What are the worst things about V this year?

[Flaminglippy]

The lazy booking policy has always been there and seems mainly to be based on media coverage & CD sales. Hearing or seeing the name "Bob Angus" and the tosh he comes out with just makes my blood pressure rise.

The worst things about this year are:

1. The increasingly cynical disregard it shows towards the punters, especially those who coughed up early bird cash on the expectation they might throw together a half-decent lineup.

2. That V has become the zenith among those festivals that are more about entertainment than the music. What I mean is that, uppermost among all festivals, V now mainly attracts punters who are making a "lifestyle" choice. People are going to V simply because they want to "do a festival" during the summer. They go to V more to have a laugh, to get bladdered etc, etc. Quality music is way down the priority list. They are not music fans, at least my my definition. I can only moan, there is little I can do about it, because these people have as much right as I do to go to V. It's just that as from 2010, it's highly likely I'll decide I don't want to share a field with them anymore.

[Flaminglippy]

haha you have amazin taste to lippy, i adore public enemy and of course the flaming lips! but although your points are all valid and hilarious! i really have a soft spot for the girl, shes a bit of a guilty pleasure, i actually liked the fear

[Flaminglippy]

Please please pleaseeeeeeeeeee come to efest camp you will make my weekend!!

[GuffGuy]

Is it the line-up?? The lack of a Thursday?? The lack of announcements?? The lack of any regard for the punters?? The fact that a stage may or may not have been pulled?? The rampaging gangs of tent-robbing, piss-lobbing chavs that will make the weekend the aural equivilent of root canal work?? The planks who are happy to get shafted out of £160 and will defend the organisers as they squeeze the last drop of enjoyment out of what used to be a great weekend...

So, SO many issues...

[indie-rocknroll]

Just not really a festival is it, a bad gig in a field, shit atmosphere, terrible lineup etc.

Expensive, ridiculously commerical and trying to bleed money out of you at every turn.

[the_hedge]

I'm not sure if anyone else subscribes to the RSS feeds from this site but the amount of information you get from other festivals such as announcements of bands, what they are doing different this year, new stages, campsite entertainment info is just way more than you hear from V. If you visit any of the websites for other festivals such as Download, Leeds/Reading, Glasto, IOW and TITP - so much more information and they actually look like well run websites.

All V do is throw money at the lineup and then it's a big gig in a field, nothing else.

[farewellandgoodnight]

The worst thing about this and a shitload of other festivals is the fact that the camping and arena areas are separated. Separated for no other reason than to force people to buy overpriced sponsored beer from the organisers.

Edited June 12, 2009 by farewellandgoodnight

[staffsknot]

I have to admit the potential loss of the Sessions tent would be the worst - yes I would rather insult Mike Tyson's mahood than listen to Lily Allen or McFly but I reckon I can avoid them longer than I could the mental boxer!

Lack of the Thursaday Early entry is a major pain and I reckon Friday is gonna be a nightmare start but it'll all come good.

Another pain in the hole is on these forums if you even seem as though you intend to have a good time or express even the remotest desire to listen to music over the weekend your a V apologist. Sell your ticket and go to one of the other festivals your moaning you prefer the line-up to!

[Sonofjackass]

My main problem with V tbh is the price! Yeh line up and lack of announcements suck but IMO for the price we are paying we should get at least one extra day of music like most the other festivals of the same price range.

[Flaminglippy]

My main problem with V tbh is the price! Yeh line up and lack of announcements suck but IMO for the price we are paying we should get at least one extra day of music like most the other festivals of the same price range.

[Sonofjackass]

Oxegen has just announced they're doing a tribute bands night on the Thursday (I posted something suggesting this for V about a month ago but it went down like a french kiss at a family reunion)...so, same money, better line-up and 2 days more of music...mental!

[funkymp]

Bad Gig? shit atmosphere?? I beg to differ (And I have been to allot of gigs and festival) terrible line up, not much different to any of the other European festivals, Expensive, again you watch only 4 bands and you have made your money back, ridiculously commercial, name one that is not?, trying to bleed money out of ya, so whats new

[pineapple-tea]

is glastos line up better than R/L's cos theirs is amazin! i havent seen the full glastonbury line up yet!

[thetime]

Glasto's line up is f**king awesome - although I am a bit biased.

[funkymp]

also, download has the right idea - http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/webcast/

streaming some of the festival = awesome idea

[thetime]

also, download has the right idea - http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/webcast/

streaming some of the festival = awesome idea

[funkymp]

would anyone watch it for v though?

[Mike Dodgson]

For me it has to be the lineup.

V much like other festivals bases it's audience on return customers - like most businesses.

I've been going for years now and most of the acts that are there this year are ones that have been there before - it's getting less and less attractive for me as someone has been before to keep going.

I can't see the lineup improving much - and compared to other lineups at other festivals - V looks poor again.

It will still be a good weekend - but it would have been good to see some new exciting acts there to break the mould of the good old Oasis, Killers & Snow Patrol that we are so used to seeing!

[GuffGuy]

i would have to say the fact i live 20mins from the site.....WAIT A MINUTE!!!! THATS A GOOD THING!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY TIMES!

[thetime]

i would have to say the fact i live 20mins from the site.....WAIT A MINUTE!!!! THATS A GOOD THING!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY TIMES!

[cabstar]

Oh I love how people hate or defend their choice of festival attending.

V is shit, always has been always will be, hey but I still go every year, however I am seriously considering making this my last 1.

But I did say that last year & the year before & the year before & the year before etc etc etc etc etc.......

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Unable to take chairs & booze into the arena, that sucks as does being unable to take brollies in adverse weather.

Don't really give a shit about the lineup I will always find something to watch, last year some of the highlights for me where Souxie, Infadels & Paul Heaton... Look & you will find something good

[tylerdurden]

Bad Gig? shit atmosphere?? I beg to differ (And I have been to allot of gigs and festival) terrible line up, not much different to any of the other European festivals, Expensive, again you watch only 4 bands and you have made your money back, ridiculously commercial, name one that is not?, trying to bleed money out of ya, so whats new

[jordanuk90]

The people im going with my mates are allbring their girlfriends so no drunken stupidity gotta be on the best behaviour gonna be lame good job im going to leeds

[GuffGuy]

im bout the same guff, thing is because its so close i dont feel its like going to a proper festival. You dont have the buzz of pre festival travelling, banter, drinking.

[mfeltham]

Two words that sum it all up:

BJÖRN AGAIN