Why Festivals are fucking shit.

[kyser_soze]

People selling nitrous balloons for exorbitant prices.
Same people leaving used bulbs everywhere.
Users leaving their scummy balloons everywhere.

 

[tarannau]

It's like a demographic made up of the BBC's most smug and most self entitled middle class music types. There's a bit of good stuff on there, but from the amount of outraged and unbalanced green ink you'd think they were going to rip down the Sistine Chapel and replace the Pimms at Wimbledon with Special Brew. It's a marginally different, somewhat backward looking, station playing to a familiar BBC demographic.

The campaign to save it made me less fond if anything

 

[kyser_soze]

As I recall, you and I were the lone dissenters on the 'Save 6' thread

 

[gavman]

imo the best way to enjoy a festival is to commute

sleep at home / b&b during the day for a comfortable comedown avoiding the brew crew
come out to play at night, refreshed and ready for fun

 

[tarannau]

That's because we have an understanding of the station's positioning and key demographic.



I've got to say that the thread in question led to a reappraisal of my views somewhat. I liked 6Music more until I heard some of the bollocks being used to save it.

 

[jusali]

I tried Glastonbury and didn't like it.
So I tried Shambala and I didn't like that either.
I like the idea but the reality is so much worse
I agree with the OP

 

[William of Walworth]

So do I! Hollis knows how to moan for Englland about festivals. Of course from that particular moaning minnie-type point of view, he's absolutely right in every respect

 

[Eva Luna]

hallo william!!!!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

you forgot "finding yourself"

other than that, top list hollis

 

[Hollis]

See! "Why the Festival are fucking shit". Bringin ' old friends back together!

 

[William of Walworth]

Eva** : See you for some shit music and worse beer at Endorse It then?

**and Hollis maybe?

 

[William of Walworth]

you forgot "finding yourself"

Losing's much easier ....

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

fecking hippies!!!

 

[Hollis]

No Way!! Spent shed loads getting the fastest taxi in Dorset out of that place last year. Fortunetly met a nice young couple with the same intention. We shared the fare.

 

[William of Walworth]

I diagnose a possible case of insufficient insobriety here ...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I diagnose a possible case of insufficient insobriety here ...

Have you been drinking again William?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Go back to 1994 and kill Michael Howard.

Or fuck off to Serbia and enjoy a proper festival

 

[Ground Elder]

Reads thread.

Cancels summer.

A quarter of a century of festival going - how could I have got it so wrong?

Thanks Hollis

 

[Riklet]

People like the OP who go anyway and their BAWWWWW at the unfairness of it all anyway....
Dicks with 4*4 military style tripple prams complete with horrible bawling sprogs who push their scythe-wheeled monstrosities through crowds
When you pay £6 for food which turns out to be shite. Tomato sauce should never ever be a heated up tin of tomatoes, fuck the fuck off chai wallahs you bell ends....

 

[DeadManWalking]

You missed out teenagers shouting "Bollocks" all night

Do they still do that?

 

[19sixtysix]

You missed out teenagers shouting "Bollocks" all night

Do they still do that?

I've heard BOLLOX most years and I remember a year when "FUCK OFF CLOUD" was popular and for some reason TWIST was shouted at random in the glasto cabaret tent.

 

[Idaho]

It's true - on the face of it festivals are shit. And I usually only enjoy myself about 30% of the time I am at them. However that 30% is usually reasonably fun.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The showers. There's never enough of them, so you gotta go at 7am if you don't want to queue. And then the water's usually cold. And by the third day there's so much water overflowed there's mud everywhere so you come out and then have to go find a tap to clean your feet off.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I'm no longer interested in festivals unless I'm there as part of the crew.

 

[Idaho]

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I'm no longer interested in festivals unless I'm there as part of the crew.

That's the other worst thing about festivals. Snooty crew looking down on the punters

 

[tarannau]

People moaning about insufficient shower provision haven't really got the festival ideal imo.

I wouldn't swap my hazy times at massive Glastonbury for love nor money, staggering around seeing bands and friends I rarely see is a treat, especially in such varied surrounds. I can't understand the appeal of many of the smaller festivals to be fair though - there's not so nearly so much scale to contend with, nor the variety ... and if I wanted to be with friends and chill I'd simply go camping to a better appointed place.

If anything age has just made me more fussy over the choice of events. I'm still not averse to spending the best part of week wandering around a massive adventure playground of bands and bits though

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

That's the other worst thing about festivals. Snooty crew looking down on the punters

It's not a case of looking down on anyone, more that it just makes life easier. No standing in queues, decent toilets/showers, a bus or hotel to sleep in, free food and drink and so on.

Plus for me there's the "being part of it" aspect, I really struggle to just watch bands play nowadays, I want to be up there doing the techie stuff, solving problems, running around plugging stuff in etc

 

[jusali]

The showers. There's never enough of them, so you gotta go at 7am if you don't want to queue. And then the water's usually cold. And by the third day there's so much water overflowed there's mud everywhere so you come out and then have to go find a tap to clean your feet off.

Showers at a festival, they'll be flogging corporate Tipi's next! Oh wait?

 

[mr steev]

People moaning about insufficient shower provision haven't really got the festival ideal imo.

Indeed!
If you can't live without a shower for a couple of days, can't cope with roughing it a bit, don't like 'festival bands', talking to random nutters, drinking cider, getting off your head... then stay at fucking home!

Not everyone likes the same thing, so if it's not your bag, then don't go. That way most festivals won't sell out as quick, so people who actually enjoy them have more chance of getting a ticket.

There was a time when festivals were just for hippies, travellers, crusties and freaks... sometimes I think it was better that way

 

[Dr. Furface]

Indeed!
If you can't live without a shower for a couple of days, can't cope with roughing it a bit, don't like 'festival bands', talking to random nutters, drinking cider, getting off your head... then stay at fucking home!

Not everyone likes the same thing, so if it's not your bag, then don't go. That way most festivals won't sell out as quick, so people who actually enjoy them have more chance of getting a ticket.

Don't take it so serious maaaan!!