Wooooo! Glasto 19!

Beefy, green wellied, very middle class, very middle aged gals and guys rockin' out in rugger shirts to such cutting edge radical sounds as Sir Paul ' frog song' McCartney - embarrassingly antiquated, geriatric and tuneless five years ago at the Olympics and no doubt significantly further dilapidated. Oh and the Cure. Remember them from 40 years ago? They'll be there, bashing out all those old smash hits one more time. What national treasures they are.

This is really, nowdays, an absolute parody of a festival, isn't it?

 

Is the Jack Wills shirt technically a rugger shirt?

A classic ‘public school at leisure’ look teamed with deck shoes (no socks), though.

 

Who will lead the traditional communal singing of ‘O, Jeremy Corbyn’ this year?

 

Theresa May.

 

Can we just have a 'Things Clive Hates' thread?

 

Saw a load of posh 20 somethings in designer wellies waiting to get on a coach at North Greenwich this morning - "Glasters yah!"

 

It's called wfcforums.com

 

Sorry to say it Clive but I'm going to attempt to get tickets for 2020. Do I have to run this past you first though? I have the green light from my wife, but feel I need it from you as well. Feel free to oppress my decision though if you think it's for the best?

 

You are this man and I claim my £5 finders fee

 

The Cure are too good for this shitshow.

 

I saw the Cure at Glastonbury in 1995 as my girlfriend of the time liked them. They were so dull and awful they actually made me comedown off an E.

 

Oh yes, it's straight off to the re-education camp for you I'm afraid...

 

I saw them there in 1986. First half was pretty dreary although the local cider, less local hash dulled the pain.

It was Hand of God day which they showed on a big screen after the Cure.

Pre mobiles, no one knew the result.

 

As a side note, I was interested to learn that the B52s were, before 2008, known as the B52’s.

 

@WillisWasTheWorst - I sense your influence here. Top Work. Now get the Monkees to sort out their spelling.

 

Beatles?

 

Never herd of them

 

The Herd could just as well been The Heard.

 

I'd make them eat humble pie

 

Ah, Frampton junior.

Bromley so, I suppose, Palarse.

 

I went a few times about 20 years ago. That and V.

Do plan to try glasto again in a year or 2. It's a good laugh. Little too busy for my liking and I do like smaller festivals but want to go back there.

V up here has been dropped now and not going back to V in Chelmsford as was full of pissed up chavy teenagers pukimg up everywhere.

 

Don’t get me started on ‘N Sync.

 

Reading is now a right of passage for poshie GCSE kids.

Edit: I mean the Reading Festival. Reading (as in what you are doing now) hopefully a popular pastime among the washed & unwashed.

 

Are they related to the ‘N Betweens?

Who later became Slade.

Btw, I wonder if our colleagues at Wolverhampton have started their 3 week trek to Petropavlovsk in their pre qualifying round of the Johnson’s Paints Trophy (European version).

 

Reading and Leeds used to be pretty hardcore if I remember. Never went but knew people who did. Sounds like that's bee ruined too.

 

As long as no one slags off Blue I'm ok.

All rise.

 

I'm giving Penn Fest a miss this year for the first time in ages. Craig David is the headline act.

 

It's because their chinless wonder parents think they're going to a Reading festival rather than a festival in Reading.

Spent 4 years in Reading. The place is a hole, except for one absolutely marvellous pub.

 

No one beats the Backstreet Boys.

 

If they're back then I suppose they're all right.

 

I work in Reading and I think that is a tad harsh. Not the most wonderful place, but there is more than one decent watering hole here for sure. Out of curiosity though, what is this pub you refer to?

 

Being a music exec, I'm shamelessly freeloading Glasto again this year. But I'm staying in the cushy winnebago surroundings rather than in a grimy tent thank god. Must confess I do go every time its on and love it. But I do get the criticism as well and its certainly not as good as it once was - but I think that's a reflection of music as a whole sadly. But we have just had a baby and can't get away for a decent holiday, so a few days here is as good as it gets this year! But it's pretty much the only half-decent festival left. V Festival was always far too corporate and Reading is just a mirror-image of the Charts and not the rock festival it once was.
Going abroad for festivals is a far better experience I find these days...

At least the weather sets fair, and the alcohol is cold. Quite funny watching a load of vegans wandering around protesting yesterday though completely missing the irony that the festival is held on a working dairy farm.

 

Surely vegans are opposed to dairy too?

 

Used to be called the Hobgoblin, think it's some sort of ale house now.
Probably being a bit harsh as I've organised a couple of pub crawls and a stag do there since I graduated last century. There are some good watering holes on the outskirts of course. Lyndhurst Ale House for example.

 

I don't think music has got worse, just that festivals have become far more numerous and so their standards of selecting acts are lower.

Nowadays, any bubblegum pop star who is more about image than substance gets a decent billing at festivals. These used to be pure environments where respected artists only were admitted. Sure, you might not like a band, but you knew they wrote their own music, played their own instruments and had some influence over their particular 'scene.'

They weren't some 22 year old airhead with 40 costume changes and backing dancers to make up for the fact that without autotune, they're having to shout most of their banal lyrics in between frequent and unnecessary invocations of "Glastobury, make some noise."