elmo, middle aged people are entitled to have a festival as well... ...i'd have been there if they hadn't got rid of the third stage

some day that will be us pottering along to a festival like that...seeing the monkeys on their "never ending tour"....with the prodigy doing an acoustic set!! followed by the stone roses 5th reunion tour!!.....oh and U2 will be playing in the carpark for the people queueing to get in!!!!

I would've been there, but I had a party to go to. Kind of glad I didn't go now after that article in the Times today saying it started 3 hours earlier than advertised and there were 40 minute Qs for the toilets.

That kind of sounds like 'Oh I'd love to go but I have to wash my hair' :P And Palace you are of course correct that middle aged people do have a right to their own fesival. It's just that the music there was incredibly wearisome and I couldn't tell if acts had changed or not sometimes. And the sight of people actually bringing their chairs to the front of the stage seemed a bit out of place since I'm used to the Oxegens, Castlepaloozas and Garden Party (singlular) of this island. I am definitly going to a festival overseas next year, any recommendations?

Imagine sitting down to Kenny Rogers? That's mental.

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We're all going to be middle-aged someday and it's going to come around sooner than you think.

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What age is middle aged these days????? I never wanna see Kenny Rodgers

Well obviously I still don't want to think of getting old yet, I hit 21 in two months. And middle aged-dom is on the decrease, soon we will live in a Logan's Run type world. I can see my crystal thing glowing already... Imagine seeing Kenny in person. UURRGHHHH I seem to have also hit a nerve with the whole middle age thing so I shall lay down my prejudices as they are totally unfounded upon anything else but the fear of aging. I'm gonna buy a dune buggy!

Good news everybody--Kenny Rogers is to play the Point on October 19th.....Hopefully seats will be provided so we won't have to bring along our green ones from the weekend!!

Sarcasm is great isn't it

there were some good acts on that there bill though... there was low, there was lambchop... were mosaik there?...unfortunately the third stage diappearing meant no king creosote or jimmy cake... ...don't forget that middle-aged people could like better music than you do

Low are awesome

i went on the friday and had fun. saw down in front of the main stage (in a sea of cowboy hats and yes...OLD PEOPLE!) and watched Loudon Wainwright, saw Hayseed Dixie, the amazing Mozaik and Low play in a small tent. regarding the article in the Times that Una mentioned - they were chopping and changing the bill a few weeks ago with the third stage being axed and uncertainty over who was still playing but i think it was announced well in advance that the festival was starting 3 hours earlier and would be running later. the organisers did put out some bulls**t press release regarding the reasons for the changes but it wasn't totally last minute. my only complaint about the day was the bus drivers from Dublin being hopeless.

It is a terrible road to get down to, the amount of times our drivers got lost or went around in circles is unbelieveable, we ended up in Longford at one stage but did they listen to me, no...