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DeanoL

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  1. Never actually see a Pulp gig with that level of production before. Or really much of any production or staging. Was certainly a revelation.
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    The 1975

    Great article here: https://doublechorus.substack.com/p/004-the-chaotic-self-absorbed-radicalism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1779003&post_id=135352401&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
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    The 1975

    Sometimes engaging with the censors and making some sort of change is enough to make them happy. They think they have won then. Big world famous rock band changed something because they said so. (And the people actually doing the job may not give a crap anyway, they just have to show they've done something so the higher ups are happy)
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    The 1975

    I'd be interested if any of the reprisals or clamp-downs they were worried about have actually happened? It's a week on and I've not seen anything, although most of the international media stopped caring the second a western rock group were no longer part of the story.
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    The 1975

    I think it's more than just people over here. It's the press as well. 100s of articles about how the Malaysian LGBTQ community are angry about what he did, all citing the same spokespeople from the same couple of charities, and the same individuals on Twitter. Maybe those people *are* representative of the entire community. Maybe they're not. "Oh but where are all the social media posts from Malaysian gay people who liked what he did?" You can figure that one out. In any campaign for social change, there will be those that want a radical approach, and those that prefer to work within the rules to achieve change in a slower, more measured way. Plenty of climate change activists find Just Stop Oil unhelpful, but others like their existance. (And general activism theory is that you require a "radical flank" to do the over-the-top, attention grabbing stuff, to give those more reasoned activists the spotlight to actually talk and address the issues. In this case, a foreign band would be well positioned to act in the radical flank, because of the ability to get the hell out without ending up in prison. Depressingly I'm sure the above mentioned LGBTQ charity spokespeople talked at length with various news outlets about the awful issues facing LGBTQ people in Malaysia, before saying that what Healy did was culturally insensitive and unhelpful. But that latter bit is all that gets reported in the press.)
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    COVID

    I also wish we had more tests cheaply and easily available but we don't. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't bother to use the ones we have.
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    COVID

    Yes, do you not?
  8. People sitting down in crowds, and people pushing out and back in again to go to the loo are doing it for the exact same reason. To get relief from physical pain and discomfort, while not losing their spot in the crowd. Exact same reason. To not be in pain. I'm not going to get angry with people who want to not be in pain. By all means argue for a system of survival of the fittest where sitting is not allowed but that same system should also disallow going out and back in again for the same reason (and some festivals have a one way pit that essentially does do that, I'm not being ridiculous).
  9. The ones in the pit aren't the problem. They just block the view of the stage itself which if you're not in the pit, you can barely see anyway. It's the ones further back that block the screens, which more than half the average pyramid audience are watching on, that are the issue. The compromise answer that would work is only flags in the central section- ie. Where you are infront of the stage, not the screens. But that's close to unenforceable.
  10. I reckon at least 1000 people left the field for the toilet during or in the half hour just before Elton and then tried to get back in, yes. Which is apparently how many chairs their were. Each contributes to the "problem" in its own way
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    COVID

    ³ Wouldn't go out with the flu either. I back myself to tell the difference between a cold and the flu. I don't back myself to tell the difference between a cold and COVID. Because as you say, the vaccine is so good. Flu feels worse than COVID at this point.
  12. Not necessarily a medical problem, just some people can't stand for that long. One could question similarly why your friend didn't have a wee before you went into the crowd. For me that seems ridiculous- that they wouldn't know and wouldn't go before... but different people work in different ways. You may think it ridiculous someone can't stand up for 4 hours. I may find it ridiculous someone can't go four hours without a piss. The festival takes all sorts. Wouldn't have it any other way. But I'd argue the 1000s of people sat in chairs were creating only as much of an issue as the 1000s trying to get in and out for the bathroom!
  13. I do agree with you but I would also note, not everyone is a seasoned festival goer who can judge how busy an act will be. People might set up camp halfway back in the field thinking that is perfectly reasonable (and for headliners in years past, it would have been). And then you're chatting with mates, few drinks, maybe other stuff, maybe you're not quite as aware of the growing crowd as you should be. Doesn't excuse it once it's pointed out but not everyone is aiming to be disruptive from the start.
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    Lana Del Rey Curfew

    Just to repeat: she was given an extra 15 minutes over her scheduled end time. More than Bruce got and nearly as much as Macca. And given she still had about half an hour of show to go, I'm not sure five more minutes would have helped. She would have been told at 2345 her time was up but they could give her 15 more minutes. Another artist would have jumped to the end of the set. She didn't. She just took that fifteen minutes for granted, carried on with the show as is, and then started complaining. The narrative that the festival cut her zero slack is not true at all. She got extra time. She was not cut off the second she went over, she was cut off after being given fifteen minutes grace and then failing to use that time to wrap up the show. If they'd given her another five minutes she'd just have played the next song in the set and still not done Videogames and wrapped it up. The reason this has "never happened before" is that when it does happen, the artist gets told they can have 15 minutes to wrap up... and they wrap up. And you don't even realise it happened.
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    COVID

    Yes, because it just feels like a nasty cold, and if I stopped going places any time I had a nasty cold, I'd never get anything done. But a nasty cold isn't going to cause problems for an elderly relative or friend in the same way COVID might. And beyond all that, I prefer to know what's wrong with me when I'm ill. That info is useful diagnostic data for future issues. So yeah, if I can find out at zero cost to the NHS then I will. Same reason I monitor my heart rate with my watch. Being well informed about your own own health can dramatically increase your lifespan, why do you think the royals live until their 90s on a regular basis? Amazing genetics? But its something that doesn't get talked about because it's too expensive for the NHS to do. Giving everyone over 20 an annual bowel cancer screening would save a lot of lives, but we can't afford it. But you can pay for one. You probably should. But no-one tells you that because it flies in the face of the idea that death is random and cares not for money or status. It absolutely does, and the amount of massively well off people who don't even a spend a fraction of their income on regular health screenings baffles me. They'll tell you they're not religious and believe in science but then just go "wont bother with that, when my number is up it'll be my time". But anyway, have a nice night!
  16. We know how high you need to be for the flags not to obscure the view. Because that's what the Beeb camera guy in the cherry picker crane goes up to. Not sure it's feasible to have a viewing platform at that height!
  17. At something like Elton when the field is that busy, you can't just move to get an unblocked view anyway. It also affects anyone stood in the back half of the field in the same way. It's not like every able-bodied person can all get down the front either.
  18. Yeah and right screen is almost entirely blocked by a single flag that is clearly well back from the pit, so I'm not sure what sort of compromise would actually work (flags only in the pit!?)
  19. Doesn't excuse the water situation, but get yourself a large 5 or 10 litre collapsible water carrier. Only around ten quid, you can fill it on the Wednesday and if its only drinking water in the mornings you want, will last the whole festival. Was a game changer for us!
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    Lana Del Rey Curfew

    Since people wanted facts: if you look at how long an act actually went over their scheduled time slot they were booked for (not the stage curfew), 2004 Macca was 20 mins, Springsteen 14 mins and Lana 15 mins. So I actually think she got the same 15 mins-ish grace anyone else got.
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    Lana Del Rey Curfew

    They did allow 15 minutes spare for Lana. Which for a 75 minute slot is a sizeable contingency. They didn't cut her off dead on the end of her agreed slot, she got to carry on until the stage curfew. I think it's unfair to say the festival did nothing to accommodate her when they literally let her go over.
  22. Campsite Wednesday early evening, not saying the festival is getting more middle-class but... "No, we need to keep that area free for the solar panels"
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    Lana Del Rey Curfew

    Honestly I thought about it a fair bit before going down that route and figured it was so ridiculous and silly it couldn't cause any actual harm - but if you think I've missed something do let me know. Happy to hear it - feel free to DM if you'd prefer.
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    Lana Del Rey Curfew

    Doesn't do any harm either.
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