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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We watched it last night, what a shitshow!!!
It was annoying how all the staff giving interviews pointed the finger at each other, 20 years on and still nobody could admit that they'd done anything wrong. The "just a few bad apples" line is no good when you're the ones looking after the orchard.
Cutting corners on amenities, price-gouging, lack of security and medical teams, holding it in a concrete jungle in summer, turning a blind eye to the copious amount of dealers, just basically not giving a shit.
They'd have been better off running it at a loss, giving everyone decent amenities, cheap food and drink, and then the next year charging a bit more for tickets and keeping a better eye on the budget.
There was a lot of spring break/frat boy/girls gone wild/brat rock style behaviour that was glorified at the time, MTV had so much "fly on the wall" content, music videos were showing it, everybody wanted their five minutes of fame and only the extreme behaviour got the airtime. No place for nice guys in that era, only jocks, frat boys, bikini girls, all with cameras shoved in their face, egging them on.
Young people weren't taken seriously, tended to be ridiculed and their views not listened to, and the majority of the bands that were booked were anti-establishment, middle finger to the system messages, that's the way a lot people probably felt in general and all the shortcomings at the event only highlighted how much they were being ripped off.
I know Glastonbury has had it's problems over the years, but they've learned lessons and made improvements and a lot of their profits go to charity, so it goes to show that things can be turned around if you're willing to let go of the ego and admit where you've gone wrong.
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