This weekend saw the start of what is becoming an ever-growing festival season with Camden Crawl being the first of many.
At the start of the last decade there was a handful of festivals (Glastonbury, V, Reading & Leeds and a few others), some of these had been around for years and earned their place. Thanks to internet we are now spoilt for choice in music which has lent to an increase in festivals to fill the needs of every kind of person and their tastes.
Festivals now have the power to take a band from obscurity to chart toppers nowadays due to the amount of coverage given to some events. Take Radio 1’s annual One Big Weekend and Channel 4’sT4 On The Beach host chart friendly bands on their heavily marketed and broadcasted event also give an opportunity for lesser-known acts to play in-front of a crowd of potentially hundreds of thousands.
Festival ‘moments’ used to be about standing in a field amongst lots of similarly minded people singing along to the biggest anthems around. Now it’s about who can shout ‘bollocks’ the loudest at the campsite and making sure you see ‘the next big thing’ at the Festival Republic stage just to say ‘I was there’ for some extra scene points whilst some chav is in your tent nicking your phone.
I look forward to my twitter feed over the summer if this weekend is anything to go by, it was full of comments on the weather and queues, not the bands…
