Glastonbury 2025

Prestwich_Blue said:
It's become a trendy, middle-class-Guardian-readers-pretending-to-be-edgy-and-radical event. Basically it's the Establishment saying 'Fuck the establishment' for 3 days.
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No, this is what people who comment on Glastonbury generally are, those at Glastonbury are nothing like that from my experience of attending, it's very much working class with vast amounts going for the Dance music rather than the daytime stages.

People watching on tv get a skewed version of Glastonbury, they see 5 stages, and dont see 100+ more. They watch maybe 20 acts out of 4000+.

The best part of Glastonbury for me is the smaller stages and finding up and coming bands that I dont know. You'll see none of those on the BBC though.
 
When did going to a festival become a political statement? I'm looking in the eyes of the young kids in the crowd and just like me when I was young, I would guess their politics was not the deciding factor in purchasing festival tickets.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
It's become a trendy, middle-class-Guardian-readers-pretending-to-be-edgy-and-radical event. Basically it's the Establishment saying 'Fuck the establishment' for 3 days.
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The "I was there" brigade with their Palestine scarves and their little Che shirts slumming it for a few days before returning to their lives pretending to be poor in the Northern quarter wearing shit clothes and offensive tee shirts before scooting back to their million plus houses in their very expensive yogurt fueled cars.
 
bluesmith said:
No, this is what people who comment on Glastonbury generally are, those at Glastonbury are nothing like that from my experience of attending, it's very much working class with vast amounts going for the Dance music rather than the daytime stages.

People watching on tv get a skewed version of Glastonbury, they see 5 stages, and dont see 100+ more. They watch maybe 20 acts out of 4000+.

The best part of Glastonbury for me is the smaller stages and finding up and coming bands that I dont know. You'll see none of those on the BBC though.
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You could go to Glastonbury and have a great time without seeing a top band, there's so much to see and do and no one bats an eyelid when a 60 year old hippy walks past naked!
 
Kinkybyname said:
how very dare you - £10k for a yurt is well within the reach of the average Joe/Jo/It - sounds like some of the ideologue wankers on here
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So because someone at Glastonbury pays 10k for a yurt that's the Glastonbury demographic? Assume you think the same for all City fans as a box is a similar price?

For every yurt at Glastonbury there's thousands of average Joes and for every box at City there is hundreds of average joes. Demographics aren't set by the highest value purchase at either.
 
bluesmith said:
No, this is what people who comment on Glastonbury generally are, those at Glastonbury are nothing like that from my experience of attending, it's very much working class with vast amounts going for the Dance music rather than the daytime stages.

People watching on tv get a skewed version of Glastonbury, they see 5 stages, and dont see 100+ more. They watch maybe 20 acts out of 4000+.

The best part of Glastonbury for me is the smaller stages and finding up and coming bands that I dont know. You'll see none of those on the BBC though.
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That isn't true though, the older demographic of the attendees is up into the 50+'s and it is very much a middle class event, are middle class people in denial that they are middle class?


Glastonbury Festival is often perceived as being attended by a predominantly middle-class audience, though it also attracts a diverse range of people from various social backgrounds. While some argue it's become more middle-class, particularly with a higher proportion of middle-class attendees expressing interest in going, the festival itself aims to be inclusive and welcomes people from all walks of life.
 
Imagine people thinking a festival that was called the CND music festival from 1981 and is now linked to greenpeace woulld ever be slightly political
 
bluesmith said:
No, this is what people who comment on Glastonbury generally are, those at Glastonbury are nothing like that from my experience of attending, it's very much working class with vast amounts going for the Dance music rather than the daytime stages.

People watching on tv get a skewed version of Glastonbury, they see 5 stages, and dont see 100+ more. They watch maybe 20 acts out of 4000+.

The best part of Glastonbury for me is the smaller stages and finding up and coming bands that I dont know. You'll see none of those on the BBC though.
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Seen all sorts at Glastonbury from hippies to posh and everything in-between.
 
BimboBob said:
Seen all sorts at Glastonbury from hippies to posh and everything in-between.
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Remember buying the tickets from music shops for a couple of quid mate, couple of quid and whatever it cost to get there.

The working class youth are pretty much priced out of everything now, with music being no exception so it seems.
 
mexico1970 said:
The "I was there" brigade with their Palestine scarves and their little Che shirts slumming it for a few days before returning to their lives pretending to be poor in the Northern quarter wearing shit clothes and offensive tee shirts before scooting back to their million plus houses in their very expensive yogurt fueled cars.
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Easy on the yoghurt fueled cars mate, don't knock em till you've tried em, I'm picking up my Ferrari fruit corner on Monday
 
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