By Monty Munford
The Telegraph
New festivals are always the best ones because, like everything else, the audience feels special because they discovered them first.
That’s why people (usually men) of a certain age talk about the time they saw the Pistols at the 100 Club or Radiohead in front of 40 people or the Stone Roses at Spike Island. I’m one of those men, I’m always banging on about the ten times I saw the Clash.
Festivals, however, jump the manatee at some time or another. Glastonbury is best watched on TV, the Big Chill is now The Big Bar Bill and even Womad suffers in comparison to its 30-year-old younger self.
Then there is the panoply of festivals. Nowadays there’s one for everything and while everybody likes a niche or special interest, being spoilt for choice is one thing, but being spoiled by choice is something else.