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Glastonbury ticket-selling weekend: Fans' reactions

How has the nation reacted to this weekend's (April 6) Glastonbury ticket selling kick-off?

Mon 07 Apr, 2008

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Traditionally, Glastonbury has been more about the people and the atmosphere than the line-up, but based on last year's experience I'm not sure that this is still the case. Glasto has now become so "cool" that it's full of fashionistas who just think Kate Moss looks good in wellies, and middle-aged middle-class types who've read about it in the Sunday supplements. This in itself is not a problem if they actually enjoyed it, but they have no idea how the festival works and are horrified that yes, it is actually as muddy as it looks on the telly, thus completely killing the atmosphere for everybody else. I've been to Glasto three times as a punter and twice as a volunteer steward, but after the amount of abuse I took off the punters last year (seemingly not deterred by my having the name of a well-known humanitarian charity written all over me) I swore I'd never do it again. It's not at all what I expected at Glastonbury and it depressed the hell out of me, so as long as it continues to attract these kinds of people, I have no interest in going, and many of my Glasto-veteran friends are also very disillusioned by last year's experience and are giving it a miss this year. Hopefully it will eventually fall out of fashion and go back to only attracting people who actually understand and appreciate the festival, but it's in a bad place at the moment; I currently think of it as "just another festival" when it used to be so much more.

Tue 08 Apr, 2008

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