AIBU to want to ban some things at Glastonbury?

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Actually this applies to any big outdoor concert frankly.

Starting off with don't call it Glasto. So annoying.

But worse than that - let's just say you wanted to go to this big event and had the money to do so and won the ticket lottery so you actually were able to go. So you've spent what? £500 or something, likely more. Because there's a couple of really great acts you want to see. So you get to the are where that stage is and the concert's about to start and you're in a great spot to see everything and then the concert finally starts and YOU ARE JUST SO EXCITED!!!

And then someone starts waving a big flag, so you shift over a bit. And then there's lots of big balloon things waving about about so you shift back the other way. And then the big twonk in front of you hoists his girlfriend up on to his shoulders so you have absolutely no view of the stage what so ever!!!

So in short ...

1. no flags
2. no big balloon creatures
3. no flipping twonky women (or men or children) on shoulders!!! Especially if they're wearing weird bat wings that they wave about and further block everyone's view.

Easy solution to the balloon creatures is a sharp pin to deflate.

I know FWP. But this is why I can't abide watching Glasto as I get so mad at these selfish gits.

I think OP would prefer if it were a seated venue with interval drinks one can order in advance.

YABU. I probably 'saw' every major rock band in the late 80s/early 90s. It was my golden age! However I actually 'saw' very little of them because I'm only 5ft tall. So I'd get an an occasional glimpse of Phil Lynott's eyebrow, Lemmy's armpit or Peter Gabriel's left hand. It's frustrating but I still saw all those bands and enjoyed the experience of being there.

if people were that bothered about a good view they could just watch it on tv.

I thought this earlier about the sitting on shoulders. If I was behind I’d move in front and hope every subsequent person behind would do that too.

I'm short too. But not an arsehole so don't climb on people's shoulders and make the view even worse for anybody behind me.

Totally agree OP, nothing more to say

So, were you there or have you been and experienced such shit, or are these merely armchair criticisms?

Lol it's ok, it's hard to explain so I have attached a stock image from Google 😄
But just imagine the man is tall, the girl has filthy muddy boots on and you're stood directly behind 😭

Guessing you never been to Glastonbury OP ?
all I can say is you no nothing 🙄

Single use tents would be top of my list.

Followed by the organisers not inviting any band, group, singer or other act guilty of racism or misogyny.

Have you actually been to Glasto? You can’t see much when you’re there anyway. I wouldn’t recommend you go, you’d ruin it for others

As someone who was there, the flags really help when finding your mates - they don’t ruin the view (and I’m short!)

Yeah I don’t mind the flags tbh. When I was there years ago and someone did the shoulder lift ghing, we’d just elbow the bloke and squeeze past him and stand in front and general make him unstable on his feet so girlfriend would say ‘let me down.’ Or they’d move.

I used to live down the road from Glastonbury, some 40+ years ago. never went though. that was late 70's and it was called Glasto then.

Have you ever been to Glastonbury?

To balance on someone's shoulders you'd tuck your legs under their arms and grip, I would think, for balance. So the person doing the hoisting would've been muddy too 😁

I know it’s much smaller… but I recently went to the IOW festival, flags were banned and there wasn’t the inconvenience of people on shoulders etc.

I don’t think I could cope with the masses of people in one place .

I was on someone’s shoulders at a festival once but that was because I am tiny and a massive person always stands in front of me so I can’t see anything at all!

At the main stage there's loads of space at the sides, nobody in your way with flags, and you still have a good view. No point trying to police the behaviour of that many people too much. And who wants a really dull concert anyway? Glastonbury is all about the flags.

Those fucking helicopters do my nut in every year. We live near a posh country hotel that many of the acts/guests stay in and it's non-stop from Wednesday evening until later this afternoon. Depending on the act it can be like a flypast at times.

I'm currently sitting at the Bath and Wells Showground, to pick up my son and his friend from Glastonbury :)

I've never been to any kind of festival (I hate crowds) but I would be livid to have my view blocked by someone's arse.

I'd pull them off backwards. So probably best I don't go to places like that 😅

Is it true people pee in cups and throw it in the air in the crowds? 😱

Bollocks, I'm only taller than you by an inch or so and I've never felt entitled to sit on someone else's shoulders so I have a better view at the cost of other people's.

The flag thing is annoying. A small one as a locating device, fine. Even better if you've made it amusing (like the person who put a Henrietta Hoover on a pole). But wafting a bedsheet-sized thing around? Stop that.

I've never experienced that at Glastonbury.

Reading on the other hand...

To be fair, one of the best flags I ever saw said 'Gary Lineker shags crisps'.

Unfortunately yes.
If you get splashed by a cup being thrown you have to pray it's beer and not piss! 😩