Festivals On TV _ Glad Thats It For Another Bloody Year.

[Críoch]

I'm in a foul sweaty mood atm.. cos of a bad dose of flu..

This summer has been the worst so far for going to festivals on my sofa. By far the worst.. SO bad in fact that I would have LOVED to have seen the Kaiser Chiefs do ' I Predict A Riot'. That bad.

I'm so glad that I dont bloody bother to go to them any more. They look like shite. Same people. You can predict the guest spots. Boring. Full of pop stars as opposed to bands. I'd say its quite difficult for 'alternative' acts to get on the bill for some of these festivals nowadays. Festivals have just got SO trendy in the last few years. Prince Harry goes to them now with the hooray henrys & I'm telling ya.. its only a matter of time (if it aint happened already) before theres an X-Factor stage.

No-one is dangerous. Everything is the same bland beige low-fat shit.

Blondie @ Reading there the other week. Mannnnnn.. That band needs a few key personnel to drop out asap; for everyones sakes.

Benjamin(??) Burton @ Electric Picnic in a tent with a few fuckers that looked like they got dressed in the 1990's jumpin' on stage like it was the maddest fucking thing that ever happened? So average.

The Pet Shop Boys were on there earlier @ Electric Picnic on RTE2 (Its an Irish Festival). Holy Holy Fuck. So confusing. So awkwardly English. SO one man band-ish. And their bizarre sense of humour? They're still wearing the conical hats. Bloody awful. WHO bought these records? There is no God. If there is.. He is a sodomist

I watch all these things cos I'm a lover of music & its a leftover from my teenage years.. watching Jools Holland & Glastonbury etc.. but since John Peel died (RIP) there has been a real change in tastes. It really was the end of an era in a way. If he was still alive he would have quit the whole shebang long ago.

Which came first? Chicken or Egg? Its no mystery that these ever expanding, bloated fucking festivals need to put on bigger acts to pull the crowds. Even with TV.. there are probably lots of interesting, cool & energetic life changing, CD impulse buying performances on other stages.. but its not shown.

Just a bloody shame that things have to change sometimes. Cunts

[UN!T]

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[jacksonick]

What the fuck is wrong with sodomists (sic)?

[Críoch]

Nothing at all.

[jacksonick]

Nothing at all.

OK, cool.

Anyway, the main reason I don't go to any festivals anymore is that I can't hack getting wrecked for 3 days in a tent.

Music/youth culture as a whole has become seemingly a bit safe of late. I don't think the kids can be entirely to blame though.

Interesting read http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 50173.html

also http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 4032184876

[Críoch]

Safe is right. I'll read those later when I get a min.

The 3 days there at the festival is ok.. It's just the week of hell afterwards, recovering from it that gets harder as time goes on haha

I don't know what it says for my stereotyping or for the state of the music industry.. But last night there was an African American gentleman being interviewed at a festival, an artist. Imagine my utter shock when he later performed on stage,?doing a kinda raw blues / rock & roll kinda thing. He was playing a guitar too. Genuinely, I expected him to be a rapper / r&b singer. I guess that says more about what is popular today in the charts than the amount of talented African American instrumentalists out there.

Watching the MTV awards thing the other night for a little bit. It's all about sex, money & status. I dont think it's the power of the music itself.. It's more the total domination of the media. They're always being spoken about in papers, magazines & even on the radio news. Awful.

[AxeD]

The good festivals are not broadcasted on TV though, if they are, they're going to cater to the masses.
This summer I've seen Karenn, tr-101, CTRLS, Surgeon, Pariah, Mills, Adam X, Tessela, Rodhad, Dettmann, Slater, Darkside.
Didn't even leave the city and that's just the ones I can remember at the moment

I get what you mean with the really big festivals though. Like last year, I've seen some good stuff at Exit, but it was just
clear all the locals were there to see Guetta and Fatboy Slim. Luckily I knew not to bother with Slim, had seen him play
a 5000 cap. festival and it was still commercial trap crap.

[jacksonick]

Yeah, I fancy Dekmantel next year.

[CRDM]

Yeah, I fancy Dekmantel next year.

I think I'll go to this next year. Can't be doing with camping festivals at the moment, the aftermath is not worth it usually. I've been to weather festival this year and last, stayed in an apartment this year and was seriously nice to come back to after being out all day and night, the systems they had were amazing!

[8FX]

Agreed the festivals on TV are just a massive wank fest of celebrity bollocks.

There's still a few little things going on that look good but on the whole I guess the bigger festivals have all got a bit shit. Not been to Glastonbury for about 14/15 years now but I guess putting up an impenetrable fuck off fence round it makes sure you only allow a certain type of person gets in.

Maybe BLOC will do a weekender at Butlins again one day they were my favourite festivals.

[Bromi]

its only a matter of time (if it aint happened already) before theres an X-Factor stage.

I pray to god Mr Cowell does not get wind of this that stage would represent all evil in the world...

[8FX]

Wasn't there supposed to be some X-factor DJ contest in the pipeline a few years ago? Thank god that never saw the light of day.

[Lost to the Void]

There are some good smaller festivals out there. Problem is the ones that do it well are cashing in too quickly and within 3 years they lose sight of what made the festival cool in chasing higher numbers, and it ends up same as everything.

forget techno, techno is always on, it`s a never ending festival in clubland, I don`t need to listen to techno for a whole weekend, 3 days and nothing but, I go to festivals to see lots of music, and REAL festivals with a good selection of stuff are a little harder to find, at least in the mainstream.

And yeah, the passing of john peel had and still has huge implications. Especially for that area of cross polination where people REALLY in to music can discover loads of new and surprising stuff via a big media channel.

No one has filled his shoes. A lot have tried, but they end up being too nerdy, too "cool" or trying too hard to find the new and obscure. So it ends up being biased or smeared a certain way.
Peel didn`t try to do anything, he just played music he liked and music he believed in, indiscriminately. His importance, in my opinion, cannot be overstated.

I miss him loads. At least the Peel archives are all there, and you can still find amazing stuff via them.

[AxeD]

Used to be able to listen to the shows somewhere though.

Wouldn't know what to do with a list of all his records. Get similar problems as with a list of all records.

[disparate]

The likes of Glastonbury are definitely pretty far from the "festival ethos" if you want to call it that, smaller and/or more specialist festivals are still good fun though although even then it can still feel a bit corporate/organised/security-heavy at times.

Went to Dekmantel this year, good fun although lots of posh English folks with Disclosure haircuts (guys) and flower headbands (girls) and so on, seems that quality house/techno has become kinda big amongst that demographic in the last few years. Tbh they were enjoying it and not being too annoying so I don't mind loads, I'm just judgemental

[AxeD]

Went to Dekmantel this year, good fun although lots of posh English folks with Disclosure haircuts (guys) and flower headbands (girls) and so on, seems that quality house/techno has become kinda big amongst that demographic in the last few years. Tbh they were enjoying it and not being too annoying so I don't mind loads, I'm just judgemental

Yeah, last year there were barely any people from outside of Amsterdam. This year over 50% of the tickets
went to different countries. All fine of course, but they should bring their drugs. For some reason
people thought I ran an emporium or something.

[Thumper]

I know three people who went to Glasto this year. All three of them were middle management sorts in their mid 50s. Balls to that.

I went to the to the Last Big Weekend mini-festival here in Glasgow at the weekend. Only went on the Sunday. Best crowd I've seen anywhere in years. Totally chilled. Invisible security. Sunshine. Great fucking beer from the West Breweries. Jeff Mills smashed it, then smashed it again. Even Sophie, whose records I wouldn't ever buy, totally battered it. Some well scary early rave noises. Class. James Murphy from LCD Soundsystems/DFA played a blinder too. And even better - I was home in bed by 1.30! Winners all round!

(I don't mind the late club nights - its the 36 hour weegie after-parties I can't cope with anymore.)