On the transgender issue?
I think I agree with him. Trans activism has completely derailed liberal politics. Huge numbers of people are running as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Most people want nothing to do with it.
It certainly had a massive impact on the result of this election.
Worth mentioning the whole reason Download started up in 1st place was to have a heavier festival than Reading/Leeds, so obviously by going in that direction they are loosing people like myself. But I accept that's just the way it goes and I need to look at alternatives....missed out on Bloodstock though.
It will be interesting because there's clearly a big divide, where you have a huge crowd of people going for those headliners and then you have the more traditional PS crowd who will go for the undercard.
Even in work a couple of my colleagues who are alternative music fans were raving to me about all the smaller names and will be going to the festival for the first time and some of the girls who had probably never heard of the festival were amazed by the headliners and will also be attending. LCD vs Central Cee could go either way in terms of crowd size.
I now think the lineup has been very cleverly assembled and if they're able to, they will try to keep following this model of huge pop headliners which fund the (to me) more interesting bookings. I've said this before but I always have a better time at the other stages so the more I think about it, the better this lineup will be in practice.
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