Boopoll Of The Week (99)

[patrick boo]

Festival season comes around yet again, buggering bugger. So, where are you going this year? Where have you already been? Why? What time is love? Ooo-oooh.

[Bass Cadet]

You missed the top thing that would make TITP better - campfires. I've never understood why they ban fires when they are clearly needed more than they are at the warm southern festivals. I always found it quite patronising really......... Meh - I did the 1st 10 years but I don't think I'll ever go back..............

[Lester Burnham]

I kinda avoid festivals though I'm always tempted by truck.

I like showers and a bed too much. I'd much rather fork out the odds for seeing the bands one by one.

[Jan Deal]

I find staying in a tent for more than 5 minutes horrible, so I have major issues with a weekend in one. The only thing that gets me to go to these damn festivals is seeing cool bands. Shame T in the Park doesn't have many of them this year. Too many bams go aswell, I can't be arsed with all that.

[Bass Cadet]

I once did Reading Fest in a barge. It was class, we just moored ourselves next to the campsite and had all the comforts of home......... you can always hire a campervan if the thought of camping is too much to bear

[Stripey]

you left out the option of the lions escaping and running rampage eating all the festival goers. I would have voted for that.

I voted for the pete docherty option as it's the funniest there, poor animals though, having to put up with festival goes and being fed horrible skinny junkie scum. Feeding them Meatloaf would at least keep them content

[Lester Burnham]

In regards to keeping your home comforts (or at least a shower and a bed) ATP is suppose to be great - and the line-up is usually amazing.

I also hate people I don't know touching me so you can imagine that I wouldn't do well at a big outdoor festival.

[666]

Originally Posted by Bass Cadet

You missed the top thing that would make TITP better - campfires. I've never understood why they ban fires when they are clearly needed more than they are at the warm southern festivals. I always found it quite patronising really......... Meh - I did the 1st 10 years but I don't think I'll ever go back..............

mmh, a bit of Rammstein will surely solve the campfire problem

[HummerOfIntenseEvil]

There are too many festivals now, with not enough decent bands to cover them, thus there's never more than two or three bands at a festival that I'd pay to see normally. On top of that (or as a result of that), each festival seems to be increasingly tailor made to suit a specific musical taste, ignoring those of us who don't think "ooh, I like THIS band, so I'll love these 20 other bands that are blatantly copying them." Headliners seem to be complete dinosaurs too - why the fuck would anyone actually want to see Red Hot Chili Peppers?

Leeds used to be the best festival in my eyes, but any metal bands that would once have played Leeds/Reading now play Download instead, which is annoying since Download is primarily full of bands with names that translate (to me at least) as "We're probably an Emo band." So now, Leeds = TITP - neds. Coincidentally, the last mouth-watering festival line-up I saw was Leeds 2002, which just so happened to be the year before the first Download.

TITP and Leeds seem to be completely targeted at the kind of idiots that would think Channel 4's late-night musical output consists of fantastic new original bands who in no way, shape or form are just aping their peers. As for V... well, Morrissey and JDB should be ashamed of themselves for appearing at the same festival as Daniel Powter, Matt Willis and The Feeling. And what is the second stage called? Lo and behold: The Channel 4 Stage!

And for anyone who reckons "it's not about the music, it's about the experience", go camp in Counteswells woods with your mates, and just think how much booze you can buy with the money you've saved from not buying festival tickets. It won't cost you £4 a can either. Give me £50 and I'll even hook you up a TV to a generator so you can watch "Transmission" on Channel 4.