Subject speaks for itself.
After a long hard think, the ultimate festival experience for me is still Glastonbury.
Here's why:
I just love that place. In all the years I've been, its never disappointed me. Even the biblical weather conditions of last year wasnt enough to ruin the weekend.
But the Big Chill is a close second.
The most beautiful location for any festival ever. It still hasnt been spoilt (yet) by its own success.
I am really missing these weekends this year.
I don't know you people...why are you here? MEMS MUZAK
thus far i've only been to glasto, v and homelands. definitely intending to try out the glade and the big chill when i can (not this year ) but tbh i don't see anything matching glasto as a whole experience.
Yep Glastonbury has it hands down i think for me....although my only Glastonbury experience was a disasterous one in terms of theiving gits and violence, of the days i spent there previous to this happening it certainly was amazing....
However i do have a massive soft spot for the less commercial big chill and would love to be going again this year...
"You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really"
Nigel Tufnel talking about his song "Lick My Love Pump" - This Is Spinal Tap.
would love to say glastonbury, although only been twice. first time was great. second time although the weather put a dampener on it, it was spoiled by the sheer greed of the organisers. too many people and shit facilities. its totally lost what it set out to be. has to be the big chill for me, tho sadly i feel in time it will go the same way, numbers increasing each year. maybe another few years then it too will go tits. off to the glade tomorrow night, that should be a corker
I actually had my first real festival experience (in the sense that there was sleeping in a tent and a bit of traveling involved) just the last weekend. It was a two night happening, called Konemetsä, completely set in a forest in the middle of nowhere here in Finland (I mentioned it briefly in the "What Are You Listening To Right Now"-thread). Great fun I must say. Especially seeing Eat Static play in the woods while the sun went down and then quickly came back up again, was cool as heck.
Couple of resized, crappy quality pics from near the mainstage taken with my mobile to give you a sense of the atmosphere:
BTW, sorry for going a bit OT. I didn't answer the poll, since that would be kinda stupid with the experience of only one proper festival.
Would have to say Glasto,just because it's unlike any other festival experience,although the last time I went was in 1995 when you could still buy tickets without it being like some ultra-precision military operation(and when it was guaranteed sunny every year,too).
It's gotta be The Big Chill for me. It's exactly what a festival should be and right now, it's just about perfect. They'll have to be careful not to let it grow too large, because then it'll become a rural rat-race, they'll be under pressure to get more mainstream acts, they'll have problems with ticket organisation, security, licensing and it'll become another Glastonbury, which has changed SO much from my debut in 1994. Glastonbury is dead.
Creamfields used to be about the music and spending 14 hours dancing your socks off, but now it's just about dodging the scallies and crap organisation, which means that again, theres another festival that I won't be attending again.
The Glade keeps calling me and I think I'll answer it's call next year...
"Gimme the sight to see
another world outside that's full of
all the broken things that I made"
For me would always have been Glasto, but have just got back from the Exit Festival in Serbia, and I think it might have to be a tie....
Exit was just amazing, set in an old fortress in Novi Sad, city in Serbia straddling the Danube, wicked setting, amazing people, line up this year not the best (I don't think I would have gone to a festival in England/Ireland based on the line up) but still some good stuff. Highlight for me was watching James Zabiela, Southampton dj, play at dawn in the Dance Arena, watching a pissed Goldie chat up the dancers on the stage after his set on the main stage.....
) but tbh i don't see anything matching glasto as a whole experience.
