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Stop telling me to 'get the festival look.' I don't want it. I don't need advice on dress codes or style tribes (thank you Red magazine). And you can stick your colourful Hunter wellies, where the sun don't shine. That'll be Worthy Farm, Pilton.
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Kate Moss did the cut-off denim shorts and wellies thing in 2005 and looked fabulous. I know I saw her up close backstage, but that was eight years ago. Move on, people.
I don't want to go to Latitude looking like a middle-aged cliché in parka, Raybans and (weather- permitting) Converse. The one thing you do really need at a festival, is a backstage pass. The last time I went to a festival really was the last time. I never want to use a chemical loo or spend a sleepless night next to the karaoke stage again. I loved Glastonbury, over 30 years ago, when tickets cost around 20 quid and the event wasn't an overpriced corporate jolly. Now I'd rather watch the highlights on telly and have an early night, in my own bed. Here's my advice: stay at home.
Hilarious rant! Hideous Hunters.
ReplyDeleteFunny! And midlife honest, too : >
ReplyDeleteIf there's one thing I detest is wellies with a frigging logo. The kind of idiots who wear such crass crap shouldn't be allowed to buy a ticket, they're the kind of morons who block the stage from the real music lovers and film the entire set through their massive tablets or unleash their vile posh kids to run amok through the crowd and have a fit when someone accidentally treads on it....grrr!
ReplyDeleteMud, cider for breakfast and not washing properly for 6 days...I cannot wait. I might be 46 and a half but I bloody love the great British festival season. x
Completely agree with you Vix. Nowt wrong with a cheap pair of wellies. I'm a live music lover myself - but these days I prefer to stick to gigs and focus on the music, rather than deal with all the other shenanigans.
ReplyDeleteHeh! I'm with you. I'm not into "scenes" so much anymore. I'd rather see music in a small club where the beers are served in glass rather than plastic.
ReplyDeleteSo funny....I reached a point a few years back where I thought...Why am I out here fighting this crowd?? Now, I have to really, really want to see the act in person...and not many fall into the really, really category. Unless of course, it is the theater!
ReplyDeleteThose boots are ghastly. The last festival I went to was Watkins Glen in upstate NY,mdecades ago. It was touted to be a Woodstock type revival. Revolting. I did get backstage and it was only marginally better there. Still the unwashed masses and chemical toilets.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather go to a theatre or club to hear music where I can have a civilized cocktail at intermission and wash my hands in warm water if I need to.
Hahaha! Love a good rant!!! You are right though about the whole festival chic thing though ;-) Come to think of it, I was going to wear my parka and converse for our coffee - guess I'll have to rethink that one ;-)
ReplyDeleteLOL! Too right. I am also fed up that two main trends are Festival wear which assumes everyone is going to a Festival and will need special colourful clothing or 'Beach wear'. Is everyone off to the beach and staying for the next three months?
ReplyDeleteNB: Very sad at the current low quality of design at GAP.
People ,let it all go and check out Prof Catharine Edwards on BEEB 4 at 2100 presenting a Roman history caper:Never has white hair looked so beautiful.....
ReplyDeleteLove this post. I remember saying to Spouse a couple of years back that I was so RELIEVED at not having to go to the Big Day Out (an Australian festival of sorts) anymore. I'll take my gigs with glass, as Pseu says :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I just bought myself some cheap wellies yesterday - for trudging through my local community garden. NOW I sound middle-aged ...
Loved it. The only time I wished I had worn willies to a festival was the annual fryeburg fair in Maine, where I got to walk in the mud while trying to fend off the amorous advances of a large cow.
ReplyDeleteGiggle, that is actually a very good advice:) Have a great one, dear.
ReplyDeleteI do love Port Eliot though...fabulous fashion viewing and a flower show...not on this year but am looking forward to 2014!
ReplyDeleteI never did get to go to Glastonbury and now I've reached an age where I can't be bothered. I'm with you- highlights on tv, with a nice glass of wine and a warm, dry, vastly comfortable bed to go to when it's over.
ReplyDeleteI am right there with you on your advice. Say at home and watch it on the telly. You see more that way as well anyway. All snuggly and warm. Xxxx
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. "Festival style" seems such an affected genre. The hippy-inspired floral headdresses that adorn head to toe designer outfits…what a far cry from the origins of music festivals. ITs become a see and be seen, and if I am going to go to something like that, I don't want to sleep in a bloody tent. I'm 41.
ReplyDeleteYup, I'm with you all the way. I got over the urge for no sleep and hordes of people years ago (and I'm *only* 36).
ReplyDeleteI do love a good concert, but I like seats and to be able to go home (or to a hotel) with a proper bed afterwards. Also, I like seeing the bands I actually like, not sitting through dozens that I'm not that fussed about.
On the welly issue, I bought some cheap ones last winter - v. useful, but they split within a few months. I'm thinking some midrange ones might be tougher. Also, I do want some that I can potentially wear to walk to work or town in the snow/ torrential rain so they need to be a bit smart. I had black patent last winter.
In the interests of research I have just phoned my son and daughter and their respective partners, all of whom are sitting in a little tent in Glastonbury with big globules of rain bouncing off the nylon roof. The girls' style owes a lot to Blondie-circa-1978, i.e. black bin bags worn over walking boots and as capes around the shoulders. The boys are too cool for such things and have merely put up the hoods on their anoraks and rolled up their trouser legs. Don't you just wish you were there? No!
ReplyDeleteI am completely with you!
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