Your most controversial Glastonbury opinions

[Clarence Clemons]

same! probably will see them this year as well but make sneak off early for SEC.

[Hugh Jass II]

2 hours ago, 1986 said:

Including this year Foals will have been at 3 of the 4 last festivals in key slots (I'm calling a secret set a key slot). 

I quite like them but this is lazy booking in my opinion.

In fairness they’re only in this year after QOTSA pulled out.

[alframsey]

That it’s better now than it’s ever been.

not sure if that’s controversial but there is always a large group who say ‘it went downhill after the super fence’ and, while I was a child those years before the fence, I don’t believe that is true.

[Chicken Bob]

Rolf Harris should do the legends slot again 

[fatyeti24]

2 minutes ago, Chicken Bob said:

Rolf Harris should do the legends slot again 

In order to do it again, he'd have to do it a first time. 

[1986]

55 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

In fairness they’re only in this year after QOTSA pulled out.

Sure but it’s not like anyone but us nerds even new Queens was a thing. Could have ditched the rock angle all together and got anyone. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, Chicken Bob said:

Rolf Harris should do the legends slot again 

You ain’t no chicken Bob … full of edgy comments today 

[FloorFiller]

24 minutes ago, 1986 said:

Sure but it’s not like anyone but us nerds even new Queens was a thing. Could have ditched the rock angle all together and got anyone. 

And upset the ‘bUt mAh gUiTaR mUsIc’ crowd whilst Billie headlines?!

[Leyrulion]

1 hour ago, Chicken Bob said:

Rolf Harris should do the legends slot again 

I honestly thought he was dead.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

Ahh, here's another one. Glastonbury's merch designs are generally terrible

[stuartbert two hats]

4 hours ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Yes, ultimately it’s the cost due to failing to get PP to leave most of it up all year round, but there is a also a general attitude that people would rather have the spider back over something new that can evolve over time, irrespective of the PP issue, which is I think the point both of us were referring to.

This statement kind of says it all, Glastonbury is a good testing ground for them to develop new ideas:

“Glastonbury is our home, it’s where Arcadia was born and its where we developed our art.

It is unique, and it is one of the only environments in the world where new ideas can be nurtured and developed without having to have immediate commercial viability. Most of the incredible things you see on the festival circuit started life as a bonkers idea at Glastonbury, and Pangea is no exception.”

It is Pangea is no exception.

Whatever we get from Arcadia in the future, I hope it's better during the day than a tiny mobile soundsystem in the corner of the field. Pangea was all very well, but it was off most of the time.

[stuartbert two hats]

4 hours ago, Homer said:

I thought Gorillaz were quite good.

I thought they were great.

[Wanderlei]

Unpopular opinion

There are a few people who arse kiss the festival and the Eavii no matter what, like they're above any kind of criticism. I fucking hate it. If Emily was at the entrance cutting their bollocks off with a butchers knife as they were coming in, they'd say "it's brilliant how you keep that so sharp, Emily, I barely felt it". If you love something, you need to criticise it and hold it to account (and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!), or it'll go to shit. I even find myself being extra critical of things unnecessarily just to wind these people up, and I hate that too. I hate myself. I hate you. Fuck off.

[TheGChild]

6 minutes ago, Wanderlei said:

Unpopular opinion

There are a few people who arse kiss the festival and the Eavii no matter what, like they're above any kind of criticism. I fucking hate it. If Emily was at the entrance cutting their bollocks off with a butchers knife as they were coming in, they'd say "it's brilliant how you keep that so sharp, Emily, I barely felt it". If you love something, you need to criticise it and hold it to account (and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!), or it'll go to shit. I even find myself being extra critical of things unnecessarily just to wind these people up, and I hate that too. I hate myself. I hate you. Fuck off.

Wanna hug? x

[stuartbert two hats]

31 minutes ago, Wanderlei said:

Unpopular opinion

There are a few people who arse kiss the festival and the Eavii no matter what, like they're above any kind of criticism. I fucking hate it. If Emily was at the entrance cutting their bollocks off with a butchers knife as they were coming in, they'd say "it's brilliant how you keep that so sharp, Emily, I barely felt it". If you love something, you need to criticise it and hold it to account (and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!), or it'll go to shit. I even find myself being extra critical of things unnecessarily just to wind these people up, and I hate that too. I hate myself. I hate you. Fuck off.

Isn't it brilliant how they've wound you up?

[Homer]

3 hours ago, alframsey said:

That it’s better now than it’s ever been.

not sure if that’s controversial but there is always a large group who say ‘it went downhill after the super fence’ and, while I was a child those years before the fence, I don’t believe that is true.

Can you elaborate a bit please? What specifically was worse about the festivals you didn't go to?

[siblin]

6 hours ago, Homer said:

I thought Gorillaz were quite good.

I was also going to say this.  Also Radiohead in 2017 we’re meh and we left half way through.

[jpeee]

36 minutes ago, siblin said:

I was also going to say this.  Also Radiohead in 2017 we’re meh and we left half way through.

I should say thanks. I managed to move closer half way through that set. 

[stuartbert two hats]

44 minutes ago, Homer said:

Can you elaborate a bit please? What specifically was worse about the festivals you didn't go to?

Off the top of my head, things that are better now:

Better coffee, drainage, stage lighting+general production values, food quality (especially near the big stages), variety of music, quality of soundsystems, places to sit, plastic ban, litter picking, number of toilets, The Park, the SE Corner and the views.

And more debatable, the lack of an "edge" makes the place even more pleasant. Everyone is determined to have a great time and virtually nobody has turned up on the make, it's even more friendly than it used to be.

The modern Glastonbury is great.

[Wanderlei]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Isn't it brilliant how they've wound you up?

Determined to give as much as I get

[Wanderlei]

1 hour ago, TheGChild said:

Wanna hug? x

I'd like a Kodiak bear to hug the arse kissers.

 

To death

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[e_p]

On 4/13/2022 at 5:32 PM, tumbles said:

I saw some parents with a kid no older than 18 months I reckon, at Fat Boy Slim/Glade about 11.30pm in 2019. Kid was tired, upset and clearly not enjoying it. Parents didn't give a fuck.   As a parent myself I'd love to bring one of mine for the day/kidz field etc but its no place for them in the evenings/night. 

i also saw this.  irresponsible at best. what is the matter with people.  

[clarkete]

3 hours ago, Wanderlei said:

Unpopular opinion

There are a few people who arse kiss the festival and the Eavii no matter what, like they're above any kind of criticism. I fucking hate it. If Emily was at the entrance cutting their bollocks off with a butchers knife as they were coming in, they'd say "it's brilliant how you keep that so sharp, Emily, I barely felt it". If you love something, you need to criticise it and hold it to account (and THINK FOR YOURSELF!!), or it'll go to shit. I even find myself being extra critical of things unnecessarily just to wind these people up, and I hate that too. I hate myself. I hate you. Fuck off.

Am I expected to write that bottom bit on my mother's day card now? 

[Chicken Bob]

I like the smell of the long drops 

[Chicken Bob]

9 hours ago, fatyeti24 said:

In order to do it again, he'd have to do it a first time. 

You do know he has done it, right ?