Who’s trying for Glastonbury tickets?

No it's not.

 

Well my group of 12 none of us got tickets despite having a few extra friends trying for us- I am currently in New York so meant a 4am awakening to sit for an hour and watch a page refresh every 20 seconds
Not too fussed about missing it been many times but just too many people wanting to tickets now

 

Has it got to the point where lots of people want to be able to say they've been, rather than genuinely wanting to go?

 

I think it reached that point decades ago. It's been a scrubbed and tidied commercialised, organised imitation of what made it good for decades. The first few times I went you couldn't get food or drink there for example - everyone self catered or starved. lol
Also any of the stuff going on apart from the staged music was spontaneously organised at those peoples own expense e.g. the green field, healing "stuff", wandering fire eaters and camp entertainers - all did it for the joy of doing it. Then Mr Eavis started paying people to do that - at first just with free tickets but one thing leads to another. I got free tickets myself for this one year - we were supposed to spend a certain amount of time each day "entertaining" - pyrotechnics in our case. It was all still very amateur and nice for it.

 

You need to be hitting refresh every sec

 

Kind of like taking Techenders, charging £100, putting on a selection of courses with paid tutors, charging vans for the privilege to come and sell burgers.
You could argue that would be better but it it would also be a poor imitation of what made techenders popular in the first place.

 

My mother in law has been to every Glastonbury festival, since 1970. She’s going agin next year, she gets given a job there. I think she’s 74 now…she’s knows Eavis and his family pretty well.

 

Carefully planting lines of 20cm high Leylandii so by showtime they have grown up so you cant see the stages any more.

 

Climb them for a great view

 

Seems the way . I visited the Lady Lever Art Gallery last week. It’s a small one on The Wirral.
It wasn’t very busy but I reckon 80+% , of all ( nearly ) ages 30-70 hardly “ looked “
at the exhibits or the lovely surroundings.
Their cameras looked at it for them. I wondered why. It wasn’t as if they spent any time looking ,in which case a photo would be a reminder. They took photos ( I can’t be sure) simply to send / show someone.
Each to their own.

 

We went to the IWM in london and took 4.5 hrs to see most of the 5 floors,
some people just walked straight past most of the displays..

IWM piccy

 

Japanese tourists have been doing this for a long, long time. 50-60-70 years? It used to baffle "us" but now we're all at it!

 

So true. But why?

 

No idea, I don't do it!
Funniest is people filming and recording gigs on their phone - do they ever watch them? I doubt it.
People generally being more concerned with documenting their experiences than experiencing them.
People are sheep - monkey see monkey do I guess.

 

Interesting as I watched the Netflix documentary on Robbie Williams last week and then decided to watch his 2003 concert at knebworth also on Netflix and it was noticeable that nobody had a phone filming it or taking pictures, I am not a huge Robbie fan but it was apparent how times have changed - significantly

 

Totally agree , it's so refreshing to watch an older concert on TV and see the crowd actually getting into the music rather than a bunch of idiots holding up their phones .
Glasto seems pretty good and to say it's 90% yoof there's very few people holding phones and recording the groups , possibly because after a day they're all flat ....

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It's because their phones auto-focus on the sea of flagpoles and banners that prevent them actually seeing anything, let alone film it. Another sheep based idiocy.

 

I saw that, when I watched The Orb last Friday. People just waving phones around. It sort of takes from the reason of being there…