Right again an argument has come along with a few mates at collage today and has continued through different means tonight (mainly as a reason not to revise
) so i thought I would share our lil quarrel with you loverly people on here!!
So ... what is your favorite and least favorite stage at glasto, all things considered???
Personally there is one obvious one and one perhaps less. The obvious one is of course the pyramid stage! With camping in the field above being able to sit outside after rolling out of bed in the morning and watching the performances I would never have thought I wanted to see
Having the ability to get right up close if the time and performance is right adds to it and some of the best memories I have taken from my 4 festivals (Jay Z, crowd surfing at the verve, front row all sunday in '07 to see the who etc) have all come from here
I have also made some quality friends here whilst waiting for acts that I have still kept in touch with, It seems to be the place where i meet some of the nicest and most random of people
The flags, love em or hate em, make it a sight to behold during headliners at night and the noise the crowd can generate (arctic monkeys - I bet that you look good on the dancefloor in '07 springs to mind) is just mind blowing!! And of course it is the symbol of glastonbury and the first thing I saw when coming over the hill from the car park on my first time!
The less obvious one is the Pussy Parlour in dance village. At the young age of 14 seeing the sign outside this and the que to go in, my minds boggled at what may be inside a tent with a rude name
When I finally managed to pluck up the courage a few days later to brave the que with a few mates to get in we were a little surprised to find a dance floor with a few tables around the side
I ventured onto the dance floor where a random girl a few years older than me came up to me, hugged me and gave me a can of cider
At that moment i fell in love with the Pussy Parlour, no one could really understand my need to go back until last year we spent 6 or 7 very sweaty hours in there on the thursday. We grabbed a table and had various amounts of people come and sit with us before we got up to have a big skank at soe very heavy tunes
Now i see that Iration Steppas (the act I most want to see bar Paul Simon) are playing there very late on saturday night
C A N N O T W A I T !!!!!!!
Now my least favorite stage is without a doubt the John Peel Tent, i've given up for the last 2 years trying to see anything in here ... I could go on bout how much I dislike this tent for hours so i'll keep this bit brief. Its impossible to get a good view of anyone good unless staying there for along time before, the lack of screens (as I last remember) again makes it hard to see anything, getting in to its field via dance village is (as I last remember) only through a single bridge which gets crammed very quickly, they all ways seem to timetable anything half decent who i might want to see clash with others that fall into the same category (cage the elephant, joy formidable to name 2 from this year), Its friking ugly (I aint no art student but blue and yellow REALLY don't go), they go and put the streets on there when they are dispanding after this festival stint so I will without a doubt go and try and see but fail to get in due to other reasons I have mentioned ( but that aint really the stages fault but bad planning, oh well
) etc
So yeah what are your opinions on the positives and negatives of the stages???
Favorite and Least Favorite Stages???
That man is a fricking legend!
