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[slipmatt]

Thought you guys may want to read this - lovely, lovely interview and article about Glasto.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/0...stival-40-years

xx peace

[Salt_On_Everything]

Nice article. This line bothered me a bit tho:

'one can't help but wonder just why Glastonbury  has survived – flourished, in fact, when so many other festivals have disappeared or become over-sponsored shadows of their former selves.'

The over-sponsored part is true about things, yes, but it makes it sound like music festivals are a dying thing and Glastonbury is some amazing survivor, whereas anyone with a vague knowledge of festivals surely knows that the UK festival scene is hardly in poor health...

[ministe2003]

Right now festivals are thriving yes, but are there any festivals in the world that have survived 40 years other that Glasto?  I think thats what it means.

[ukslim]

The over-sponsored part is true about things, yes, but it makes it sound like music festivals are a dying thing and Glastonbury is some amazing survivor, whereas anyone with a vague knowledge of festivals surely knows that the UK festival scene is hardly in poor health...

There's a grain of truth in there. Glade collapsed due to the cost of policing; other festivals are threatened with the same fate. Other festivals, as it said, became corporate logo-fests.

OTOH, how many (good) festivals does one country need? We have Bestival, Camp Bestival, Green Man, Truck, .... the list goes on and on.

[baggienick68]

Sums it up nicely and contrasts well with the thread about the article in the Daily Mail. Why do people buy that paper?

[grumpyhack]

The finances of festival running still remain precarious and probably always will.  The hard bit is building critical mass and a reputation.  Not that many festivals manage, like Glastonbury, to sell out before the line up is confirmed.
Often smaller festivals rely on late sales that can tip the fine balance between profit and loss.  Bad weather can still be a financial killer.

[Salt_On_Everything]

There's a grain of truth in there. Glade collapsed due to the cost of policing; other festivals are threatened with the same fate. Other festivals, as it said, became corporate logo-fests.

OTOH, how many (good) festivals does one country need? We have Bestival, Camp Bestival, Green Man, Truck, .... the list goes on and on.

Agreed, I see the point with stuff like Glade and others, but it seems that for any festival that goes under 5 more spring up next year... There is an insane amount of UK festivals, and it's no bad thing!

[Ci Sgoti]

Better than the Daily Snail article that Garethslee posted here How someone can go to Glasto and not have a single positive to take from it.

PS Was she the bint that had to apologise for the Boyzone article?

Edited by Ci Sgoti, 04 June 2010 - 11:02 AM.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

and that is why i don't read the daily mail.