Music Festival?

22 June 2007

Unlike almost everyone else I know.

The office is barren, like a desolate wasteland. Oh, sorry – that’s Glastonbury, I’m getting all mixed up.

Just to make it absolutely, positively, 100% clear: I did not want to go to Glastonbury this year, and I’m incredibly happy that I’m not there. In the rain.

In fact, I’ll go as far as saying that I think Glastonbury represents all that is wrong with the music industry today; all wrapped up in one mud-filled neat little package.

Glastonbury, as much as it is referred to as a music festival, is not about the music – it’s about the “experience”, which in other words means it’s about drinking so much that you can’t remember what you did on Saturday. This – luckily enough for the Eavis clan – tallies nicely what the majority of the population, and the majority of people working in the music industry, want to do with their time.

You can tell that Glastonbury is not a real music festival by taking a gander at the line-up, and the utter lack of anything that’s not predictable or mainstream.

Any festival that manages to have Amy Winehouse play not once but twice has no credibility whatsoever in my eyes.

There is 1 artist playing this year that can’t be seen almost any day of the week playing somewhere in London, and that’s Bjork – in total their are 6 bands I’d actually like to see in the line-up, and bar the loopy one from Iceland I’ve already seen them all this year (except Beirut who I’m seeing on both Monday and Tuesday next week).

It honestly depresses me that this is the biggest event that represents music in the UK this year – surely we can do a bit better?

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22 June 2007