Glastonbury 2024

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tommye said:
Glastonbury is about discovery mate. I'm 54 in 2 wks and love just wandering around finding new stuff, acts etc to listen to and get immersed in.
Get mashed off ye tits for breakfast and see what the day brings.
Planning never works and is for straight heads.
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I go round Wychwood every year. I get in free by helping one of the organisers set up. Most if the music isn't to my taste, although occasionally they get the levellers which is great. I love just wandering about not expecting much, having the odd listen, enjoying the atmosphere and not having paid a penny for it.

The Manic Mondays* and Mel C was there last year. Enjoyed that.

*boy that fella has a potty mouth!
 

Littlesue said:
Just do a Butlins weekend, more fun at a fraction of the price 😆
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Many a true word spoken in jest.

My daughter lives almost walking distance from Glastonbury and gets some sort of residential dibs on tickets. I was tempted to give it a try until she told me the price.

Perhaps I'm just too old ...
 

chrismpw said:
The first .... no thanks ... I left electronic music behind with Jean Michelle Jarre - a flame that burned strong then went out.

The second ... better but a bit early 80s - a decade of music I detested. Having said that, it was better than most things I heard in the 80s.

Third - I quite liked, but a bit overproduced.... thought it was a film score at first.
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I take my hat off to you. Listening to 3 albums in 13 minutes takes some doing.
 

Barnfred 55 said:
Spotify is a free and very easy way of discovering new music. When you find something you enjoy, just like it and the algorithm will recommend more of the same ilk. I probably listen to it 2/3 hours a day. In fact I have it on now. Similarly YouTube if you enjoy watching music videos too.
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I'm a bit of a puritan (not snob) about music fidelity. If I can't hear detail I just don't want to listen - it just doesn't grab me. Equally i really dislike background music and prefer pubs that either do live music or none at all. This is also probably why I don't like electronic music over instruments.

For these reasons I avoided compressed, low fidelity spotify and streaming until last year when I discovered qobuz who (like tidal) do high def streams. I'm now an addict!

I sometimes watch YouTube videos of music, with the sound pushed to my hifi but only late on a Friday after many many beers have lowered my inhibitions!
 
GrimbolandBlue said:
I've just turned 30 and I'm already seeing loads of friends get set in their ways on what music they're into but I honestly think the best thing you can do for yourself is be open to giving new stuff a go.
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I just turned 30 too but I set my ways in preferred music about 15 years ago, doesn't stop me from trying new things like.

Just a lot of the newer stuff I try/discover is honestly boring. Obviously not all, I have a playlist with newer/"Discover" music and stuff, some bangers in there, but nothing grabs me as much I guess, so I gravitate to my preferred bands/genres.
 
chrismpw said:
I'm a bit of a puritan (not snob) about music fidelity. If I can't hear detail I just don't want to listen - it just doesn't grab me. Equally i really dislike background music and prefer pubs that either do live music or none at all. This is also probably why I don't like electronic music over instruments.

For these reasons I avoided compressed, low fidelity spotify and streaming until last year when I discovered qobuz who (like tidal) do high def streams. I'm now an addict!

I sometimes watch YouTube videos of music, with the sound pushed to my hifi but only late on a Friday after many many beers have lowered my inhibitions!
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You're a snob but you don't understand the need for 'them big headphones' and the like?!

I had a colleague that was a snob but he was a lot more of a knob also in that he tried to push how little we know about music onto us because he was a HiFi enjoyer like you but also used to work for a big company that does a lot of those massive systems, DACs, etc. Insufferable tit he was, and even if you look past the whole high def/"I can hear the lamp buzzing because I hear the frequencies*" nonsense he was even worse as a person because he was a know it all of the highest order. Luckily I don't work there anymore so that's good.


* he could also "hear" a TV that wasn't on and used to go and actually unplug it as it was "loud".
 
chrismpw said:
I'm a bit of a puritan (not snob) about music fidelity. If I can't hear detail I just don't want to listen - it just doesn't grab me. Equally i really dislike background music and prefer pubs that either do live music or none at all. This is also probably why I don't like electronic music over instruments.

For these reasons I avoided compressed, low fidelity spotify and streaming until last year when I discovered qobuz who (like tidal) do high def streams. I'm now an addict!

I sometimes watch YouTube videos of music, with the sound pushed to my hifi but only late on a Friday after many many beers have lowered my inhibitions!
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Fair enough. So why not use Qobuz to listen to a bit more of those 3 recommendations, rather than make a judgment based on just 1 track, which may in fact be the worst on each of the albums?
 
Some of the headliners aren't good enough for me, the likes of SZA, Burna Boy etc are very popular, but seem more suited to Coachella more than Glastonbury. There are still plenty of good acts though and I'm sure it'll be a great week
 

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