UK’s Glastonbury music festival will get around a late-night ban on loud bass by handing wireless headphones out to the attendees, producing a silent rave:"I like the idea of people dancing in total silence, one of the festival organisers and daughter of the founder Michael Eavis. "Imagine if you were feeling a bit worse for wear and thought, ’This would be a nice quiet place to sit down’."You would be completely freaked out to see 3000 people dancing in silence. It’s certainly quirky, but our big push this year is keeping the noise down because that’s what the council is keen on.
It seems slightly (okay, highly) counterintuitive to us to go about cutting party noise by having everyone dance wearing wireless headphones—afterall, isn’t half the point in listening to the music out and loud? But hey, we’re not going to pretend the rave scene ever made much sense to begin with, and apparently Glastonbury’s trying to appease The Man by moving late-night dance sessions to a mass headphone affair because of all that pesky block-rocking bass (maybe they were inspired by those Sony commercials from a few weeks back?). But seriously, have you ever been to a party with no music? It’s freaking scary, man—imagine taking off the headphones and hearing the sounds of a few hundred or thousand people dancing? Actually, no, that would be totally amazing and hilarious
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