SteveXFR

Maybe not for you.

That is true. It's also the home of babycham and terrible cider.

You evil, greedy capitalist. Think of all the exposure you could get.

Time to start an online petition to get this raised in Parliament I think.

It all went wrong when they changed the name from Pilton Pop Festival to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. It's closer to Shepton Mallet than Glastonbury but I guess Shepton isn't as mystical.

That seems about right to me. Maybe 25 -35. Who knows I have met someone there who was 93 and waiting for Idles to come on. He had been going since the very first festival. Didn't once say it was better in his day.

Some old fart who was in a decent band but then wrote the frog chorus.

They both sold a lot of records a long time ago and have since been forgotten. Supergrass only ever really had a couple big hits

£90 now and only available for the Sunday. The bus home is at midnight so when we got the day passes, we just stayed all night then walked to Shepton Mallet in the morning and got a bus home.

They're effectively paid by getting a free pass to see most of the festival (you're off more than working) plus three meals a day and nice camping. Most people who do it think it's a great deal.

They Don get paid much if anything

Lots of my friends work the festival (I'm about 15 miles away) and you get loads of time off to see bands and everyone always seems to see all the bands they really want to. You also get nicer camping facilities and showers with security and no one to take a dump in your sleeping bag. The car parking doesn't take hours to escape on Monday morning as well.

I would see Skunk Anansie. Last time I saw them there they headlined the pyramid stage and were excellent.

I think it was when Emily Eavis took over booking the bands it went wrong. Booking Coldplay as headliners four times is ridiculous. Love or hate them, no band should headline 4 times in less than 15 years. It shows a lack of imagination.

You forgot about stealing your own booze and puking in your sleeping bag. And don't forget about the £6 for a can of warm carlsberg because it's the only beer available or £8 for a warm pimms if you want to break the world record for least amount of alcohol per pound.

It's enormous now compared to the 90s. It seems to be mainly aimed at middle class pretend hippies and students. Maybe the festival scene is over saturated now.

I generally really enjoy Glastonbury. I've been quite a few times and have always found plenty of bands I like on the lineup. I generally avoid the pyramid stage anyway so don't really care who the big names are. This year though, the lineup is a big pile of bland. I thought it was just me being a miserable old bastard but everyone I've spoken to who is going or usually goes is pretty disappointed this year. For the first time ever, I'm glad I didn't get a ticket. https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2022/

Get you with your primate classification snobbery.

Well I don't see what your monkey snobbery has to do with bass snobbery.

je fais l'amour au jambon

Le lapin ne rentre pas dans le grille-pain. Je vais essayer ce marteau

In one of my previous jobs, we used to apply a £1500 a$$hole tax to certain clients just because we'd end up spending so many extra hours dealing with their a$$holery

Crazy Train - Ozzy

I'm a mechanical engineer. I do physics, not chemistry. I didn't do all that great in material science at uni.

Bad Religion in Bristol on Wednesday night. Incredibly good live band who get better each time I see them. They're the tightest, most professional punk band and quite obviously love performing. The venue was Motion, really good place with better sound than the O2 Academy across town and much more reasonable drink prices and excellent security. Support was from UK Subs who were absolutely brilliant. High on Fire coming up in a couple weeks at The Fleece. Can't wait for that one.