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Festival Badger's Blog - Temper Tantrums

Last week was most certainly the preserve of the ill tempered. What with Gordon Brown's alleged temper tantrums, Nigel Farage's scathing attack on the recently appointed European President and that random bloke on the Ryanair flight that won EUR10,000 on a scratch card and then proceeded, in a fit of rage, to eat the winning ticket. Yes this was most certainly a grumpy week.

This unpleasant business was not lost on the festival world either. This Festival Feeling joined a long list of publications and bloggers to be banned from a well-known festival forum. The excuse given (as with those before) was that of spamming. Once people realised that any mention of TFF was banned, members of the forum began question its integrity – not an unreasonable thing to do I hear you say.  However, the pram was rapidly emptied of all of its toys as these questions were met with a barrage of abuse, insults and four lettered words. Not very grown up and certainly no way to talk to one's customers.

I think in this case I will leave the final word with Emily Eavis when she joked with TFF: “you’ve just got to avoid forums, nobody on there ever seems to have a nice word to say."

Twitter

There were several festivals that announced their line-ups last week and Twitter seemed the media of choice for many of them.

T in the Park clogged up everyone’s feed with their (very impressive) line-up announcement - each set of bands in alphabetical order. With the calibre of acts, it’s no surprise that tickets sold out in an hour and a half!

Not to be out done, Dour Festival also announced their line-up – except they did it tweet by tweet and band by painstaking band….  a touch of over-kill there methinks.

It’s nice to see that many festivals are finally getting the hang of Twitter, although there are a few festivals that are clearly still learning the ropes - but I wont mention any names. Not this week anyway.

Facebook

On Facebook we saw Bestival announce their fancy dress theme with a tasty little video from the Cuban Brothers. The Garden Festival tried to get us to listen to Perry Como - I do hope they are not trying to bring him back to life for a surprise guest appearance at the Croatian event.  And Standon Calling gave everyone a bit of inspiration for their "Murder on the Standon Express" theme - some of these images are great. Personally I think I might take my cue from the great Basil Rathbone’s interpretation of as Sherlock Holmes. If anyone knows of a tailor that caters for badgers then please let me know….

The post of the week has to go to Download who simply asked their Facebook fans: "Can one of you please make a lot of noise right now. Thank you." - they like their music loud, you know! RAAAWK!

That’s all folks, see you next week.

Each week The Festival Badger scours social media networks to bring you all of the news and gossip – it’s a dirty job but someone has to do it! (The views expressed are the badgers own and have nothing to do with This Festival Feeling).