Richard Bacon SLAMS Glasto.. TOO WHITE

[Crimson Dynamo]

:facepalm:

He lives in LA, used to be on the telly - aged 46

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why didn’t somebody warn me that Glastonbury is really ugly and ****? The TV makes it look great. When you get there it’s bloody awful. It’s so old and white. It’s about as cool as going caravanning with a load of 50 something bearded LibDems</p>&mdash; richard bacon (@richardpbacon) <a href="https://twitter.com/richardpbacon/status/1540636346418696192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Alf]

If it's that White I'm surprised he didn't snort it.

[Swan]

If he went to a festival somewhere in Africa, would he be tweeting saying it's 'too black'. Doubt it.

[Kate!]

Irrelevant has been trying to claw back a bit of fame

[arista]

If it's that White I'm surprised he didn't snort it.


Yes why he got sacked from Radio 5.

[Mystic Mock]

This guy is just trying to ride off Lenny Henry's comment.

The thing is you can't force black people to attend the venue if they don't want to, and if there's not enough black people wanting to sing Rock or Indie Music (the two primary Music genres at Glastonbury) then they're not gonna perform there, it's honestly not that deep.:joker:

[Cherie]

he should have stayed at home then, that would be one less white old person attending

[Nicky91]

someone needs to shipped off to the retirement home, and needs his daily medication


oh Richard :facepalm: ''too white'' doesn't exist, you moron

[GoldHeart]

I've never been to Glastonbury in my life ,doubt I'd enjoy it or the muddy rainy scenery climate. So I can't comment on it being "too white" . But even if Glastonbury is predominantly white , that's clearly the demographic that mostly go there . Can't really say anymore.

[MTVN]

What you see on TV is very different as that's basically just a series of concerts not the 24/7 reality of living in a field for five days. Headline acts are only a tiny part of it as well. A bunch of bearded Lib Dems in their 50s is probably pretty true tbf but that goes for most festivals as they are hippy magnets and that's where their roots are

[Oliver_W]

There's no such thing as "too white", or "too" anything, for that matter.

What do people making these vacuum-headed takes think would be the correct number of black people? There's a wrong number, and that's zero, but outside of specialist interest events, nothing is likely to only appeal to one demographic.

[Redway]

This guy is just trying to ride off Lenny Henry's comment.

The thing is you can't force black people to attend the venue if they don't want to, and if there's not enough black people wanting to sing Rock or Indie Music (the two primary Music genres at Glastonbury) then they're not gonna perform there, it's honestly not that deep.:joker:

That’s really all it boils down to, Mock. If Burna Boy, Stormzy and Rihanna were in every year’s line-up it would be different but that’s not traditionally the case and in reality only a certain (if somewhat sizeable) proportion of black Brits like indie music that much.

The one that even gives me the most beef is the black people who criticise certain festivals for being too white but coconut/Oreo the hell out of black people who do choose to listen to the type of music most-stanned at those places, even when it’s not actually at the expense of R&B/hip-hop.

As far as I can tell this is just a demographic-preference thingy. If you like, go and listen to Manic Street Preachers and James Blunt. If you don’t like, go to Oye or down Spotify R&B-lane instead. In that sense England’s a totally free country.

[Redway]

Seriously, how many black British people relative to whites are going to camp out in Somerset for 5 days to listen to electro-indie (which actually isn’t bad but is far from the average black Brit’s cup of tea)? When are people going to get real for once?

[Redway]

someone needs to shipped off to the retirement home, and needs his daily medication


oh Richard :facepalm: ''too white'' doesn't exist, you moron

I want to like this post but your sense of humour just doesn’t do it. Not ever.

[Beso]

Same as pride events, they are always lacking diversity.

And looking at the state of all those naked perverts wandering up the high street one can only wish for a bit of class and respect that my well mannered and well brought up black cousins would bring to the proceedings.

[Mystic Mock]

That’s really all it boils down to, Mock. If Burna Boy, Stormzy and Rihanna were in every year’s line-up it would be different but that’s not traditionally the case and in reality only a certain (if somewhat sizeable) proportion of black Brits like indie music that much.

The one that even gives me the most beef is the black people who criticise certain festivals for being too white but coconut/Oreo the hell out of black people who do choose to listen to the type of music most-stanned at those places, even when it’s not actually at the expense of R&B/hip-hop.

As far as I can tell this is just a demographic-preference thingy. If you like, go and listen to Manic Street Preachers and James Blunt. If you don’t like, go to Oye or down Spotify R&B-lane instead. In that sense England’s a totally free country.

I 100% agree with you.