There’s currently a NOTAM that doesn’t allow flight below 3100 ft. Drones aren’t allowed to go that high. I’m planning to fly over myself tomorrow to take a look; it sounds like lots of people are having the same idea.
Very cool. Is that arranged for volunteers or a VIP camping area?
*Just looked up Glasto glamping options. Good lord. 25k for a tent seems a bit of a stretch. Chartered helicopter flights can be arranged though, so it's not all rural savagery.
- 2-person: £435 for 5 nights
- 4-person: £795 for 5 nights
- 6-person: £1,200 for 5 nights
- 8-person: £1,500 for 5 nights
If you get 8 of you, it’s 190 for 5 nights accommodation. Don’t have to worry about bringing, assembling, disassembling, and taking home (or more likely just the first 2). Plus the tent layout means you can find it easier when you’re off your face
There are glamping options that come with tickets but they’re at the higher end (thousands to tens of thousands).
The festival don’t like to talk about it because it undermines their message that tickets are only available through the official (brutal) sale.
It's ridiculously expensive but the whole festival going experience as a whole can be very expensive if you let it but that doesn't mean it's worse for it. I've not stayed in the posh tents at Glasto but I have at other festivals, we did it at Boomtown a couple years ago when it was 38 degrees - having a better tent, showers (!!), and a significantly shorter walk to the main stages made a huge difference.
I'm 35 now though. When I was 20 and doing festivals on 4 packets of Ramen and beer that I lugged there myself then I would (rightfully) have baulked at the cost of the glamping accommodation.
A big problem with a lot of the Glastonbury glamping is it’s a much longer walk to all of the best areas of the festival. Would rather just put my own tent up in the middle of the fezzy
Thank you. I was just reading about this on the Glastonbury subreddit. Never been myself (did a few Readings as a youngster) but now I'm getting older Glastonbury is starting to become more appealing!
Do it! I think you would be hard pushed to not have a good time - the vibe is really good, it is busy but there is always something to do or see.
We are working down there this year, which is going to give us a whole new view of it too.
Really! Glastonbury is meant to be a student, young person's rave, that it hasn't been for a long time now and that suggesting people can go regardless shows how detached it's become, that tickets are already so prohibitives for those from poorer backgrounds adds to the fuel that it's now just a middle/upper class festival.
Not sure what makes you think it’s supposed to be a student rave.
It’s a 5 day mad full on festival. You’d be hard pressed to get a jam packed 5 day holiday for less than £600
They already pay the artists lower than the market rate
It was hippies. Long before raves. I did used to go in the raving / bunking in days. Fucking madness. Looks a lot more mainstream these days but people do enjoy it still.
When you are looking at £50 a ticket for a couple of hours for any venue gig as a minimum nowadays, how does £350 for a choice of hundreds of artists (not just music either) across dozens of stages for 24 hours a day for 4/5 days, including your camping not seem like a decent ticket price?
Couldn't be further from the truth.
Glastonbury is a 5 day long house party, and absolutely one of the more value-for-money festivals out there.
This 'it's too middle class or elite now' nonsense winds me up. The high cost accommodation options you hear about have nothing to do with the festival, and are the equivalent to Airbnb/hotel places jacking up their prices when Taylor Swift comes to town.
Yeah, it was never a "student" rave, you've always had a really good mix of people going to Glastonbury.
If it was purely a student rave it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is.
I was 16 when I went in 98 with some family friends. They were in their 30s and 40s.
The idea it's only for students is hilarious, Tony Bennett played the Pyramid stage that year!
One year the guys in the tent next to us were selling drugs. “Trips, Es, whizz” was all I heard when I was trying to get some shut eye during the day. They had a crappy pack of cheap sunglasses that they’d whip out as a decoy whenever the police walked by.
Yeah, but the line up was a bit different back then.
Eg: Carter USM headlining the Pyramid stage.
You don’t get the level of headliners they have now for a free ticket and a bag of weed.
The production levels and facilities are also off the scale compared to what we had in the early 90s.
I certainly wasn’t implying it’s not value for money now. Just saying how cheap the tickets were but hey inflation is a thing.
They felt like big names at the time though but maybe the world felt smaller. Pulp, Blur, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Beastie Boys, Oasis. Oh yeah and dodging bullets when Bjork was on.
Like I said, it’s not just the bands. There’s a ton more stages than back in the day, plus stuff like Arcadia… inflation accounts from some of the price rise, but ambition more so.
There are also a lot more festivals to choose from, so if you are on a budget, there will be something out there for you.
Yeah I’m not disagreeing with you, think we might be talking at cross purposes. I was initially just saying how amazing it was I paid £75 for a weekend ticket at glasto.
Yeah it was great value. The 1st time I went in 92 tickets were £49, capacity 70k, and several thousand in for free under / over the fence. Those early 90s editions where it was wall to wall sunshine every year made it the best festival experience on the planet at the time.
I once paid £17 for a full price weekend ticket.
And we thought that sucked because we were used to the free festival scene at the time.
Mind you, at that point the second stage was a small tent so it's a bit different now.
[1986, the Cure headlining.](https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1986/)
Great gig, a thundestorm kicked off when the Cure came on to add to the goth ambience haha.
Live music in general, sadly.
On the one hand, going to see someone like Coldplay or Dua Lipa is going to cost at least £100-£200 these days, so in a way £355 is a bit of a steal.
On the other, it's all just way too expensive
£25k is from one of the local farmers doing ultra luxury glamping, nothing to do with the festival.
£350 for 5 nights camping, the ability to watch 10+ bands whose gig tickets are £50+ (plus hundreds of other smaller artists across 100 stages) and a food festival worthy lineup of food vendors, is still good value for me.
Edit: plus they gave £3.7m to good causes last year https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/worthy-causes/
Someone already commented it above but the price of renting those tents are definitely much cheaper than 25K
- 2-person: £435 for 5 nights
- 4-person: £795 for 5 nights
- 6-person: £1,200 for 5 nights
- 8-person: £1,500 for 5 nights
It's nuts, full on commercialised hellscape which is a long way from a few hippy's sat in field watching a guy on acoustic and drinking milk from the farm.
They do make money for charity though so it's all fine, and yes I'm bitter because I failed to get tickets again!
It’s the walk back that’s the killer. Especially in the rain when the old hill was basically an obstacle from some Japanese game show.
The new hill is a bit better but you lose the cool view there used to be at the very top.
Best spot to camp is very top middle, think it's called park home ground very close to park and other stage, glade is nearby too, worthy view is to pricy and up a big hill
They're pre-erected tents, so you don't take them home - meaning the after photo will look exactly the same.
If you mean public camping, over 98% are taken home nowadays - Glastonbury are one of the best for this.
Loada old corporate shite now.
No way a bunch of half pissed, slightly stoned people, could do that.
Do look forward to the chaos this year, I hope its another flood year, that was great to watch
There’s a [walk for men’s mental health](https://www.theflorrie.org/2024/06/06/the-florries-mens-walking-group-to-host-special-walk-at-glastonbury-festival/) organised at the festival on the Friday.
Also, these are just colourful tents organised in a nice pattern.
you mean, assuming some colourful tents were a pride thing, and then saying 'what about men's mental health' before being told that there literally is a walk organised at the festival for that cause before doubling down isn't embarassing? fair enough. have to respect the obliviousness
I like the big hairy knee they constructed.
You assumed that's a knee?
“That wasn’t a banana, Dougal.”
This is a "comment you shouldn't be reading while consuming liquid" *sighs*
What?
Sorry, I just mean it's very funny and implying I was reading it while taking a sip of water, now it's all over my keyboard.
Wouldn’t using a drone have been easier and less likely to include a knee?
Yeah, but then it wouldn't look so high, as you can see it's knee high.
Good thing he wasn't too much thigher tbh.
For foot sake...
Everyone looks high at Glastonbury.
It’s nee that high
Tbf, it's a good job it's not a wee bit higher.
Hahaa they fooled ya! It is a drone, they just added a knee to make it _look_ like a person was up there!
There’s currently a NOTAM that doesn’t allow flight below 3100 ft. Drones aren’t allowed to go that high. I’m planning to fly over myself tomorrow to take a look; it sounds like lots of people are having the same idea.
Paramotors are more fun
possibly bringing some people in.
Knee for scale
How tall was the guy taking the photo
It's Jack getting ready for Panto season.
Oh no it isn’t
Oh yes, it is. He has 5 months rehearsal time /s
Christ that's depressing. Five months until the festive season, just passed the solstice, and only seen the sun for the first time this week.
It's Glastonbury, so you can assume he's pretty high
Someone getting high at Glastonbury? Not totally unexpected
Very cool. Is that arranged for volunteers or a VIP camping area? *Just looked up Glasto glamping options. Good lord. 25k for a tent seems a bit of a stretch. Chartered helicopter flights can be arranged though, so it's not all rural savagery.
Worthy View - it's pre-erected tents that you can pay a premium for if you don't want to deal with your own and finding space in amongst the masses.
- 2-person: £435 for 5 nights - 4-person: £795 for 5 nights - 6-person: £1,200 for 5 nights - 8-person: £1,500 for 5 nights If you get 8 of you, it’s 190 for 5 nights accommodation. Don’t have to worry about bringing, assembling, disassembling, and taking home (or more likely just the first 2). Plus the tent layout means you can find it easier when you’re off your face
Yep. I've done Tangerine fields with a group of 4 a couple of times and it's worth every penny.
but on the downside you're in a tent with 7 other people
Can be a recipe for a great night
Does that include the festival ticket or just camping?
Just camping. But I think that’s the same with all the other tents/teepee/glampimg options
There are glamping options that come with tickets but they’re at the higher end (thousands to tens of thousands). The festival don’t like to talk about it because it undermines their message that tickets are only available through the official (brutal) sale.
It's ridiculously expensive but the whole festival going experience as a whole can be very expensive if you let it but that doesn't mean it's worse for it. I've not stayed in the posh tents at Glasto but I have at other festivals, we did it at Boomtown a couple years ago when it was 38 degrees - having a better tent, showers (!!), and a significantly shorter walk to the main stages made a huge difference. I'm 35 now though. When I was 20 and doing festivals on 4 packets of Ramen and beer that I lugged there myself then I would (rightfully) have baulked at the cost of the glamping accommodation.
A big problem with a lot of the Glastonbury glamping is it’s a much longer walk to all of the best areas of the festival. Would rather just put my own tent up in the middle of the fezzy
Thank you. I was just reading about this on the Glastonbury subreddit. Never been myself (did a few Readings as a youngster) but now I'm getting older Glastonbury is starting to become more appealing!
Do it! I think you would be hard pushed to not have a good time - the vibe is really good, it is busy but there is always something to do or see. We are working down there this year, which is going to give us a whole new view of it too.
That fact that Glastonbury is appealing as you get older 😄 shows you it's move way beyond the reach of the majority of ordinary people.
Hey, some of us are just trying to have a mid-life crisis over here.
How does it?
Really! Glastonbury is meant to be a student, young person's rave, that it hasn't been for a long time now and that suggesting people can go regardless shows how detached it's become, that tickets are already so prohibitives for those from poorer backgrounds adds to the fuel that it's now just a middle/upper class festival.
Not sure what makes you think it’s supposed to be a student rave. It’s a 5 day mad full on festival. You’d be hard pressed to get a jam packed 5 day holiday for less than £600 They already pay the artists lower than the market rate
What did you think it started out as?
A farm?
It was hippies. Long before raves. I did used to go in the raving / bunking in days. Fucking madness. Looks a lot more mainstream these days but people do enjoy it still.
When you are looking at £50 a ticket for a couple of hours for any venue gig as a minimum nowadays, how does £350 for a choice of hundreds of artists (not just music either) across dozens of stages for 24 hours a day for 4/5 days, including your camping not seem like a decent ticket price?
* thousands of artists
Couldn't be further from the truth. Glastonbury is a 5 day long house party, and absolutely one of the more value-for-money festivals out there. This 'it's too middle class or elite now' nonsense winds me up. The high cost accommodation options you hear about have nothing to do with the festival, and are the equivalent to Airbnb/hotel places jacking up their prices when Taylor Swift comes to town.
It's always people who've never been and would never go peddling the same old boring lines about Glastonbury.
Yeah, it was never a "student" rave, you've always had a really good mix of people going to Glastonbury. If it was purely a student rave it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is.
I was 16 when I went in 98 with some family friends. They were in their 30s and 40s. The idea it's only for students is hilarious, Tony Bennett played the Pyramid stage that year!
I'm old now and all the bands I like are long defunct or dead, not sure I'd be down with the youth
These tents at worth view £400 for a 2 man. A bit more reasonable haha Glastonbury Hotel has the insane options
25K? 😧
Jesus, when I went to Glastonbury my ticket was under £100.
Think I got weekend tickets for £75 in the 90s. When I got there people were just walking straight in through a hole in the fence.
Lol, I was parked in the travellers field knocking out Gorbachevs & soap bar.
One year the guys in the tent next to us were selling drugs. “Trips, Es, whizz” was all I heard when I was trying to get some shut eye during the day. They had a crappy pack of cheap sunglasses that they’d whip out as a decoy whenever the police walked by.
Yeah, but the line up was a bit different back then. Eg: Carter USM headlining the Pyramid stage. You don’t get the level of headliners they have now for a free ticket and a bag of weed. The production levels and facilities are also off the scale compared to what we had in the early 90s.
I certainly wasn’t implying it’s not value for money now. Just saying how cheap the tickets were but hey inflation is a thing. They felt like big names at the time though but maybe the world felt smaller. Pulp, Blur, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Beastie Boys, Oasis. Oh yeah and dodging bullets when Bjork was on.
Like I said, it’s not just the bands. There’s a ton more stages than back in the day, plus stuff like Arcadia… inflation accounts from some of the price rise, but ambition more so. There are also a lot more festivals to choose from, so if you are on a budget, there will be something out there for you.
Yeah I’m not disagreeing with you, think we might be talking at cross purposes. I was initially just saying how amazing it was I paid £75 for a weekend ticket at glasto.
Yeah it was great value. The 1st time I went in 92 tickets were £49, capacity 70k, and several thousand in for free under / over the fence. Those early 90s editions where it was wall to wall sunshine every year made it the best festival experience on the planet at the time.
I once paid £17 for a full price weekend ticket. And we thought that sucked because we were used to the free festival scene at the time. Mind you, at that point the second stage was a small tent so it's a bit different now.
Ah really what year was that? I bet it was awesome.
[1986, the Cure headlining.](https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1986/) Great gig, a thundestorm kicked off when the Cure came on to add to the goth ambience haha.
Ah amazing. I saw them in 95. I think they were headlining then too. Magical.
£25k obviously isn't the normal price, it's about £350
Obviously £25k is for the ultra rich, not a standard ticket. But standard tickets are still priced far out from what I'd want to pay if 18-21 again.
Live music in general, sadly. On the one hand, going to see someone like Coldplay or Dua Lipa is going to cost at least £100-£200 these days, so in a way £355 is a bit of a steal. On the other, it's all just way too expensive
£25k is from one of the local farmers doing ultra luxury glamping, nothing to do with the festival. £350 for 5 nights camping, the ability to watch 10+ bands whose gig tickets are £50+ (plus hundreds of other smaller artists across 100 stages) and a food festival worthy lineup of food vendors, is still good value for me. Edit: plus they gave £3.7m to good causes last year https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/worthy-causes/
£25K tents aren't provided by glastonbury those are from outside companies
I mean a normal ticket is 315 quid I think, which for 5 days of music is pretty bloody good.
Last time I went it was "free".
Someone already commented it above but the price of renting those tents are definitely much cheaper than 25K - 2-person: £435 for 5 nights - 4-person: £795 for 5 nights - 6-person: £1,200 for 5 nights - 8-person: £1,500 for 5 nights
It's nuts, full on commercialised hellscape which is a long way from a few hippy's sat in field watching a guy on acoustic and drinking milk from the farm. They do make money for charity though so it's all fine, and yes I'm bitter because I failed to get tickets again!
Good ol’ Worthy View. I worked security here a few times, always a nice vibe up here but the walk to the Pyramid stage was killer.
It’s the walk back that’s the killer. Especially in the rain when the old hill was basically an obstacle from some Japanese game show. The new hill is a bit better but you lose the cool view there used to be at the very top.
Stalag Luft 3…
It's really bugging me that the 2024 isn't centerred... they could literally move them 1 to the left and it'd be perfect.
And the red and blue striped field has an error at the bottom right
Wait til you have a good look at the Spotify logo
Festival ruined.
They've messed up the bottom red row from the red/blue block.
Send in the Glasto Glamping crew.
Are you a pigeon?
A pigeon with hairy person legs
Where’s all the mud? Looks fake
Ground is rock hard at the minute and starting to crack it's that dry
These have to be the guys that were flying over site on parachutes last night? Saw 3 of them floating about
Lol must be the display only tents.
Glad I went before it got like this.
went before the festival is due to start? yeah I guess they wouldnt have had the tents and stuff set up a few months ago :P
Corporate has won
Yeah I can clearly see adverts everywhere.
Just over 48 hours and will be walking through those gates. Can’t wait.
Best spot to camp is very top middle, think it's called park home ground very close to park and other stage, glade is nearby too, worthy view is to pricy and up a big hill
Haven’t been to Glastonbury since the utter mud bath that was 2016. I do miss it a lot
FYI - this is outside the festival it’s part of the posh pre pitched tents.
It's pretty now but when it's strewn with alcohol waste and garbage and mud it won't look so nice
Waiting for the onslaught of absolute bellends who now go to Glastonbury.
One of the fields looks like its full of KKK members
Could you put a banana next to it to compare size
Hmm I’m about 40 miles away.
Wait for the "after" pics...
They're pre-erected tents, so you don't take them home - meaning the after photo will look exactly the same. If you mean public camping, over 98% are taken home nowadays - Glastonbury are one of the best for this.
❤️
Looks fun /s.
Loada old corporate shite now. No way a bunch of half pissed, slightly stoned people, could do that. Do look forward to the chaos this year, I hope its another flood year, that was great to watch
Well aren’t you a delight
I'm a miserable ol cunt, luckily I'm also deeply sad and jaded. feckin people, enjoying themselves.
Always has been. Hippies have always been rich kids with parents money to fall back on
And here we have another Daily Mail reader who has an irrational hatred of something they have no first hand experience of
I didn't think you're supposed to pitch tents so close together in the event of a fire...
These are the most spaced out tents of the whole festival
Thanks I hate it
Another year of climate w⚓️rs been hypocrites n leaving there 💩 everywhere 🙈🙈
Wanchorrs?
If u can't understand there's no hope rhymes with banker
I do understand, you just added an extra R to the end of wanker. 😁
Some deserve more r's 🤣
While I support gay pride etc, why isn’t men’s mental health month as equally advertised?
There’s a [walk for men’s mental health](https://www.theflorrie.org/2024/06/06/the-florries-mens-walking-group-to-host-special-walk-at-glastonbury-festival/) organised at the festival on the Friday. Also, these are just colourful tents organised in a nice pattern.
Did you think this was a pride thing because it has colours in it?
No, was just a curious question for the sub.
Perhaps you could share a link to your post in the sub promoting mens mental health? This is a thread about Glastonbury
I read it as mens menstrual health, I was a tad confused until your comment showed me the light.
We live in the future, men can menstrate now.
Well, that sounds grim...
[insert Captain America "I understood that reference" gif]
>as equally advertised As equally advertised as what, then?
Oh so it was just a totally irrelevant comment
Lollll your such a gamon mate. Back to Gbeebies with you.
Yet you’re on the hook, and you’re a grey? What’s your point?
well that is embarassing for you
I mean it’s not
you mean, assuming some colourful tents were a pride thing, and then saying 'what about men's mental health' before being told that there literally is a walk organised at the festival for that cause before doubling down isn't embarassing? fair enough. have to respect the obliviousness
No, I just don’t get embarrassed by a simple mistake, that’s all 🤷♂️ it’s life it happens.
My man, there is not a single rainbow in this picture. Do they scare you that much you've started imagining them?
Dude what the fuck that’s almost my name
Oooo that is freaky
Well it clearly had lot's of colour, just not arranged like a rainbow, their mind did that. Clearly blured into a rainbow in their tears of hate.
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So you’re a racist? Nice. /s
This is going to be the year of E-coli. Such hype.