The Glastonbury Firelighter....

[Amii]

Don't get me wrong, in any other paper it would have been well writen and interesting. But Q Daily used to hint about secret acts, give you photos of the day before, and tells you interesting things to do.

Yoga, people's opinions, and half a page mocking the festival really was no use to me. Apologies if it all changed on Saturday, but I stopped making the walk to get it.

[Alcatraz]

It had its good points, namely that it didn't just have photos of mugs doing zany antics around the site that pretty much made up the Q Daily, The actual Mendip Munter paper is always hilarious and good to see it have space on the Firelighter. No idea when I can get it these days though

But some of it was bilge. Not least the "Politcal Yoga" column. Also some of the opinion pieces were totally irrelevant to Glastonbury.

Also those walk things. Took up way to much space.

Edited June 27, 2011 by Alcatraz

[rubenz]

Don't get me wrong, in any other paper it would have been well writen and interesting. But Q Daily used to hint about secret acts, give you photos of the day before, and tells you interesting things to do.

Yoga, people's opinions, and half a page mocking the festival really was no use to me. Apologies if it all changed on Saturday, but I stopped making the walk to get it.

[purplebridget]

I agree it was useless compared to Q daily...no info on any 'secret acts' or much else really

[sselma]

I missed the Q Daily. Didn't like the firelighter, too preachy and not as funny as it thought it was.

Edited June 27, 2011 by sselma

[incident]

It was marginally better than Q Daily - but then Q Daily was utter tosh for the past couple years, just pages of photos used as filler, and a list of times that were usually less accurate than the Programme.

A daily paper needs to have up to date information - *correct* times (especially for the smaller stages and cabaret tent where they're more likely to change) would be a start and something that has yet to be managed.

[robith]

Got it one day.

What a waste of paper. That articule on orgasms was one of the most ludicrous things I've ever read. Someone read it aloud at our camp. I was actually in tears it was so bad

[HurrahBrother]

A daily paper needs to have up to date information - *correct* times (especially for the smaller stages and cabaret tent where they're more likely to change) would be a start and something that has yet to be managed.

[EasyUserName]

... What we got did not even make good toilet paper.

[ianianian]

Only bothered to get it on the Friday and didn't bother the rest of the days. Rubbish.

The Q paper was good because it actually had coverage of stuff going on at the festival and it also gave the stage times for the day in a handier format than the tiny Guardian thing or if you had lost the central pages from the big programme (or didn't want to rip them out and spoil it).

I guess they figure the Orange app has replaced the stage times/info purpose, but that's no good if you don't have a smart phone, or the battery has run out, or you were unlucky enough to be on Vodafone and had no coverage for the entire festival!

[clockworkpurple]

It definitely needed some festival news in it...there wasn't even a weather forecast!

(It also needed someone to check the grammar, but that's just me being a pedant.)

[Amii]

The grammar did my head in. I think the man at the info point knew what I thought of it the day I went to get my first one, was handed an A3 sheet of paper, and stared with a look of disgust....

[Big Vern]

the article about lack of blacks and asians at the festival got me interested until I read it and it basically said it may be because these ethnic minority groups could be too poor to attend! Bordering on the outrageous tbh

[Spindles]

I never even saw one. We went to info points to be told 'they haven't arrived yet' on Friday (once about 11ish, again about 3, then gave up), I didn't come across any dropped to pick up, however there were plenty of pages of the guardian lying about.

The Q daily had just turned into a collection of adverts, a few short articles and 'zany' pictures or worse still celebs in hunters.

Ah well, maybe it will improve.

[budvar]

Personally I quite liked it. I'd fallen out of love with the Q Daily (my guess is that was mainly a victim of Emily's purge of brand sponsorship and emap having bugger all money these days)

The Mendip Munter stuff was pretty funny and I bought thee stuff about it being put together by locals.

[pjadnoo]

Wasn't a big fan tbh, but a souvenir from the festival as with the Q Dailies.

One article I really liked though was one from a Times editor on Sunday (I think...) which discussed Glastonbury as huge capitalist enterprise versus Glastonbury as bohemian socialist paradise which I thought was great. Certainly didn't agree with it all but it was nice to see an article in the 'official' Glasto paper which didn't simply go on about how wonderful the place is.

[DeanoL]

It was quite funny and the core of it was well written (some of the columns were awful though). I'd have liked something with that sort of irreverancy, but about what actually happened the previous day at the festival.

[ianianian]

Each day's edition can be read on the Festival website if anyone did miss it

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/the-glastonbury-firelighter

[ramragon]

i used to grab the q daily every day when i went to lob it in my souvenier bag, gotta say i grabbed the firelighter on the thursday and didnt bother after that. very poor