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Old_Johno

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  1. 2018 I saw someone at one but it was so close to the car park we’d given up and chucked it on the rubbish heap. there was also a massive queue for it
  2. Just saw that, an absolute piss take considering how poorly staffed the eco bond points have always been, another £20 for Wednesday entry, and £35 for parking. Live nation flex right there
  3. Ticket prices are out Phase 1 citizenship £265 + BF and Eco bond Phase 2 citizenship £275 + BF and Eco bond Phase 3 citizenship £285 + BF and Eco bond Phase 4 citizenship £295 + BF and Eco bond seeing as there’s about 10 phase 1 tickets, it’s about the rise I was expecting
  4. We’re getting free milk for tea and coffees
  5. Silverstone F1 tickets have gone on sale this week with dynamic pricing and it is by all accounts a shit show, saw a screen grab of them going up £200 in 20 minutes
  6. Yep, I’m not feeling very flush going into winter, I didn’t mean it in a flippant way, more that they could easily charge £350+ and they’d still sell out, maybe in an hour rather than 20 minutes but there’s definitely enough people with disposable income to go. might mean less families, or people bringing more ridiculously stacked replies in with a weeks worth of sarnies
  7. Plenty of people that aren’t doing much belt tightening in reality.
  8. I’m going to throw my fiver on it being £299 for a ticket, think they will want to keep it under £300 as a mental barrier for people. Won’t stop the complaining mind, but arguably festivals haven’t been “affordable” for atleast 10 years
  9. I hate seeing the mess from it. More people seem to be acquiring 1 litre bottles of it from somewhere now which I suppose is better…
  10. Shambala realised they were hurting the environment and went veggie instantly, like there was no debate, 100% renewable energy, electric site vehicles, actually believe what they have to say. Refuse to expand because it’s fine the way it is. Different ethos. Let’s not turn this into a shambala circle jerk (led by me). Boomtown does what they do very well
  11. Second weekend of August, so 9th-14th as a best guess.
  12. Shambala is way smaller, think 15k tickets, and way more family friendly, maybe 1/4 of all tickets are family, Quite a hippy vibe, more like someone shrunk Glastonbury down. Lots of workshops, poetry, talks, theatre circus, and fun stuff for kids. Only a couple of very small ‘EDM’ stages (apologies for using that as a catch all)
  13. With price increases and everything else I can only realistically afford one festival next year and it will probably be Shambala. Four Boomtowns is enough for me, I think if they don’t move back out the bowl it will feel like the same festival again, they have had the same core group of bands every year, story/ challenges are always similar. plus I’m getting too old
  14. Shambala easily has the best crowd of any festival I’ve ever been to, especially stark contrast to Reading and Leeds with the videos of burning tents and bottles being chucked point blank at people. Not to say it’s dick free but the crowd is quite self policing, campsites we’re genuinely quiet at night which was a blessing. Being small obviously plays a large part, if 1/100 people are dicks then that’s a way smaller number of dicks than other festivals. One big downer, someone found my partners debit card and rather than hand it in they bought all their drinks on it all night until it got frozen when we finally got signal which was disappointing. There was a few confused people across the weekend who were wondering what festival they’d arrived at. charlotte church was a bizarre headline choice, but we were in swingamajig anyway.
  15. Just like to apologise for leaving my wellies at home, so it’s my fault it’s raining
  16. Long shot for Stevie wonder.
  17. he skirts round the issue that they are no longer independent by painting the positives. I reckon once you get above 40k punters it’s not really financially viable to be independent, now that half their suppliers have gone belly up
  18. They’ve never cared in the past, I had 2 crates and a litre of vodka for Boomtown and still managed to spend £300 or so, I don’t feel like I’m ripping the festival off by having a few cans.
  19. Let’s not keep pretending that the only reason people drink at festivals is for the taste...
  20. You could say that of any festival, people obviously take their own to save money. No one’s sitting around drinking warm cans because they like it, it’s because it’s cheap
  21. Am I the only one who’s noticed they’ve updated their alcohol allowance from ‘personal consumption’ to 8 cans per person. whilst simultaneously complaining that festivals are too expensive and we should be donating money to let other people afford to go.
  22. Move everything to the bowl, cash free wristbands to track spending, arena style inner fence goes up… shudder
  23. Even majority shareholders carry a lot of weight as in, do what we say or we will take away our big pot of money and good luck to ya, be as creative as you want though… we’re not here to influence, totally your decisions… They are probably going to want to push for max capacity next year, which is a shame as the crowd this year had far fewer dickheads than 2019.
  24. It makes sense for food traders because they’re mostly independent. bar staff could be doing it to take drinks at the end of their shift, think someone said they’re not allowed to actually do anything at the festival though? They camp offsite and get escorted on for their shift only
  25. All the stands pay 20% back to Boomtown, on top of their pitch fee so sticking extra stuff on would counteract that
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