Queue Here To Complain About It Not Being As Good As It Used To Be
Just recovering from a weekend of jumping around at Bestival back home on the Island. Lovely! Despite having an awful name as my grandma Judy would say. Spoilt rotten with a line up including Gogol Bordello, Guillemots, Son of Dave, Kid Carpet, The Pipettes, The Fall and all sorts of fantastic stuff topped off by the fact that it's on an adventure park site where you can toboggan, sit in little gullivan houses, walk a sculpture trail...
Anyway, don't go, it's rubbish, not as good as it used to be, go to V or CreamyFields or whatever you kids do. Leave us alone and certainly don't bring any of your media idiots to come and ruin it anymore than they threatened to do this year. Screens on the main stage and cameras blocking your view of the band. Trendy dailies getting on the bandwagon, reporters in the WI tea tent moving around like they own the place, not looking where they're going nearly hitting people with their equipment. I think i'm quite easy going really but the way people with a camera or microphone behave as if the world revolves around them (when surely it should be the other way around) gets my blood boiling. Embarrassing really, 11 on a lovely sunday morning about to get some cheap tea off somebody's gran and I nearly get into a fight with a cameraman.
And one more thing. For all their nouveau conservative talk about recycling being the biggest theme of the festival there was more rubbish than ever. Recycling bins which included ones for glass when clearly no-one had any bottles. No sign of any employed rubbish collectors. Not enough loos so people pissing and crapping in the lovely woods. Recycle my arse. About as empty as most of the recycling promises we seem to be getting from elsewhere in the nation.
So there you go, I'll get off the high horse now and go down the beach. Staying home to enjoy the indian climate change summer. Oh yeah, had a lovely tree climb at the fest as well. Have a look at http://www.goodleaf.co.uk. Lovely folks, amazing what you can do with a few ropes and a bit of friction!