Cranegod wrote:
I would love to get young (again), go back and watch any festival from '74 
In 1974 I was sitting my O-levels in Darlington N Yorks, Reading Festival I'd only read and dreamed about in the NME (Melody Maker was naff) ... not realising that within a decade I would have my own place not half a mile from the festival site ... but at 26 my musical tastes had matured to a total rejection of popular music for classical.
It took a long time to see any value in what I used to listen to, and then it was jazz fusion eclecticity like Soft Machine, Hatfield, Henry Cow ... until I discovered the traditional music of our islands, my native central europe and continents beyond.
Now I love most music, from 1600's chamber music through 19c romantics to contemporary classical / opera, trad / modern jazz and styles of 50's pop to 90's indie guitar rock.
What the Reading Festival presents doesn't work for me, you'd have to pay me to listen to the headliners, maybe there's a gem lurking on a minor stage ... I'm not an old fogey (check Throwing Muses, Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees for stuff in context I'd like to see) ... so yes a festival for 18 year olds listening to the worst music of their generation, as generational music goes ...
Statistics: Posted by Laura_Eva — 18 Jul 2013 23:25