'Music' festivals: a total ripoff, for clueless cunts.

I can understand going clubbing (although since the smoking ban the smell of armpits and feet has put me off ever going again). Where there is decent acoustics to make sure all those big tunes will sound fucking great, there's a proper floor for dancing and decent toilets (except at Turnmills, which were fucking disgusting). A record is literally a recording of a particular performance or production. A moment in time. They sound exactly the same whether they are played by Carl Cox or Joe Bloggs or you. Sure, Coxy might play particular records in a particular order, and judge the mood of a room particularly well, but is that worth festival money?

When you see a band play live, that is the only time those songs will ever sound like that. It is a unique experience. And they are the only people that can make that song sound like that. No other band, even the best tribute, can sound like the real thing. Put that together and you can understand why people are willing to pay a fortune to stand in a field to experience it.

Dude you seem to have not read the majority of my post before last. I mention one dj playing tunes at the big chill and that is all you have focused on, whilst conveniently ignoring the other bits which mentioned the live performances, breakestra, digable planets, etc.

I'm never going to say I'm all about the live performance, most of the time, I find them boring to be honest, people standing 1984like staring at a stage off in the distance. Yeah a live performance is unique, but that's not to say that they are all mindblowingly amazing, and worthy of remembrance, dodgy pa's. lackluster performances, an inability to pull the crowd along with them, or all of the above and more.

You think live performances are the be all and end all cool! But a dj who can take you on that journey from a-b, and keep you dancing non-stop without the aid of chemical assistance is a rare thing. And your understanding of going clubbing with the list of caveats you have supplied makes out to me that you kind of never enjoyed it in the first place.

and to answer your last question I'm not going to play festival money to listen to a dj, but I will pay festival money for a trip overseas to listen to dj's I rate, in an interesting locale, with decent weather, and see some bands/performers over a weekend, that I might not get to see in a year back in old blighty.