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Glastonbury 2023

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  1. Steelmonkey

    Steelmonkey Well-Known Member

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    Saw Murder Capital couple of months ago, they were very good. Didn't think the new material would be as good as the stuff on their first album, but it worked well live.
     
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    Glastonbury has become a bastion of middle class excess. And many have been priced out of attending. A corporate cash cow with prices that wouldn’t be out of place at a central London gastric-pub
    Lots of other smaller festivals out there
     
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    Great value for money
     
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    I think my son paid £375 for the 5 days, which seems quite reasonable to me. Cheaper than the cricket.
     
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    Nah that’s a fair point Strolls and when you look at it like that it does seem a decent return. I just dunno, it seemed years ago to be this big Anti-authoritarian festival of self expression….and has now become this massive behemoth of corporate greed.
    Times have moved on I guess and I’m probably living in the past. I would have loved to have been old enough to attend the free festivals of the 70’s like the Windsor Free Festival and Stonehenge.

    Talking of prices….I went with my mates local pub in Windlesham on Thursday for our weekly meet up and chat about all things politics and beyond. Being a bit peckish I bought a bag of crisps each, the usual size and not a larger size at all…..when I saw the receipt they were £1.80 a ****ing bag !!!!
    Jesus, we didn’t have another
     
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    Yeah, it's a long way from the free festivals of the past. I'm old enough to have been at a few free concerts in Hyde Park in the late sixties - Stones, Floyd, Blind Faith.
     
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    Very jealous. But I guess that at the time you might not have realised how ‘iconic’ those times were ?
    One of my mates was at the Isle of Wight Festival at 1970, where Hendrix played his last official gig before his death and you had such amazing bands of the times play like The Doors, The Who, Joni Mitchell and Free. I thought it would be forever etched in his mind and he’d remember every minute of what was Rock History…….but when I asked him about it, hoping to hear the stories of what it was like,he said he couldn’t remember anything as he was tripping on purple ohms :emoticon-0140-rofl:
     
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    I did a few of the big free ones...but I do wish I had been old enough and irresponsible enough to do Elephant Fayre or Stonehenge..

    I still think although big Beautiful Days still has an element of the free festivals.
     
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    Which ones did you do Beth ? Any stories of the times ?
    Agree about Beautiful Days…a nice midsize festival with a friendly, older crowd. Bearded Theory as well…….and Rebellion is great for us old punks

    My mate , Matt is younger than you and he did Stonehenge in the 80’s…….Hawkwind were brilliant back then
     
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    A Finsbury Park one ...early 1990s with the Poges.. a couple arranged by mean Fiddler... Stratford


    Brighton on the beach...prog rock

    Can't remember which were free and which cost ..
    But it was peanuts
     
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    Still amazes me I was in the middle of that crowd…and it was all free
     
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    Wasn't it The Fleadh in Finsbury Park?
     
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    Yeah ....I think it was...
    We're you there Stroller
     
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    Afraid not - wish I had gone.
     
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    Never ever liked Rick Astley.


    But he can throw a party
     
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    Manic Street Preachers really showing how it's done. You'd think they've a strong enough back catalogue to headline really.
     
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    Brilliant stuff.
     
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    Saw them headline Glastonbury back in 1999, as I recall they were very good...

     
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