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[Kyelo]

srvman, on Feb 6 2010, 08:44 PM, said:

once again, if there was no tv coverage it wouldnt be a problem, there is a reason why there is never ever any flags up by the park and jazz

That's a simplistic way of looking at things though, without TV coverage many of the larger acts wouldn't play for the fees they do.

[fatyeti24]

BenchBuddah, on Feb 6 2010, 08:50 PM, said:

That's a simplistic way of looking at things though, without TV coverage many of the larger acts wouldn't play for the fees they do.

yet the festival would proabaly still sell out before they announced one act.

so maybe that's the solution.. don't ban flags, ban the BBC!

[4AssedMonkey]

I've not put my two-penneth in of the flag issue before, but my overriding thought is "why?".  Spending 5 days on my feet round a festival doesn't need to be further hampered by a ridiculously long pole with a chuffing flag on it.  Doesn't bother me that they block the main stages to be honest.

I may be wrong here, but the sort of person who stands in front of a stage all day waving such a thing either:

(a) is an attention seeking prat
( is socially inadequate
© thinks it makes them a "character" when it actually makes them a twat
(d) is desperate to be "seen" on telly.

Or all four.  Probably.

[Neville Street]

We had a home made flag last year, not that big, but I should think visible. As I type I am watching a Sky+ of Neil Young and I can't see my flag, but we are there somewhere, we were in front of sound stage, behind crush barrier.  It got two separate amazing conversations going, too long winded to explain here.  We only took it "on the road" a couple of times, otherwise it lived at camp.

Overall I hated flags at big stages.  On Saturday we were in the same spot as Friday, but without our flag, and directly behind "sausage" and it was the most frustrating experience.

I really hope we can have a common sense approach rather than a heavy handed approach, but there is no way it can continue as it was in 2009, totally ridiculous.  Here's hoping that even if no screen annoucements or fine guide mention are needed, and that the vast majority, and it is a vast majority, can just ensure that people are not selfish, and that last year goes down as a low water mark.

It was 99% a Pyramd/on TV problem. At JP it was fine, amusing, helped with location, grateful some other bugger was carrying it, same almost everywhere else, just Pyramid = might as well have recorded on telly and watched when we got home.

[Boss84]

I don't mind flags too much there are just too many pointless ones, if there was someway they could ban them from near the front of the stage that would be good.

[scudetto_boy]

Vacant0, on Feb 4 2010, 08:52 PM, said:

I voted no to all

I take it you are approx 3 years old

[scudetto_boy]

Call me old fashioned but i like to see the stage when live acts are...eh...performing. Is that not an artist perfoming their....eh...art?

[Kyelo]

scudetto_boy, on Feb 7 2010, 11:58 PM, said:

Call me old fashioned but i like to see the stage when live acts are...eh...performing. Is that not an artist perfoming their....eh...art?

+ 1

[redmosquito]

Personally I love standing for hours to get a decent spot to watch peoples peace and smiley face flags wave about and I get really annoyed when every now and again I have to put up with seeing Neil Young when a gap opens up in front of me.



Glastonbury is a place to let go and do what you want but it is annoying when that spoils it for other people. Maybe a mention about how flags at the front of stages can ruin the experience for other people in the fine guide might make people realise how annoying they can be, if they really need to hold them maybe stand at the back or at the edges.

Surely its not the end of the world if you can't find the exact spot your mates are and you have to spend an hour away from them, after all you have the entire weekend to be with each other.

Plus if a big stupid flag about Adam's pants is the only way your mates can find you then they really are too stupid to be breathing and are stealing much needed and valuable oxygen from the rest of us

[DAVA]

No, Yes, Yes, I voted

[scudetto_boy]

DAVA, on Feb 8 2010, 03:25 PM, said:

No, Yes, Yes, I voted

So did i