Glastonbury 2007 pt1: the build-up

[TopCat]

Glastonbury ain't what it used to be...

Hi ya!

 

[newbie]

it never was, nor will be again

 

[pootle]

So basically the thing with the pre-registering will mean only the person who bought the ticket will be able to go? i.e. non-transferrable?

Year before last there was a window of opportunity to change names etc. Is this not going to happen this year? I guess there won't be anymore occurences of a couple of people in different houses/on different computers/different phones all trying to buy tix for each other...

 

[aqua]

is meths a spirit?

 

[William of Walworth]

aye, but then he's said lots of things publically, ranging from the fact that band X are playing, through to The Tiny Tea Tent being run by pixies...

Have you actually looked at those Tiny Tea Tent people carefully though?

At 5 am, while on acid??

 

[William of Walworth]

Glastonbury ainpt what it used to be .... Hi ya!

See you down there matey!

 

[William of Walworth]

apparently tickets are confirmed as £145+£5 booking fee

Sharp rise in two years, that

For the skint/poor, it may mean saving now, or getting yer working blag sorted out ...

 

[free spirit]

Have you actually looked at those Tiny Tea Tent people carefully though?

At 5 am, while on acid??

yes and yes and I can confirm they are pixies - I'm actually pretty certain I've even asked them and they said yes

 

[free spirit]

is meths a spirit?

for most people no, for you though... probably

 

[aqua]

for most people no, for you though... probably

watch it

£145 + booking fee? fucks sake

 

[William of Walworth]

£145 + booking fee? fucks sake

Tis a nightmare .... but at least there's asufficient advance warning.

 

[free spirit]

watch it

snigger

£145 + booking fee? fucks sake

right that does it, if it's that price and part owned by clear channel then I want fucking paid please mr eavis

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

£150?

Ouch.

 

[david dissadent]

£150 and no free milk.


What is the world comming too.

 

[blues]

Year 11 - after a second fallow year due to Snufkins purported death, his PR company announce it was all a scam to re-generate interest in the Urban 75/Happy Cows Dairys Festival. Tickets sell at 15 quid a pop with a free pint of milk and a lump of Snufkin Cheese (TM)

Snufkin Seniors Ragtime Mates-From-the-Pub Allstars re-form after years in a drug-addled wilderness but have to play in the car park on the street to a few hippies and Mrs Potts at no.43 peeping out from behind her curtains.

Riot Police break up the gathering with a baton charge and confiscate all the few hippies gear to sell inside the gates.

Snufkin appears onstage on the BBQ decking with Sir Bob Geldof to end world hunger by holding hands together like puffs. All his hair has fallen out - but his beard remains.

Bloody idiot, on yer bike!

(And Moose ain't a fella, you've met her you fool)

 

[moose]

Whilst I'd be the first to argue that the festival represents value for money in terms of a week's camping and the number of performers alone, without all the other unique Glasto stuff, but I'm not sure how such a sharp hike in price contributes to Eavis's claim that he wants to encourage more young people to attend.

 

[aqua]

I'm doing my "but for £300 we could have a holiday somewhere hot" routine

christs sake, I expected an increase, not a £20 a fucking ticket increase

 

[Tort]

So basically the thing with the pre-registering will mean only the person who bought the ticket will be able to go? i.e. non-transferrable?

Year before last there was a window of opportunity to change names etc. Is this not going to happen this year? I guess there won't be anymore occurences of a couple of people in different houses/on different computers/different phones all trying to buy tix for each other...

No there wasn't. You could change address but not name. Think about it. Wouldn't be much of an anti-tout measure if you could would it.

 

[Tort]

Regarding Clear Channel - I bear glad tidings from the man of Info

Clear Channel/Live Nation has been sold on 16th November. They have waived the percentage that MF used to receive in a deal with Michael, wanting instead Michael to give their share to good causes without interferance from themselves. ......

Target donations to good causes is now £2 million in 2007. In 2005 GFL achieved £1.4 million in giveaways.

Not sure who takes over the mantel of security advisors from Mean Fiddler. Watch this space.

 

[david dissadent]

Ask the people who were at Glade last year about security. It was not a pretty sight.

 

[bus]

is meths a spirit?

why you planning to make apple meths, or cheery meths, or some other form of moderately tasty alchol that makes your legs cease to function

£145 + booking fee? fucks sake

am i the only person that thinks thats actually ok?

 

[pootle]

No there wasn't. You could change address but not name. Think about it. Wouldn't be much of an anti-tout measure if you could would it.

Are you sure there wasn't a deadline where you could change the name? Actually, thinking about it, that was prolly the year before, before last. And besides, no point in arguing with Tort about Glasto

I'm doing my "but for £300 we could have a holiday somewhere hot" routine

Me and my pirate captain were discussing the same thing last night - and it isn't just £300 either. Add in money for "supplies" for the best part of a week, spends when you get there, all the other stuff you need to have before you go, and you aren't looking at much change out of £1000 I reckon all in, for two people.

And I loathe festie camping and the nightmare of the Pennards deluge is still very strong. Wading around in water up to my middle in my underpants where my tent used to be is not one of my fondest festie memories...

 

[William of Walworth]

am i the only person that thinks thats actually ok?

It's affordable if you're working or can plan ahead etc.

It's a sharp increase, by around £20=, over the 2005 price though.

I'd be the last to deny that you get an awful lot for your price, but I can't help feeling what I've done for some years : that the genuinely hard up and skint will have to apply that many more sacrifices, that much more dedication to getting a ticket if they want one, or work much harder on working their contacts to get a job.

I do hope the increase in licence numbers includes a proportionate increase in the number of crew/performer passes ...

 

[Lisarocket]

Much as i love Glastonbury. That's a helluva hike in the ticket price

And i'm not keen on this pre registration thingy either

 

[William of Walworth]

Whilst I'd be the first to argue that the festival represents value for money in terms of a week's camping and the number of performers alone, without all the other unique Glasto stuff, but I'm not sure how such a sharp hike in price contributes to Eavis's claim that he wants to encourage more young people to attend.

Spot on.

I suppose part of the thinking (flawed!!) might be that a lot of young people are students, and a lot of those will just extend their loan (DEBTS!) yet further, cos they're already living on extended credit innit ...

 

[William of Walworth]

And i'm not keen on this pre registration thingy either

Neither am I ... don't want to think about details yet ...

 

[bus]

hmmm, point(s) taken, and yeah, I guess it is sharp (ah, I remember when it was £30 and all this was fields...).

I guess like you say the value element might be what counts. It's likely that download will be £150 this year (which aint glasto...bloody Larmer Tree's £130 (which is 5 tents and a shoe), leeds and Reading will be the same..The V's probably won't be far off). So there ARE festivals that give yo a fuck sight less for the same money, I certainly can't think of anything that gives you more for less, or even the same, or actually for more when it boils down to it...

 

[newbie]

you're not going to like this, you know don't read if you're of a sensitive disposition


Last year I bought a poster for the 1982 festie. It's probably a repro, but hey, I know where it is, unlike all the other stuff from ancient times which is buried in boxes somewhere.

In 1982 it cost £8 in. If prices had risen in line with RPI, this year would cost, er, £21. oops.

 

[bus]

I don't really see what that proves tbh. I didn't go in 82, but i did in 84. it was a bit of a shambles tbh. it was also smaller, had less stuff, had yet to completely throw off the hawkwind twaddle mantle, made a loss and gave less money to charidee....

Sorry, that sounded more confrontational than i meant it to be. I just can't help but feel like poking glasto can sometimes be "the new black". It is espensive, but then really no more so than some other festivals that aren't as good...sure t has changed....but, erm..so have we.

Just feels a bit like some folks want it preserved in apic at around 1992, and wouldn't be happy unless everyone more modern than back to the planet were banned (though actually thats not a bad idea) and they had the freedom tro hav their tent robbed on a regular basis.

Sure, som of the old glastos were great, and some things have been lost, but there's also an awful lot of misty eyed twaddle whittered about it as well

you're not going to like this, you know don't read if you're of a sensitive disposition


Last year I bought a poster for the 1982 festie. It's probably a repro, but hey, I know where it is, unlike all the other stuff from ancient times which is buried in boxes somewhere.

In 1982 it cost £8 in. If prices had risen in line with RPI, this year would cost, er, £21. oops.

 

[Skim]

It's a bit of a price hike, but is still very good value for what you get.

Last time I got to see – amongst many others – the ENO and Bill Bailey, which would have costed a fortune to see in London.