Glastonbury is Extortionate!

[Havors]

51 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

23 Jun 2020 — 'Emily Eavis is also quoted as saying that the festival costs around £40m to run"

That was 2020

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/23/how-much-are-glastonbury-headliners-paid-much-less-think-according-experts-12892128/

Mental that. Wonder what eats up the most of that cash? 

[incident]

2 hours ago, Havors said:

Mental that. Wonder what eats up the most of that cash? 

So many things. Three easily identifiable huge cost centres (amongst others) would be -

Security - Given the number of staff needed, over a far more extended period of time than any other festival, I'd expect that the cost for that comes to millions by itself. Because of the scale of the event they're having to pay for positions across the extended Festival site, B&W showgrounds, Castle Cary, plus Pilton Village and other local residences. Even the odd few positions further out.

Core site Infrastructure - The various Fencing and Trakway used (again, covering far more than just the actual festival site) is likely millions as well.

Power - Generators, fuel, and batteries and the like. Again the scale bumping up the cost - when you drive in along the A361, many of the local properties have stewards or security on them to stop us riff raff taking a sh*t in the garden - if you look closely most of those have lights with generators attached (and portaloos, which is another cost..).

Those three things are worth mentioning because they've all reportedly increased by far more than inflation over the past 4 years - obviously I don't know what deals GFL has in place but I reckon they'll be doing very well if the 3 of those combined comes in at less than 10 million, and that's before they've even provided a toilet, put up a tent, or booked a band.

[DeanoL]

Land hire as well. Both for the land they use from other people, and the fee that the festival pays to the Eavis farm company as "compensation for lost earnings". This was £500,000 in 2015 which was the last time the figure had to be declared separately on the accounts. 

That's the cheap rate that Eavis essentially charges himself and would be known to the owners of the surrounding land...

[stuie]

On 10/10/2023 at 9:57 PM, Havors said:

Mental that. Wonder what eats up the most of that cash? 

We know from their planning application that Arcadia's budget for their field was £465K in 2019.  From that nugget of information, you can imagine how you get to £40M quite quickly, especially when you start buying infrastructure and headliners!  

[the beadle]

Do you reckon the woman who wrote the article has ever been to Glastonbury? If she has I expect it was just the once so she could cross it off the bucket list. Go to a fecking spa? I’d rather rub Glastonbury mud all over my body and go get a shower.

[the beadle]

On 10/10/2023 at 9:57 PM, Havors said:

Mental that. Wonder what eats up the most of that cash? 

Drugs for the crew.

[bennyhana22]

Just because this thread has been bumped...

 

I was relaying to Child 1 and Child 3 this weekend the eye-watering cost of Lost Village. With all the noise about how expensive Glastonbury is (and it ain't cheap, don't get me wrong, but we're talking comparatives here...), and with barely a live band in sight on their line-up (which from a DJ perspective is, in fairness, pretty strong...), were you to purchase a final release Lost Village 2024 ticket, with booking fee it would cost you 360 BRITISH POUNDS!! 😲

 

The boys were astonished and both guessed around £280. And they've both been, and Child 1 has been to Glastonbury three times.

 

I maintain that, within the market climate, The Farm remains astonishing value for money.

 

Ben

[MEGATRONICMEATWAGON]

Just read the original post. What is it they're exactly trying to say?

 

Things cost money and there multiple things you can do with that money and you can actually choose what you would like to do with your own money?!?

 

Lol 😆 

[Ayrshire Chris]

The telegraph is actually very useful at the festival. A single page in the long drop is extremely absorbent as long as you don’t mind Nigel Farages face imprinted on your arse. 😉

[Franky]

It's not 4 nights it's 5, now having been very lucky enough to stay in some of the best hotels in the world let me tell you, the difference between 4 and 5 nights can be eyewatering!

 

The author of that article clearly didn't get tickets and as such has just written a hatchet piece full of bullshit!

 

I was in Ibiza in '95 and it was £10 a bottle for beer and £15 for water then!!!!! you aint doing Ibiza on £360!

 

Utter dross which has boiled my piss!

[stuie]

1 hour ago, Franky said:

you aint doing Ibiza on £360!

you can easily do Ibiza on £360…

 

 

 

 

 

if you stay in an absolute sh*t hole and don’t want to go out anywhere!  
 

[Franky]

34 minutes ago, stuie said:

you can easily do Ibiza on £360…

 

 

 

 

 

if you stay in an absolute sh*t hole and don’t want to go out anywhere!  
 

Exactly 

[Alex DeLarge]

Missed this thread when it happened. Let's hope it's the first of many times the right-wing press try and put their readers off the festival.