£200 barrier breached

[Vanderlyle]

Yeah exactly. Thats sad.

But what about these fuckers!?

[Alcatraz]

theres nothing wrong there that cant be solved with a kind word.well, a kind word and a 3lb lump hammer

[Vanderlyle]

You can question the fact the site doesn't reflect society in general, you can wonder how the hell those who are out of work can manage on the pittance the state gives out but those, as already pointed out on here, are reflections on society in general and fuck all to do with this. Glastonbury nearly died a death in 2000 because people thought they had a god given right to climb the fence and pay sod all towards the party.

So if someone decides not to come because its passed £200.....goodbye!

[zero000]

I know. I think it stems from peoples insecurity. Constantly needing the approval of others. People seem to be willing to let unique moments pass them by if they can get a thumbs up or a retweet instead.

[Vanderlyle]

Yeah I do agree with that. I forgot to mention that my friends also spotted someone tweeting throughout the gig apparently genuinely tweeting statements such as "playing a song with loads of blue lights now, cool".Ridiculous.

I think there's definitely a place for social media don't get me wrong. But when I go to Glastonbury and festivals in general I don't really take anything important with me. My smartphone stays at home and my brick which can last a year without charge comes with me as I really don't fancy queuing to charge my phone, which seems a colossal waste of time.

[russycarps]

yep.

If Micheal Evis was driving around in a flash car, if Greenpeace, wateraid etc. weren't getting a big boost, if bands were pulling massive sums of money to play a 45 mins set, if Turboug or whatever that piss is called was the only beer on site, if you had branding left right and center, if you're thrown off the site at 12.30, if there wasn't endless sights and sounds to keep you amused 24 hours a day, I might wonder where the money was going too. However all I see if a site getting more exciting and better prepared every year with more choices than ever. There is nowhere on earth you can possibly get so much for your money than here. So to decide that because the price has past some arbitrary barrier and therefore not bother anymore has more to do with simply not enjoying the place anymore than it does a reflection on its value.

You can question the fact the site doesn't reflect society in general, you can wonder how the hell those who are out of work can manage on the pittance the state gives out but those, as already pointed out on here, are reflections on society in general and fuck all to do with this. Glastonbury nearly died a death in 2000 because people thought they had a god given right to climb the fence and pay sod all towards the party.

So if someone decides not to come because its passed £200.....goodbye!

[jimmyk83]

Gone way O/T here, but agree with all the above about the iphone, film everything culture. The stupidest thing about recording it all is that the resulting product is invariably so sh*t, that when you view them back on youtube it sours the memory of what was a great experience. If these people just enjoyed the moment, they might create some memories instead of crap videos and a facebook status.

Oh well, I suppose these people have just as much right to enjoy themselves as me, I just wish they'd do it somewhere else.

[Pinhead]

Many people have got so shallow now and seem to want to live their lives through social media in a sort of global popularity competition. S'why the X Factor an such like are so popular - so many now aspire to being just praised whether they have achieved anything or not for anyone else. Famous for being famous. Popular by being talked about. What an insecure society its becoming.

Anyway - at the end of June we're all going somewhere where all these irrelevancies simply vanish arn't we...

[mrtourette]

It's a slippery slope from here on for these unfortunate souls. Not being able/willing to pay for a Glasto ticket is just the start of a chain of events that goes through Jeremy Kyle, petty theft and borderline alcoholism before rescued from the verge of total capitualtion by the new "free tickets for the unemployed" system at Glastonbury festival! The system works!

[smudger]

It's more the fact they cannot afford the cost after years of struggling, and £200 is the upper limit they set themselves to say the time is right to end their long association with the festival.

but as you say, poor people...Goodbye!

Edited October 8, 2012 by smudger

[Verbal]

Personally I'd be happy to pay say, an extra £10, to help to subsidise a ticket for people who struggle to find the ticket cost.

[stutheblue]

Just spent the last half hour reading this thread, then decided to do some work. First email I read was from Gaucho Grill offering me the chance to watch Robbie Williams and travel to the 02 on their bus and have a steak for £600.00. Bargain compared to Glastonbury.

Also can everybody stop recommending people to work the festival instead. I didn't get a ticket yesterday and I think this will be my only way of getting there.

[smudger]

I wouldn't

Are we then expected to provide their food and drink? What about their transport too and from, as I assume being so poor they wont have a car. Do we buy them a tent and sleeping stuff too?

I do feel for people who are less well off, through unemployment or low paid jobs, but as others have explained even on minimum wage it is difficult, if people REALLY wanted it, they would find a way, either saving their change, forgoing a pint or packet of fags a week, or indeed working at the festival

I dont believe people have an entitlement to attend, I work hard and I choose to spend some of that hard earned money on Glastonbury, sometimes it hits me hard in the wallet so I make sacrifices to attend, why shouldnt I qualify for a free ticket if they are being doled out?

[The Nal]

Personally I'd be happy to pay say, an extra £10, to help to subsidise a ticket for people who struggle to find the ticket cost. Doesn't change the fact that its incredible value for money compared to any other 5 day holiday you'd care to name.

[Essex Orange]

I'm going to stay in Camp Kerala this year while the 35000 volunteers or + or - £6 an hour workers look after the site for me. I would stay with the real Glastonbury people but it's a bit noisy and I really like the buggy ride to and from the camp site.

And of course I feel good about subsidising the cost for the poor folk

[smudger]

I fancy buying a car which is 10% out of my budget. Will someone who earns more money than me chip in the other 10% please? Really like this car.

[The Nal]

are you a student? are you entrenched in my spare bedroom and smoking your damn weed all day long instead of getting off your arse and getting a job and paying me some bloody rent? No?

Sod off then!

[eFestivals]

are you a student? are you entrenched in my spare bedroom and smoking your damn weed all day long instead of getting off your arse and getting a job and paying me some bloody rent? No?

Sod off then!

the problem with students today is that they don't smoke weed, not that they do.

[smudger]

the problem with students today is that they don't smoke weed, not that they do.

[Vanderlyle]

I fancy buying a car which is 10% out of my budget. Will someone who earns more money than me chip in the other 10% please? Really like this car.

[indieboymatt]

Going to Glasto is not a right. ME is running a business and must cover his costs.

If you cannot afford a ticket to a festival, then you should not go.

Say they did give free/discounted tickets to the wageless. Wouldn't it be better if they spent the time looking for a job rather than expecting hand outs?

I'm not tory, but the country has been reliant on a nanny state for far too long and expects to be given what they can't afford. It's ridiculous.

[Spindles]

I find the audience changes every year. Some years there are more accountants, some years more brickies.

The ticket price is just part of the picture. Are your friends complaining about the 2 6%+ increases in train fairs in the last 12 months and boycotting train travel? The increased fuel costs? My rent has gone up by nearly a third in 3 years. Things are getting more expensive across the board and some mystical figure of inflation that the media tells us about is apparently only something like 3%

I'll scrimp and save, like I do every year, to make sure I have enough to enjoy myself in my main holiday of the year with my kids (care worker and a student, but they probably aren't welcome either being young, they'd probably be looked at in their topshop clothes and judged as being tarquin and jemima, if they read a text someone will decide they spend their whole festival doing it).

FFS people, stop looking at a snapshot of other people's lives and thinking you know every fucking thing about them. If you walk around glastonbury looking at other people and tutting because they enjoy a different festival to you, please do us all a favour. Stay home.

[abdoujaparov]

Going to Glasto is not a right. ME is running a business and must cover his costs.

If you cannot afford a ticket to a festival, then you should not go.

Say they did give free/discounted tickets to the wageless. Wouldn't it be better if they spent the time looking for a job rather than expecting hand outs?

I'm not tory, but the country has been reliant on a nanny state for far too long and expects to be given what they can't afford. It's ridiculous.

[Woppa]

I promised myself I'd stop drinking when a pint cost more than two quid. I'll bet some of those who said they'd never pay 200 for a glasto ticket will still pay it, the same way I pay, on occasion, more than three quid a pint.

[indieboymatt]

I despair

you might not be a tory (you think), but you could write editorials for the Daily Mail...call me old fashioned, but discounting ticket prices for the unwaged is hardly a Trotskyist move.

Were you ever a student? If you were, I assume that you voluntarily gave up any student discount on the grounds that you shouldnt get something for nothing?