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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. I spoke to Claire Stephens earlier

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Speaker 1: about Splendor in the Grass. This is the festival. It

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Speaker 1: goes over a couple of days. Bar and Bay. What

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Speaker 1: a calamity. Terrible weather was the start. But we see

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Speaker 1: in Glastonbury people walk around in the mud. They've got

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Speaker 1: boots and things. But there were things that were compounded

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Speaker 1: with that. Accommodation got washed away. Buses couldn't transport people

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Speaker 1: here and there. The cues were enormous. Heard stories of

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Speaker 1: people sort of peeing around the toilets because the toilet

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Speaker 1: they couldn't get into. The toilets were bad.

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Speaker 2: There could be any toilet at a festival.

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Speaker 1: Well, with all the mud, how could you tell?

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Speaker 3: I had a bit of joemo with festivals. That's joy

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Speaker 3: of missing out. I've never been a festival guy, even

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Speaker 3: when I was young. I've been to a few festals.

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Speaker 3: Big day Out, went to the Stone Music Festival, remember that.

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Speaker 2: But you're in VIP Yeah, and I'm still comp the area. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm thenging out with David Lee Roth and I'm still complaining.

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Speaker 2: That's the sort of guy.

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Speaker 1: I likes to see a show in the afternoon and

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Speaker 1: I can sit there with glass of wine and a

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Speaker 1: cheese played, and that I love every song and a

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Speaker 1: toilet next to me. It has to be that.

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Speaker 3: I know some people, young people that have gone to

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Speaker 3: Splendor and they're very optimistic, but even they say, oh,

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Speaker 3: come on, it's just too much. The biggest one, I think,

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Speaker 3: because you're paying four hundred and fifteen dollars for the thing.

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Speaker 3: And then on Friday they canceled the first show because

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Speaker 3: they couldn't go on Stags it was too wet, so

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Speaker 3: Gorillas didn't play.

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Speaker 1: What about Gorillas in the midst.

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Speaker 3: So they didn't play. And I'm just thinking of the

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Speaker 3: line up like the Strokes. I think I like the

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Speaker 3: Strokes for their one song, but that's a lot of money,

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Speaker 3: that's a lot of stuff to put in there.

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Speaker 1: But I think stand them to stand around the mud,

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Speaker 1: to enjoy the moment, whether it's your favorite band, that's

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Speaker 1: true to it.

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Speaker 2: Clear, you know.

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Speaker 3: But the big thing would be the camping thing. You

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Speaker 3: get there and you camp, but because it's all flooded,

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Speaker 3: they was sending you to another place where the campgrounds were,

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Speaker 3: but that's thirteen point five k's away, So you're thirteen

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Speaker 3: point five k's away from the action. Then you've got

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Speaker 3: to go on the shuttle bus. But because there's not

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Speaker 3: enough shuttle buses, because everyone now has to go thirteen

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Speaker 3: point five k's away.

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Speaker 2: They're waiting for seven hours. In seven flying hours, you're

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Speaker 2: landed in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like the Fire Festival. The documentary on the Fire

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Speaker 1: Festival has to be seen to be believed. But not

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Speaker 1: all concerts are bad because of those circumstances. There's not

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Speaker 1: always festivals. I'm going to nominate a concert that I

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Speaker 1: went to and I blame you for why it was

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Speaker 1: so terrible. It wasn't a concert so much as a show.

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Speaker 1: It was Grease, the musical.

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Speaker 2: Grease the Arenas direct.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it was. It would have been great.

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Speaker 1: It had Natalie Basin Thwaite, it had Craig McLaughlin. What

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Speaker 1: made it terrible was that the technology the stage kept.

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Speaker 3: Breaking, a big rotating stage and it used to break.

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Speaker 3: It would break down every.

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Speaker 2: Twenty minutes and the cast had to leave.

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Speaker 3: The PA announcement that would say attention, cast and staff

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Speaker 3: leave the stage.

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Speaker 2: And that that was dead set would happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you took it as your incentive to leave

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Speaker 1: your seat and go and get another beer, and it

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Speaker 1: looked like we were at a football ground final. The

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Speaker 1: floor around us was just strewn with his plastic beer

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Speaker 1: containers and things. And I kept actually, I'm in a theater.

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Speaker 2: I have never seen this before in a theater. I

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Speaker 2: was trying to woo you to come and do this

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Speaker 2: show here. I was already working here. It was in

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Speaker 2: the early days. It was the wu time in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and.

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Speaker 1: Four, honestly, But I looked around me. This isn't what

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Speaker 1: you normally.

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Speaker 3: See breakdown for twenty minutes. The show went for five hours.

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Speaker 3: Was just too much.

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Speaker 1: What's what's the concert? You've seen that?

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Speaker 2: What was bad?

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Speaker 3: There was one and I don't blame the artist because

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Speaker 3: it was a medical emergency. But I was watching this

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Speaker 3: great concert. It was you had Motley Crue, kiss Thin Lizzie,

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Speaker 3: someone else and they were all playing at Ace Arena.

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Speaker 3: It was just fantastic, except when Motley Crue came on.

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Speaker 3: They did one song and Vince Neil because Vince Neil

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Speaker 3: passed a kidney.

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Speaker 2: Stone on stage.

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Speaker 3: Do you know, because Tommy Lee announced it, Hey we

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Speaker 3: gonna go, Vince Neil just passed the kidneyston.

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Speaker 2: I said, that's a new range of merch. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because that would be painful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah from I've never passed a kidney start, but it

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be.

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Speaker 1: Apparently incredibly incredible.

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Speaker 2: He passed it on Star, shouldn't failing it