Lauski

The last time I went to Glasto was in 1999 I vowed never to go back. My reasons at the time was:

1) It's in the middle of no-where. I love camping but I do it to get away. If I want to be in an isolated location then I'd find one.

2) For all that money the mud is too much of a gamble. 1998 was one of the worst weekends ever; 1999 wasn't good enough to change my mind

3) Too many people are there trying too hard

Since 1999 there have been a whole raft of further reasons why U would never go back:

1) Like the poster above said, you could get tickets up until pretty late so you could judge the line up. Can't do that now. At least with Reading you can queue up the next day at Astoria etc having seen the line up

2) Just like football it's out-priced itself from it's core market. I think people that jump the fences are wankers because it puts the cost up but the cost shouldn't be the cost.

3) Because of celebrity culture it's become The New Place to Be Seen. Too many luvvies, it's the Ascot of festivals.

4) The amount they charge it too much given that you don't know whose's playing. Would you pay £160+ for a cardboard box without knowing what's inside?! The headliners this year are a joke.

I'm going to Reading this year but I don't every year. I've seen the line-up before I've bought. True, there are the usual collection of wankers you don't want to camp next to but at least it's easy to get to, you can go to the supermarkets to top up on food/beer and even when it rains it doesn't get that muddy.

I LOVE the big outdoors but Glasto doesn't let you experience that. Go the Yorkshire Dales of something. Sorry, Glasto blows.

"Journalism" like this is EXACTLY why I stopped reading the music press. Alex Denney, you're a very important person to me because your bit of "work" will be the last ever review I read.

Bloody hell, you pain yourself over being a pretentious as possible, trying to draw in conclusions that are not there. You write like a university fresher studying English Liturature.

BYOP are not great musicians, but who cares, they ARE great band. I listen to this album and it makes me smile, I went to see BYOP the other night and had a lot of fucking fun.

I DON'T CARE whether a snob like you thinks about any music, I can decide for myself. Music's personal preference whether you give it a 1 a 5 or a 10.

Enjoy your music, not decide what's cool or what's "important".

I went to Reading and everything is a rip off from the £2.50 for a bottle of water to £6 for shit in a tray. And having to queue everywhere whilst being herded like cattle by the brainless security that are only internested in taking water and beer so they can make more money.

Whilst I had a good time and saw some great bands it'll probably be my last festival.

Look at Roddy that bloody photo?

Who does he think he is? A poet for the new generation?!

Actually, I remember in '100 Broken Windows' it had "Support your local poet" on the sleave inside.

My arse.

I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or be angry at that tracklist.

It's an insult to anyone that heard and loved the likes of 'Faster', 'Queen of the Trouble Teens' or 'Captain'

I loved Idlewild but I pose a question: has any band ever disappeared so far up their own a-hole?

They completely turned their backs on everyone that made them a name. The biggest mistake was learning to play their intruments properly! Everything they've released after '100 Broken Windows' is simply shite, arse and more shite.

How dare they dismiss their early stuff? They were brilliant but now they're just another drab indie band.

Who buys this cack? Travis do better than what they're trying to do! Fact.

Seeing Idlewid support Ash at Folkestone in 1998 (Chicks were also playing - anyone remember them) remains my all-time favourie gig. I was only there for Idlewild.

But Idlewild, you can now just fuck off.