There’s no denying it, festivals have changed immeasurably over the last few years.
In a recent video Adam Bouxton has captured one side of the change to festival – The Posh – the type who bring their own collapsible Yurt and a nurse, “in case anybody gets hurt.”
Music
There’s a great comment on the music, “Everyone over to the advert stage – Moby’s on, Oh Yes! Then it’s Groove Armada, with the theme from M&S. Then it’s a bloke that I don’t really know, with a tune from a phone campaign. Then it’s Suggs with the Iceland song – then Moby’s on again!”
Thanks to Ray Foulk (Organiser of the original IW Festivals), for bringing this to our attention who said, “Who’d have thought it would end up like this!” (Jo Macaulay had shown it to him.)
Still some real festivals around
There are still some real festivals around – we where hugely impressed with how true to original festival thinking Hawkfest was when it came to the Island.
Hawkfest was there for the music and the people – not designed to grow as large as possible to squeeze the maximum amount of money out of the people who went along – “More like a village fete,” as Hawkwind bass player, Mr Dibbs told us there.
Refreshingly, you weren’t constantly bumping into people who were off their faces on drugs and drink – unlike most festivals these days.
