Most overrated - a thread about overrated things

The first and only festival I've attended was Woodstock back in '69, but I only stayed for richie Havens as the headline acts were too mainstream.

Oliver, festivals have nothing to do with camping, even when you stay in a tent. It just provides a bearing by which to orientate yourself (though eventually you'll find yourself lost) and something to sit near.

The first and only festival I've attended was Woodstock back in '69, but I only stayed for richie Havens as the headline acts were too mainstream.

so you missed ten years after, then??
shame

Camping. Camping itself is vastly overrated.

You haven't been to Holland then.

Is it one big tent?

i'd say camping was underrated.
go to the beach all day, and then go to the pub at night. one night there's usually a pool tournament too.

Ok, yes I am talking about 2005/6 when I was only 16 but I'm 22 now and it seems like a decade ago in my mind.

this place gets younger every day

In 1990 I was 1 :(

In 1990 I was fingering birds at youth club

Elton John.

In 1990 I was fingering birds at youth club

Save it to yourself. It's their mothers you're talking about.

the last year I went to Leeds Festival in 07 there was 50,000 more people than the year before. It was getting ridiculous.

In 1990 I was fingering birds at youth club

when you were 32

I laughed out loud for the first time today.
I believe it qualifies for lolz

I just meant the general chaos and carnage the campsites were every year back in the day when you were still allowed gas cannisters and huge fires and shopping trolleys and you were allowed to congregate in groups of 50+ without being broken up by security.

Ok, yes I am talking about 2005/6 when I was only 16 but I'm 22 now and it seems like a decade ago in my mind.

So ontop of all the stuff Superprecise said, you can't take camping gas or have a fire or get together with lots of your mates?

What the fucking fuck does anyone see in going to festivals? No, really?

Live music outdoors usually sounds like dogshit though. I've been to my fair share of festivals and most of it sounds abysmal. And you usually end up standing next to some annoying, smelly cunt or being pushed around as the crowd moves about. Then you have to wait an hour and a half to shit onto a pile of dung housed in a reeking plastic shed, pay through the nose for a cup of expensive, absolute shite, piss-weak lager, choke on campfire smoke, endure the moronic chanting of drunk teenagers, the strumming of some 'enlightened' acoustic tit (who ought to be sat on a beach somewhere next to the Pacific instead of attending an enforced-fun party), the one upmanship of 'wackiest fancy dress' or 'coolest rock star look', the constant humming of greasy catering vans and frantic worry of who's-playing-next-and-where. And all while hungover.

Maybe I'm missing something, I dunno.

Great rant and 100% correct. Music festivals are the worst place to hear music. Great if you need an excuse for getting off your tits with mates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBZ8nng-1-g

Reading was never good, the site is beyond shit to start with.

I went to Reading festival in 1998 to see New Order - It was like being in one of those cattle queuing mazes that you get in Post Offices for 3 days

can't do camping on drugs.. it's a little intents!

In 1990 I was 1 :(

In 1990 I was embarking upon what would turn into 5 happy lost years of drinking, smoking weed, listening to grunge music and sponging off the state.

None of which included any music festivals.

in my age i now enjoy theatre and comedy tents, as well as the audio visuals you get in a lot making use of the great outdoors, but i have never ever heard decent hip hop at a festival. it just doesn't work..

anyway, overrated. expensive flash childrens toys.. you have all been ignored and proved to be no match to poking the digibox with a spoon.. sort it out!

In 1990 I was embarking upon what would turn into 5 happy lost years of drinking, smoking weed, listening to grunge music and sponging off the state.

family holiday?

Miami Heat

but i have never ever heard decent hip hop at a festival. it just doesn't work..
!

But Jay-Z was ace @ Glastonbury no?!

He said

decent hip hop

not Jay fucking Zee