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By HappyInAField · Posted
Lurker from reddit here ... we are discussing there. This piece has really hit the nail on the head for me and many of us! I love Glasto. But yes something was off and you have to say it... had first time attending friends were very spooked by the crushing this year and may not go back. Here is my question: does anyone at eFestivals or SecretGlasto know how to get this up the chain of command? I think it needs to be read by the right people... fingers crossed -
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I get that & its easy for those of us in Scotland (where the Tories have not won more than 30% of the vote for 40 years) to forget that Labour has to win votes in England (where the Tories have not polled less than 30% for over 100 years. I have always accepted that Labour has to moderate some of its policies to win in England. I just happen to believe they have gone way too far under Starmer. -
Plus it's an open site. So if someone needs to be onsite at all during the festival, they need to have a ticket. It's not like you can bus an artist to Croissant Neuf to play a set, then bus them back off site again. While there is some good stuff on there, there's also the same stuff they put on year in, year out and to be quite frank, some quite mediocre stuff. Astrolabe I find very hit and miss. Cabaret is similar, but most acts only doing 20 minutes. They've put on some larger acts in the former that really draw a crowd but tend to do that on the Thursday now - Jonathan Pie, Dom Joly. I do think they'd benefit from getting some proper marquee events on at all those tents. Get a really great theatre group on to do a modern play that's making waves in the West End or such (English, Buddha of Suburbia, etc) and like, really push that in the publicity, run it at 7pm, make it an event. The circus tent actually do this, they have a big, popular, accessible circus group (Fantasia/Vulgar) that do full shows which are brilliant, but they don't ever make that clear. They don't say "these are our circus headliners". And so instead sometimes you might go there for an hour and just catch some arty acrobatics which is... fine. But not the most exciting. Cabaret tent could host actual full touring shows - yes, they'd have to actually pay the acts for that, but then you could really market it. So say Nish Kumar is doing the same show you can see at your local art centre but it's £30 there and free at Glastonbury.
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Thats super value. I looked at the cost of Noel Gallagher at Ally Pally and that was coming up at £77.89 although he does have Echo & The Bunneymen as support but still 80 quid when even at full price YNot seems a bargain with the lineup it has this year.
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