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Agree that it'll have some effect on demand - not least myself. I've been thinking about taking a year off, and if they'd said "fallow in 2028", then I'd most likely skip next year. But as it stands I'm fully "back in", and early indications are that several friends who've not been for a while are also on board.
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Purely replying cos I found it an interesting article and this links to it.
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By MEGATRONICMEATWAGON · Posted
Well, mostly people are more interested in the headliners, not just on forums, but in real life. Dua and Coldplay both had 60-80k people in their fields when they performed, maybe even more. How many people turned up for the "headliners" in the Theatre and Circus fields, or at Leftfield? A lot of the T&C stuff is recycled every year and the political debates stuff, I mean, how are you meant to have a lengthy forum thread about what questions they're going to ask? "I wonder if they'll talk about Israel/Palestine?!?!" - it's just not as exciting, not least because it's in the news every day and most people already have a fairly concrete notion of where they land on the subject. But, it's also the easiest thing to talk about at such a distance from the next festival. They're also, normally, the first to get announced, perhaps one pre-Christmas, one in January, one in March maybe. Tours get announced too and it's like an investigation, finding out who could potentially do it - not that people are going to actually see all three headliners on the Pyramid. And yeah, the chance at being able to see Elton at Glastonbury was a huge factor if you couldn't afford his private shows. I've said this before in other threads, but GnR & Elton would've cost 300-500 quid to see them both individually, sitting or standing in the nosebleeds. But to see them at Glastonbury, with all the other stuff on, what an absolute steal. There's often other threads that spring up for individual stages throughout the year as well, but they're much harder to call because the pool is far bigger - I don't think anyone expected Gossip to headline this year, but also, I don't think that many people cared so much. They're more like a wishlist until crunch time and info starts filtering in who might be doing it. But for the top three headliners of the whole festival, there's such a small pool to choose from.
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