Flags - any point in going to the Pyramid?

[doogie]

Watched it on the telly in 2009 and that bloody flag was everywhere.

[Gnomicide]

I always use the flags at festivals to find my spec or tent. Usually triangulate between the Welsh, jolly roger and smiley face ones.

Last year I stuck my tent up, went for a wander, came back and all the paths I had walked down were full of tents. So I fell back on the old method. I was by a hedge and a Welsh flag with a twirly bit attached.

Spotted a hedge and a Welsh flag with a twirly bit attached but the flag was the other side of the hedge in a crew only bit. I started to convince myself that I'd wandered into a crew bit when I took my tent in (6am Thursday) and would never reach it again!

Half an hour later I discovered the original Welsh flag with a twirly bit attached and my trusty hedge but I was more than a little concerned.

Anyway, the moral of this frankly boring, piss poor tale is never trust the Welsh.

[AdamSheff]

I suppose from a TV point of view the flags look amazing and add to the glasto atmosphere. But when your there they are just annoying. It doesnt help that all the Flag w*nkers stand approx 10 metres back like a wall of flags.

Theres no need!!! Really!!

[Spindles]

I suspect that the TV are as much against it as we are. Flags filling the front of the stage make it just about impossible to get full stage shots of any value from the cameras on the sound stage and also impede all those lovely sweeping shots of spotlights across the crowd in headline sets.

Flags are, in every way, bad.

Except back at camp, where they are, of course, the navigational aid of choice (many thanks to my near neighbours on pennards in '09, with their huge red smirnoff ice banner which guided me home no matter who titfaced I was on my dish of choice for the night).

[lahm]

I wasn't aware you needed your eyes to listen to music

[chappiepunk]

Can I use my Oyster Card on the monorail?

(This thread is ridiclious)

[G1T]

I love the flags, they are one part of the Glastonbury experience and really add to the atmosphere around the Pyramid stage.

Just imagine no flags, it would be like one of those zero atmospheric concerts I have seen at Hyde park.

[J1mbo]

I love the flags, they are one part of the Glastonbury experience and really add to the atmosphere around the Pyramid stage.

Just imagine no flags, it would be like one of those zero atmospheric concerts I have seen at Hyde park.

In my limited experience, if you are close enough to get a good view of the stage then the flags are mostly overhead, if you are farther away from the stage then you tend to watch the screens anyway and it is easy to get a good view of them without flags. I suspect they cause the biggest annoyance to the BBC crew and those watching at home.

[General Lee]

I wasn't aware you needed your eyes to listen to music

[sanyo]

It is odd though, how we all used to find friends and meet up with people at glasto with no problem in the days before everyone had mobiles, then now everyone's got mobiles too, all of a sudden flags become a crucial way of finding people.

Edited March 29, 2011 by sanyo

[catglass]

to be honest with you i dont mind the flags,for the simple reason,if i go for a p@ss its something to get my way back to.if they are in your way ,move to some spot where u can see.

[LittlemissC]

Take flags, don't take flags, not arsed really...personally I wouldn't hold one for two minutes, but if your dull and dumb enough to carry one then dad on.

[Ed209]

Take flags, don't take flags, not arsed really...personally I wouldn't hold one for two minutes, but if your dull and dumb enough to carry one then dad on.

[strummer77]

to be honest with you i dont mind the flags,for the simple reason,if i go for a p@ss its something to get my way back to.if they are in your way ,move to some spot where u can see.

Edited March 30, 2011 by strummer77

[lordpayne]

Easy solution= ban flags and the festival sticks a few really tall poles with coloured flags on randomly in the middle of the crowd. Then you can roughly find your way back, the crowd still has some colour but no-one has their view majorly disrupted.

Edit: f**k it, sending this idea off. Worth a go.

[Redwinevino]

I honestly do like the flags but I feel I may be in the minority

[Bobs]

No they get in the way to.

I suggest bringing a flame thrower, even few rows back from the front last seemed to be loads of the f**kers.

The mexicans with 3 flag mexican flags on one stick?! god!!

[Bobs]

I think a clever idea would be, to send flags to the site in advance, place poles up around the site, and put multiple flags on it, and then you have a little mini challenge throughout the festival to find your flag

[Bobs]

Can remember. Think he bought it there as they were similar ones. I can remembergetting home and thinking "f**k me, did that kid move fromthe pyramid??".

Theres ALWAYS a Wolves flag too

[danbailey80]

LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD.

I do think if you have a polite word with these people they will at least consider keeping it at their tents next time.

I'm thinking of starting a society:

The FATNIC society

FLAGS AT TENTS NOT IN CROWDS

Unless someone has a catchier idea?

Edited March 30, 2011 by danbailey80

[danbailey80]

[cejx]

I love the flags, they are one part of the Glastonbury experience and really add to the atmosphere around the Pyramid stage.

Just imagine no flags, it would be like one of those zero atmospheric concerts I have seen at Hyde park.

In my limited experience, if you are close enough to get a good view of the stage then the flags are mostly overhead, if you are farther away from the stage then you tend to watch the screens anyway and it is easy to get a good view of them without flags. I suspect they cause the biggest annoyance to the BBC crew and those watching at home.

[redmosquito]

I think its Robert Plant that carries around the Wolves flag.

He should be the only one allowed to carry.one

[amfy]

Don't be an arse. Part of the Glastonbury experience? Atmosphere? Your experience isn't just limited, its zilch!

Muse apparently.

[LondonTom]

They annoyed me, they decided to dangle that flag infront of me during about 2 muse songs last year, but completely blocking my view, on the plus, i learnt there was an eagle on the flag.