To think Glasto and other festivals like it are for kids?

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and to find late 30-somethings and 40-somethings who go to them (and are not press) a bit sad?

I agree with your title. Last time I went to a festival I was 25 and I felt far too old to be there as everyone else seemed to be about 14/15. However, I'm all for anyone who doesn't feel too old going to them. So.. YABKOUBNC (kind of unreasonable but not completely!)

EPAT I could not agree with you more on this one, they seem a little tragic imo trying to hard at being where its at, and all that.I suppose each to their own, but the bloody stories of the portaloos alone would send me running.

i would have found sharing portaloos with tens of thousands of people off-putting at 20 myself.

there's loads of different things happening at glastonbury - why should people stop being interested because they are a certain age?
some of the posts on here just sound jealous tbh

I totally misinterpreted your title!

I thought it was going to be about how festivals are great for kids (children) and it's a shame that some people think it's odd or wrong or unsuitable when people take their children to them.

I was going to say I couldn't agree more

But I see the thread is about something else, and on that, YABU I'm afraid.

What kids can afford to go to Glastonbury?.

Camping and caravaning are considered old peoples hobbies.

Music is for all.

so why exactly do you think music fests are for kids?.

YABU

I haven't been to one of these for many years but still would if I could get a weekend off - couldn't handle the stress of taking young children!

Me and a group of my friends were talking about going to one next year - a smaller one admittedly as Glasto is a bit minging.

It is a fun weekend away camping with some good music and a bit of booze.

It's not like I would be whizzing my tits off in the dance tent all night before shagging some random bloke in a hedge

I am only 31 I suppose but no spring chicken. Why not enjoy yourself while you are still young enough to do so - who gives a shit what other people think? Lots of people enjoy festivals. Or do you think we should all be sitting at home with our knitting or having dinner parties once we have passed the age of 30?

I am in my 30s and would love to go to some festivals. Sadly never done more than a day at one, sometime in my very early 20s. Been trying to persuade DH to come along to one nxt year, with 8y DD.

YANBU

yanbu
I said as much to dh the other day, we did glastonbury in our youth, it is ds and his age groups turn now,

You do know that lots of old bands play Glastonbury, it's not just very modern and ultra hip stuff, right? The older people are the right age group for Glasto, it's Reading and stuff you need to be really young for.

When it started being called glasto it stopped being for hippies and their ilk of all ages and became for the kids innit

I think that V is for kids. Glasto is aimed at an older crowd definitely.

I'm 32 and I'd still quite like to go to Glastonbury at least once, probably with our children. But I felt too old for T in the Park when I went to see the Pixies there at 26. Not all festivals are the same.

Sounds pretty grim to me. I'd be happy to go if I could come home every night

I sneaked over the fence when I was a teenager when you could still do such things. And I paid for a ticket once when I was at university and spent the whole time feeling grubby and fed up And I've lived less tha 20miles from Pilton most of my life.

But I have been a sad old git from birth

BTW there is a Children Festival in Glastonbury usually at the end of July. Brilliant! We go to that one instead

I agree. I have been to the IoW festival a few times as a mid-20 something, and by the last time (2 yrs ago at 27) I started feeling a little old!

I would still go again though, with the right group...Glasto wouldn't be my cup of tea. Maybe Camp Bestival with the soon to appear DC in a few yrs though!

Cambridge folk for me. I'm taking my dad when I can though not dh

I used to go to CREAM when I was 27,I was the old bird there then.

Glastonbury is for young and old alike..I remember meeting an 80yr old sitting on a deck chair watching Bowie and loving it. I was about 35 and had my 5yr old and 10yr old with me.
Its the same at a gig, music is for everyone not just the young.
there's life in this old girl yet...having said that, I'm not at Gtastonbury coz I couldn't work out out how to fill in the on-line regisistration form!!!

I'm not arsed if at 31 I'm one of the old people at a festival. I love music and don't give a jot what anyone else thinks as I'll enjoy myself anyway! All that matters is the music....

Yabu.

You sound VERY and I'm guessing you've never been?

Also, do people stop loving music / having fun by a certain age? If so, could someone tell my 70+ parents?!

Glastonbury (and loads of other festivals - but agree that V is for the yoof) is bloody amazing, for all ages and I am that I am not there.

Why on Earth would someone assume a person who doesn't want to camp out with tens of thousands of people in searing heat and queue up for loos is jealous?

How bizarre.

I find it sad is all.

horses for courses

i wouldn't fancy it-too big. whole families go don't they? rock n roll with yer mum :S