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.

I was a 90's fence jumper. One year the wrist bands were the same colour as the plastic ribbon they marked out the parking with go figure ! You'd have to pay me to go now !

😂 I live in the residents zone and the only conversation I’ve had about Glastonbury this year is whether I think MIL will get stuck in traffic the week before when she’s babysitting DC.

Ugh, my husband was like this for Eurovision.

We had tickets for four different events, not all in the arena. I was 16 weeks pregnant, and I was pretty happy with the timing and locations of what we had. Doing something every other day, absolutely knackered in between.

But he would. Not. Stop. Looking for more events, more tickets, refreshing pages, suggesting fucking club venues where the acts didn't start til 1am.

I banned him from suggesting things in the end because it was ruining the anticipation for me to continually be on the hunt for something "better".

They are the vegans and rescue dog owners of the music lovers world. You won’t get 2 minutes into a conversation without it coming up …

There is a group of yummy mummys mid 40s at my kids school. V wealthy and glamorous. They go every time it’s on. I’m adopting the brace position for this year’s slew of photos of them in;
body stockings , glitter face paint - check - denim shirts, wellies and camo jacket - check. Cheesecloth peasant blouse and Indian skirt - check. They pretend to rough it but they stay in some amazingly equipped luxury Winnebago. FOMO - me?!? 😝

I am laughing at the utter DISDAIN any Glasto bore would treats you drawing a comparison between Eurovision and Glastonbury. (I’d prefer Eurovision too mind you 😁)

Oh well, worth a try 😀

I actually think you should surprise him with tickets in two years time. It’s obviously important to him (not saying YABU to be fed up with him going on about it, it’d be doing my head in too) why not just go with it so to speak, do something lovely for him and have a weekend just the two of you reliving your youths? Maybe it will get it out of his system!!

I went to Glastonbury in 2000, enjoyed it, can't imagine going now. Every year it's on a number of people I know wang on and on about the fact they are going, basically wanting you to be impressed that well off media types are going to a massive festival. It practically becomes their personality for about three months. Yawn.

Apparently you haven't lived if you haven't been to Glastonbury/gone travelling/ lived in London. The majority of people I know who bang on about those things (sometimes all 3) are dull and self-absorbed so I avoid. I've done none of those things (well have travelled a fair bit but not in the middle class backpacking post school/pre uni sense) and I've had a pretty varied life.

The TV footage puts me off Glastonbury, it looks pretty bland although I know they only show the very mainstream bits.

Gift him a ticket for next year with the proviso that he NEVER mentions it again for the rest of his life.

It does seem like a lot of money, however going to see all of those bands/artists separately would cost WAY more, so actually pretty good value for money IMO.

@Soonenough I was a NR in the 80's too. Love your comment that they don't do camping 😀

Brill

Is he 45 and does he still wear aj oasis t shirt?

I used to work with a girl who actually ended up being performance managed and sacked because of her obsession with Glastonbury! She went for the first time and came back 'a changed person' and disdained any of the tasks she was expected to do at work, because she was now so much more of a free-living free-thinking soul. She used to cry in the toilets about what her life was versus her Glastonbury life.

@Deliaskis

This is surely the basis of a new sitcom! Start writing and send it to channel 4

My husband tries to upstage Glasto bodes by saying,when I went it was Pilton Pop. Although he will watch some of the band's but I'm not really into music so couldn't care less. Saying that I went to Reading Rock in the 80s.

There are worse things than a mild and temporary obsession with a music festival to be honest. I'm guessing he was into glasto before your married him so you knew what you were getting into I suspect.

My DP is going this year with his friends. I am so jealous that I have banned the G word!!

I'm taking dd and she has been banging on about it for weeks. I love it but even i'm bored by the omg......so and so is playing.

Oh my goodness - I think we share a husband! Even down to jumping over the fence, the secret band, and the muttering about the line up! I have no suggestions to help but you are not alone

Oh god, yes, I used to work in Frome and they mostly all qualified for the nearby tickets or whatever. On and on about it, every year.

Re: Foos I much preferred swanning into a stadium, watching with a cold beer and then going home. No wellies/mud/druggies falling into my tent required.

I always find it ironic that people attach their own sense of rebellious, anarchic, hippyish identity to Glastonbury when it's become one of the most stalwart middle-class events going these days. I know that sounds scathing, but I don't really mean it in a harsh way. I understand the nostalgia people must have for when they went back in the day, and what it was like and what it meant then, but it's basically just a catwalk for Hunter wellies and Cath Kidston these days.

I’ve got an ex best friend whose dad took her to Glastonbury as a child and apparently she had to sell pancakes to make money to eat as her dad (who was feckless) abandoned her. Don’t think she’s gone since and her memories aren’t good.

All these people banging on about buying acid in hippies in nearby fields, haven’t you heard of the casualties of acid? Admittedly they’re older people I know so 60s/70s use but quite a few have suffered mental illness from it or had it brought on by taking acid.

My friend’s dad was rebellious anarchistic etc but from a middle class background (think builder rather than accountant).and I think now he either would or wouldn’t go for it attracting the types you refer to.

Friend’s dad was (she agreed) a really nasty piece of work even into his 60s.

OP since you live near Glastonbury why don't you ask your DH to speculate whether anybody will be doing a surprise gig at the Cheese & Grain this year.