| The Festival Season; What's your favourite? | |
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| rumbaba | Mar 29 2012, 08:17 PM Post #1 |
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This made me
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| rumbaba | Mar 30 2012, 01:16 PM Post #2 |
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The Hop Farm Festival is on my doorstep and I've never been ![]() They've got Bob Dylan (again), Peter Gabriel, Primal Scream, Suede, Dr John, The Stranglers, Patti Smith and loads more. http://www.hopfarmfestival.com/line-up Edited by rumbaba, Mar 30 2012, 01:17 PM.
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| caissier | Mar 30 2012, 02:00 PM Post #3 |
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I saw Neil Young there a few years ago ...... worth it to see the legend. He was uncompromising and didn't do any old favourites and ended with his version of A Day in the Life. He had his on-stage artist-painter with him. It rained during the day waiting through a lot of support acts, includng Rufus Wainright and Primal Scream. We were near the front and surrounded by a lot of oafish nutters. and it took hours to leave .... so pretty gruelling all round. At one point I was feeling really tired so went off to lie down for a a snooze near the boundary fence, whereupon I was dramatically woken up by the drug support patrol - "Are you ok, man?? What have you taken?? Can you talk?? .... "It looks like a good lineup this year and I'd like to see Bobby. Edited by caissier, Mar 30 2012, 02:01 PM.
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| rumbaba | Mar 30 2012, 03:03 PM Post #4 |
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I had a friend who went to see Bob Dylan, I think last year or maybe the year before and said he was terrible, didn't talk to the audience and so on. I thought you meant Bobby Gillespie (from Primal Scream) but then realised you probably meant his Bobness. ![]() Edited by rumbaba, Mar 30 2012, 03:04 PM.
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| caissier | Mar 30 2012, 05:27 PM Post #5 |
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I read a recent review which said that as well. I don't think I'd mind that so much; I wouldn't expect much chat from him and I'd be disappointed if he was trying to please ..... glad to just see Dylan. |
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| becky sharp | Mar 30 2012, 07:59 PM Post #6 |
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I heard about that at the time and I have to say as much as I love Neil Young I would have been very annoyed if I had paid good money to see him only for him to play stuff I hadn't heard of ..it's a bit on an unwritten law that most artistes play some of their old/er stuff alongside newer stuff ...thats why (most) people go to see their favourites ...in the case of Neil he has such an enormous back catalogue he could have picked songs to represent his career up to then combining the old with the newI heard on the radio the other day that a few of the music festivals have been cancelled this year for various reasons http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/29/sonisphere-2012-festival-cancelled-queen |
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| rumbaba | Mar 30 2012, 08:21 PM Post #7 |
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No Glasto this year |
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| caissier | Mar 31 2012, 06:07 PM Post #8 |
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Well .... I wasn't too happy about it after waiting in miserable conditions all day in a sea of twerps who thrust their arms in the air at the least excuse but among the people I was with it was understood that it would be unspoken that we were all fed up .... then we were stuck in the car-park field for two hours ..... it was, "Let's just go home, eh?? .... " £50 too .... Yes .... he could have played some good old songs and made everybody happy .... wouldn't have been SO hard
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| rumbaba | Apr 3 2012, 03:02 PM Post #9 |
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I've never been to any proper outdoor music festival ever. Well, except small local festivals like the Greenwich beer & jazz festival and, of course, the annual Tunbridge Wells 'Local & Live music festival. I watch the big festivals on the telly sometimes: you can see better, probably hear better, go to the loo easily and get a beer from the fridge. Even when I was young, I never fancied it - it's all a bit primitive for my liking. Being trapped in a crowd of idiots, waiting around for hours to get out of the car park - nope, not for me. |
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| becky sharp | Apr 3 2012, 05:31 PM Post #10 |
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Not a word I have ever associated with my two children,Rum, who have attended and loved many festivals, including Glastonbury, over the years..... Edited by becky sharp, Apr 3 2012, 05:38 PM.
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| rumbaba | Apr 3 2012, 07:20 PM Post #11 |
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Sorry Becks, that was unfair, I was just paraphrasing Caissier, who had a bad experience: "I wasn't too happy about it after waiting in miserable conditions all day in a sea of twerps who thrust their arms in the air at the least excuse ". I am sure your children take after you, Becky (model citizens )
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| chris crossing | Apr 4 2012, 11:12 AM Post #12 |
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I enjoyed the first two gentle Glastonbury festivals (1970 Pilton Pop Festival and the one the following year) with my hippie friends. Fond memories. We sneaked in under the fence, but on our next visit the security was tighter and we decided it was all becoming a little too commercial. Police everywhere. Hard to grasp what a mammoth commercial rollercoaster it has now turned into. The Knebworth festival in 1974 was pretty amazing! Edited by chris crossing, Apr 4 2012, 11:14 AM.
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| Mobson | Apr 4 2012, 12:21 PM Post #13 |
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Live 8! ....Hyde Park 2005....& no, I didn't get there via mates Bono and Edge...I entered the ballot like everyone else and won tickets! Smashing day - picnic of ethnic cuisine and Red Bull spiked with anything to keep up the stamina of a long day/night concert; atmosphere incredible - as the day wore on and Madonna got off stage, best performance came from Robbie Williams, without a doubt a consummate entertainer...got the whole audience alive and kicking again after a definite lull; then late in the evening the reunion of The Who and the Wall came up on stage with Pink Floyd.....Macca on last ending his set with his usual long rendition of Hey Jude....staggered barefoot down Piccadilly, stopping for a rest on the steps of grand buildings, as no public traffic allowed near the gig....home sometime Sunday morning completely 'gigged out' .... List of entertainers in alphabetical order: African Children's Choir Annie Lennox Bob Geldof Coldplay Dido Elton John Joss Stone Keane Killers, The Madonna Mariah Carey Ms. Dynamite Paul McCartney Pink Floyd Razorlight REM Robbie Williams Scissor Sisters Snoop Dogg Snow Patrol Stereophonics Sting Travis U2 UB40 Velvet Revolver The Who Edited by Mobson, Apr 4 2012, 12:37 PM.
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| becky sharp | Apr 4 2012, 12:28 PM Post #14 |
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Of course,Rum ...
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| caissier | Apr 4 2012, 08:07 PM Post #15 |
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I did have a disappointing experience ..... I went to festivals way back and enjoyed them then, camping and everthing, but this time i really noticed loutish manic behaviour. Unlike the days of everybody sitting down, we had to stand all day and it got very wearing. When people wanted to go through the crowd, they (blokes) just forced, rushed, fell, pushed and elbowed their way. When I went off for a bit I was picking my way, when two people behind me started following me. I was getting jostled and heard one say "Wassgoingon??" and the other one loudly said "I'm waiting for this GENTLEMAM!!" So that didn't help .....
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| Mobson | Apr 5 2012, 09:17 AM Post #16 |
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The concerts at Kew Gardens called Kew Music are still pretty civilised Caissier....I've been to a couple - one lead by Jools Holland and his orchestra with the wonderful Ruby Turner and guests, including an incredibly bouncy Lulu!....everyone has space to picnic in the grounds around the entertainment area; after the concert we were treated to a very impressive firework display. This summer's programme includes Status Quo with guests The Straits; M People, Pink Martini with guest Tim Minchin, James Morrison, Gipsy Kings with guests Los Lobos...friends are organising for us to go see Will Young with Nerina Pallot..... http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/kew-the-music/index.htm Edited by Mobson, Apr 5 2012, 09:18 AM.
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| Douglas | Apr 6 2012, 01:02 PM Post #17 |
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Mine's Buxton but that would seem to put me in a minority of one. |
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| Mobson | Apr 6 2012, 03:03 PM Post #18 |
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Where the good water comes from?
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| Douglas | Apr 6 2012, 09:09 PM Post #19 |
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That's it but I don't go in for buying bottled water though I often get a bottle of Buxton free when I buy 'The Telegraph' at W. H. Smith at a railway station. We have such great tap-water here, mainly from the Lake District, that we have no need of bottled water. I'm sure I am not prejudiced even though I spent a large chunk of my working life improving the rate of supply from the Lakes to Manchester. It's a different matter further south. Oxford water is dire and I hate to think how many pairs of kidneys the water willl have been through by the time it is abstracted from the Thames to supply London. Edited by Douglas, Apr 6 2012, 09:10 PM.
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| chris crossing | Apr 7 2012, 06:22 PM Post #20 |
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This might surprise a few people: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16643989 |
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| Mobson | Apr 7 2012, 07:11 PM Post #21 |
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I did not read that in my fortune cookie -
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| waiting4atickle | Apr 17 2012, 12:50 AM Post #22 |
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No use expecting Mr Young to do old stuff. He once famously upset his audience by performing a concert set of entirely new - and different - songs and then, saying he was now going to play stuff they'd heard before, did the whole set again. I don't see any real need for performers to talk to the audience - who needs it? Saw laughing Lenny in Leicester many years ago and he hardly said a word for the first two hours, but it was a fantastic, atmospheric concert. (I suppose you could argue that he talks all the time, rather than singing.) Never been to a festival, although I used to live within earshot of the one in Reading, but saw Dylan - and a host of others - at Blackbushe in the 70s. That was a good day out. His Bobness sang a lot of old songs, but mostly with new arrangements that I hadn't heard heard before. Slightly disconcerting at first, but brilliant. Why anyone would have wanted to sit through such a performance I can't imagine. I don't know if I'd want to see him now - he's gone a long way downhill since he got religion. |
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| rumbaba | Apr 17 2012, 09:34 AM Post #23 |
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I think there is a balance to be struck with live performance. There should be some kind of interaction with the audience: it's difficult in a big place with a big crowd but I have little time for performers who don't bother to acknowledge the audience at all. The other side of the coin is the Las Vegas type show (I've been to one in Vegas - Gladys Knight and the Pip (there was only one ) where the artist rarely sings a song all the way through and spends too much time chatting and interacting with the audience: more like a TV show host than a singer doing a concert.
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| rumbaba | Aug 22 2012, 10:38 AM Post #24 |
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Weather not looking good for Local & Live , Tunbridge Wells' annual festival of original music. It's not much more than a five minutes walk for me to The Pantiles, so I'll go up most days and catch a few acts
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and it took hours to leave .... so pretty gruelling all round. At one point I was feeling really tired so went off to lie down for a a snooze near the boundary fence, whereupon I was dramatically
woken up by the drug support patrol - "Are you ok, man?? What have you taken?? Can you talk?? .... "
..it's a bit on an unwritten law that most artistes play some of their old/er stuff alongside newer stuff ...thats why (most) people go to see their favourites ...in the case of Neil he has such an enormous back catalogue he could have picked songs to represent his career up to then combining the old with the new
but among the people I was with it was understood that it would be unspoken that we were all fed up .... then we were stuck in the car-park field for two hours ..... it was, "Let's just go home, eh?? .... " £50 too .... 
Where the good water comes from?


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