Free tix for V Festival

[PaulX]

Someone at work has been given a free pair of tickets to V but can't go this weekend, so is giving them away.

Couldn't be arsed myself - does anyone else want them?

[buzzingtalk]

waaaa thats funny as

i well would aswell, even just to laugh at chavs and emo's

[Lady_Jane]

ex is building the stages for this farcival

[buzzingtalk]

farcival, har har

[dance dissadent]

Line ups OK, but everyone seems to be playing at the same time.

V is my least favourite festival though.

[Lady_Jane]

it's a rotten-to-the-core corporate whore

looks like it's going to be a mudbath too. haven't heard from ex for 2 days, that means either he has lost his phone or he's working 18 hours shifts trying to make the stages safe in all this wind & rain.

[N2O]

I'm going on sunday to see Radiohead

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[Petch]

I went in 2002 and it was okay, but i hated how they searched you everytime you left the main arena going back to the camping area...and you could not bring any drinks into the main arena either, even if you bought them in their originally. That really pissed me off.

[Taloen Loch]

I don't think it's any better or worse than Glasto, Leeds, T or the other big commercial festivals. In fact, Radiohead being there makes it one the best festival of the summer in my book. It's all about the line-up.

[PaulX]

I don't think it's any better or worse than Glasto, Leeds, T or the other big commercial festivals. In fact, Radiohead being there makes it one the best festival of the summer in my book. It's all about the line-up.

For you, clearly.

If V floats your boat, go for it. But the free tickets have gone, I'm afraid.

[buzzingtalk]

if it was free id go to pretty much anything innit, and just pike about, in fact id turn into a right pieky if i went to a chav festival

one day imma do glasto, i did it when i was in the womb, WOMBCORE \m/

but i wanna go again, i think next year im going to work my way festies, and do bar work n shit to pay for my ticket, except for glade and beautiful days wher ill pay for my ticket, so i can get mash potoatoed

oh and wanna do UK Tek and Czeck Tek aswell. Shoud really get a job...

[PaulX]

I'd go to V as well if the line-up interested me - there's bugger all else to do there if the line-up doesn't interest you, after all. At least with Glasto there's plenty of other things to do if you don't like the main stage acts.

This year's V line-up doesn't thrill me at all. Radiohead are almost as over-rated as the Beatles, although not quite as dull as Coldplay.

[xkejjer]

arent radiohead playing at V?

that should be enough reason for you to go instead of persisting with this chav nonsense.

[N2O]

arent radiohead playing at V?

that should be enough reason for you to go instead of persisting with this chav nonsense.

Absolutely!!!

[PaulX]

Like I already said...

This year's V line-up doesn't thrill me at all. Radiohead are almost as over-rated as the Beatles, although not quite as dull as Coldplay.

And as if that wasn't tedious enough, they also have Morrissey headlining.

[Lady_Jane]

well. the rain continues...

Rick is very happy - they got really far behind because of the winds but should have the thing finished by 10. He's very happy because he's wound up doing site driving all weekend - so he gets to drive loads huge toys about and stay warm in his cab smoking plus he gets paid more

[Taloen Loch]

I don't think it's any better or worse than Glasto, Leeds, T or the other big commercial festivals. In fact, Radiohead being there makes it one the best festival of the summer in my book. It's all about the line-up.

For you, clearly.

If V floats your boat, go for it. But the free tickets have gone, I'm afraid.

Oh I wasn't asking for them - the football season kicks off for me tomorrow and not even Radiohead are worth missing that - I just think V gets an unnecessarily hard time from festival goers in general and it deserves defending a bit.

Sure there isn't much to do when the music isn't playing but that's true of most festivals and I wouldn't avoid it because it's honest about it's commercialism (instead of dressing it up for the niche "ethical market" like certain others) or because it's full of charvs. Who you go with and the bands playing tend to be what makes or breaks a festival, the rest is largely unimportant.

[Lady_Jane]

nah - once you've been to glade you could never abide V. It''s got corporate cock shoved so far down all of it's orifices that it can't drink, smoke, sniff, breath, shit or fuck. And that's what festivals are all about!

far too restrictive - I'd only go to V if I could stay in a nice hotel every evening No atmosphere at all. Not my idea of a festival.

[Taloen Loch]

nah - once you've been to glade you could never abide V. It''s got corporate cock shoved so far down all of it's orifices that it can't drink, smoke, sniff, breath, shit or fuck. And that's what festivals are all about!

far too restrictive - I'd only go to V if I could stay in a nice hotel every evening No atmosphere at all. Not my idea of a festival.

Nah, I've been to Glade since and I'd still go back to V without any worries. We're so exposed to advertising in everyday life in the UK that it doesn't especially worry me having it at a festival as well.

[PaulX]

Nah, I've been to Glade since and I'd still go back to V without any worries. We're so exposed to advertising in everyday life in the UK that it doesn't especially worry me having it at a festival as well.

Horses for courses. *shrug*

Obviously a lot of people do like V, they have no trouble selling tickets after all. If you're happier with that kind of festival than with what you see as the cynical niche marketing of Glasto etc, good for you.

[buzzingtalk]

radiohead are awesome, but not enough to warrant me spending a weekned surrounded by some unsavoury people

im just a fan of smaller, community based festie,s with no comrporate whoring and, after lookin at the line up, 90 percent of shit

but as i said, if the ticket wass free id take it.

[PaulX]

radiohead are awesome, but not enough to warrant me spending a weekned surrounded by some unsavoury people

Can I make a small confession here? I do actually have The Bends and OK Computer. And I did see them at Glasto 2003 too.

I think they're OK but just don't think they're that special, that's all. It's fine for people who are still going through that studenty phase of imagining that liking such music makes them appear intelligent (just as earlier generations did the same with prog rock) but I can take it or leave it basically.

[Taloen Loch]

radiohead are awesome, but not enough to warrant me spending a weekned surrounded by some unsavoury people

Can I make a small confession here? I do actually have The Bends and OK Computer. And I did see them at Glasto 2003 too.

I think they're OK but just don't think they're that special, that's all. It's fine for people who are still going through that studenty phase of imagining that liking such music makes them appear intelligent (just as earlier generations did the same with prog rock) but I can take it or leave it basically.

Or perhaps it's just that some people have aged beyond their student days but still want to appear somewhat avant-garde in their middle-aged tastes, imagining they can do so by implying such music isn't worth as much as others think (just as students today do with the more mainstream stuff).

Or perhaps the real reasons behind people liking and disliking particular music are far deeper and more complex than anything we can sum up in a simple line.

[PaulX]

That's wide of the mark, even by your standards. I wouldn't dream of claiming my tastes are anywhere near "avant garde", nor would I pretend to like particular genres to impress others and I certainly don't need your permission to like things which you deem to be too young for me. :kiss: