All this fuss over the Reading Festival at the moment has got me thinking a few things. One is that there has to be a better way of allocating tickets for stuff like this; there are gigs and shows happening pretty much constantly throughout the year all over the world. Some are more popular than others, more well known and better funded so you've got all different kinds of events going on. How come all the tickets are released at the same time, on roughly three websites? Seriously, genius idea guys. Random allocation over the space of a few weeks, more websites that they're available on, there are so many ways that this could be improved, so that there aren't so many pissed off people out there, and such a big market in touting and reselling on ebay.
Obviously I didn't get tickets.
Enough of that, but the conversation topic of Reading is one that's been coming up a lot over Easter, and it just illustrates how different everyone's tastes in music are. While I think that the line up for Reading is banging (making me even more annoyed that I have no ticket), others don't and only want to see the odd band. A massive part of festivals is the atmosphere, hence everyone getting weekend tickets for what is basically going to be a three day party (I foresee a lot of Facebook albums coming out on that Monday: "READING!!! big rave/pissup 2008 [Part 3]" etc.) but if there were no bands that you liked, would you still go? They can't cater for everyone's taste (You won't see many jazz beatniks hanging around Reading) but why do we even have taste in music at all?
People cannot put a finger on why they like a particular song, much easier to say why you don't like something. For example: I don't like music that I feel just has shouting for lyrics, but other people live off it.
If I had to say what I like about the music I like I'd say catchy riffs, playing with repeated bits, and good guitar parts. Just now I went through my current iPod playlist and there is so much that contradicts the previous sentence. I don't even know what I like.
I'm too tired for coherent thought, I'll finish this tomorrow.
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Tbh, of the line up, i REALLY want to see RATM and would like to see bloc party.
i don't have tickets, and in my honest opinion, i only really want to go because i feel like im missing out.
I dont think anybody truthfully likes one particular genre exclusively, what annoys me is when people decide they like one genre and consciously or subconsciously force themselves to like songs in the same genre that they otherwise would not have liked had they not closed their minds in the first place, it will only lead to regret or embarassment.
I wonder if it was the same in older cultures, would some Nth Century guy have said once to his wigged clique that he prefers baroque music because he liked one or two pieces by Vivaldi, and in doing this closed his mind to all other types of composers?
Whats happening in Reading? ( '_')?
Yeah I feel the same about the missing out thing, but I would like to see most of the bands there.
I don't think that we conciously close ourselves into one genre, but genre's are effectively groupings of musical styles, and if there's a particular style we like, then it's going to be found in that genre.
Reading is a weekend music festival, and there's quite a good line up this year (I feel), and basically people our age go and get wasted for three days. Big social thing.
Ah, social thing, that explains why i didnt know n_n.
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