Ban the f**king flags

[Welshinexile]

I can’t see the pyramid stage or the screens cos of the flags .

Jesus, enough! They are awful.

and I not normally thus grumpy 😅 But they are a scourge on the festival 🫣

 

[FloorFiller]

The problem with the flags these days is that every f**ker brings one, most of which are half arsed or unfunny, purely to be seen on TV or in the hope of an act pointing them out. Whereas once there were only a few and they really added to the atmosphere, now there are far too many, especially during big act or headliner time, and they’ve just become one more victim of the social media generation and everybody wanting to be the main character.

[al_coholic]

I am in the ban them camp as well. It's got too much. It's a sign of a vaucous generation.

I know Emily talked about it a few years ago, but the festival bottled a ban. Now is the right time to do it. 

[dicka]

10 minutes ago, Welshinexile said:

I can’t see the pyramid stage or the screens cos of the flags .

Jesus, enough! They are awful.

and I not normally thus grumpy 😅 But they are a scourge on the festival 🫣

 

I had that issue last tiime I was at Glastonbury, it was good when there were only a few but the amount now must spoil it for thousands of people.

[prestonmike]

Theres definitely more every year, i dont mind a few but its getting too much these days, i couldnt be arsed carrying one around with me all day

[gherkin8r]

Imagine being at actual Glastonbury in the actual crowd on the actual pyramid stage and simultaneously posting on efestivals moaning about the flags.

[al_coholic]

1 minute ago, gherkin8r said:

Imagine being at actual Glastonbury in the actual crowd on the actual pyramid stage and simultaneously posting on efestivals moaning about the flags.

Imagine dropping nearly £1k on the festival and I did last year to be able to see f'all of the big bands because of selfish people

[gherkin8r]

7 minutes ago, al_coholic said:

Imagine dropping nearly £1k on the festival and I did last year to be able to see f'all of the big bands because of selfish people

Don't like it, Don't pay it

[sedra]

I don’t mind the odd small flag or item on a stick like it used to be ( I know!) but it’s the ones with 3 flags on a pole and they are really low down which block everything. Oh the days of just a wolves flag right in my eyeline….    

[al_coholic]

6 minutes ago, gherkin8r said:

Don't like it, Don't pay it

Oh go on. Show me your flag!! 

[Lakey91]

The flags are awesome. Keep em.

[Spindles]

1 minute ago, sedra said:

Oh the days of just a wolves flag right in my eyeline….    

The wolves pennant was at every glasto gig worth being at throughout the 90s.  We met the guy in the crowd in 2000 and chatted about the great gigs he'd been at over the years.

I actually think that peak flag was 2009 and things have improved since.  As for banning them, the festival asked the question some time around 2010 and the public voted to keep them.

[gherkin8r]

1 minute ago, al_coholic said:

Oh go on. Show me your flag!! 

It's in the garage mate, I'll come stand in front of you next year sure hopefully

[charlierc]

I like the meta quality of someone bringing a giant flag with the slogan "Ban all flags" on it

[airwaves]

37 minutes ago, Spindles said:

The wolves pennant was at every glasto gig worth being at throughout the 90s.  We met the guy in the crowd in 2000 and chatted about the great gigs he'd been at over the years.

I actually think that peak flag was 2009 and things have improved since.  As for banning them, the festival asked the question some time around 2010 and the public voted to keep them.

Was it a 52 / 48 %vote result? 

Minds have probably changed since then

[devli]

How would anyone ever find their tent if they banned flags?

[DTichborne]

My view for Paul McCartney last year. It doesn't enhance the experience, it's selfish. 

 

 

[airwaves]

32 minutes ago, devli said:

How would anyone ever find their tent if they banned flags?

Will I be the one to say it

Ban at the stages, not on the site/camping

Other festivals do it, and implement it

[Suprefan]

2 hours ago, gherkin8r said:

Imagine being at actual Glastonbury in the actual crowd on the actual pyramid stage and simultaneously posting on efestivals moaning about the flags.

Not like it hasnt happened before.

 

 

Im team ban the flags or you restrict them by height. Cant be more than 2 meters in length for example.

 

this is why you can see everything without issue at coachella. And if one single person attempts to have a flag or anything the crowd lets em have it. We like to see the artist. Lots of people bring in totems but its nothing outrageous as a 20ft pole

[airwaves]

2 minutes ago, Suprefan said:

Not like it hasnt happened before.

 

 

Im team ban the flags or you restrict them by height. Cant be more than 2 meters in length for example.

 

this is why you can see everything without issue at coachella. And if one single person attempts to have a flag or anything the crowd lets em have it. We like to see the artist. Lots of people bring in totems but its nothing outrageous as a 20ft pole

But, when you're in the crowd eg somewhere between mixing desks and halfway into the inner circle, it's the lower ones which are in the way and the really tall ones are OK. 

But of at the back I guess the other way round

 

And the really really bad f***ers are those that strong 2, 3 or even 4 asking the poles

So ban all of them

Edited June 23, 2023 by airwaves

[Suprefan]

2 minutes ago, airwaves said:

But, when you're in the crowd eg somewhere between mixing desks and halfway into the inner circle, it's the lower ones which are in the way and the really tall ones are OK. 

But of at the back I guess the other way round

So ban all of them

It just depends. But the lower ones cant be as obstrusive if you can see the screens at least. But really they likely would make it all or nothing. We just use pool noodles and decorate them. Like thats all security would even allow anyway.

 

my thing would be about enforcement because there will be people who could give a toss and they would try it. Then the stewards would have to take it away. Not that you cant have staff there to control it.

Edited June 23, 2023 by Suprefan

[DTichborne]

16 minutes ago, airwaves said:

Will I be the one to say it

Ban at the stages, not on the site/camping

Other festivals do it, and implement it

Exactly this. I'm not being a moaning boomer, let people take pictures and the odd video clip and sing along out of tune and all that. But I am entirely up for mildly denting the enjoyment of a few hundred people (and it is only mild, it's not like they're not there and enjoying it) to massively improve the experience of tens of thousands of people.  Every other major festival has done it, as you say. 

Edited June 23, 2023 by DTichborne
Clarification

[prestonmike]

17 minutes ago, airwaves said:

Will I be the one to say it

Ban at the stages, not on the site/camping

Other festivals do it, and implement it

other festivals have an arena area where you have to go through security to get from the camp site to the stages, Glastonbury doesnt have that so it'll be more difficult to manage unless they check everyones luggage on entry

[Chipbarm]

The Radio X flags WTF are they all about? A sh*t radio station for sh*t blokes.

[charlierc]

11 minutes ago, Chipbarm said:

The Radio X flags WTF are they all about? A sh*t radio station for sh*t blokes.

Yeah it was disconcerting seeing just a giant cluster of them in one place, and equally handing Radio X lots of free BBC advertising in the process which... little bit of ambush marketing there.