joe should headline glastonbury (Page 2 of 2)

Jane over here these large crowds are very controlled, - one of the reasons that I will never go again to another Hyde Park gig is that once you are in you are kettled into segregated areas and can get nowhere near the stage. Before Download was Download it was Donington "Monster of Rock” and that was a free for all.

it is interesting how Bruce has described it, and having been to a festival like this I know what he is getting at, although not sure that he as actually described it well enough. A few years back festivals like this were filled with a diverse mix of people from all backgrounds who were there for the music, (and probably the drugs as well), but those common interests bound them together. Nowadays there is a “class” or a group who are there because they believe it is the “in” thing to do, - they are there to be seen, or in reality to take selfies and post them up on Facebook along with a tag about them being “totally wasted”, - perhaps they should be the "Valley Girl” class? Because they are not there primarily for the music, - their outfits are similar, - girls in £100 Hunter wellington boots, denim cut off shorts, Jack Wills shirts.... They are perhaps the aspirational class, - they want to be somebody or cool, but in reality are without depth, - just a group of lemmings. And that is what these festivals have become, sadly.

We do the class thing pretty well here, - but perhaps not as defined as India, - but these are not what we would call “upper” class (they may think that they are), and they are not working class, hence seen as the middle class here.