggestion on another post it might not be the only time the drones will be used this weekend.  Coldplay light show? 

[CanWeRest]

7 hours ago, wozwebs said:

Needed audio for sure. Impressive but imagine it with booming sound accompanying it. 

 

Agreed. I was thinking maybe something had gone wrong with the audio, but it seems like that's just how it was supposed to be. When they were encouraging people to watch from the Pyramid Field I thought they'd utilise the speakers.

[Cooter]

Yea very underwhelming to say the least, and missed opportunities for such a huge crowd.

 

Obviously would have been better with some chilled audio. But also maybe some charity vid messages on the screens beforehand? Or maybe a nice montage of how different people from around the world make the pilgrimage to get here.

 

Or best of course, get everyone to bring massive beach balls and after a 10sec countdown, go mental for half an hour. Entertaining and free!

[Chicken Bob]

I was speaking to Colin Paterson the arts and entertainment correspondent for the BBC., who was in the crowd. He said that they were given a brief that there was supposed to be a musical accompaniment. They had a list of tracks too. But for some reason the sound didn’t happen. Weird 

[Alvoram]

It was terrible, the drone show itself was pretty good, but without music it’s just wrong on all levels. 
 

The video below is a smaller show at Alton Towers. The visuals are less impressive, and unless you’re an Alton Towers / theme park / rollercoaster fan you won’t get half the references… But just look at the difference music makes!!! 
 

If a theme park understood that before doing their first drone show, why didn’t a ‘music’ festival? 

 

 

I’m guessing they couldn’t get permission on their license for 5 minutes of recorded music as a one off on the Weds, but without music, just don’t do the show, it doesn’t work. 
 

edit: hate this post, I sound so negative, and I do appreciate the effort, and don’t want to be a total downer, the visuals were good, the idea was good, it worked to spread people out… But please don’t do drone shows without music…
 

 

Edited Thursday at 09:20 AM by Alvoram

[Alvoram]

2 hours ago, Dg_vic said:

There’s a suggestion on another post it might not be the only time the drones will be used this weekend.  Coldplay light show? 

The NOTAM says yesterday and today, nothing up for Coldplay yet that I can see. 
 

I had assumed they’d put down today as a way to delay the show if it turned out to be too windy yesterday, but maybe they are doing something today too??? 

[dingbat2]

It does seem a bit odd to have it on Wednesday with no music, they only really work with music, so seems a bit of a wasted opportunity. I wonder if they will reappear in some form over the weekend during a headline set? It seems right up Coldplay's street to me?

[dulcificum]

56 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

The NOTAM says yesterday and today, nothing up for Coldplay yet that I can see. 
 

I had assumed they’d put down today as a way to delay the show if it turned out to be too windy yesterday, but maybe they are doing something today too??? 

 

I thought the whole site is covered by a notam for the duration that public is on site? 

[Alvoram]

35 minutes ago, dulcificum said:

I thought the whole site is covered by a notam for the duration that public is on site? 

Different notams… This is the drone one…

 

[clarkete]

8 hours ago, Pr0paneNightm4re said:

I was actually quite impressed. I was at Stone Circle so had a brilliant view for it whilst the people there read poems and did their thing. Then we had the fireworks and effigy straight after. Don’t think it would have been as exciting from the pyramid area but loved it from where I was

 

I was in the pyramid field and enjoyed it, bunch of grumpy gits 😂

[Ommadawn]

I watched it from outside the site and thought it was a great addition but wouldn't want it to replace the fireworks.

[Ayrshire Chris]

2 hours ago, Ommadawn said:

I watched it from outside the site and thought it was a great addition but wouldn't want it to replace the fireworks.

From Woodsies

[Ommadawn]

Here's some taken from my vantage point.

 

 

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've only seen it via this site, but it looked fab to me. Had I been there in person I suspect that I'd have been dribbling like a baby, with delight.

 

[clarkete]

16 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I've only seen it via this site, but it looked fab to me. Had I been there in person I suspect that I'd have been dribbling like a baby, with delight.

 

 

And from the Meds, obviously 😉

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

52 minutes ago, clarkete said:

 

And from the Meds, obviously 😉

 

Natch. 🙂