Those 'ignorant college students' don't bother me. They aren't the ones who steal things from your tent, get drunk and start fires, keep asking you if you can lend them money or drink (I'm thinking of The Leeds Festival here). As someone who grew-up in a fairly nasty area, I quite like being surrounded by priveleged, middle-class people - it's safe.

If you're with a group of friends, and you spend your time hanging-around the other stages (where the good bands play) or the green fields, Glastonbury is probably the best festival experience you can have.

god, no not another festival tour.. does that mean the youth at an irish festival again playing for less than an hour???? nooooo. in a venue this time please!!!!

kings of leon.....WHY?

LOL:D

LOL:D

"Ruined" antique cameras?

Sounds like you're the hipster douche my friend.

That's just plain tacky, just like this wankfest of a festival. What next? Supporting Oasis? I could understand a young cool band having the arrogance to say they wanted to inflict some 'proper' crazy sounds to this most turgid of gatherings, but haven't SY had enough years to have a go at that already?

Those college students are mainly the Oxbidge rejects at Bristol University. Though I'm not sure how that can really spoil a festival. Who do you exactly expect to go to festivals apart from students? Would you prefer being surrounded by stinking crusties/hippies? Do you go to festivals to make friends? If so at least the students will have some level of education. I don't know how anyone can ruin another's nostalgia....unless what you really mean is that you don't like things as soon as they get popular.

100% yes

its not about not likeing things when they get popular, its about knowing when something has lost its appeal. When the things that made it decent have been priced out or have simply not been able to jump through all the fucking hoops required to get a ticket.

saying that i laughed last year when my mate walked into an hmv a week before and bought 2 tickets with cash!

and why do you presume they're mostly from bristol?

Actually that's crap but there are a lot because of it being nearby. I just remember there being a lot of ras when I went then getting to know Bristol a bit I realised why.

Did 80s nostagia become expensive? Things don't just lose appeal, surely appeal is about whether an individual finds something appealing or not (that isn't saying anything about whether something is good). But anyway, if something loses its appeal when the privileged become interested then it clearly hasn't lost it's appeal; does an increase in the number of people interested in something mean an decrease in the thing's appeal? That would be a contradiction.

I suppose, in the case of music, once a group becomes popular they can lose their appeal due to over-exposure, i.e., Sigur Ros's music being used to soundtrack every sporting moment of 2008. I have no idea how 80s nostalgia could have appealed to anyone at any point.

Anyway I'm just glad I finally know what a 'rah' is. Apparently the university I goto has lots of them.

I expect nobody to go to festivals and to let me enjoy the bands I like ALONE. Also, when things I like get popular I will admit that is annoying because it's a sort of violation into the fragments of my personality.

AND F.Y.I. AN ANTIQUE CAMERA FETISH DOES NOT MAKE ME A HIPSTER I JUST LIKE THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF THE OLD MECHANISMS AND MEDIUM-FORMAT FILM

Oh right, I understand perfectly now. Those bloody selfish people.

Oh ok, that does seem to make a bit more sense but it also makes me think that the band probably wasn't good in the first place. For example, if there was some piece of music, by some great composer, that was used a lot on tv I don't think that would put me off it because it doesn't get boring, it endures. Oh right, do you go to Bristol uni? It's spelt r a h is it? I didn't know that. It's meant to be how they speak, supposedly.

Festivals are what you make of them.
Sigur Ros have always been shit.

I goto Leeds University - I just took a guess at how it was spelled!


Agree with both.

Edit: trying to get the hang of quoting two posts in one reply.

you sir, you have encountered my full scale approval. godly.

Oh right. Probably a better spelling than ra.


You have my name for the second quote. I didn't write that.