Glastonbury - Have I missed the point?

[TorqueVR]

It's not started yet but the mud's already making it look like a huge s**t hole. I know that the music's good, but the weather is so often like this (or worse). I just don't get it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006487/Gl...

[IanMorewood]

Music, drugs and free love (everything else is fookin expensive though).

[Flintstone]

IanMorewood said:

Music, drugs and free love (everything else is fookin expensive though).

I think the free love is long gone what with Benjamin and India in their triple-insulated yurt not wanting Tarquin, Jamelia and Poppy seeing inappropriate things. An article in 'i' just about summed it up along the lines of "The stench of defecation and kebabs.....".

[trickywoo]

Fun

[TorqueVR]

"The stench of defecation and kebabs.....".

Is there much of a difference?

[Mojooo]

I am a huge live gigs fan but I hate the idea of going to a festival.

I think a lot of it is down to having a fun/unique experience with your mates.

[Working class]

Drugs. fking tonnes of drugs. Apparentely last year the dealers were using radio controlled helicopters to fly them over the fence.

[tucks]

i used to go to alot of raves. Glasto wasnt really my thing but i tagged along anyway. it made my beloved raves look like well organised clean gigs with cliff richard. maybe i just got a bad area of the event, but where we camped everyone was constantly being a load mouthed git, stuff was stolen every 30seconeds and people walked around as if they were playing a computer game which had sprite detection turned off as they bundled into you.
i went back to the safty of my drug crazed sleep deprived rave lot after this and stuck there!

[Cupramax]

Number 1 in my list of things I'd rather die than be doing... Spend a weekend in a muddy cess pool without a wink of sleep amid thousands of others.

[soda]

I love gigs, festivals are even better. I don't care if it's muddy or wet (good fun sliding in it anyway).

I have many fond memories from festivals like Oxegen, electric picnic. Nothing can beat waking up in a random tent wearing one welly, one flipflop, a pink cowboy hat and 2 naked women

[Riley Blue]

I've been going on and off since 1971 and love it. OK, so some areas of the site are a bit smelly but why would you want to spend the weekend near them? And it can be a bit muddy but it's grass, in the countryside - it does that when it rains you great soft townies...

[James Dean]

trickywoo said:

Fun

Is Gadaffi attending the festival?

[Hairspray]

When you're as fked as the majority of the people there will be, the mud becomes more of a mild inconvenience/challenge than a major problem.

[jdw1234]

soda said:

I love gigs, festivals are even better. I don't care if it's muddy or wet (good fun sliding in it anyway).

I have many fond memories from festivals like Oxegen, electric picnic. Nothing can beat waking up in a random tent wearing one welly, one flipflop, a pink cowboy hat and 2 naked women

I would wager if you woke up in a nice hotel room it would be a hell of a lot better (and the women would smell nicer as well!)

[Jasandjules]

I don't get it either. The point? I am sure there is one for some people, but I don't see one.

[E31Shrew]

Cupramax said:

Number 1 in my list of things I'd rather die than be doing... Spend a weekend in a muddy cess pool without a wink of sleep amid thousands of others.

Reminds me of Le Mans a few years ago

[jdw1234]

I went to a concert in Hyde Park once.

Absolutely filthy it was. I got mud all over my Lobbs.

[soad]

Well, I’m sure it's worth it for the live music gig lovers.

Can't say that mud and other stuff appeals to me (toilet arrangements for example). Then there’s huge crowds – a bit too much.

But when one is surrounded by mates and pissed off his/her head – maybe it doesn’t feel so bad

[mattviatura]

Anything sponsored so heavily by Greenpeace is surely to be avoided at all costs.

[jason s4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUvL6RRf9O8