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I found out today that a Glastonbury ticket now costs £200 (£195 + £5 booking fee) what average child can afford that. It’s no wonder that the demographic of the festival is changing with the youth diminishing each year.
I stopped going to Glastonbury as soon as they started installing cash machines for the festival. The festival used to be about the music with a few stalls selling tie dyed clothes and painted shoes, the last time I went (1998) it was a massive market place with a few stages to break up the consumerism. The lovely thing about the festival was the pretence that you were actually somewhere completely different and acid and mushrooms ruled over sterling. I’m sure Glastonbury probably has a bigger GDP than many third world countries, and with it comes it’s own self created class system. If you can afford it you can rent tepee’s with nice toilet / shower cubicle block, and have a better standard of living than rest of the masses, who in turn have actually afforded the initial £200.
More money has been spent on the fences and security, over the years, to make the place impregnable to those who can’t afford a ticket, and if you can’t afford a ticket you definitely won’t be spending in the festival, then the traders won’t make a profit and pay to have there pitch and Mr Eavis won’t be able to pay the likes Bono to give mass to the brainwashed minions who still believe it’s a cool festival. The whole set-up is a self perpetuating capitalist economy, only serving those who want to make money, and investing in itself to accommodate more customers.
I am actually just bitter because Jools Holland told me to fuck off, when I pointed at him backsatge and announced to my team (I worked backsatge bar) it’s Jools Holland
Jason E Cooper 