Glastonbury 2025

bluesmith said:
So because someone at Glastonbury pays 10k for a yurt that's the Glastonbury demographic? Assume you think the same for all City fans as a box is a similar price?

For every yurt at Glastonbury there's thousands of average Joes and for every box at City there is hundreds of average joes. Demographics aren't set by the highest value purchase at either.
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bluesmith said:
So because someone at Glastonbury pays 10k for a yurt that's the Glastonbury demographic? Assume you think the same for all City fans as a box is a similar price?

For every yurt at Glastonbury there's thousands of average Joes and for every box at City there is hundreds of average joes. Demographics aren't set by the highest value purchase at either.
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We have had protests about that very same thing, city fans being priced out. There was a 300 page thread about it.
 
bluesmith said:
So because someone at Glastonbury pays 10k for a yurt that's the Glastonbury demographic? Assume you think the same for all City fans as a box is a similar price?

For every yurt at Glastonbury there's thousands of average Joes and for every box at City there is hundreds of average joes. Demographics aren't set by the highest value purchase at either.
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Bournemouth Blue said:
As an old fart, now 70, the only acts I want to see are Neil Young and Rod Stewart. I know there are other talented younger acts, but I have a vast music collection which does include several 21st Century releases, but none of them play Glastonbury. For me, Glastonbury is the definition of Hell on Earth.
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So that makes 2 of us pal.
 
mexico1970 said:
That isn't true though, the older demographic of the attendees is up into the 50+'s and it is very much a middle class event, are middle class people in denial that they are middle class?


Glastonbury Festival is often perceived as being attended by a predominantly middle-class audience, though it also attracts a diverse range of people from various social backgrounds. While some argue it's become more middle-class, particularly with a higher proportion of middle-class attendees expressing interest in going, the festival itself aims to be inclusive and welcomes people from all walks of life.
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I'm there and that's not my experience, are you here? Or are you believing what you read on the Internet?
 
madloaf said:
When did going to a festival become a political statement? I'm looking in the eyes of the young kids in the crowd and just like me when I was young, I would guess their politics was not the deciding factor in purchasing festival tickets.
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Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has long been a staunch campaigner for peace, and in 1981 famously donated festival proceeds to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), in a partnership that lasted until the early Nineties.

In 1984, Eavis introduced the Green Fields to raise awareness of environmental issues.

2005 Make Poverty History campaign, which saw Eavis appear alongside musician and activist Bob Geldof on the Pyramid Stage.

2009, the festival supported the White Ribbon Alliance’s Million Mums campaign, collecting thousands of signatures supporting an end to the needless deaths of women in childbirth.

2016, EU exit prompted Blur frontman Damon Albarn to announce that “democracy had failed”.

Elsewhere during the day, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis wore a t-shirt onstage that said: “Abuse of power comes of no surprise.”

A year later, then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared on the Pyramid Stage amid chants of “oh, Jeremy Corbyn” in the style of the opening riff of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes.

There, accompanied by Eavis, he delivered a rousing speech that condemned nationwide poverty and paid tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

Stormzy, who backed Corbyn and Labour in the December 2019 general election, used his headline set earlier this year to highlight racism in the criminal justice system along with the UK’s high rate of knife-related homicides (while wearing a Union Jack stab vest designed by Banksy)
In the thrilling performance, he also got the thousands of fans in attendance at the Pyramid Stage to chant “F*** the government, f*** Boris [Johnson]” during his rendition of hit single “Vossi Bop”.

2022 edition of Glastonbury Festival was another politically rife event, in part due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which was addressed in a powerful video message to revellers from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Elsewhere that year, The decision by the Republican-controlled Supreme Court prompted artists such as Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, Olivia Rodrigo, Idles and headliner Billie Eilish to speak out, with Eilish calling it a “really dark day for women in the US”.

…. Look forward to quoting this all again next years set when some have totally forgotten the history of political statements at Glastonbury and also to remind again that every single year this is ‘the worst line up’ and ‘worst Glastonbury ever’ according to the same old morons.
 
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bluesmith said:
I'm there and that's not my experience, are you here? Or are you believing what you read on the Internet?
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You must know how to spot the working class from middle class which is quite an achievement. Maybe you are one of the ones who don't quite understand that they are not poor working class any more?
 
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