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[garethslee]

http://www.musicweek...ode=1042516&c=1

[Zacko]

I don't see how, obviously I'm biased but this year especially Glasto easily looked the best - look at the weather we had!

[lharris92]

Zacko, on 14 September 2010 - 12:43 PM, said:

I don't see how, obviously I'm biased but this year especially Glasto easily looked the best - look at the weather we had!

because the NME arse licked quite a bit of the lineup at R&L which obviously influenced their readers who are brainwashed to vote for it.

[Vieuphoria]

Didnt Glasto win it last year?

You count win every year.

That said R/L's wasn't that great this year.

[BlackHole2006]

Think it was Neil that said the only reason why they have this "best festival" thing is so they could keep their contract in with the various different festivals they sponsor. E.G one year they said that T in the park was the best festival and then the year after that there was suddenly an NME/Radio 1 stage at the festival...

Even if it's not true it's all bollocks anyway because there is no such thing as a "best festival", it's all based on opinion and what suits the persons tastes IMO.

[Bradders]

Most people only go to one festival a year and simply vote for that one. More NME readers go to R/L than Glasto, simple as that. I'd put money on the fact that nigh on 100% of people who went to both voted Glasto

[ivan]

Vieuphoria, on 14 September 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:

Didnt Glasto win it last year?

You count win every year.

That said R/L's wasn't that great this year.

I thought Leeds was excellent this year ! , Arcade Fire being just one of the many highlights !

[Insomaniac]

Well on the basis of that poll I think I will give Glastonbury a miss next year and do either Reading or Leeds. In hindsight I'm gutted I went to Glastonbury this year, when I could have gone to the best one. I sure feel like a fool going to the second best festival.

Edited by Insomaniac, 14 September 2010 - 02:43 PM.

[eFestivals]

The poll says more about nme readers than it does about festivals.

Shock horror, they like Oasis and The Libs, who'd have thought it eh?

[ampersand]

is it not just a merry go round of who wins it? anyone got a history?

hoping to try it out next year if the line up looks as good!

[Insomaniac]

ampersand, on 14 September 2010 - 02:52 PM, said:

is it not just a merry go round of who wins it? anyone got a history?

hoping to try it out next year if the line up looks as good!

Sure looks like they try and spread it around. What are the chances of both V festival and T in the Park getting the exact same number of votes.

But yeah, irrelevant poll from an irrelevant magazine.

[firecracker]

Bradders, on 14 September 2010 - 02:13 PM, said:

Most people only go to one festival a year and simply vote for that one. More NME readers go to R/L than Glasto, simple as that. I'd put money on the fact that nigh on 100% of people who went to both voted Glasto

Exactly right!! R/L win this every year because most NME readers do R/L!! They have bothe becom fashion statements; either to go to/read.

I went to both 2010 and can safely  say Glastonbury is just in a whole other world!! After several Glasto's, other than the Libs and Arcade Fire, Reading was an absolute pile of w*nk in comparison. I'm 18 and felt extremely old there too!

[eFestivals]

ampersand, on 14 September 2010 - 02:52 PM, said:

is it not just a merry go round of who wins it? anyone got a history?

I can't be sure it's true, but was once told that within a few days after Glastonbury won it in a fairly recent year, Glastonbury got a phone call suggesting that Glasto might like to get nme to sell a load of the tickets, and that two and two was put together by someone who concluded that the two things might possibly be related. Wouldn't that be strange?

There was also a stunning coincidence where (if my memory is right) T in the Park won it one year, and then the next year there was an nme stage at T.

Outside of those two instances, I can't remember a fest aside from Reading winning it within the last ten years. Where it's a strange coincidence that nme has a stage.

[firecracker]

hahaha     

[Macca3031]

I actuall agreed when Reading one in 07. Being able to sit on the grass at Reading after the summer we'd had was fantastic. Didn't go to Reading this year so couldn't tell.

Agreed that almost all the voters will have only been to one festival so obviously the biggest ones win. V festival joint 3rd? I've never been but can truely say that it can't be.

[rexclark]

The Libs played Reading and Leeds, was there ever going to another winner in NME?

[simes]

Do also  consider the massive bias gained from running the survey in the immediate aftermath of Reading and  Leeds. Run it again  later in the year and you'll get a different result.

[rexclark]

simes, on 14 September 2010 - 06:05 PM, said:

Do also  consider the massive bias gained from running the survey in the immediate aftermath of Reading and  Leeds. Run it again  later in the year and you'll get a different result.

Probably not, I think the majority of the readership of NME nowdays would vote for R&L every time as the festival is more aimed at them.

[Jackmypie]

Line up wise, R&L beats the shit out of Glastonbury.
Glasto beats it in every other aspect though.

[123ginge]

Jackmypie, on 14 September 2010 - 06:57 PM, said:

Line up wise, R&L beats the shit out of Glastonbury.
Glasto beats it in every other aspect though.

True, I always look at the R+L lineup and feels jealous that I'm not going and then remember how brilliant Glasto was. At Glasto the lineup doesn't have to be incredible, the atmostphere makes it, can you imagine Rolf Harris at R+L?!