Flags are annoying

[Mich1268]

This was the view standing by the speakers at Glastonbury this year. Any chance of seeing the bands was ruined by the flag holding selfish lot. Please can we now ban them so that everyone can enjoy the view! 

[fatyeti24]

I don't think the flags are going anywhere soon, for better or worse. 

[Smeble]

The are certainly very annoying but they add something to the footage on tv and also liven up photos.

get rid completely? No but they need reducing.

will it happen? Not a chance.

as for 'seeing' the bands, unless you are in the front 30 rows you can't really see the bands anyway, certainly nothing more than a speck on the stage. 

[admscott]

For me the flags are part of the view. It reminds me I'm at Glastonbury, rather than just another gig. 

[dentalplan]

Flags are really useful if you're trying to locate selfish knobheads, though.

[Mr.Tease]

3 hours ago, admscott said:

For me the flags are part of the view. It reminds me I'm at Glastonbury, rather than just another gig. 

Couldn't you use the shape of the stage as a reminder instead?

[smudger]

Does anyone on here actually take a flag down to the main stages.........and want to defend the practice?

 

Please?

[Mich1268]

28 minutes ago, Mr.Tease said:

Couldn't you use the shape of the stage as a reminder instead?

Indeed. The pyramid does it for me 

[imamazed]

God hates flags

[Mich1268]

2 minutes ago, imamazed said:

God hates flags

Yeah. God likes views, that's why he invented them 

[willutalk]

Not this convo again. Tut tut.

[Woffy]

3 hours ago, smudger said:

Does anyone on here actually take a flag down to the main stages.........and want to defend the practice?

 

Please?

I'm not defending the indefensible. We take a flag as a 'locator'.

Example - Friend goes for a piss; flag goes up a few minutes after they've gone so they can find us; flag goes down. Friend arriving to site after we've arrived; flag goes up when they call to let us know they're in the vicinity of our camp; they arrive; flag goes down. Friend c**ted and lost on the way back to campfire at night; same principle as above.

Rule: flag during sets banned. You need a piss? Shoulda gone before it started.

Caveats:

1. Duct taping an iphone to a 9m flagpole (minus flag) when gillespied surprisingly yealds results, 360 degree video-wise. Sue me. We were fucko'd.

2. Fuck going to the main stages anyway.

[Woffy]

2 hours ago, imamazed said:

God hates flags

I'm giving props to this post in the hope that it's an intended Westboro Baptist Church gag. 

If so, well played Sir / Madam.

[whisty]

9 hours ago, Mich1268 said:

This was the view standing by the speakers at Glastonbury this year. Any chance of seeing the bands was ruined by the flag holding selfish lot. Please can we now ban them so that everyone can enjoy the view! 

The reality of it is, what can you see from that far back anyway, little dots or maybe you have a telescope. For me I just don't bother unless it's daytime, small crowd and I can get relatively close to the stage. Other than that I just sit at the back and listen.

[stuartbert two hats]

8 hours ago, Smeble said:

The are certainly very annoying but they add something to the footage on tv and also liven up photos.

get rid completely? No but they need reducing.

will it happen? Not a chance.

as for 'seeing' the bands, unless you are in the front 30 rows you can't really see the bands anyway, certainly nothing more than a speck on the stage. 

Reduction is possible. Here's Blur in 2009:

Then there was a big hoo-ha about the discussion to ban them, where Emily came out and said she thought they added atmosphere but it would be nice if everyone chilled the fuck out with them(paraphrased), the implication being that if they carried they way they were going, then a banning might be necessary.  Here's the next act to play, Gorillaz in 2010:

Admittedly, still a few there, but  definite reduction, I'd say. It seems like the numbers have crept back up again since then, but not quite to 2009 levels.

My point is, it's perfectly possible to reduce the numbers.

[Guest]

Could just be the density of the crowds, Blur pull more folk than Gorillaz.

[Slugworth]

Use the screens. Thats what they're there for.

[guypjfreak]

11 hours ago, Mich1268 said:

This was the view standing by the speakers at Glastonbury this year. Any chance of seeing the bands was ruined by the flag holding selfish lot. Please can we now ban them so that everyone can enjoy the view! 

glad you noticed old son ....ok at you camp just leace them at camp

[guypjfreak]

53 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

Use the screens. Thats what they're there for.

ahhhhh but some times the bloody flags get in the way of them as well old son  .....better just to get rid of the flags .make it as unaceptable as pissing in the bushes..

[Slugworth]

2 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

ahhhhh but some times the bloody flags get in the way of them as well old son  .....better just to get rid of the flags .make it as unaceptable as pissing in the bushes..

Shit, you're right Guy. We need to come up with a cunning plan to eradicate this nonsense.

[Slugworth]

12 minutes ago, guypjfreak said:

ok at you camp just leace them at camp

Are you pissed?

[Woffy]

28 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

Are you pissed?

Are you lookin' at my fuggin pint? Are you? AY?! AYYY?!!!

[admscott]

21 hours ago, Mr.Tease said:

Couldn't you use the shape of the stage as a reminder instead?

The Pyramid stage isn't the only stage I go to. 

[Andy0808 v5]

How will I be able to show my family where I was standing in the crowd when I get home and force them to watch highlights without a flag?

 

 

I don't actually have a flag

[grumpyhack]

3 hours ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

How will I be able to show my family where I was standing in the crowd when I get home and force them to watch highlights without a flag?

 

 

I don't actually have a flag

You stand next to some annoying pratt with a flag and you tell them "That's me standing next to the dickhead with the flag."

Flags are for your encampment, though at night illuminated flagpoles are better, NOT for the stage area.