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I don't hear these types of stories about Glastonbury, or Download, or Coachella, or Rock in Japan or other large festivals that happen (nearly) every year. Am
by slillibri 4y ago
I don't hear these types of stories about Glastonbury, or Download, or Coachella, or Rock in Japan or other large festivals that happen (nearly) every year. Am I just not finding them?
- gorgoiler 4y agoGlastonbury in the early 90s — before The Fence went up, and while Travellers still got free entry — was pretty iffy in terms of safety. A lot of the demonisation of travellers at the time was apocryphal in the end. It feels like a community that is well and truly over except for the kind of Native Reservation that is Croissant Neuf, a place where middle class teenagers can gawp at the dreadlocked cider drinking crusty savages. You missed Reading off your list. The first time I went to that festival, in the 2000s, was fascinating. I remember being astonished at how combustable solid human waste was when confined in a long drop toilet. Once the “water” content had been boiled off by the initial tire fire it would really start to burn. Jaw dropping.
- GoodbyeMrChips 4y agoQuestion. By "Travellers" do you mean, 'new age travellers' (aka hippies) or the thieving scrotes who live a 'traditional way of life' badly tarmacing driveways? The former still attend Glastonbury for free (they clean up the site for 'free' entry); the latter are a menace who started to show up and whom I'm glad the fence has now kept out.
- GoodbyeMrChips 4y agoWhy is this comment downvoted? It is perfectly legitimate. If you disagree with it, post a response, don't just lazily click downvote. This isn't Reddit. Downvoting is for replies that distract from the conversation, not for replies you don't agree with FFS.