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[HuggyHare]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...pshire-13741537

Or indeed, SHOULD it happen at Glasto?

[young_bairn]

This won't happen at Glasto.....

Im not familiar with IOW and assume it is like most festivals where the camping is seprate from the arena?

[LostRiot]

It won't happen at glasto because there isn't an arena, however, I think they should be strongly discouraged at stages, the pyramid stage is a joke these days, you get these lines of chairs meters long that its impossible to get around and they just kill the atmosphere. Makes the place look like this

[BlackHole2006]

They can get away with it a IOW because IOW is an arena festival, if they banned them at Glasto then it would mean they would have to ban them for whole of the festival I think would personally be a shite idea as I enjoy personally having a rest on my camping chair back at the tent after all that walking/bouncing about to bands. Fair enough it is a bit annoying when people park their chairs up at the front of the stage but you just have to grit your teeth and deal with it because people enjoy Glasto in many different ways and if that's one way somebody like's to enjoy the festival then I think they have every right to do so. They spent the money on the ticket so why can't they enjoy it like that.

[Cooter]

BlackHole2006, on 12 June 2011 - 09:02 PM, said:

They can get away with it a IOW because IOW is an arena festival, if they banned them at Glasto then it would mean they would have to ban them for whole of the festival I think would personally be a shite idea as I enjoy personally having a rest on my camping chair back at the tent after all that walking/bouncing about to bands. Fair enough it is a bit annoying when people park their chairs up at the front of the stage but you just have to grit your teeth and deal with it because people enjoy Glasto in many different ways and if that's one way somebody like's to enjoy the festival then I think they have every right to do so. They spent the money on the ticket so why can't they enjoy it like that.

nuff said

[Titters]

Would have been a pain having to choose between standing and sitting in that mud!

[gibbin82]

Regarding chairs they dont block anyones view and I don't think they present a problem to anybody who isn't trying to push their way to the front past people who have been waiting there before them, although this is only my own opinion and I am sure people who do not like them will have plenty of there own reasons why they ,they shouldnt be allowed. What many people don't take into account is that not everyone who goes to Glastonbury can stand for hours, I know one lady who regularly goes who is 73 this year, banning chairs in front of any stages is effectively banning her from going to Glastonbury is that fair because it might inconvenience you slightly from making your way to the front or where ever in a straight line.

[LostRiot]

BlackHole2006, on 12 June 2011 - 09:02 PM, said:

They can get away with it a IOW because IOW is an arena festival, if they banned them at Glasto then it would mean they would have to ban them for whole of the festival I think would personally be a shite idea as I enjoy personally having a rest on my camping chair back at the tent after all that walking/bouncing about to bands. Fair enough it is a bit annoying when people park their chairs up at the front of the stage but you just have to grit your teeth and deal with it because people enjoy Glasto in many different ways and if that's one way somebody like's to enjoy the festival then I think they have every right to do so. They spent the money on the ticket so why can't they enjoy it like that.

Except chairs are really really annoying, so they're not just enjoying the festival in their own way, they're enjoying the festival in their own way and making it worse for other people...

Its like all those damn flags.

[Amii]

I don't see a problem with them, but then I never get too close to the front.

Pissed me right off on the Wednesday for the football last year though, lines and lines and lines of them, those without chairs were visually disadvantaged then got whined at when we stood to see over them by the people in the chairs behind.

[Moon Monkey]

IOW and glasto just not comparible

[LondonTom]

BAN EM!!!

I dunno you can't at glasto cos we don't have the whole arena idea. (Which isn't necessary a bad thing, and does allow day tickets, I wouldn't change glasto but I am not going hate on arena style).

Sure some people do need them, but those who seem to need them seem to be pretty sensible with them and head towards the back instead of lining the front of the Pyramid.

[alframsey]

For some reason I read the title of this thread as 'Chris Brown ban at I.O.W. Fest'

[PabloCoke]

they should just say flags and seats are banned from any point forward of the sound desk.