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[Late]

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[karlpowell]

Late, on 14 June 2010 - 01:47 PM, said:

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2000: 250,000 people enjoy Glastonbury. Only 100,000 people pay to do so.    ( hangs head in shame )  

[graham1030]

What a completely awful and pointless article. I dont understand what some people have against the festival. Why write an article about a festivals worst moments? and if in 40 years of the festival you can only write that a cow died from eating a peg and amy winehouse was off her head then i think glastonbury has done pretty well. So much negativity. This will be my 4th glastonbury and i am sooooo excited. I was there in  2005 and 2007 with the ridiclous rain and mud but it hasnt put me off in the slightest. I wish people would stop being so negative and get back to writing about what makes it the greatest festival in the world.

[phillchill]

I clicke dthe link without looking where it went had I know it was the telgraph I would not have bothered and could have made something up about muddy nerdowells getting up to all sorts..

Arrrgghh.

[MEGABOWL]

I didn't think it was that negative  

It was written by people who know their stuff reasonably well and was fairly amusing. All these things, good and bad, go towards the history of the fest and helps make it what it is. Glastonbury's brilliant, it doesn't need everybody to be precious about it on it's behalf

[FloorFiller]

quite funny that for 2007, it mentions a cow dying, but not that the festival became an ocean over the weekend due to the rain

[Buddhafish]

I thought that was quite amusing tbh. Not sure why anyone would get wound up by it.  

[shiveringsky]

Call me cruel/insensitive/obvious but I don't think that U2s cancellation is really that much of a disaster.  

[whatmidlifecrisis?]

graham1030, on 14 June 2010 - 02:30 PM, said:

What a completely awful and pointless article. I dont understand what some people have against the festival. Why write an article about a festivals worst moments? and if in 40 years of the festival you can only write that a cow died from eating a peg and amy winehouse was off her head then i think glastonbury has done pretty well. So much negativity. This will be my 4th glastonbury and i am sooooo excited. I was there in  2005 and 2007 with the ridiclous rain and mud but it hasnt put me off in the slightest. I wish people would stop being so negative and get back to writing about what makes it the greatest festival in the world.

I want read an article about a cow getting off its head after eating Amy Winehouse.....

[st00ka]

I'd like to complain that that there was no mention of 1997 and 1998.

[gizmoman]

Pretty lightweight amusing article really, the kind of thing you get in the Q daily on site. Nothing to get excited about.

[Spindles]

st00ka, on 14 June 2010 - 05:12 PM, said:

I'd like to complain that that there was no mention of 1997 and 1998.

Indeed.  It is because of those young upstarts 2005 and 2007.  Their older, wetter, stickier uncles tire of their constant attention whoring.

I was also guilty of adding to the fence jumping problem in the past.  2000 however taught me the error of my ways when I encountered some really nasty cNuts.  I've posted the tale elsewhere, but suffice to say: Karma caught up and taught me an important lesson.

I didn't think the article was that negative.  More a collection of (very few) anecdotes from festivals past.  Pretty sure that people here could produce better in 30 mins with 1 thread

[Martin Ashford]

Spindles, on 14 June 2010 - 05:47 PM, said:

Indeed.  It is because of those young upstarts 2005 and 2007.  Their older, wetter, stickier uncles tire of their constant attention whoring..

I was also guilty of adding to the fence jumping problem in the past.  2000 however taught me the error of my ways when I encountered some really nasty cNuts.  I've posted the tale elsewhere, but suffice to say: Karma caught up and taught me an important lesson.

I didn't think the article was that negative.  More a collection of (very few) anecdotes from festivals past.  Pretty sure that people here could produce better in 30 mins with 1 thread

  
Personally I think the fact that things do go wrong is one of the great things about the festival. It's that side of it that makes it still just about the biggest adventure you can have in the UK. It's seriously character building as Michael Eavis has acknowledged in the past. I would think a great deal more of someone that regularly attends than of someone that just wants to live in their cosy domestic sanitised existence.

[HurrahBrother]

"here are our favourites from the last 40 years." says it all really, its hardly a downer article, i'm sure they could have dug up much worse (the shooting, the occasional deaths, the time -now mayor of London- Boris visited with a camera crew etc). Things go wrong, but the show still goes on!