What does a music festival say about you?
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Glastonbury, Bestival, the Big Chill, Latitude, Reading? Which wristband will you be flashing at friends and work colleagues this summer?
It's safe to say music festivals are now an established part of British summer time. There are 450 in the UK alone this year and more people are going to them than ever before, says Virtual Festivals UK.
They used to be about leaving the social snobberies and constraints of everyday life at the gate. The mud and general madness was a great social leveller. Banker or buddhist, everyone was in it together. Now many are sponsored by big corporate brands and money can buy you luxury unimaginable years ago - tipi with shower and double bed for £3,000 anyone?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8692313.stm
It's safe to say music festivals are now an established part of British summer time. There are 450 in the UK alone this year and more people are going to them than ever before, says Virtual Festivals UK.
They used to be about leaving the social snobberies and constraints of everyday life at the gate. The mud and general madness was a great social leveller. Banker or buddhist, everyone was in it together. Now many are sponsored by big corporate brands and money can buy you luxury unimaginable years ago - tipi with shower and double bed for £3,000 anyone?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8692313.stm
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Mcellie
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I wondering now, if all the stories of how rough the campsites can be cause people to think £3,000 tents are worth it.
- 2 years ago
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Mcellie
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OrbViper
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£3,000? Really...and the sad thing is someone is probably going to pay for that.
- 2 years ago
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OrbViper
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Mcellie
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Festivals have defiantly gone a bit more up market and there's been a slow increase of people who hold up the drinking water tap queue for washing their hair. Though Reading still has the campsite chaos and smelly toilets, so the grunge still fights on (tho I wish the fires would calm down).
I suspect it's whichever genre is most popular that changes the mood, if metal or punk returned festivals would go back to the smelly days. Didn't get any tickets this year tho, sigh of shame.
- 2 years ago
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Mcellie
