Glastonbury 2009

[bluestreak]

Yeah, chance would be a fine thing. You'd be hard pushed to see most of the bands who play the Other Stage for 20 quid.

 

[Teaboy]

I dunno a quick check on seetickets tells me that Kooks, Ting tings and The Enemy tickets are all around 20 - 25 quid.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

for a couple of hours of entertainment....

even if you multiply your extremely rare £20 ticket price ( and it is very rare)
£180 for many many bands and all the other entertainment/experiences is still fantastic value- over 4/5 days

 

[JTG]

I dunno a quick check on seetickets tells me that Kooks, Ting tings and The Enemy tickets are all around 20 - 25 quid.

plus booking fees which are outrageous now. I just paid about £28 for Underworld next month.

 

[ouchmonkey]

I'm glad someone's finally standing up for it being decent value.
£20 is cheap to see anyone these days - I saw Leonard Cohen this year play to a glorious crowd in a field - if I wanted to see him play the utterly soulless and weird O2 to a bunch of wealthy London tossers it'd cost me £70.
You can go for 5 days, and it's worth doing so, 5 days on a campsite in somerset with nothing to look at but nature and everyone else's cool camping stuff is gonna cost you £60 for the pitch, which is a third of the ticket. And I know it can add up eating at the festival but, are you really going to spend nothing on food or drink if you stay home?
perhaps a little fast and meditation?
pound for pound it's the best value ticket you can get for anything in this country. It is steep but it's still only like 4 or 5 shows at The Brixton Academy - which can be just as much a nightmare to get tickets for.
Get over it.

 

[kained&able]

there are very few bands you can see of the size that play the main stage now for 20 quid.

If you start making that equation though there simply has to be bands your bothered about seeing.

£180 to get mashed in a field full of pretty and weird things isn't great value.

Chuck in foo fighters, Nine inch nails(i wish), tool, a perfect circle, or somebody i would happily put down £40 to go and see and it becomes much much more resonable.

Higher the price the more bothered about the bands i become. I think.

dave

 

[ouchmonkey]

Of course there need to be bands you're bothered about seeing.
If you love music - and all kinds of music yer iunlikely to be dissappointed.

You seem to want to go to Ozzfest or download instead though.

which is fair enough.

 

[kained&able]

I love glastonbury and have been a fair few times. But at £180 i do think there needs to be at least a couple of bands that im desperate to see and havent seen for a while to justify the money.

dave

 

[ouchmonkey]

I'm not disagreeing with that but I don't think it's the big headliners that fall into that category for most people either.
If Coldplay headline I don't care anymore than I cared about Kings Of Leon or the staggeringly tedious Verve - an obvious and traditional Glasto headline act to close this year's festival, so it's not really as if putting Jay-Z on meant the whole world had tilted on it's axis as some people continue to maintain....

 

[baldrick]

I've made up my mind - not going.

For the price of a glasto ticket I can go to both OTTs and EDID...

i might steward it. not been to glasto in ages, don't have £180 for a ticket, and all the oxfam crew have been ace this summer

i think previous steward-ees get to register slightly earlier so i should be ok to get a place.

woohoo!

 

[kained&able]

I'm not disagreeing with that but I don't think it's the big headliners that fall into that category for most people either.
If Coldplay headline I don't care anymore than I cared about Kings Of Leon or the staggeringly tedious Verve - an obvious and traditional Glasto headline act to close this year's festival, so it's not really as if putting Jay-Z on meant the whole world had tilted on it's axis as some people continue to maintain....

Oh yeah thats more then fair. If there are a few bands i love on the smaller stages then i would be happy as well, they just tend to get announced well after the tickets go on sale so a lot of good runmours might make me part with my money but there aren't going to be many definates other then the headliners for the pyrmaid and other stage.

dave

 

[JTG]

Is anyone seriously suggesting that they may go to Glastonbury and find themselves not bothered about any of the bands there?

Surely only someone who likes about two bands and hates everyone else would do that?

 

[kained&able]

Always lots im bothered by but not that many people that make me go wow. Especilly now i've seen massive attack, groove armad, zero 7 blah blah blah.

glasto isnt quite my taste really but enough of it for it to still be good likes. £180 plus petrol + food + drugs + car park is pricey though.


dave

 

[El Jefe]

If you start making that equation though there simply has to be bands your bothered about seeing.

£180 to get mashed in a field full of pretty and weird things isn't great value.

Chuck in foo fighters, Nine inch nails(i wish), tool, a perfect circle, or somebody i would happily put down £40 to go and see and it becomes much much more resonable.

Higher the price the more bothered about the bands i become. I think.

dave

Jesus, I'd happily pay 20 quid a ticket to ensure that none of that fuckwit teenage metal toss doesn't get within 100 miles of Glastonbury

 

[kained&able]

Oh come on tool would be amazing.

dave

 

[pengaleng]

Is anyone seriously suggesting that they may go to Glastonbury and find themselves not bothered about any of the bands there?

Surely only someone who likes about two bands and hates everyone else would do that?

fuckoff talking about me you cunt

 

[El Jefe]

Oh come on tool would be amazing.

dave

No. No they wouldn't. I've seen them and they're balls.

But even if they weren't, they just don't suit Glastonbury. I just think different bands are better suited to dancing in the sunshine than mawkish metal miserabilists.

 

[kained&able]

would have to be very late at night to amke tool a good idea.


I've seen em, they were class.

dave

 

[mysterygirl]

would have to be very late at night to amke tool a good idea.


I've seen em, they were class.

dave

I wasn't impressed, tbh. 2005, I think.

Each to their own, I suppose.

 

[Badgers]

Festival-goers hoping to get tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2009 will have no limits on the number of tickets they can buy or reserve - as long as each purchase (or deposit) is matched with valid registration numbers. Click here to read more.

Many Festival-goers have already registered their names for 2009 and will have their all-important registration number which will allow them to buy tickets on October 5th

Can I insure my ticket?

Yes. Should you be concerned you will be unable to attend the Festival due to any unforeseen circumstances, you may wish to consider insuring your ticket. Cancellation insurance will be available to purchase for £3.90 per ticket when booking tickets, either online or when you call the SeeTickets booking line; or you may already be covered by your own personal insurance.

Keeping the dream alive......

Is this instead of or as well as the £10 cancelation fee they were on about if you book your ticket in October but wanted to cancel before April or something?

 

[miniGMgoit]

Just seems like another way to cream money out of people who want to go to Glastonbury. They know damn well people will pay what ever they charge cos its Glasto init.
I wont ever be going again./

 

[JTG]

believe it or not, people aren't being forced to buy the insurance

 

[Badgers]

believe it or not, people aren't being forced to buy the insurance

Nope, they just love the upsell

Next step will be a choice of wristbands

Normal one = Included with ticket
Upgrade to sponsored by Coldplay = £10
Upgrade to sponsored by U2 = £20

 

[Tort]

To be fair there have often been complaints in the past over the fact that you can't cancel or sell your tickets after about 6 weeks prior to the festival, even if you break a leg or fall foul of some mysterious tropical illness. Giving people the option to insure against such eventualities does no harm although I'm fairly certain that most annual travel policies would cover you in much the same way.

 

[wiskey]

Well I'm already sweet talking various people in childcare

 

[JTG]

To be fair there have often been complaints in the past over the fact that you can't cancel or sell your tickets after about 6 weeks prior to the festival, even if you break a leg or fall foul of some mysterious tropical illness. Giving people the option to insure against such eventualities does no harm although I'm fairly certain that most annual travel policies would cover you in much the same way.

Careful, that was almost a reasoned defence of a sensible option

 

[Tort]

Just a reminder! Tickets go on sale Sunday but if you haven't registered yet do it NOW! Registration closes for "consolidation" at 5pm on Friday but I registered 4 mates on Friday evening and didn't get the registration numbers through for them until Monday morning. Photos have to be approved before you get your registration number this time.

 

[sim667]

Is anyone seriously suggesting that they may go to Glastonbury and find themselves not bothered about any of the bands there?

Surely only someone who likes about two bands and hates everyone else would do that?

Hi.... that would be me....

saw 7 bands in total last glasto, one of my mates i was with saw 2.....

infact we saw more bands at reading and we were working, and one of us was out of action for 24 hours with food poisoning..

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I'm not disagreeing with that but I don't think it's the big headliners that fall into that category for most people either.
If Coldplay headline I don't care anymore than I cared about Kings Of Leon or the staggeringly tedious Verve - an obvious and traditional Glasto headline act to close this year's festival, so it's not really as if putting Jay-Z on meant the whole world had tilted on it's axis as some people continue to maintain....

well to be fair thats because most people in the crowd appeared to think he was pretty shite...
There were a few thousand down the front who loved him, the media licked his arse as expected and everyone else stayed away

 

[wiskey]

missed this.

Is anyone seriously suggesting that they may go to Glastonbury and find themselves not bothered about any of the bands there?

Surely only someone who likes about two bands and hates everyone else would do that?

*ahem*

err hello?

that would be me then. Music is a complete non event for me at glasto most years. Occasionally they have someone I've always wanted to see so I go along and they turn out to be shit live. I mostly go and see bands other people have an interest in.