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[ukslim]

I love camping - wild camping. I don't mind camping at some festivals, the less busy festivals. Walking though the camping fields at Glastonbury this year really put me off.

[MyTwistedWords]

It’s funny then... that Glastonbury tries very, very hard to recreate a small town every year, so why does it feel it needs to do this? Maybe because you’re in the middle of nowhere and maybe it’s so you can all have a drink, eat food etc, or don't people use these facility's at Galstonbury??

Edited July 14, 2011 by MyTwistedWords

[ukslim]

When have we ever 'lived in tents'?

[MyTwistedWords]

The fact that they still do kinda stamps on swinnings point anyway

[Rufus Gwertigan]

The fact that they still do kinda stamps on swinnings point anyway

[MyTwistedWords]

No, the bedouins have

[strummer77]

Why is everybody feeding the troll?

[jamseyboy]

Why is everybody feeding the troll?

[rexclark]

7 Pages?

[mrtourette]

@Swinning, Glastonbury sold 130,00 of their tix in 4 hours in october, that's with the line up not even announced.

Reading's tix have been on sale for 4 months now and still have a third left to sell, that's with like -80k+ to sell. HMMMM.

[Jackmypie]

Don't be a retard and start the ticket sales argument again, R&L sold out pretty much instantly in 2008 but Glastonbury didn't until the weekend of the festival so does that mean R&L was better that year? No of course it f**king doesn't. Don't stoop to his level, come up with something constructive.

[mrtourette]

It's retarded because it doesn't mean anything, and also because you responded to him. And how am I feeding the troll? I'm not responding to anything he's writing, I haven't even read half of his stuff as it's nonsense. This is somehow turning into a reasonable Reading/Glastonbury conversation in some areas, it would be good to keep it that way.

Yes I'm defensive of Reading but I'm also well aware of it's deficiencies, but trotting out the old "so and so sold more tickets quicker so they must be better" is just lame.

Edited July 14, 2011 by mrtourette

[fatyeti24]

anybody else noticed that they say 'troll' differently in America? we say 'troll' and they're like 'trole'.

just sayin.

Edited July 14, 2011 by fatyeti24

[LondonTom]

anybody else noticed that they say 'troll' differently in America? we say 'troll' and they're like 'trole'.

just sayin.

[MEGABOWL]

Fairly successful WUM this one

[eFestivals]

It's retarded because it doesn't mean anything

sorry, but it does. The sell-out time is a very strong indicator of a festival's popularity.

And while Glastonbury has had three festivals in the last 11 years that haven't been instant sell-outs (2000, 2002, 2008), Reading - despite being around half the size - has had 7 festivals in that time which haven't been instant sell-outs.

How good the line-ups are is purely subjective. The popularity of those line-ups as shown by how quickly the tickets sell is not.

[mrtourette]

Yeah my point was regarding quality and not popularity, and as most of us know the two very rarely go hand-in-hand. Glastonbury may be one of those rare cases that it does but to make the point again in general ticket sales are hardly concrete proof of quality. If we were discussing the most popular festival then yes of course it would be the be all and end all.

Anyway apologies to Jackmypie, I was unreasonably aggressive.

Edited July 15, 2011 by mrtourette