david dissadent said:
Yeah but Reading is all about rock and lager. It does what it says on the tin. At Reading I dont have to listen to some 20 something bookeeper standing next to the Budwieser sponsored bar telling me they are really a reincarnated hippy, mouthing some faux budist philosophy they picked up from watching Dharma and Greg while telling me Glastonbury is the last unspoilt part of mysctical Englande.
Bit harsh I know, its a great festival, but some people do spout bollox about it.
Not me, and, my views on Ansheuser-Busch (SCUM!) and Budshiter are well known
Being a left wing anti-big-corporation proper beer lover, I hate them and what they stand for with a sincere and deep passion, and they are about the worst corporate 'partner' Glastonbury and the 'Workers Beer Company' could have picked
-- the only saving grace is that they don't have a monopoly -- I boycoytt them (and never go near the vile monstrosity called the Crown) in favour of the good range of ale at the Acoustic Tent field beer tent, and the Cider Bus.
Would like to go into how much or not the plentiful good things still around and still achieved by Glastonbury outweigh the disturbing compromises they've made, another time, when I have time. But preferring the
all round ultra corporate Reading (who don't lift
any kind of finger for
any good cause), just because it's more 'honestly' corporate than Glastonbury shows well faulty logic IMO.
And to dismiss the whole panapoly of alternative/radical causes/ideas/cultures that Glasto still has in abundance because you don't like some strawman Aunt Sally of 'hypocrisy' is in my view unnecessarily and destructively cynical ... would you rather Glastonbury didn't exist?
You get embarassing twats at any Glastonbury, and at any festival. But people who are so stupendously self-unaware as to talk like the
caricature that you have
invented and then exaggerated for effect, are IMO pretty much in a tiny minority. Even up in the Green Fields there's as many if not more standard festie goers (ex-crusties, ex Travellers and so on) with a more basic festival philosophy as there are out and out leyline wibblers. Whose mystical bollocks is there to be (gently)** ridiculed and (affectionately)** laughed at anyway
**Cos they're harmless, essentially ... but I have zero time for their wibblings
W of W, most beer oriented and least New Age bollocks spouting, least 'mystical' hippy in Glastonbury ... when I hear the word 'workshop' I head for the Cider Bus
