Jeremy Clarkson on Glastonbury

[dang65]

FFS, who ever heard of a Rock Festival with Shirley Bassey?

I thought it was quite subversive when she dedicated Hey Big Spender to the audience. "I know you've paid a lot to be here..."

Those of you in the cheaper seats, turn up the volume on the telly. The rest of you just squelch about in the mud a bit.

[AlfredJPruffock]

When exactly did Glastonbury Fayre Become Glastonbury ?

I have visited the festival many times from the early 80s to the mid 90s - it never was as good as a Festival as compared to Stonhenge or WOMAD - still I guess in the not too distant future the fetival will beomce a kind of Royal Ascot social gathering with 110,000 journalists giving minute updates as to the weather ad nausuem - the sponsors will be Barclays and Texaco rather than Greenpeace and Oxfam - ticket prices starting from 3000 guineas for the corporate hospitality stage - to keep out the hippies and riff raff.

Royal Glastonbury - yes thats the one.

PS Where is Steve Hillage these days ? Or Tim Blake for that matter ?

[Cowboy Bob]

PS Where is Steve Hillage these days ?

His current band is called System 7.

They played the last Glastonbury I was at, and he played with The Orb the previous year if I recall.

[chubba]

Yeah, System 7 played one of the Dance Tents on the Friday, very good they were too!

I guess they need the big names to get enough punters in to make it profitable otherwise what would be the point?

Less and less free parties and gatherings because of the laws they brought in 15 years or so ago and the only way to get a slice of outdoor partying is by events like this.

Alternatives - V, Reading, Leeds? No thanks! White trash with their tops off beating each other up is not my idea of a good weekend.

Safe, middle-class hippies in a field is far more fun. And now thier daughters have grown up and the sight of all the lovely ladies walking around in mini-skirts or hot pants in wellies was very pleasant.

Music? Who gives a toss about weedy indie kids (Kasabian were good though!) or tulipe like Shirley, our generation did make its own beats that have pretty much pi55 all to do with rock. Clarkson might refer to them as repetitive beats I guess...

While the main stages were tulipe and pretty much to be avoided at all costs there were some lovely little dance places that were open until 4 in the morning or later and had a lovely little club vibe about them that was superb.

The Pussy Parlure was full of lovely girls dancing to some superb house and breakbeat and then of course the obligatory wander around Lost Vagueness and little bars around the embankment.

Never back to the tent before 5 in the morning so you avoid all the pissed crowds wandering home after the main satge shuts. See some of the most bizarre and amusing sights at that time of the morning too. Although some of it may have been hallucinations

The festival is not about rock, there is so much more to the music that was on, Clarkson is just a sad old man. His write up did make me laugh but he really doesn't have a clue.

Best go put me kacks in the wash I guess...

[Numptycorner]

Alternatives - V, Reading, Leeds? No thanks! White trash with their tops off beating each other up is not my idea of a good weekend.

Safe, middle-class hippies in a field is far more fun. And now thier daughters have grown up and the sight of all the lovely ladies walking around in mini-skirts or hot pants in wellies was very pleasant.

Music? Who gives a toss about weedy indie kids (Kasabian were good though!) or tulipe like Shirley, our generation did make its own beats that have pretty much pi55 all to do with rock. Clarkson might refer to them as repetitive beats I guess...

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Oh dear, Reading is white trash is it? rather that than the dowdy MOR crowd you get at Glasto. Middle class hippies, what a laugh! The nearest those people get to the earth is buying organic potatos from Sainsburys.

Why do you need a stage for dance music anyway? any moron can play a record. Keep that kind of repetitive sh1te in Ministry of Sound or whatever it's called, where the trendies and chavs hang out. Leave live music to festivals, let's face it most e'd up techno fans would dance to a car alarm going off.


Stop these people stealing our venues before it's too late.

[Cowboy Bob]

Alternatives - V, Reading, Leeds? No thanks! White trash with their tops off beating each other up is not my idea of a good weekend.

There's still Beautiful Days - http://www.beautifuldays.org/ - and Eastern Haze - http://www.easternhaze.com/

They don't have the really big names, but they have the spirit...

[Cowboy Bob]

Oh dear, Reading is white trash is it?

Only went once. Worst. Festival. Experience. Ever. Never again.

Can't even take your own beer in. Bag searches to get into the "arena". Everything shuts at 11:30, including food stalls (not counting the Salvation Army tea stall in the driveway), so everyone who's on God knows what blasts their stereos at full volume in the campsite ALL NIGHT. About 5 toilets per camping field, so unless you get there at 5am you have to queue for over an hour. Barely adequate water supply. I can go on...

[Numptycorner]

Only went once. Worst. Festival. Experience. Ever. Never again.

Can't even take your own beer in. Bag searches to get into the "arena". Everything shuts at 11:30, including food stalls (not counting the Salvation Army tea stall in the driveway), so everyone who's on God knows what blasts their stereos at full volume in the campsite ALL NIGHT. About 5 toilets per camping field, so unless you get there at 5am you have to queue for over an hour. Barely adequate water supply. I can go on...

1/ You can take your beer into the campsite, all festivals have bag searches
2/ The club goes on to the early hours, or you can go into reading
3/ All festivals are noisy, take ear plugs for a good nights sleep
4/ didnt have any problem with toilets or water, but maybe these days the trendies are ruining it

[Cowboy Bob]

1/ You can take your beer into the campsite, all festivals have bag searches
2/ The club goes on to the early hours, or you can go into reading
3/ All festivals are noisy, take ear plugs for a good nights sleep
4/ didnt have any problem with toilets or water, but maybe these days the trendies are ruining it

Disclaimer: I went in 1995 so it may have changed.

1) It's the only festival I've ever had my bag searched at - mainly seemed to be to preserve the profits of the beer sellers by stopping people taking beer in. And what is with this separate arena and campsite stuff?

2) There was no club when I went - everything shut at 11:30

3) No, they're not. Most separate the party areas from the sleeping areas. They usually have patrols telling people to keep the noise down in the camping areas - they did when I last went to Glastonbury and they did when I went to V99.

4) Toilets and running water were a disgrace. I've been to illegal festivals that were better supplied. Seemed to me they were only installing the minimum allowed by law rather than attempt to give a decent camping experience.

[gingerjedi]

Only went once. Worst. Festival. Experience. Ever. Never again.

Can't even take your own beer in. Bag searches to get into the "arena". Everything shuts at 11:30, including food stalls (not counting the Salvation Army tea stall in the driveway), so everyone who's on God knows what blasts their stereos at full volume in the campsite ALL NIGHT. About 5 toilets per camping field, so unless you get there at 5am you have to queue for over an hour. Barely adequate water supply. I can go on...

I enjoyed reading when I was 18,19 & 20... I went back when I was 35 and felt very old but I recognised this one is for the kids and didn't bitch about it!

I saw Nirvana there in 92' when Kurt Cobain went on stage in a wheelchair pushed by journalist Everett True parodying the speculations about his mental health, he then jumped up and blew the crowd away, I will never forget that night.

IIRC we had mud to rival Glastonbury that year.