No Glastonbury in 2006, you, erm....... (ah bollox 2 it) guys.

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Year of rest for the Eavis clan.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i am tired of glasto anyway

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Horrible place but mug enough to go twice.

Worst festival of all for music fans. Full of Weller, Oasis, Beatles kerraaazzzzzzzzzzy dance types (who hate good so called dance music) and worse.

Yes, I'm a snob.And also old.

Feel sorry for folk who, like ,'have to be there'.

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been to four now and have many great memories but i doubt i will go again

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think thats my tally and me too...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been to four now and have many great memories and I doubt I won't go again.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to the last 2 and I loved them, but wasn't really planning on going this year. Although a bunch of friends from back in Canada may come over for it, so if that's the case I'll go.

As for music, I was kicking myself for not going to Benicassim (called FIB Heineken or something) last year instead. What a lineup! I'm hoping to go this year, but I don't know if it happening or not. The weather in Spain is certainly much nicer. And there's also Primavera in Barcelona (which I went to last year).

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i have never been to glastonbury, and would frankly rather gouge out my eyes with a rusty tent peg. humans are not meant to live under canvas.

nor are they meant to listen to paul weller, for that matter.

the first year my cousin went (some time in the early nineties), he and his mate found a nice quiet spot to pitch their tent ... when they came back, they realised it was nice and quiet because it was right in the path of the portaloo overflow stream.

these days he still goes, but he knows someone who lives in a house nearby, so gets all the comforts that make life bearable (clean pants, not having to share your breathing space with former members of the spiral tribe) and some tedious-ass rock music played by superannuated old fucks as well. lucky him!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

only someone who's never been to glastonbury would actually criticise it from the above position!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan OTM

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yes criticism from people who haven't been themselves doesn't stand up very well. like Rob i would very much like to go to Benicassim.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

but ... i'm not going to go just to reassure myself that i won't like it! i've seen the pictures. i've heard about the mud.

i mean, i went on a camping trip once when i was a lad, and that was bad enough. and paul weller wasn't even there.

i'm assuming it's one of these experiences that is only made bearable by copious drug ingestion. but i could do that in my front room :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Glastonbery the one time I went. Absolutly typical experience but it was great fun nevertheless. Always something to be said for music outdoors with naked hippy girls.

Ended up passing out in the ambient tent with Mixmaster Morris lulling me gently to sleep.

― hector (hector), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

reading festival is so much more fun

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

grimly no you don't really need drugs (altho i concede it probably would've helped me enjoy it more than i did, then again maybe i'd have a paranoid episode and horrendous comedown). and the media like the whole 'mud' thing for some reason but it's not as constant as it's made out to be. first time i went ('99) no mud at all and perfect weather, in 2000 there was mud on the Wednesday but none after, 2002 none at all, 2004 was dry and perfect until the Saturday so only half the time spent at the festival was rain-soaked and swampy - people somehow still managed to have fun despite this - extraordinary!

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ended up passing out in the ambient tent with Mixmaster Morris lulling me gently to sleep.

i passed out at ATP when aphex twin was DJing (along with about 200 other people at the back of the hall). it took me a full minute to work out where i was and what the FUCK was going on when i awoke.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was there when the shit went down in 97-98 and only a sizeable indie-boy crush kept me there. Haven't been since. Wouldn't go again, especially now the dance tent's been downsized.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I had been thinking, recently, about the possibility of seeing New Order at this year's Glastonbury, and how wonderful it could be for me, never having seen them. And now it seems, ticket supply willing, that my dream is going to come true.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 5 February 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the White Stripes, New Order and Kylie is pretty much as good a set of headliners as I could realistically hope for, I think. No doubt it will actually be Keane, Coldplay and U2.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 5 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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