I know you'll all hate me but

[Vieuphoria]

i understand the need for a flag for not getting lost... but much like sitting on peoples shoulders it really is quite selfish to anyone behind you....

[Kyelo]

i understand the need for a flag for not getting lost... but much like sitting on peoples shoulders it really is quite selfish to anyone behind you....

[jameshunt]

See I don't. In all the festivals I have been to I always manage to find my mates and always manage to find my tent without a flag, it really isn't difficult.

[Kyelo]

I find a headlamp is far more useful in finding my way about in the dark.

[denwyn]

This is how Eavis should have done the vote on his Glastonbury Website. I think they would have had to take some notice then,as it is i think they have made up there mind to do nothing,the vote on there means nothing at all. Why would he bother,its a sold out event. Maybe there should be more vocal protests at the stages, if the flags are spoiling it for those who can't see because some moron has deceided to wave his football club flag, or Hello Mum flag.

[Kyelo]

This is how Eavis should have done the vote on his Glastonbury Website. I think they would have had to take some notice then,as it is i think they have made up there mind to do nothing,the vote on there means nothing at all. Why would he bother,its a sold out event. Maybe there should be more vocal protests at the stages, if the flags are spoiling it for those who can't see because some moron has deceided to wave his football club flag, or Hello Mum flag.

[ancient_one]

No, Yes, No.

The picture on the poll page of the Glastonbury site illustrates where the problem lies - just clear them out of the front enclosure, and most people will be happy (apart from the flagoholics who can't find their friends and aren't on telly)

[norainplease]

I think if the main stage wasn't televised you would see very few flags

[festichickk]

i dont think they should, its the ibly way you can find people :/

[LondonTom]

i dont think they should, its the ibly way you can find people :/

[cejx]

Again what did you people do before everyone brought flags?

Edited February 6, 2010 by cejx

[fatyeti24]

no flags, no phones. It was brilliant! We'd say - meet at eg. Avalon bar at 2pm. The friends would wait have a beer. Those that turned up - did, those that had something better to do didn't! People nowadays need 24/7 links with their friends. Texting a zillion times a day, facebooks on mobiles... grrr drives me mad. Lose your friends for 5 days, meet new ones! Leave your phone at home.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

... but being a scientist I like clear, concise data So a poll it is

Edited February 6, 2010 by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs

[Kyelo]

no flags, no phones. It was brilliant! We'd say - meet at eg. Avalon bar at 2pm. The friends would wait have a beer. Those that turned up - did, those that had something better to do didn't! People nowadays need 24/7 links with their friends. Texting a zillion times a day, facebooks on mobiles... grrr drives me mad. Lose your friends for 5 days, meet new ones! Leave your phone at home.

[srvman]

once again, if there was no tv coverage it wouldnt be a problem, there is a reason why there is never ever any flags up by the park and jazz

[Kyelo]

once again, if there was no tv coverage it wouldnt be a problem, there is a reason why there is never ever any flags up by the park and jazz

[fatyeti24]

That's a simplistic way of looking at things though, without TV coverage many of the larger acts wouldn't play for the fees they do.

[4AssedMonkey]

I've not put my two-penneth in of the flag issue before, but my overriding thought is "why?". Spending 5 days on my feet round a festival doesn't need to be further hampered by a ridiculously long pole with a chuffing flag on it. Doesn't bother me that they block the main stages to be honest.

I may be wrong here, but the sort of person who stands in front of a stage all day waving such a thing either:

(a) is an attention seeking prat

( is socially inadequate

© thinks it makes them a "character" when it actually makes them a twat

(d) is desperate to be "seen" on telly.

Or all four. Probably.

[Neville Street]

We had a home made flag last year, not that big, but I should think visible. As I type I am watching a Sky+ of Neil Young and I can't see my flag, but we are there somewhere, we were in front of sound stage, behind crush barrier. It got two separate amazing conversations going, too long winded to explain here. We only took it "on the road" a couple of times, otherwise it lived at camp.

Overall I hated flags at big stages. On Saturday we were in the same spot as Friday, but without our flag, and directly behind "sausage" and it was the most frustrating experience.

I really hope we can have a common sense approach rather than a heavy handed approach, but there is no way it can continue as it was in 2009, totally ridiculous. Here's hoping that even if no screen annoucements or fine guide mention are needed, and that the vast majority, and it is a vast majority, can just ensure that people are not selfish, and that last year goes down as a low water mark.

It was 99% a Pyramd/on TV problem. At JP it was fine, amusing, helped with location, grateful some other bugger was carrying it, same almost everywhere else, just Pyramid = might as well have recorded on telly and watched when we got home.

[Boss84]

I don't mind flags too much there are just too many pointless ones, if there was someway they could ban them from near the front of the stage that would be good.

[scudetto_boy]

I voted no to all

[scudetto_boy]

Call me old fashioned but i like to see the stage when live acts are...eh...performing. Is that not an artist perfoming their....eh...art?

[Kyelo]

Call me old fashioned but i like to see the stage when live acts are...eh...performing. Is that not an artist perfoming their....eh...art?

[redmosquito]

Personally I love standing for hours to get a decent spot to watch peoples peace and smiley face flags wave about and I get really annoyed when every now and again I have to put up with seeing Neil Young when a gap opens up in front of me.

Glastonbury is a place to let go and do what you want but it is annoying when that spoils it for other people. Maybe a mention about how flags at the front of stages can ruin the experience for other people in the fine guide might make people realise how annoying they can be, if they really need to hold them maybe stand at the back or at the edges.

Surely its not the end of the world if you can't find the exact spot your mates are and you have to spend an hour away from them, after all you have the entire weekend to be with each other.

Plus if a big stupid flag about Adam's pants is the only way your mates can find you then they really are too stupid to be breathing and are stealing much needed and valuable oxygen from the rest of us

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

No, Yes, Yes, I voted