Weller slates Glasto

'You'd have to be off your box' to enjoy it

22 Apr 2008 - Paul Weller has slated Glastonbury - and that's everything about the festival, including the audience.

Weller, a veteran Glastonbury performer, reckons that a change in the calibre of music fan in the audience has affected the event:

"The difference between doing it in '94 and doing it last year, was that most of the audience knew the greatest hits, whereas in '94 they were music fans.

You didn't just have to do the greatest hits, that was very noticeable to me."

"It's just really corporate now" -   Paul Weller

Weller went on to slam the event as a whole:

"The conditions are disgusting aren't they? I don't know how people can... I mean you'd have to be off your box just to stay there for three days wouldn't ya?" 

I'm not a big lover of festivals at the best of times, I like proper gigs... and it's just really corporate now isn't it?"

To hear more from that interview, download this week's Music Week podcast using the link below.


Ruth Barnes