To be utterly bored by dh going on and on about Glastonbury? (lighthearted - but I am sick of it)

[Glastobore]

We aren't going. He made no attempt to get tickets. He thinks the tickets are far too expensive anyway. He went a few times in his youth. I've never been.

Just getting all that out of the way.

But here we are, two? weeks before Glastonbury and he's off again. Every morning scouring social media for hints about who the secret band is. Criticising the headliners. Going on and on about who played when he was young and how he jumped over the fence. Feigning horror at the spa, the wellness retreat and lifestyle bits of modern Glastonbury. Obsessing over whether or not the Foo Fighters will be the secret band. Saying "Guns and Roses??!!" several times before breakfast.

I think if he actually came out and said 'Aw I'd love to go to Glastonbury one year!" I might be more amenable. But the endless picking over it is doing my head in. I've resorted to a kind of irritated harrumph whenever I'm asked my opinion of who the secret fucking band will be.

He does this every year and it's always a relief when it's finished tbh.

A Pulp/ FF mash up with be quite a churn up.

Not a Pulp fan. I’d rather have the Foo Fighter.

Yeah I'd love to see the foos although they are getting on a bit now (sorry tw ageism)

Bananarama

Ha ha imagine

Just tell him you always preferred Reading.

You have my sympathy. I’ve been once, DP has been once.
Every year despite not applying for tickets and having not been for a decade, DP acts like he is the world authority on Glastonbury and no one else has ever been. It’s so fucking tedious.
Heaven forbid that someone mentions to him they are going for the first time he’ll just prattle on about it for HOURS, you can see their eyes glaze over

Tell him that as Haim are not playing, you are not interested.

I’d take Pulp or Foo Fighters.

It’s interesting how this thread has transformed into talking about Glastonbury 😂

If I were you I would make a regular plan to go away for three weeks on my own covering the fortnight before Glastonbury and Glasto itself.

😂

he’d be bombarding her with texts about it !😱😂

Oh this is good.
Whenever he mentions the secret band, name ridiculous and inappropriate bands entirely straight-faced:

"The grumbleweeds"
"Black lace"
"The wurzels"
"Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch"

At least you can have some fun with it then

He loves Haim and would agree, opening the door to a full on conversation about it.

Good plan 👌

I would keep saying Bublé. Quietly under your breath.

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@almondflake . I think I might be guilty of this too. The 80s were the best time of my life as I was in my 20s , anytime you are in your 20s is always going to be a highlight. I don't know if I bore my kids but luckily a lot if the stuff is now being revived . And I get lots of credit for my vinyl collection.

Re : Glastonbury. Never been, never fancied it . New Romantics don't do camping 😁

He sounds nuts.

My MIL went to the first ever Glastonbury when it was literally just a few people in a field with guitars. She drank milk and sat on a hay bale. That's the only Glasto story I can stand listening to, but she very rarely brings it up.

Not half 😂

I bloody love a bit of Buble

Oh god my previous DP was like this, went a few times in the early 90s when it was less corporate, every year we had to watch it on the BBC and he'd bollock on about it. I've never been and would never go, much prefer smaller festivals, but apparently I can't understand how amazing it is

All this 80s talk, I have a sudden urge to listen to The Tear drop Explodes and Joy Division.

OMG I was so cool back then 😆

@lennylion

"Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch"

Ha ha, you have to be a certain age to remember them (I do)

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Have you told him he's being boring? I would.

No, that would be really mean. I did say 'of course it's the fucking foo Fighters' this morning before coffee.

Lol. You're a nicer person and far more patient than me OP

My manager is going and started a conversation with me about it yesterday at the end of a meeting; how he's worried the weather will break and it'll be wet, how he's getting there with friends and a dodgy caravan that's being taken, how he was going to take a load of bottles of wine and has now realised you can't take glass in so he needs to check out some boxed wine...

Me: this meeting was scheduled to finish ten minutes ago fgs shut up I don't care

I feel your pain, OP. My DH actually goes to Glastonbury most years with a group of mates. I went once when I was in my early 20's and that was more than enough for me. So the week before I have to listen to him banging on about his 'itinerary' of which bands he's going to see, what he's going to pack etc and then when he comes back I have to listen to him going on about it. To make matters worse he records all the bloody BBC coverage and seems surprised when I'm not interested in watching it with him! I have explained that as I wasn't there, if I had any interest I would have watched it live...without his running commentary!! 😂

I'm off to Glastonbury - my 3rd time, and I'm 34 and leaving my two kids at home with their father to go enjoy it. I cannot flipping WAIT.

However, I also am socially aware and therefore I do my Glastonbury chat with the two friends who I'm going with, and not everyone else. Which is how it should be, whether the topic of the obsession is live music, ultramarathons or fly fishing.