Glasto comp

[Lucy92]

BBC radio 1 have a Glasto comp at the moment  need to text an answer in and listen at 8am tomorrow morning. Good luck all! 

[Lucy92]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Hq83dNdbtcNN38xZZbVFBV/jan-slam

[FloorFiller]

Came here to post this. Seen a few people on here win this kind of stuff in previous years so fingers crossed!

[Lucy92]

I've won before! Hoping for a lucky second year running ha!

[DareToDibble]

I missed it as I was up a bit later this morning. I know some of the competitions have been VIP access and stuff. Assuming this is just a ticket?

Not a complaint. I would value a normal Glasto ticket higher than a VIP ticket to any other festival. They could probably throw in a lapdance from Katy Perry with the other tickets and I'd still prefer a Glasto ticket.

I have a few friends who never managed to get tickets so will make sure they enter this.

[Lucy92]

I got VIP when I won tickets before

[bennyhana22]

Can you just buy VIP tickets?

The only reason I ask is because a work colleague of mine says she is going to the festival. She is not registered on the Glastonbury system, is reportedly staying 'just off site' and has paid for it all, I believe.

What is all that about? I have to admit to a probably disproportionate amount of annoyance that people can simply buy their way into something to the exclusion of someone who cares passionately about the festival and has tried so hard to get a 'normal' ticket. Competitions are fine, as it's still a level playing field, but this other arrangement has me really cross as I know she's only really bucket-listing it. That would be a perfectly legitimate reason to go if you were playing the ticket lottery with the rest of us, but simply bypassing that with disposable cash makes me cross.

So, what's the deal? Have I got this all wrong, or is her model of attending a thing?

Ben

Edited January 25, 2017 by bennyhana22

[RAMMAN]

27 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

Can you just buy VIP tickets?

The only reason I ask is because a work colleague of mine says she is going to the festival. She is not registered on the Glastonbury system, is reportedly staying 'just off site' and has paid for it all, I believe.

What is all that about? I have to admit to a probably disproportionate amount of annoyance that people can simply buy their way into something to the exclusion of someone who cares passionately about the festival and has tried so hard to get a 'normal' ticket. Competitions are fine, as it's still a level playing field, but this other arrangement has me really cross as I know she's only really bucket-listing it. That would be a perfectly legitimate reason to go if you were playing the ticket lottery with the rest of us, but simply bypassing that with disposable cash makes me cross.

So, what's the deal? Have I got this all wrong, or is her model of attending a thing?

Ben

A lot of the off site very expensive glamping options include a ticket...not always a hospitality (rather VIP ticket) but some do. The off site options get a certain amount of tickets so unfortunately the situation is if you are prepared or able to throw a lot of cash at it you can always bypass the main sales!!  

[RAMMAN]

Just now, RAMMAN said:

A lot of the off site very expensive glamping options include a ticket...not always a hospitality (rather VIP ticket) but some do. The off site options get a certain amount of tickets so unfortunately the situation is if you are prepared or able to throw a lot of cash at it you can always bypass the main sales!!  

Also there is the option of applying for hospitality tickets...but you need to be a member of the press or music industry to get them from memory they are about 200 quid more than a standard ticket. I have applied for them in the past when I missed out in the first sale..I applied through a record label but didn't get them ! 

[bennyhana22]

That explains it. Thanks, RAMMAN.

Let me be (probably not) the first to say that unless the revenue from that model is fundamental to the survival of the festival (e.g. a contract non-negotiable with some of the 22 landowners etc), then that's something that makes me (probably irrationally) very sad.

Ben

[bennyhana22]

Just now, RAMMAN said:

Also there is the option of applying for hospitality tickets...but you need to be a member of the press or music industry to get them from memory they are about 200 quid more than a standard ticket. I have applied for them in the past when I missed out in the first sale..I applied through a record label but didn't get them ! 

I'm more sympathetic to the industry hangers on, in a way - they're a part of the whole machine, I guess.

But the pure 'I can throw a grand at a Glastonbury ticket' thing pisses me off. Any idea how much my colleague will have paid (yes, I'm too much of a pathetic sissy to ask her...)?

Ben

[RAMMAN]

2 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

I'm more sympathetic to the industry hangers on, in a way - they're a part of the whole machine, I guess.

But the pure 'I can throw a grand at a Glastonbury ticket' thing pisses me off. Any idea how much my colleague will have paid (yes, I'm too much of a pathetic sissy to ask her...)?

Ben

Yer totally agree...it's annoying....this will give you some idea but depends on what option you go for...http://www.flyglastonbury.com/festival-accommodation/price-calculator.php

 

[Mardy]

Cheapest I could find was a package for 2 people, at 2 grand a pop for campsite + tickets, so would be 4 thousand for the pair of us.

[bennyhana22]

8 minutes ago, RAMMAN said:

Yer totally agree...it's annoying....this will give you some idea but depends on what option you go for...http://www.flyglastonbury.com/festival-accommodation/price-calculator.php

 

Shit a brick. £400 for the space to pitch your tent. Someone's doing well out of this...

I hate when the supply and demand mismatch creates this scenario. But then we constantly rage on here about SeatWave, Viagogo et al, don't we?

Ben

[bennyhana22]

1 minute ago, Mardy said:

Cheapest I could find was a package for 2 people, at 2 grand a pop for campsite + tickets, so would be 4 thousand for the pair of us.

I know I've had a downvote or two in the past for my pompous assertion that this shouldn't be available just because you can pay, but it's because Glastonbury genuinely means something more than a five day festival to so many of us.

And I know you''re one of them, old chum. And I know you have no ticket for 2017.

Which is shit.

Ben

[Hutchmaster]

Thanks for the heads up, fingers crossed someone here wins it! 

[bennyhana22]

1 minute ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Course you can. Do you really think Wayne rooney and the like are f5ing with the rest of us on Tday sunday morning? She's probably staying at windinglake farm or one of them posh camping places where for a few grand you get a big tent and a ticket

I realise how entirely naive I have been in not knowing that before, Scruff.

I guess I should have guessed that even something as relatively unsullied by the lamentably consumerist, commercialised world in which we live as Glastonbury is still subject to the same demons.

Ben

[bennyhana22]

1 minute ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

See, in theory I've no objection to the stupidly priced camping (apart from the us and them that that creates, but that's a separate argument) but they should still have to register and f5 like billy-ho to get their tickets. 

Abso-frickin-lutely

Ben

[Untz]

1 hour ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

See, in theory I've no objection to the stupidly priced camping (apart from the us and them that that creates, but that's a separate argument) but they should still have to register and f5 like billy-ho to get their tickets. 

Eh, if those tickets exist anyway and don't count towards the general ticket allocation than I'd rather they do that then be competing with normal people who genuinely love the festival, or whatever you want to call us ordinary plebs.

[Untz]

46 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

What I mean is all tickets should be standard. Everyone competes. Then if somebody who's already got a ticket decides to throw money at glamping, fair enough. That'd mean more tickets available and I doubt as many of the super rich would compete against us if it worked like that. 

Well in fantasy land where getting rid of those tickets leads to an equal increase in general tickets I agree. 

Rich people will always be able to game the system though.

[Mardy]

6 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Wondered when you'd show your true coluurs, Lord Mardy of Mardyshire. Bet you've even paid for your butler to come so he can move us oiks out of the way when you're walking across site!

Of course, have you any idea how offputting the sight of you plebs can be when one is trying to enjoy a swan growler? 

Edited January 25, 2017 by Mardy

[Mardy]

8 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Last time I tried to get my mouth round one of them, I got reported to the RSPCA. 

Wrong place, wrong time, mate. I got a booking in the circus tent out of it.

[Mardy]

Hehehe, google gives me a band called Growler playing at the Swan, in Farringdon.

[Digi]

6 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Think your point earlier about the landowners covers it. If they couldn't sell guaranteed tickets for thousands of pounds, they'd be more inclined to object to the licence. I'm not even sure that some of those off-site camping's lands are used by the main festival itself, but if it eases the licence application each time.......................

 

(PS the thought of all the supermodels photoed in the gutter press in their wellies even when it's sunny breaking their nails on f5 every October has made me chuckle - no wonder the NHS is crumbling.....)

Ha! I can just see plastics admissions for hand surgery going through the roof every ticket day for nailbed reconstructions

I feel better blaming shit patient flow on that rather than the usual immigration bollocks 

As a nurse I am going to work it one year for certain just to see what it's like on the other side 

[Rubber Soldier]

20 hours ago, Lucy92 said:

I've won before! Hoping for a lucky second year running ha!

Were you the girl that won on Steve Lamacq's show last year and gave the second ticket of the pair to the guy she just beat in the competition?