Glastonbury slightly tragic after a certain age

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That's it.

I was at Crystal Palace too! best concert ever!

This is awesome. I fail to see how any music lover could say otherwise.

I'm seeing plenty of youngsters in the crowd having a ball.

I think anyone who can only enjoy music from their own generation is a bit sad tbh. The Beatles and Queen are still loved because their music stands the test of time. When I was late teens and early twenties (in the 2000s) I listened to lots of music from the 60s and 70s, as well as the current stuff. So did my friends.

Karl Hyde of Underworld is 62 and i challenge you to find a more energetic performer

Ahem. Bruce Springsteen.

Foals are great but I didn't see them. Loved the bit if Fontaines DC I saw.

@BarbarAnna oh this is turning into a Garden Party reunion!

< Wonders what Kohl Robert Smith uses, mine would be running down my face by now >

Does it say CUM on that drumkit?! :O

seeing mums on tour pretending to be down with the kids. Makes me cringe.

Pretty sure mums are people too.. Just think, many might even be music fans from back in the day before they became this mum-thing, and many may EVEN know more bands than their kids do.

I guess they don't do Killing an Arab anymore. My DCs were outraged when I played it to them.

Did you tell them what it’s about then Redcrayons if they were so outraged?

I liked The Foals too. Good front man. Damon Albarn's band was the only really crap act I saw. Oh and Janet Jackson.

@AnneEyhtMeyer it was such a fantastic day! I wasn’t much of a fan before I went - just knew Lovecats and the popular ones. Was blown away! They just played and played...

I'm still baffled that Bear can't recognise the skill in this set - incredible

there you go dear.

Yay! I was sixteen and had freshly died red hair and a new purple paisley shirt .

Does it say CUM on that drumkit?! :O

It says CURE

Aw, come on, OP. Why so grudging and sour? I’m hoping that, 20 years from now, you (and those likeminded in this thread) are at one of the biggest music festivals in the world rocking out to your current favorite bands. No, I really do, there’s no feeling like the festival feeling when a band you love is playing, no matter how old they get or how old the fans get, the live gig experience itself never gets old. I’ve been gigging for well over 30 years and I intend to keep doing so until they confine me to a high security nursing home.

I’m also hoping the younger people there 20 years from now are kinder and more tolerant of you continuing to enjoy the music and the atmosphere than you are of people my age doing same now. Hey I might even see you there, I’ll be the decrepit old dear in the 50 year old tour shirt head-banging feebly along to the beat.

It seems full of middle class people trying to prove they're cool. So just a bit tragic at any age.

He's funny!

It seems full of middle class people trying to prove they're cool. So just a bit tragic at any age.

You can tell what class people are by looking at a crowd shot?

Is it so hard to believe that fans of these bands will go to, you know, see their favourite bands?

Oh I'm so jealous that I'm in the USA for a weekend and can't watch The Cure! Nice to hear people saying they were brilliant. I'm wetting myself that Robert Smith looks 40 years out of date with his hair and make up. That's his look, he's never wanted to look "up to date", he's been criticised for decades for his style.

I LOVE The Cure, have for decades. He seems to have known so much about love from a young age. He married his school girlfriend and is still with her decades on, plus he can write the most beautiful love songs (Adele covered one of his best on her 21 album).

Awwwwwww!

Aaaah

I was 18, just about to leave home and danced all day. Never forget it.

Build have you read the 38 pages? There are only about 3 posters on here who think it's tragic loving music and wanting to be in the wonderful environment that is 100,000 other people enjoying it too.

I love Fontaines dc. Love a bit of punk spirit.