Music Glasto tickets locked in

[Chilly]

Thanks to m00 on IRC who hooked me up with a *very* sneaky DNS trick to skip the queue

Who else is going?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Too big, too many people, too early in the year. No.

 

[Chilly]

meh, never been to a big festival before. no point starting small

 

[megadave]

Festivals get shitter and more expensive every year, how long til the bubble bursts?

 

[Chilly]

People have been turning up in fields and raving for centuries, people will continue to turn up in fields and rave for centuries to come.

 

[throdgrain]

I was in a field this weekend doing pretty much that, I'd say you were right Chilly.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

meh, never been to a big festival before. no point starting small

Smaller-medium sized festivals are much, much better in my experience. The huge ones are just a bit rubbish.

 

[Gwadien]

Smaller-medium sized festivals are much, much better in my experience. The huge ones are just a bit rubbish.

Aye, Festivals can get too big - in the sense that they sell to you with the sheer amount of 'big' acts on, then they'll be like, oh, 3 of them are playing at the same time, it's a bit annoying.

 

[Raven]

Too many shit bands, horrible toilets, everything over priced.

No ta.

 

[old.user4556]

Festivals get shitter and more expensive every year, how long til the bubble bursts?

You're forgetting that a) a new young generation wanting to discover festivals comes along b) older generations wanting to rekindle the spirit of festivals in the 90s.

The first festival I went to (T in the Park), I was playing it on the new talent stage.

 

[Bahumat]

Can you pm me the DNS trick please?

I thought you added something to the end of the URL but I forget

 

[Chilly]

Bahumat, the tickets are all gone and the bug was fixed. It involved a hosts file entry, though.

 

[Bahumat]

Ah ok thanks.

 

[Tom]

The first festival I went to (T in the Park), I was playing it on the new talent stage.

I did some filming (sound recording) at one of those. We interviewed some young lads about something or other, I forget. Anyway, the director/camerawoman/producer/whatever mentioned that we'd filmed this band, and I asked her who they were. She looked at me in shock, I think she was genuinely offended that I didn't know who they were.

Well she probably couldn't identify David Gilmour either, but obviously one of the world's best guitarists doesn't compare to some heavily-managed autotuned boy band.

I don't know where I'm going with this, other than to say I thought Tea in the Park was all a load of bollocks.

 

[old.user4556]

My memory of T in the Park and the music industry in general was that it was jam packed full of self-important, pretentious, top grade cunts who were legends in their own lunchtime.

 

[TdC]

whenever I attend as press, there's usually so much label-sponsored vodka going on that the journos have only the vaguest grasp of what's happening around them, let alone who's playing.