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I wont be going to another festival for a long long time!
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Why is it when there is trouble at a gig/festival etc its always the townies who are involved? Deliberately trying to knock people off their feet in the mosh pit, not helping people who had fallen in the pit and rioting.
To top it all off I read in the paper today that a girl got raped while her friend was asleep in the same tent at reading.
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To top it all off I read in the paper today that a girl got raped while her friend was asleep in the same tent at reading.
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I don't think anything happened at Reading or did it coz i left on Sunday night...............people should look after each other in the mosh pit tho.....shocking :O
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sometimes you've just got to keep going....
Just thought I would high-light this point, will you people not be happy until Leeds is cancelled due to repeated riots and Glastonbury is declared unsafe due to cheap bastards jumping fences and dangerously overcrowding the site?
Artists like Marilyn Manson and Eminem will probably get blamed for the violence too. I don't like either artist, but all you knod-head rioters do.
Why burn down a toilet? It may be momenterily 'funny' but thinking back it was dangerous and filthy.
Just grow up, a festival is a time for peace, drink and music. It shouldn't be dangerous, I am sick of skum-bags ruining it.
I don't think you can blame the riots on the music of two artists, or on their fans.
To say that all the rioters like Marilyn Manson and Eminem is like saying that all left handed people are called Doris. It doesn't make sense.
Forgive me if i'm wrong, but didn't all the violence happen at leeds? And didn't Mazza and Em play on the first night? I don't see the corolation between Manson and Eminem and the riots.
I was made for a better world.
What? That is clearly not what I meant at all. I didn't blame anyone! I said that they will, unfairly, get bad hype and negative press due to the rioting of 'fans', who where at the festival.
I didn't say that the music was responsible for the riot, but contraversial artists will be associated with the violence. I am saying that people at Leeds did like Eminem and Manson, thats why they went. These people, "fans" of the artists, did riot. I was just highlighting that by being anti-social your idols (inevitably Eminem, etc) will develop a worse reputation and come under fire for lyrics glamourizing violence and rebelion.
I do not blame riots on the artists, but other people will! And Eminem/Manson fans did riot, along with everyone else. They will be blamed, unfairly. I am blaming no artist or fanbase, but all the rioters. This included me last year, but any more behaviour like this and we will suffer. Trust me, the festival will be cancelled and nobody will want to book contraversial stars, not because they are to blame but because they make scape-goats.
Jeffery, rioters at Leeds are fans of Eminem and Manson, headline acts of the festival. I don't blame them for the trouble entirely, but the stars make easy targets for the officials to blame. The fact that they played a different night means nothing, you aren't going to ruin everything while you still live there, are you?
Just a warning not to push it any more next year, it's gone far enough. Police got injured and others hurt... "heh heh, thats cool"! Don't be dicks... have a good time in an adult way (drink yourself unconscious)!
So, 'Em' and 'Mazza' aren't responsible, but could still be blamed by the bible-spunking government, etc. I doubt they are fans in the first place.
[This message has been edited by Captain Kirk (edited 31-08-2001).]
That there’s no family element may have something to do with it too. Glastonbury draws a far larger and more diverse crowd than Reading and there’s not nearly so much trouble. Guildford Festival has no bother at all.