glasto 2002 in jeopardy! about to be taken over by The Man!

the most obvious difference is that vince power is an "entrepreneur" (sp?) and is upfrontedly into acquiring music events in order to make money, whereas michael eavis has never shown any interest in that end of things.

secondary question for people who've been to festivals like reading, leeds, t in the park etc - how are they different to glasto?

if it happens at all, i'd put odds on it being the last ever. until enthusiasm for it dies down.

The difference, Christ where to start. Glasto is never about the bands. Reading etc is always about the bands. There is nothing else. For all of Glastonbury's hippie shit (and there is loads of it) it is sometimes nice to wander through fields of people doing alternative crafts and arts and just chilling in the sunshine. Of course Glasto also = your own bouze, (and Perry!) and is huge. It is a city with all the disparity that would bring, rather than Readings rather drab "Indie-Town".

I think Vince Power is a very nice person. I am not saying this because I am frightened of him.

To give him his due, he did turn Reading around in the late '80s, but that whole slew of festivals he runs sound very packaged. No, I've never been to any of them.

Maybe Barry Foundation could take over Glastonbury and get some stupid American band to pick ALL the acts.

FUKC YOPU DIRTY VICAR YOU BEDWETTER why don't you try organising a festival sometime and see how long you can put up with listening to whiners like you who are never happy, gnash seethe (etc)

oh i love dancing around in the mud to shit ethno techno music. not as much as i like vomiting up cider and staying in my tent gettinbg worried about being burgled having done a shitloada acieeeed

Do you get nekkid as well?

I reckon a Mean Fiddler run Glasto would equal:

1. Less money donated to charidee. 2. More corporate sponsorship. 3. FAR fewer marginal stages and fewer acts, with 'major' bands who would never make the current Glasto bill (Limp Bizkit, fr'instance) paid far more in order to pull the punters. 4. Overly aggressive security policy - wristband checks round all the stages, loss of the 'open' feel to it. 5. No fucking Rod Stewart... so I suppose every cloud has it's silver lining.

can i wear an "african" hat with sequins in it and have some warm lager please? yeah we just like missed all the bands cos we were like wasted the whole time man. JUGGLING with FIRE!!!! future of rock and roll