I hope the weather holds, and that you see all the acts you were hoping to, and that you have a great time. Now please STFU and stop texting, emailing and talking to me about it - I really don't give a damn. [/rant] I needed that
There's a sector of society, perhaps it's what's currently being referred to as the 'hipsters', who seem to be born with a checklist of must-do experiences, and none of them seem to notice that they're all doing exactly the same as each other. Whilst they see their gathering list of ticks as increased social currency, what they're really doing is outing themselves as sheep on a leisure industry conveyor belt, which has the effect of devaluing each individual activity/destination. "Oh you've been to Glastonbury? And then you're off to Thailand and Vietnam, followed by Australia/New Zealand, then you'll come back to save for your trip to South America. Wow! You should write a book about it. Then I could put it in the same bin I've put the 1001 other books by friends who've done precisely the same stuff as you." Clearly I'm in denial and am actually just bitter about all the cool places I've not been to.
There's definitely an element of truth in this, but even so I still dont give a flying **** about what anybody else gets up to. Especially if it was really expensive. Also, I hope the weather doesn't hold, and you contract a water-borne illness which ruins your weekend, you smelly individual you. Now, off to the Miserable Old Gits Club.
I owned thick framed glasses before it was cool, because I was too old, miserable and gittish to pay for frames.
It's so true. Even when I was young. I remember standing on a nightclub dancefloor aged 18 being bombarded with garage of all things rolleyes and feeling the hatred well up. I walked home alone, relatively sober, and realised I'll always be an old, bitter git.
Not really. I can tell you're a pub with your mates kind of guy. I'm not huge on clubs either. This may sound poncy, but I prefer wine bars and pubs to clubs. Always have.
I used to work at Glastonbury, and have come to the realisation that it is tosh. In fact, all festivals are. 1) Insanely expensive. Glastonbury is a way to burn £300-350 per person, easily. 2) Despite claims of improving sanitation, they never do. I even had staff toilets which were better than the public ones, and they were still awful. I did however have a warm shower daily... 3) Populated by utter morons, who, because they can afford £300+ per person, are middle class idiots who want to be hip and cool. 4) Bands get worse and worse and worse. Whilst I went there were the likes of Radiohead, REM, The Who, Bruce Springsteen... now it's The Arctic Monkeys. Really? 5) Worst location ever. Terrible transport, and the site seems to be designed to flood with the smallest amount of rain. In seven years I had two sunny festivals, the rest were downpours or damp. This is the reality of Glastonbury. You want to spend 4 days in this? Also, that flooding is no joke. I've seen that twice, and it is across nearly the entire site. The only safe places are the hills leading in to the bowl that the site sits in, and most of these are not open to public camping (staff areas or stages/markets). That said, they still turn in to quagmire with the vast numbers of people churning up the ground. Also the mud is horrifically sticky.
I have never wanted to go to Glasto. Never cared for the acts that perform. Until you have been slammed around by hundreds of people in a true wall of death to Slipknot/Slayer etc at Download you don't know nothing about festivals. Not to mention the drugs oh my word the drugs. Ahem I digress. I have to agree with all of the above.
Reading this has happily reaffirmed that I have absolutely no desire to go to a festival ever again. I was 21 and it was a fun day, but now, ugh.
Speaking of, don't even get me started on Reading (the most disgusting festival ever, despite better bands) or Latitude (a Radio 4 tent. Could you be any more middle class and pretentious?).
Only been to Reading once, had a good time, I didn't pay for a ticket as I volunteered for a bit of it, wouldn't have gone if I hadn't got the ticket free though. If people are annoying you with these posts (I assume via some kind of social media) then just block them/ignore them? They're just places where you can go with friends, listen to some music, do stuff you might not normally do, sure they're pricey, but if people want to spend the money then let them.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/new-festival-aimed-directly-at-twats-201203285064 I'll just leave that there. Oh and what's wrong with Radio 4?
Download? Pfft. Monsters of Rock, you young pup! Slayer are epic, but Slipknot are just a bunch of costumed posers.
