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Glasto: Being there vs Telly

noticed:

- Plenty of people on here saying it looked shit/boring on their telly and they're glad they didnt go blah etc.

- Most who were there said the acts were brilliant

live music = not designed to be watched on telly



  • It looked lame on telly

    but I bet it was loadsa fun there as I'm sure pleanty of people will tell us when they get back.

  • i thought it looked good on the telly

    but the glastonbury is boring as shit.absolutely no movement :(

    • i hate to say this

      but watching parts of the coverage made my sad not to have gone. if parts of it looked exciting on screen [as some did] then it probably was astounding to be there and witness in person. also - no mud after saturday afternoon, i heard.
      sound of sobbing..

  • I always think

    festivals look more fun on telly.

    Incidently, was Mark Ronson's guitar actually switched on at any point? Saw a bit of him on the highlights and there didn't seem to be any noise coming from it.

  • Stupid question

    Watching something on television, isn't the same as doing it or experiencing it.

    If you watch it on Television, it isn't Glastobury... it's just a visual representation of the tiniest bit of it.

    Anyone making sweeping comments on things about Glastobury being shit or great on the basis of TV footage is being silly.

    • that was my point...

      whats the stupid question?

  • Anyone see the Gossip's "cover" of Smells like teen spirit?

    possibly the most cringeworthy thing ever

    • It wasn't a cover

      was it? I thought she was just gabbling on lyrics from various random songs while the other two got totally lost about what the fuck she was doing.

      • Whatever it was

        It was fucking shocking

  • the actual band coverage isn't too bad (when they stop showing joan armatrading)

    it's all the shots of people gurning and singing into the cameras, the roving reporters, and edith bowman in general.

  • I'm not too bothered about missing out

    - there's not much punk/metal/hardcore/noise
    - I don't really like camping (blame Reading fest for this one)
    - I didn't watch on telly as I don't think there was anything I wanted to see.

  • Telly = shit festival but warm

    There = shit festival, cold, middle class posh kids on drugs

  • why...

    would you want to go watch live music when obstructions are in the way. ie: people holiding flags and mobile phones.

    what a load of crap.

  • I could honestly enjoy

    getting messed up for 3 days with my friends and I would happily watch pigeon detectives and other bands I would normally hate, just not pay £200+ for the privelage.

  • Of course being there is better

    but to make tv experience more enjoable I have:

    avoided flushing the toilet all week
    slept on the floor with strategically placed stones underneath me
    Eaten take away, paid double for it and asked them to use vast quantities of oil.
    ensured all alcohol drunken was at room temperature
    asked my neigbours to play extremly dodgy dance music at full volume at about 4am every morning
    invited strangers to urinate against my house

    by following these simple guidelines next year you too can have a tv experience almost as good as the real thing.

  • Telly!!!

    You get the 'red button'!!

    Massive attack and manu chau at the same time!!!

  • i enjoyed watching it on the telly

    but i would definiteley get pissed off with all the hippy/chelsea mum vibes if i was actually there.

  • That's because the people who went this year

    have a shit taste in music.

    At each of the last 5 or so Glastonbury's that I've seen on the telly, there have been at least a few acts who have made me wish I'd bothered attempting to get tickets. Nought this year.

    • hello, wanker!

      • hello

        selection of numbers who doesn't appreciate me generalising about the music taste of 175000 people I have never met.

      • hello

        selection of numbers who doesn't appreciate me generalising about the music taste of 175000 people I have never met.

        • saying someone else has 'shit music taste'

          is vomit-inducing.

          • yeah well.

            so's your face.

          • yeah well.

            so's your face.

  • I say Crystal Castles play 'Yes No'

    while channel surfing last night. I loved the pissed off expressions on the security guards' faces as they held the singer aloft and into the crowd. What an amazing job.

    Is their album worth getting? That song sounded fab, but is it one of these things that only works well live?

    • No

      avoid it at all costs.

      Complete fad, scenester bollocks.

    • it would be better to listen to the music

      they actually stole claiming it as theirs and that they 'invented this shit'

  • It would be better if

    every time you pressed the red button, a portaloo would be emptied over Jo "I booked Nirvana to play on The Wordzzzzzz" Whiley's head. With a cherry bakewell on top.

    Joe - www.anewbandaday.com

    • Why aren't you working for the BBC?

      That's the kind of innovation they're crying out for, not another greasy devil on a couch nattering about the fratellis.