To be sad that there is no Glastonbury this year?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

It's not summer without it streaming all afternoon on the BBC 🥺

Er... and BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC News, BBC Online.

Glastonbury is not headline news, whatever the BBC thinks. But like I said, they own it, of course they push it.

its simply inaccessible for most people tbh

its four days in June. I wont spend the next three months missing a tv show

Ooo would Love for Fontaines dc to headline!

The one that wears a skirt is so 😍

You dont think green day? Its long overdue

I am very much looking forward to the world cup! 😄

My summer tv big events schedule

Radio 1 big weekend
Wimbledon
World cup
Athletics
Commonwealth games (no longer on the bbc!!)
Women's fa cup final (only watching if arsenal get there)
Reading and Leeds fest to round off the summer

Then its September and my fabourite time of year begins!!

Coundown to Christmas starts on sept 1st! - Strictly starts around that time too!

Am I sad... yes. And i'm fine with it 😄🙈

Oh yeah I understand that, partly because it’s a victim of its own success with major mainstream widespread wall to wall bloody coverage for the entirety of its duration (and in the weeks leading up to it) - now so many people want a piece of the action. Overexposed itself!
I’ve no skin in the game, I’m not a camper and I’m not interested in ‘the atmosphere’ of being in muddy fields with thousands of people.

I always confuse Glastonbury and Glyndeborne haha! Both begin with Gl and there are similar sounds afterwards :-) I wondered - wow, a 16 year old really wanting to go to the opera

Its definitely changed from the oasis days, I get what you mean

No longer for hardcore fans

I usually go to Glastonbury and whilst I love it and will try to get tickets every year until I’m not physically able to go, I’m quite looking forward to trying some smaller festivals this summer. Glastonbury is incredible but it’s also expensive, exhausting and requires a lot of planning!

My personal view is that it stopped being cool around 20/25 years ago. I'll not be sorry it's not all I hear about this summer.

It is to festivals what a carpeted, bell tent with a bed frame is to camping.

A pretentious fakery of something enjoyable, for people too cosseted and soft to have actual, proper, grimy fun...

Good god. Really? It’s just pop musicians watched by gullible twits who are willing to put up with vast crowds and unsanitary conditions to listen to some crappy music.

IoW festival will be on sky.

Reading / Leeds on iplayer

I agree. I'm sure it's fun if you go, but I absolutely hate having to hear re-hashes of it played non-stop on Radio 2. I think it's one of those 'you really had to be there' things.

Oo i didnt know about the isle of Wight festival 😄

Thanks - added to the list

😭

I used to listen to R1 in the car and oh my word. 2 months of playing shit live recordings instead of studio songs. Drove me nuts.

*A pretentious fakery of something enjoyable, for people too cosseted and soft to have actual, proper, grimy fun...'

I agree! We have lots of gigs booked this summer ( 8 to date) to keep the music going!

Agree!

I’m sad! But I’m going to lots of other festivals and gigs to make up for it. Last year was pretty epic though, tbf.

Why isn’t there

Every fifth year is fallow, to allow the land to rest but also I guess to allow the community to take a year off too.

I enjoy it too OP, on the TV in the comfort of my home. I don't live too far & have friends that go & have done so for years & they love it. I can't stand crowd's & being too hot (there is not a lot of shade there) & 1000s sharing a loo so being there does not interest me. I will check out IOW on the TV instead

I think the years off make the years it goes ahead more special. Think we should do the same with Christmas. But having said that I do like it on the tv in June. Have never been in real life - maybe one day when the kids have moved out.

I'm delighted at the thought of no helicopters flying over my house every 30 minutes from the Wednesday until Monday afternoon ( they start at 9am and the last one back is usually around 1am). Hopefully it will be a lovely weekend and I can sit in the garden without the constant whirring of rotor blades overhead.