Friday, June 26, 2020

Looking Back At A Simpler Time: "Glastonbury Festival vs. Camp Alphaville"

It was only five years ago that we were linking to this little advert but it brings to mind the great first line of L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel The Go-Between:
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
Thursday, June 25, 2015:
A simple head-to-head comparison of two randomly selected events occurring in the next week or so.
Glastonbury
Alphaville
Master of Ceremonies
None
Cardiff Garcia
Headliners
Kanye West,
Florence+Machine,
Who,
Motörhead
Craig Pirrong,
Kit Juckes,
Luigi Zingales
Willem Buiter
Mystics in Attendance
Dalai Lama
Lionel Barber
Breakout Groups
PANEL: Pussy Riot in Conversation
PANEL: New Frontiers-Fracking, TTIP, Housing Rights
PANEL: 2015 WTF? Trying to Make Some Sense of it All
Energy and the Petrodollar Nexus
The Winner Takes All Model - The
Path to Tech Godhood
The Global Financial Ecosystem
2000-2020: Evolution, Disruption, Calibration
Izabella Kaminska?
Not even close
YES
Telepresence robots
Maybe next year
Yes
Something for the young minds?
Kidzfield
Great Camp Alphaville Quiz and Networking?
Fistfights?
Yes
Maybe
--> --> There's really no comparison.