It’s been pretty poorly expressed in this thread, but I think the lack of ‘edginess’ people are lamenting can be pretty well summed up and understood by the majority on this forum by the following:
Glastonbury pre the super fence = edgy
Glastonbury post the super fence = less edgy
There’s plenty on this forum who feel the festival lost something when it lost all the ‘mushrooms, ecstasy, lsd’ stalls and guys walking through the crowds and campsites selling cans and weed and ‘sold out’ commercially, to an extent.
Edgy in this case surely means bordering on the edge of decency / legality / acceptableness / dangerousness. It’s doesn’t necessarily mean sexual assault, but I suppose that could be included, although I’m sure we can all agree that that is one thing we happy to see the back off at gigs and festivals. However, illegal mushroom stalls and dodgy geezers breaking people in though the fence pre 2000 are viewed through slightly rose tinted spectacles, understandably, though that couldn’t continue, for obvious reasons