Glastonbury sold out and is nowhere near as good as it used to be
What has been will they be digging up to headline this year?
You won’t be able to take a breath of fresh air soon without being charged £60 for the pleasure.
Broken Britain.
My favourite is the lad with the glasses to the far right who looks like he is cracking a dangerous one out.
Plenty of better festivals in the UK for a third of the price.
I go most years but unfortunately this rise has priced me out. Once you add in transport, food and pints then it’s easily £600+ nowadays – I’d much rather put that towards a nice holiday somewhere rather than camping in a field in Somerset.
The price rise is surely going to impact the sort of demographics that are able to go, and the overall feel of the festival.
A single standing ticket for a one act like Sheeran can be a few hundred pounds. Some packages for Blink 182 were nearly £200. Compared to that, Glastonbury is still actually pretty good value, considering how many stages and acts are on, over four days. It’s £85 a day to see numerous great artists, plus all the other stuff going on. The BBC gives the impression there’s about four stages main stages, but that’s simply not the case.
Fleece those Joshuas and Emilys for everything they’re worth!
If they want to see a reunited Mumford & Sons play the main stage on Sunday night, let them pay 1000 quid for the privilege!
Going against the grain here but when you look at the price of individual gigs these days this is still pretty good value. An Arctic monkeys ticket next year is the thick end of 90 quid. Smaller band tickets are easily 20-40 quid in Manchester nowadays and you’ll see so many at a festival. Bit sad to see it going up but that’s the times we’re living in when they say it’s to cover increased costs I believe them.
Festival are fucked, they are going to either be pricing people out or making huge cutbacks. Several smaller festivals were cancelled this year and even the bigger ones like boomtown were rife with problems like secretive lines up missing big acts announced at the last minute once tickets are already booked and in boomtown case the scams coming about from going “cash free”.
Hardly surprising, the cost of everything related to putting the festival on in the first place has probably gone through the roof.
I personally prefer to watch the performances on iPlayer with the speakers up and a few cocktails, but to each their own. Looks like a fun weekend.
Honestly that is still absurdly cheap for what you are actually getting. The headliners eat a fat loss to put on the shows.
One of the few festivals that hasn’t been over commercialised. Still the best in the world.
Looking at the recent shit show that was the Blink 182 ticket sales, this really isn’t bad value.
It’s a long weekend away with top live music. With the way the economy is the price aint too bad tbh..
I love Glastonbury and was thinking of going, but for me it’s a choice between a camping holiday (which I hate, Glasto is the only exception) or a mini break for the fringe in Edinburgh. Once you factor food, tickets, etc in you’re looking at £600-700 and my back would definitely prefer the fringe. Plus it’s easier to go on your own. I’ve done festivals alone before but never Glastonbury. Lots of memories there, not sure it would be the same.
When you consider the festival as a whole experience, the fact that gigs/merch are the best way for bands to make money I think it’s not bad value. I know if your taking kids etc it’s expensive, but I think it’s probably worth the money
I don’t think that’s a bad price, but Glastonbury is extremely commercial now. I went a few times in the 90’s and early 2000’s and had an awesome time. In the past 10 years it has become more about packing in as many people as possible and charging them £10 for a burger. It lost its magic a while back.
If you treat Glastonbury as a week holiday without the bed and breakfast it’s a ok deal however if your treating it as a few days out watching bands play, well it’s kinda crappy deal.Depends on how you look at it. Then again the younger generation have to blow of some steam somehow why not charge them for the pleasure lol
It’s what, 4 days? You can offset the cost against the energy bills you’ll be saving!
I’m sure Daddy will just reduce the gardeners wages so Jacinta, Poppy, Tarquin and Giles can still go.
Glad I went in the late 90’s early 2000’s, you can’t see the stage now with all those stupid flags.
They aren’t a commercial or money making enterprise, don’t have commercial sponsors and it is fucking massive. This is still a bargain. I don’t think people who’ve never been even have an idea, it is like a city in itself with entertainment and stuff going on across it all constantly for 5 days. It isn’t just watching a headliner on the Pyramid stage, you could go and never even see the main stages and have an amazing time.
£340 is a fucking bargain for that amount of entertainment!
I’m an old bastard but I remember when tickets were £28. It sucks to be into live music these days.
Holy shit. The first time I went to Glastonbury it was £65. I still have the ticket. 1998, Oasis headlined, I remember them being late and Liam turned up in a long fur coat that got covered in mud almost instantly. 2nd time I went it was like £100 in 2007 and Paul McCartney was headlining. £340 just seems nuts.
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Glastonbury sold out and is nowhere near as good as it used to be
What has been will they be digging up to headline this year?
You won’t be able to take a breath of fresh air soon without being charged £60 for the pleasure.
Broken Britain.
My favourite is the lad with the glasses to the far right who looks like he is cracking a dangerous one out.
Plenty of better festivals in the UK for a third of the price.
I go most years but unfortunately this rise has priced me out. Once you add in transport, food and pints then it’s easily £600+ nowadays – I’d much rather put that towards a nice holiday somewhere rather than camping in a field in Somerset.
The price rise is surely going to impact the sort of demographics that are able to go, and the overall feel of the festival.
A single standing ticket for a one act like Sheeran can be a few hundred pounds. Some packages for Blink 182 were nearly £200. Compared to that, Glastonbury is still actually pretty good value, considering how many stages and acts are on, over four days. It’s £85 a day to see numerous great artists, plus all the other stuff going on. The BBC gives the impression there’s about four stages main stages, but that’s simply not the case.
Fleece those Joshuas and Emilys for everything they’re worth!
If they want to see a reunited Mumford & Sons play the main stage on Sunday night, let them pay 1000 quid for the privilege!
Going against the grain here but when you look at the price of individual gigs these days this is still pretty good value. An Arctic monkeys ticket next year is the thick end of 90 quid. Smaller band tickets are easily 20-40 quid in Manchester nowadays and you’ll see so many at a festival. Bit sad to see it going up but that’s the times we’re living in when they say it’s to cover increased costs I believe them.
Festival are fucked, they are going to either be pricing people out or making huge cutbacks. Several smaller festivals were cancelled this year and even the bigger ones like boomtown were rife with problems like secretive lines up missing big acts announced at the last minute once tickets are already booked and in boomtown case the scams coming about from going “cash free”.
Hardly surprising, the cost of everything related to putting the festival on in the first place has probably gone through the roof.
I personally prefer to watch the performances on iPlayer with the speakers up and a few cocktails, but to each their own. Looks like a fun weekend.
Honestly that is still absurdly cheap for what you are actually getting. The headliners eat a fat loss to put on the shows.
One of the few festivals that hasn’t been over commercialised. Still the best in the world.
Looking at the recent shit show that was the Blink 182 ticket sales, this really isn’t bad value.
It’s a long weekend away with top live music. With the way the economy is the price aint too bad tbh..
I love Glastonbury and was thinking of going, but for me it’s a choice between a camping holiday (which I hate, Glasto is the only exception) or a mini break for the fringe in Edinburgh. Once you factor food, tickets, etc in you’re looking at £600-700 and my back would definitely prefer the fringe. Plus it’s easier to go on your own. I’ve done festivals alone before but never Glastonbury. Lots of memories there, not sure it would be the same.
When you consider the festival as a whole experience, the fact that gigs/merch are the best way for bands to make money I think it’s not bad value. I know if your taking kids etc it’s expensive, but I think it’s probably worth the money
I don’t think that’s a bad price, but Glastonbury is extremely commercial now. I went a few times in the 90’s and early 2000’s and had an awesome time. In the past 10 years it has become more about packing in as many people as possible and charging them £10 for a burger. It lost its magic a while back.
If you treat Glastonbury as a week holiday without the bed and breakfast it’s a ok deal however if your treating it as a few days out watching bands play, well it’s kinda crappy deal.Depends on how you look at it. Then again the younger generation have to blow of some steam somehow why not charge them for the pleasure lol
It’s what, 4 days? You can offset the cost against the energy bills you’ll be saving!
I’m sure Daddy will just reduce the gardeners wages so Jacinta, Poppy, Tarquin and Giles can still go.
Glad I went in the late 90’s early 2000’s, you can’t see the stage now with all those stupid flags.
They aren’t a commercial or money making enterprise, don’t have commercial sponsors and it is fucking massive. This is still a bargain. I don’t think people who’ve never been even have an idea, it is like a city in itself with entertainment and stuff going on across it all constantly for 5 days. It isn’t just watching a headliner on the Pyramid stage, you could go and never even see the main stages and have an amazing time.
£340 is a fucking bargain for that amount of entertainment!
I’m an old bastard but I remember when tickets were £28. It sucks to be into live music these days.
Holy shit. The first time I went to Glastonbury it was £65. I still have the ticket. 1998, Oasis headlined, I remember them being late and Liam turned up in a long fur coat that got covered in mud almost instantly. 2nd time I went it was like £100 in 2007 and Paul McCartney was headlining. £340 just seems nuts.