I lived near the site all my childhood (and some adulthood) and for a few years we lived 'next door' to it. My bro and sis loved it, but I just never got into it.darthpunk wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:32 am Glastonbury could have it's own thread called "340 quid for that pile of shite?"
Thank god for I-player though, they've actually put up some not bad stuff without the hassle of actually having to go. Going to watch the Sparks set later and the Rick Astley sets were really quite good, especially where he did a set of Smiths songs with some band called The Blossoms (I'm old)
Only one I haven't found so far that might have been good was Max Richter, a bit of culture n'that
The free entry on sunday afternoons I used to go to sometimes if the bands playing were interesting. But for me the headlines were rarely people I wanted to see and in my experience, walking on the site meant that everyone was 8 foot tall and going in the opposite direction to me, so I hated that (not good in crowds!). So the inclination to walk to the smaller stages was lost!
I spent a lot of years going to see live bands locally on a regular basis so couldn't justify camping somewhere like Glasto, paying a bloody fortune to try and walk through thousands of people etc.
A few years ago a mate texted me from there saying "you should be here, we're at the most amazing stage watching some awesome rockabillly" - I went and watched awesome rockabilly pretty much ever yweekend, and didn't have to pay an entry fee for most of them! Even when I did a weekender, it certainly wasn't 300+ quid for a weekend of awesome bands - and we stayed in proper beds, not tents!!!
