Festival stereotypes :-)

[ICGenie]

V - kids who have been let loose without their parents for the first time. It's the festival equivalent of 18-30's.

[UEF]

Glasto has a lot of "gap yah" types now as well. Get a feeling they never have too much trouble coming up with the £200.

[dingbat2]

Festival stereotypes aren't as good as they used to be

[eFestivals]

Womad - an Islington mothers' day out.

[James Bolivar]

Womad - an Islington mothers' day out.

[eFestivals]

My (male) boss goes to WOMAD.

But that doesn't mean I disagree with you. Far from it.

actually, it much less like that Islington mother's day out since it moved to Wiltshire. I think most of those Islington mothers get a nosebleed that far from London.

But on both sites it's remained the 2nd best festival in the UK. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

[fatyeti24]

Glastonbury - Me

middle class, staying off site, arriving in a nice German-made motor and telling anyone within earshot how it was better in the '90s.

[little_jim]

From the Festivals ive attend :

V-Fest: Very much your wanna be TOWIE fake girls, Orange pretty boys with matching tribal tattoos.

Reading Festival: Young middle class mummy's boys and daddies little princess, emo, scenesters, school leavers/a level students.

Glasto: Young, Old, Family, Hippy's.

[Pinhead]

actually, it much less like that Islington mother's day out since it moved to Wiltshire. I think most of those Islington mothers get a nosebleed that far from London.

But on both sites it's remained the 2nd best festival in the UK. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

[eFestivals]

Considering Stewarding there this year - what stands out as making it earn the 2nd best in UK award by you?

cos it's more about just being there than it is about dashing off to see XYZ band.

Of course, the music is fantastic too, tho those who are firmly fixed to their indie landfill will find it dreadful - which is always an extra attraction.

[James Bolivar]

cos it's more about just being there than it is about dashing off to see XYZ band.

Of course, the music is fantastic too, tho those who are firmly fixed to their indie landfill will find it dreadful - which is always an extra attraction.

[eFestivals]

I've really tried with World music - listening to all sorts of roots and ethnic music played on reclaimed/repurposed instruments with varying degrees of technical ability from awful to just quite bad. I've also listened to and enjoyed lots of very well played traditional music from all over Europe and Asia. I even like Gabriel - circa 1980 - and the thought of all those Islington mums (without Islington dads) is very appealing, but I will be giving it a miss again; if my boss likes it I know it's just not for me. It sounds like Art in Action - but with all the nice ceramics replaced with West African music.

I wouldn't worry yourself James. Stick to the indie-landfill, voting tory and Sky TV. You know you're in a happy place there.

[Paul ™]

But on both sites it's remained the 2nd best festival in the UK. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

[Ed209]

cos it's more about just being there than it is about dashing off to see XYZ band.

Of course, the music is fantastic too, tho those who are firmly fixed to their indie landfill will find it dreadful - which is always an extra attraction.

[James Bolivar]

I wouldn't worry yourself James. Stick to the indie-landfill, voting tory and Sky TV. You know you're in a happy place there.

[eFestivals]

When I watched that apprentice episode where the little shits were at Womad trying to sell umbrellas and cardboard boxes and other tat, I was a little shocked. I had always imagined womad punters to be much more diverse, but there did seem to be a lot of upper middle class families with the parents trying to cling onto their acid munching left wing oxbridge days. Although I admit that the junior apprentice is not the best way to judge a festival

yep, it's definitely got an overly large quota of the white middle class Guardian-reading PC brigade ... it always reminds me of that French and Saunders sketch where they'd doing hand-painting with their kids in a gleaming white kitchen, and have to keep rushing them to the sink to wash the paint off their kids hands.

But even so, it's still an exceedingly good festival with a very diverse range of superb music, and almost totally dick-head free whilst not being up its own arse.

Edited March 4, 2013 by eFestivals

[eFestivals]

Insight is not your strong suit Neil - keep to the Java-scripting.

I know, it was pretty terrible of me to assume you only like indie-landfill (whilst getting the others bits right ) .... but then again your words there showed that you don't do musically diverse.

[whisty]

Considering Stewarding there this year - what stands out as making it earn the 2nd best in UK award by you?

Edited March 4, 2013 by whisty

[James Bolivar]

I know, it was pretty terrible of me to assume you only like indie-landfill (whilst getting the others bits right ) .... but then again your words there showed that you don't do musically diverse.

[eFestivals]

I'm not sure what "Indie Landfill" is, but I do listen to everything from Acid Mothers Temple to Joe Zawinul and Zappa, Jan Garbarek to Goldie Looking Chain, does that count.

so what you're saying is that you stick tightly to various forms of white rock.

Seems I was even closer than I thought first time.

[whisty]

Insight is not your strong suit Neil - keep to the Java-scripting.

Edited March 4, 2013 by whisty

[James Bolivar]

JB seems to be avatar lead, this avatar is disturbing you James, makes you argumentative, maybe you could go back to Dr Who and trying painfully to be nice

[James Bolivar]

so what you're saying is that you stick tightly to various forms of white rock.

Seems I was even closer than I thought first time.

[eFestivals]

If you think of Garbarek as "white rock" then there isn't much hope of a meaningful discussion. And Acid Mothers Temple aren't white, or rock.

I mean "white rock" as a wide-ranging genre and not a literal term, and those acts very definitely fit within that. Mike Oldfield clones and Zappa clones are very definitely white rock.

The fact that you're not able to realise that they're very VERY firmly "white rock" very definitely gets you right for the first time, with you saying "there isn't much hope of a meaningful discussion".

And the fact that you're not able to musically step outside of white rock to hear anything that's beyond the "just quite bad" which you described as the best world music you've heard says it all.

So I'm right when I say you're musically limited to white rock, and I'm right about the Sky TV. Just one to go...

And while you maybe don't vote tory, perhaps you're no less confused about your politics than you are musical diversity? I'd say that a quick summary of your many posts strongly suggests that you (or that you already vote tory).

Edited March 4, 2013 by eFestivals

[Pinhead]

It had extremely relaxed and easy going atmosphere last year, assuming you have consideration for others that is. Surprisingly the take up for Oxfam steward places last year was very slow so should be fairly easy to get one.

Lovely festival imo,