The Worst Things About Glastonbury
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- upon reflection, and spending some time readjusting to the real world, I wanted to put together a video that highlights some... Constructive feedback for Glastonbury, and its attendees.
It was everything I was expecting and more, and nothing like what I thought. - Hudba
It sucks for the animals trapped on farms on site and all the wildlife
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You nailed it with the 'strategic booking' point. So many artists I wanted to see that I couldn't even get close to. We arrived for quite a few sets 30+ minute early and could even get in to the area where the tent was, let alone getting in the actual tent and hearing any music.
Definitely felt like the festival was oversold this year... Every single person that I know personally who tried to get a resale ticket managed to get one, which doesn't seem right. Supposedly there was 240,000+ people this year but not sure how accurate that source is.
5th point applies for all big festivals unfortunately and will never change.
Thanks so much for the comment, interesting to hear those rumours.
All I’d say on point 5, is that doesn’t happen at Reading & Leeds… but that’s because everyone is a child
my main problem was the old folks with camping chairs sitting in the front section of the pyramid stage for busy acts like sam fender and getting p1ssy at people for standing around them ‘blocking’ their view??? also think arcadia needed a bigger area to handle the amount of people there and sound towers pointing outwards as well - luckily got a good spot in the middle for calvin, but it was heaving. then a minor addition id love is those people who push your luggage for money - would be a workout and a half for them, but when the walk to campsite is that far, id be happy to throw so much money at them for that luxury😂
Nailed it.
Don't worry, hopefully if the music continues to degrade then the fogies will stop coming.
I like to sh&t in random tents, it saves queuing for the long drops plus imagining the owners returning to it makes me chuckle.
Be yourself guys.
yum
And if you're lucky, one day you'll grow up.
Living your best lyf
@ Caribou: Any of you noticed the sound and audio, technical problems ? 😩🥺
Yeah they walked off half way through right? And watching the highlights is ware they fell out of time.
Cool setup tho, having the drummer at the front
Lots to agree with here. I went to Hyde park bst post glasto and the atmosphere was dead. Lots of chatters and lots of space VIP premium ticket areas in part to blame. Stood miles away watching ppl discussing investments whilst I couldn't get anywhere close enough to the pixies to feel part of the thing. Youre right elements of this bleed into Glastonbury. Lots of people there to say they'd been there "who you wanting to see?" "Just here for the vibes". The opposite of the wet leg effect was some places seemed inexplicably quiet. I.e. Watched st vincent play to maybe a couple of Hundred interested people on the other stage.
yeah Hyde Park is a dreadful place to watch music, been to 3 gigs there, and it's just not the one.
As a guy in my mid 50's thats been going to the festival for a number of years as well as been a self confessed fanboy. I can see where you are coming from for the most part. Totally agree last year was way too may people in, I would say its the first time i have been bothered about the crush moving between stages. The issue of talkers sometimes is down to those that go in groups and feel they have to stay together, meaning half of them not interested in the band their mates want to see so end up chatting or not watching, I also felt that Wednesday and Thursday this year was way busier than ever. Most camping areas where full by 1pm on Weds. I only go with my cousin so we only ever go to see bands we both want to see and if there is someone chatting we move. I am working the festival this year and going solo which will be a completely new experience for me.
for sure, I just hate people chatting at gigs, and finding the sweet spot is HARD
Wet Leg always seemed a ridiculous booking for the Park stage. I didn't even bother trying to go there as knew it would be swarmed, and managed to see both Blossoms and Inhaler instead.
They definitely need some screens and relay speakers at the Park. It's great if you can get close (like I managed for Jack White) but a waste of time if not.
Will you be trying to go to Glastonbury again Jack, or is that one and done for you?
Thanks for your comments mate, I’ll deffo be going again, but not next year, and probs not the year after, we need Music Club to earn me a little extra cash, and then I can buy a camper ;)
Last year I managed to get to the barrier for everything I wanted to see by coming at the last few songs of the acts before, managed to get the front for wet leg, kendrick, little simz, fontaines dc, paul mccartney. Would recommend just moshing through to front! However for the first time I did think it was really overcrowded and a bit difficult to get around, and actually made me appreciate the smaller scale of other festivals.
Terrible setlust there. You need festival bands and alternative music at a festival. Not pop, hip hop, easy listening shite. It's supposed to be getting away from the middle of the road crap not endorsing it. Wtf@!!
Some contentious stuff here but the saddest thing said was the complaint about old people... it's sad because his expectation is that he'll stop going to festivals and gigs when he gets old, I suppose he'll be wearing a tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows whilst smoking a pipe; who knows. The oldies are here to stay and he'll be a fully fledged member before he knows it, and further, some of the bands he has mentioned will be gigging when he's in his 60's and he'll go to see them, possibly on the legends' slot at the Pyramid stage. You'll eat your words on the subject young man... I did.
I’ve got no problem with any age group going to see live music, come one come all! I fully intend on being 80 in my tent, watching whatever happens to be the newest thing, as well as bands that I can say “I was there man”.
My point here is about old people, is that the age demographic alters the dynamic of a live experience. I’m too old to go to the front, I don’t wanna be crushed, and the back is, for want of a better phrase “not vibey enough”. There’s a middle sweet spot, where you feel connected to the act, and the audience, without the discomfort.
My biggest point here, is that the older you get, the further back you go, and with such a high volume of older people, the back got closer to the front, and the sweet spot for me… was a very small spot.
I think the festival is too large and also lacks identity. It leans on being diverse. But this leads to the opposite feeling of what a festival should be. Unifying over a musical genre is important. Real music carries purpose and message. And you feel a vibe or energy from that unity. But Glasto is trying to cater for so many that it causes clashes of vibes. It just doesn't work at all.
Small, curated festivals are about all id consider going to these days.
I think it's ooooozing identity, it's just flexible, which I guess is the beauty of music right?
As an old person, I watch these videos of various festivals and I feel the lack of energy is not just an age thing. Watch some older videos from the previous century, before all these festivals became kind of "gentrified", and you'll see the crowds (and acts) being a lot more wild and energetic. Of course a lot may be related to the safety measures that came after the Roskilde drama.
Yeah, but that was 22 years ago, and there’s deffo been more lively gigs since then.
The old people was really just to rob people, I don’t really mean it.
I’ve got this theory that you have a gig split up into three sections, front, middle and back.
Now usually that’s 33% each, but the gigs at Glastonbury felt
10% front
15% middle
75% back
Many times I found the bad busier than the front or middle, was really odd.
Young people are fatter, slower and squishier than they were 22 years ago, be fair.
Please do a video on getting the sweet spot, hate not being able to see anything and the sound being shit
Ha, for sure, could bribe be a short/TikTok tho
It’s odd how people experiences can be so different as the park stage was my favourite felt more intimate than others and managed to get good spots for all I wanted to watch there, agreed that at some points it was overcrowded felt like some queues for food were massive but found that getting drinks wasn’t too bad, loved how big it was as there was always something to watch/do my body was absolutely wrecked after tho
yeah, getting COVID didn't help
oh a final one, big acts being put on tiny stages or not being counter clashed (i hate saying that, but its true) - mcfly on the avalon stage was absolute chaos, same with calvin on arcadia and camelphat on glade (countless others too). got to mcfly maybe 80 mins or so beforehand, and were literally at the very back of the tent for them, i believe they had to close the field and some surrounding areas because it was that busy - could have easily packed out the other stage
I also agree, they should drip feed people in more, and close field store, but also counter clash as you say
Worst moment?…….the now infamous dangerous crush trying to get to Arcadia on Friday night. I’m 6 foot 2…..and no shrinking violet. But it was dangerous. Me and my friend ended up carrying a ladies pram (another point that pisses me off, it’s no place for babies) with her child in it above peoples heads. It was not nice. Secondly, I believe it was 50,000 additional tickets sold. If that’s the case for the future, open up additional fields. Additional infrastructure, food, toilets, points of internet. And open up the music license. Start playing acts from the Wednesday night at main stages while the numbers are reasonably low. The main stages can take the crowds, space the bigger acts out over the 5 days and reduce the huge numbers trying to see big acts at small stages. Or conversely, huge crowds trying to manoeuvre from big stage immediately to another big stage. Thats my suggestion anyway. Or some variant of it.
A bigger Arcadia stage makes sense to me. and I'm with you 50K too many
(a) there are too many old people - speaking as an elderly 47 year old myself - this is in no small part due to the sheer cost of the festival besides "most" youngsters such as my 18 year old niece have said they could think of nothing worse than sleeping out in a field for a week but that's another issue (b) the real problem about the festival - a festival which people rarely hear any criticism of is down to the sheer amount of numbers v the site capacity. Back in 1993 the site was a 20% smaller with 65,000 festival goers - this year it was up to 205 - 220,000 depending on who you ask - I think we can all agree the site is not designed for that amount of people - the fact that the south west corner has a one way system speaks for itself (c) totally agree with your opinion of the Park stage - only someone as daft as Emily Eavis could think that putting a stage below the brow of a small hill was a great idea (d) most of the hippies left ages ago - check out videos here from the mid 1980's - most of the slow serving people in the bars are from the home counties half way through their liberal arts degree on hand to serve IT consultants, architects and project managers - the socio-economic demographic of this once great festival.
perfect comment, thanks mate
Anyone who has issues with the line up schedule and the amount of people attending can fix this by not going the following year and allowing those that aren't too arsed about seeing everything they possible can to enjoy themselves even more.
Which is exactly what I did… but thanks I guess
I thought I had no issues with Glastonbury what so ever, but after you spoke about you standing in the crowd and people just chatting it hit home a little too hard. I was standing next to the most intolerable group of people off their head in Paul Mccartney and it ruined the first hour for me until we moved
ha, soz to rain some issues, I had an amazing time none the less.
yer this year watching elton i had group in front of me(5) because sixth had already passed out.
evey 5 mins they would snort of thier mates phone and pass it around.
Then they would start screaming at big chorus lines becaus ethats all they new.
i eventually had to tell them to F#ck off else where because i wanted to listen.
at least 20 people cheered when they went
All those old lady punks were up for it 😂😂😂
always ;)
Oh god the hippie shout is dead on!
Also saw a woman keying, hiding behind her pram, at McFly! 😂
hahahahaha, that's hilarious!
@@BoBoBenton gross
thx
I had a good position for wet leg but didnt get as far in as i wanted. However i was the only person around that knew a single song other than chaise lounge. Isle of Wight fest was worse for the oldies tho especially wet leg. They put wet leg in the big top tent and ive never seen a crowd more still. Average age in that tent mustve been 50.
I think that problem can be solved with two barriers, I found many gigs which were busier at the back than they were at the front
Maybe if Wet Leg weren't so bland they could scare off the fogies so they wouldn't return next year
Personally haven't been to glasto, as much as I've wanted to. Agree with all these points in relation to music festivals in general and know if I'm ever to go to Glastonbury I'd agree entirely. Like how its very to the point and not trying to keep everyone happy. I'm a huge music fan and nothing irritates me more when someone who doesn't care is in a sweet spot. Fair enough if you're holding that spot for someone you love but show some respect for the artist on stage. It's the very least you can do. There's been times where I'm waiting for someone and the current act I really don't like but I'll still be quiet and respectful.
Just fucks me off
There is a simple hack to get a great spot at The Park stage every time, I could tell you but then everyone here would know and it would be ruined...
@me I wanna tell my brother!
Thing that got me was the pushing, everywhere you went and everyone you wanted to see there were entitled Londoners shoving past you. Was so bad at Bicep I had people basically standing on my toes. Guess that goes with both the size issue and the last issue you raised
My girlfriend had the same problem with dad's at the front of Billie Eilish, who were only there to get their daughters to the front. It got so bad that she had to threaten one of them. Pushing one person isn't going to move the 30k people in a crowd
Interesting, I didn’t find that at all, in fact I found the opposite.
At other big events, they have more than one layer of crowd barrier, which I think works well, I always stand at the back to the second row.
And always saves my toes. And then if you wanna get rowdy, then head into the front section, and you can’t get angry then if it’s pushy.
But because it was kinda a free for all, it’s meant that at times it was quite unenjoyable
Being rowdy at the front is fine but being pushed when trying to get out post performance, or people pushing through an already packed crowd to get closer halfway through a set was occasionally a problem
HOT POTATO. HOT POTATO
Positives: I think what is done really well is the ticket process. Given all the information needed beforehand, getting email reminders of what day/time the sale will start, being able to buy up to 6 at any one time etc. I know they sell out really fast but I do think that you’re given the best possible chance of getting a ticket given how many people are trying at the same time.
Negative: hard to pick anything negative but for me this year it was the car park. Planned ahead, looked at where we planned to camp in relation to what gate/colour car park we wanted, followed all the correct signs, arrived at a reasonable early time (3/4am) aaaaand we got put into Blue 11, aka 3 miles away from the site.
I get it, so many people arriving at they need to organise it as best as they can. But why publish a map of the entire site and give you time to plan when you will just be allocated as and when you arrive?
I mean, I would aggree with you, but I’ve been trying to buy tickets for 12 years and this is my first time… which very much makes it a downside.
It took us 2 hours to leave the car park, and a good 1:20 mins of that we didn’t move a cm so annoyed.
Yeah you should almost have to book your car park when you buy your ticket.
This is call idolatry in the pure sense may GOD forgive them
Tough gig for anyone in fairness though. Not all bands should play at festivals. You need to get a following of the festival folk because, Glastonbury has its own hype wave in the build up that artist's need to be on. Just sayinziz all.
totally fair
I agree with all of these. Most of them I think are just small sacrifices in the grand scheme of things. The traffic walking around is the only thing that needs to be urgently sorted, either with infrastructure rethink or by making sure sets on different stages don’t start/end at the same time.
I also think there should be oxfam volunteers dropping water balloons on people with picking blankets at the Pyramid stage, that fucked me off big time
No issue on folk wanting to gan and just party their heads off just the ones that started going at folk wanting a scrap n shit at festivals are annoying
agreed
It's a family freindly white festival with majority of people age 50+, OR 18+, Not a lot in between thoose ages. The same artists play mostly every year, the music is mostly all complete crap/ bbc radio , and they only put on bands and artists that are safe. There is no underground/ very very little underground music. I could name 100 uk festivals that are a million times better even free ones. It's a pop music festival that your grandparents think is incredible. The positives is that there is a lot of stages, its just a shame that about 90% of the bands playing are all lame
did you spend any time anywhere other then the big stages?! sounds like you're missing out..
Yeah, I think I disagree with this comment a lot
Give order , give order please.
Can your please give the turns your attention .They have come a long way to entertain us . Thank you 😅
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Come to NZ you will soon miss crowds and want to be back in UK
ha, yeah maybe
Glastonbury = woke fest. The best festivals are to be found abroad.
well... I think I'm gonna disagree with you here
Mate it’s because live bands sound crap!
That'll be the sound engineer at the mixing desk fucking it up. Never underestimate the power of the mixing desk operator!
lol