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Of course, Glastonbury audiences have been grimey for years so I guess he’ll be popular.
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Im here all week.
Went to quite a lot of festivals in the 90s. Glastonbury in 95 was a highlight, as was Neil Young at Phoenix Festival. I was fortunate enough to have seen a lot of really good bands around then. Jeff Buckley, Foo Fighters, Page & Plant, Black Crowes, The Cure, plus all the britpop bands in their prime. That was the Glast that Pulp stood in for the Roses, and they were vv good. Unlike Oasis who were crap. But then they always were crap live.
I went to Finsbury Park this summer to see QOTSA and it dawned on me that I just cannot be arsed with big outdoor dos anymore. More than anything its the people - bladdered and annoying. No doubt that was me back in the 90s, but these days it gets right on my pip.
I'd love to be able to love going to Glastonbury, but I know if I went I'd get fed up.
I first went in 1983 when it was a CND (anyone else remember who they were?) Festival. Tickets were 12.00 and there were 30,000 people. The only structures I remember were tents and stages. No roadways. It was like being in a field ALL THE TIME.
I then worked there in 1990, tickets were £38 and there were 70,000 people. Still felt OK though, despite house and acid music becoming popular and beats becoming predominant.....All night....
I was working there again last year. I'm not sure of the figures nor how much tickets were. The structures, the depiction of negative visuals, the fact that there was such a dominance of beats and that so much of what I witnessed was just mass culture, churned out to please the masses, nothing radical (except some of the theatre stuff) and generally really dumbing down everything that I stood for when I first went, and still stand for. I felt it was like walking down any major shopping street in the UK. For me, it missed the point entirely.
Bland shittery. Sorry to be a troll to all you Glasto freaks out there, but it's become terribly and awfully normal.