Glastonbury am I the only one that hates it?

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What joyment is there to camp for 3 days in a mud pit, queue to use the toilet, stinking for 3 days and paying hundreds to see shit bands?
Or am I too old and like my conforts too much?

Glastonbury could be an ideal place to celebrate your Mum toptramp it's such a celebratory place :)

I think the variety of music available at glasto means you see see as much commercial or non commercial music as you want. being commercial does not mean music is crap! i also thought stevie was epic last year, i was GUTTED not to be there, and gutted not to have seen snoop

Glastonbury has been ruined by middle-class posh twats who like to pretend to be hippies once a year. The BBC give it far too much coverage IMO.

I like the middle class posh twats who said rock and roll is only for certain classes. Rockin my bell tent yah!

i hate the fact that people think music festivals should only be for certain people; surely it's a celebration of music and partying itself?
you meet allsorts there!

It's had it's time. Now it's too big. Some people are like Sheep, baa, keep sending the moneee! (it's a great business model) or recognise it's time to let go. Reminds me to to remind, self cool styled relatives, to take their children. Not that they will, having now developed all the middle class mores they formerly sniggered at.

I am going to Sonisphere with my son and his friend, can't wait!

Just watched u2 who haven't been remotely cool since about 1985. The crowd appeared to consist of middle class, middle aged, middle management mediocrity looking miserable and muddy but with Beyonce to look forward to I can feel their pain. They have also suffered Coldplay - all for £195!

Eurgh... That Bono is about to TANTRIC SEX himself, he's that fucking smug

Glastonbury has always had eclectic programming - I've seen Rod Stewart, Tom Jones and Rolf Harris , Public Enemy ( or was that Reading?)alongside Leftfield, Mudhoney, Suzanne Vega...

I too liked eating hash cakes onthe green field. But doesn't everyone take gazebos and barbecue sets now?

And he appears to have shoved a D'arcy Spice into his gusset

Sockmunkee. My son and DH wanted to go to sonisphere but could only do Friday (Metallica and slayer ). Sadly did not get ticket in one day ballot. Sounds like a much better weekend.

I went to school nearby in the 80s but never went. My sister's friend's Mum had a cake stall there so they all used to go as cake assistants My bro is good friends from school with the daughter of the family who run it, so used to go and steward in the rappers tent (or something) in the 90s and has his tent pitched on their lawn as I type But I've never been and don't have any particular interest in going.

My favourite Glasto fact is that the locals have always called it the Pilton Pop festival, which kind of puts it back in its muddy cow field place

ohhh i do love primal scream, can't wait to see them at camp bestival

am i the only glasto-envy type left on this thread???

I've been going since 95, not there this year, have missed a few here and there. There are far too many people with camping chairs now, and not enough people selling lager out of wheelie bins. It has definitely changed. Still wish I was there though.

I've been once - in 2000, and I had a great time. But now I'm far too old and the thought of standing about in mud listening to shit bands, paying 8 quid or whatever for a drink, then sleeping in a smelly tent while it's raining and without a shower in the morning does not appeal in the slightest. I'd much much rather be at home.

If folks are feeling it's too commercial then there is always Womad over in Malmesbury which is kind of Glastonbury 20 years ago.

I enjoyed Guildfest the couple of times I went, quite a nice size and the kids part was great.(a brew and a fried egg sandwich for £1.50!)

I just get fed up of being a prisoner to overpriced crap tbh, £5 crepes the size of a cat's ring piece and some idiot stumbling backwards into you because he's making giant bubbles to sell you a giant bubble maker or some such tosh.

I think the trouble with getting old is that you've seen it all before, the herbal tents, the bong shops, the bob marley tapestry towel shops, stalls selling army surplus......etc etc etc

I used to go to Angel Park, and the Bulldog Bash, Monsters or Rock, Leeds, V, uggh I think i've just done them all to death.

I think of all the big ones i preferred V the best, very well organised, safe, mud free and a good atmosphere for folks in their mid 30's.

Better for me to stay home, and better for everyone else too methinks....

Love it! I've been twice, when you could still get in through the fence. It was nice weather both times though, I couldn't have coped in all that mud. Don't know if I would enjoy it as much now I'm older and it's so commercial.

I first went when I was 10. I'm 39 now but haven't been for the last 6 yrs (DH doesn't want to take DD and I don't want to leave her for 4/5 days.

My brothers ashes were scattered around the base of the huge oak tree behind the pyramid. Michael Eavis helped us do it. I like to think that he gets the best view now!

I was there the 'year of the mud' and the 'year of the sun'. I celebrated the rebuilding of the Pyramid for 2000.

I miss it, and can't even watch the TV coverage because it pisses me off. Have persuaded DH to dip a toe in the water and we are going to Cornbury this year. Hopefully that means he'll be ready for Glastonbury in 2013!

well ds1 has text and said the toilets are disgusting and he said the shower sno better and lol this is from a teenager .But he is enjoying himself nut he went all set for bad weather so not suffering to much

I am just thinking what state his stuff will be by time he comes homes

MikeStand thats a shame, its a fab line up. We saw the Big 4 live from Bulgaria streamed live to the Vue cinema last year, it was so cool! They all have albums coming out so there will be tours, prob is you have to be quick to get tickets!

Oooh, I can't quite put into words my love of Glastonbury. It's all my favourtie things in one place. On a sunny day, its like the inside of my head... Marvellous music, wonderful people, fabulous food, a good amount of booze, and a general comradery and community that you jsut don't find in real life.

We honeymooned at Glasto - best 5 days of my life :) We've taken DS three times but DD is only 5 weeks old so I'm afriad she's going to have to wait til 2013 before her debut. We do cheat a bit now we're older - we do the glamping bit, but its soooo worth it to have a clean loo and a shower twice a day. And its quiet at night! Ideal!

The roads aren't too bad, I live in Glastonbury and the Festival is about 7 miles outside. It should really be called the Pilton Festival, or the Shepton Mallet Festival, but of course that isn't so romantic. However, the rain and wind all through last night were awful - if you have teenagers there don't panic, I know there is bags of help and volunteers, and a brilliant medical centre. One year the Sally Army gave out masses of blankets and warm drinks it was so cold.

BTW if U2 were planning to sing Jerusalem, as they did, couldn't they have made a better job of it, or got the words right?

I couldn't ever go again. It's too commercialised. And they have secions in magazines about what to take to a festival. If it's fashionable then it doesn't belong at a festival!
And I can't get over the fact Beyonce is playing.
Beyonce FFS.

I first went in 1987 to see Julian Cope and have just checked out http://www.new-age.co.uk/glastonbury-festival-history.htm this link to find that it cost me £21!! I walked to the CND head office round the corner from where I worked and paid cash for the tickets... We packed a tiny 2 man ridge tent into the back of our 2CV and I and the 2 hitchers we'd picked up (remember hitchhikers?) had to get out and push it up the hill to the farm as it couldn't take the weight/incline...

I loved it then (although the deeply scary pissed crusties throwing fiery branches around freaked the crap out of me), and loved it again in 1989 and 1990 (£28 and £38 respectively!). They'd put the fences up in 1990 and there were fights with the crusties trying to break through. Mixed showers were fun and the Cure were amazing.

Busy getting married and buying a flat in 1991-93 so didn't go again until 1994. Still only £59, but the addition of the NME stage, with that tiny entrance across a bridge only a farm-gate wide meant that when fleeing the shiteness that was Bjork I found myself in such a crush I couldn't put my feet on the ground. lost DH and was getting carried along by the mob - scary.

Also the site seemed suddenly incredibly over-crowded and full of would-be ravers who didn't give a shit about anyone else. The vibe that we'd loved the first 3 times was only really there in the Acoustic tent (Chris Difford playing Crowded House numbers in the sunshine... bliss!) and the Green fields. We spent a lot of time in the Comedy Tent (is Attila the Stockbroker still a fixture there?) but James, Johnny Cash & Peter Gabriel made it all worth while.

Since then it started getting both very expensive and selling out so quickly we weren't able to get tickets, so we started going to V as it's up the road from us and we can go home at night and get a good night's sleep/wash! [lightweights]

Now we have DD we've started going to Latitude. I do miss the old Glastonbury, though, it was special. I always thought I'd love to take my children there and let them be little hippies for the weekend, now I'm not sure they'd be safe.

I can't believe that people have their tents stolen!