Alex DeLarge

Thanks for the laugh, that's hilarious.

Hi, Some of you saw my post the other day where I took a bit of a mental health dip and I just wanted to say, thank you everyone who supported me, with your kind words and advice. A more specific thanks to @Rumblestripefor his caring post and advice and the absoloute hero @Tranquility of Solitudefor trying to find me on my shift. Your kindness meant the world to me. I felt a bit better later that day even though I couldn't find my friends for Macca, but Sunday we patched things up and just as Rumblestripe said - they weren't ignoring me, in fact they were also finding things tough and didn't know how to talk about it. Please use my bad time as a lesson - check with your friends if you think they're being funny with you, if you're not well/ exhausted it's easy to convince yourself someone hates you, but festivals can be a lot and you never know if they're feeling the same. Also use the efestivals threads to meet others flying solo- which I'll do if I find myself like this again! I think the volunteering was a bit much for me, I'll try next year without volunteering. I hope you all had a wonderful festival and thanks again for all your help.

I will try next year, but I'm never volunteering again. Horrible experience.

Dom Joly and Ed Miliband. Both lovely.

Thanks for the irony there mate, I needed a laugh

Less spacey weirdos, less people smiling, more people getting pissed off you step near their camping chair at the front of the fucking stage, more coke, more people talking over acts, worse vibes, saw two c**ts bike their kids through the Diana Ross crowd, with then being towed on the back, they scratched past this poor woman's wheelchair. If this is what glastonbury is turning into - just Reading (coked up yoofs) and dreadful old tories sitting at the front and treating it like their local cheese and cider festival I'm really not feeling next year. I'm glad to see you all had a good time!

Might be a bit of a long rambling one. I'm volunteering at ped gate D this year, if you're there between 6am-12 come say hi to this tall dopey brummie. The crowds haven't impacted how lovely the punters have been to me this year, only one person was rude and I met Dom Joly who was lovely. Thank you to everyone making us staff feel safe and nice. That being said, this year is a real struggle for me. I'm feeling anxious, scared, depressed - everything I wouldn't usually feel at glastonbury. My friends are being really weird and seem to not care I'm here. I could barely leave the tent today I was that low. I thought I could do what I usually do and hit block 9 by myself and make friends, but everyone is aggro, annoyed, hates eacjother. Its a really bad vibe generally and I've taken a bit of a dip. It's really overwhelming and I feel really bad. I don't remember it being like this. Anyone else struggling?

Reddit is just full of middle-wits arguing with half-wits. There's a bunch of posts that are just 'i've heard a rumor green day are healining????' Or 'how likely are arctic monkeys' despite the fact they're not even touring.

I think Doja would get a big crowd against Macca but Meg doesn't have the massive string of hits. The fact Burna Boy isn't popular on these forums is mainly a demographic thing. He's massive and is featured on one of the most popular British songs of the past decade.

Think I've heard of this guy - didn't he do a couple of songs with Kanye?

It's going to be hilarious having all the rags that call us all middle-class wannabe hippies and student politicians all year suddenly pretend that Glastonbury is a grand event in the cultural calendar than is being desecrated by these unions.

Green Day would just be an odd fit. That sort of US style pop-punk just isn't really what the festival books. Which is kind of why I want it to happen.

Fuh You can get binned then.

Okay guys. My partner has a spot volunteering, she can have Thursday through Monday off but everything else is a flat no. I'm just checking there's no way for this to work we haven't thought of right? I.e. can you make up shifts working Monday, or anything else. Please let me know, it would be a massive help.

Girls Don't Sync are fun if you like garage.

Yeah I've heard they have new stuff on the way, Connor left which is a bit worrying because he added so much to their sound, but they were pretty great when I saw them in Brum in December.

You into Loathe mate? By the sounds of things they'd be right up your street.

Trying not to get too excited about the SR for Aphex, Chemical Bros and Orbital but fucking hell.

Architects are touring early may, then have a random date in Finland at the end of June, so maybe they'll be announcing a few festival dates? I'd love to see Electric Wizard, Loathe and Code Orange who are all around in June. Deftones is never gonna happen but just imagine it.

Hi mate, thank you so much for this. My partner has missed out and I'm gutted for her.

I can imagine Sam Fender getting a fairly big slot. Seventeen Going Under and Spit of You are bloody massive, his tour has sold incredibly well, his debut only came out three years ago and he's huge.

Why did I think it was a good idea to check that?

Good point. I realised this too and felt like such a dickhead afterwards. What strikes me - is how easy it is to laugh off nasty comments if they're made by a mate. You may think you know somebody, but it's very rare someone will outright tell you that they hate women or that they abuse women. A lot of dangerous men hide their violence in plain sight, 'oh my friend laughed off when I said I'd give my girlfriend a slap for calling me at work', 'my brother shook his head jokingly when I slapped a girls arse in a nightclub'. They use these little events to test the waters, to re-enforce to themselves that their behaviour is acceptable.

Yeah I empathise with this a lot. I said some stupid shite as a little bastard thinking I was being a 'lad', or that what I was saying was 'ironic'. I've always considered myself a pretty strong feminist and for some reason thought that gave me free-reign to say twattish things.

My controversial music opinion is you can tell the age of this forum from the fact we have bloody punk vs. disco albums in the 2020s.