Glastonbury Festival 2025 - What You Need to Know

The HIDDEN TRUTH about Glastonbury Festival 2025!

Glastonbury Festival 2025 is the most eagerly anticipated music festival for many years. Most people think all the money raised goes to charities like Oxfam, Greenpeace and Water Aid, which isn't strictly true. What motivates Michael Eavis? Does Glastonbury Festival have a dark side?

Glastonbury Festival is a wonderful event - nobody denies that - but, despite the hippie vibes and "charity" hype, it is patently a money-making operation above all else. I've been many times, both as a trader and as an agent for acts playing at the festival, and I know the inside information.

00:00- Introduction
00:50- Google search for Glastonbury
01:05- Michael Eavis and God
01:23- "It's all for charity!": local charities, Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Water Aid
01:43- Glastonbury Festival ticket revenue
02:00- Glastonbury bar prices (Bread & Roses)
02:08- Traders at Glastonbury (especially food traders)
02:24- £6 Meal Deal
02:38- What does the average meal cost at Glastonbury Festival?
03:11- What do Food Traders pay at Glastonbury Festival?
03:30- How much do bands get paid to play at Glastonbury Festival?
04:18- Hospitality tickets at Glastonbury Festival
04:25- How much does backstage access cost at Glastonbury Festival?
06:03- Exclusive backstage accommodation deals
06:27- Thank you video from satisfied corporate hospitality client
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[richardyoung]

Interesting video and I agree with some of the points but for the sake of balance. Glastonbury is the only of the mainstream festivals in the UK that allows you to bring your own alcohol around the main site so you don't have to commit to the bar prices. Also that £6 meal deal also includes coffee and hot food (chili bowl I believe is an option). In some Starbucks you can't buy a coffee on its own for £6. Also free food is always available from the various Hari Krishna tents. Is Glastonbury festivals intentions to make money? Absolutely, but there's not much in modern Britain that we can hold up as our own and be proud of and I personally believe Glastonbury is one of them things. It's completely unique to any other festival and we should celebrate that.

[phillipmills]

I'm 46 and went with my brother 42 it was our first Glastonbury and we absolutely loved it, food was expensive but the fact you can take your own booze helps soften the blow, apart from it being a bit woke I couldn't fault it and wish I had gone 20yrs ago .❤

[TheBearStudios]

Last time I went to Glasto would have been 1985 when the Battle of the Beanfield brought Stone Henge Free Festival to an end.

In those days Glasto had little meaningful security and the BBC had not got their hands on it.

As much as I am sure Glasto is an incredible experience these days, it is now just a giant money making BBC oriented show.

[kitcanttat]

I went in 79, 81, 84 and 85 and it was impossible to see/do everything even back then (theatre, comedy, film, music etc). I think it was £16 in 79, about 14, 000 in attendance, by 84 about 35, 000. In 79 I wandered into Michael Eavis's barn, sat on the hay bales and watched Steve Hillage rehearse for his set the following night. There was no backstage area, you could chat to the acts as they came off stage round the back of the pyramid. Someone asked John Cooper Clarke for his autograph, "Only if I can have yours", he deadpanned. As a spectacle it looks great on TV, but these numbers are mind-boggling. It's a different beast now. Luckily, other smaller, cheaper and closer festivals are available.

[hughiedavies]

Thanks for covering this side of Glastonbury, i haven't been since the 90s

[pugtronix]

Used to go quite a lot with my brother as standard ticket holders 1999-2011 and even back then it cost a small fortune.
However I managed to get work there this year as part of the recycling crew so i didn't need to purchase a ticket, I spent less than £80 over the whole weekend (I've yet to be paid, so that sum will come down) and that included my beer, weed and petrol money to get there, food was supplied (3 very decent meals a day) PPE was included as was use of showers with no queueing whatsoever, sun cream and the cleanest toilets I've ever seen at the festival and back stage access.
I must admit I was very impressed with the whole waste management system in place, I wonder what the budget was for that as there were thousands of employees.

But I think Glastonbury Festival is just too big now.

[jamesmckenna]

So looking forward to Glastonbury Festival 2024, Blondie, Manic Street Preachers who were fab & the Pretenders were a joy to watch last year! Praying Coldplay & The Killers will be taking part in 2024. Oh and check out my new Glastonbury 2024 T-shirt

[Glaiket]

Most of the hospitality areas where quite empty. Also ‘VIP’ is not where celebrities hang out. Most celebs usually hang out in the staff bars with the scaffolders and the scenic artists.

[theguvnor]

I tried many years ago to be a food vendor at Glastonbury....I didnt get the gig but I did receive the requirement package....its very expensive to be a vendor there and although those vendors make a ton of money their presence is designed to make Eavis money also.

[rozanowski]

As everything around starts with good intentions and ideal, and with time (these days at very incrased speed) it slides into gutter fueled by peoples greed and "smart ones" wanting to make easy quick money.

[HopeIanHope]

Cannot think of anything worse. I'll be down the pub enjoying a good live band for free 🤪😃👍

[krisbowditch]

How about £385 and 200, 000 attendees that what I’ve just read =£77 million before tax, probably pay 10 million for the bands etc .. haven’t even mentioned merch, or food beverages profit .🙈🙈🙈

[martinthomas]

GLASTO lost its roots so so long ago! HAWKWIND dayz!

[graysynther]

Al way knew it had become commercial….but Jesus !
😵‍💫

[Djsonley]

The most "free" festival on the planet Burning Man in USA they literally have a billionaire's row where Elon Musk, Zuc all those hang out some years so Glasto is kinda small fry at the top end compared. It's a great festival end of the day. I've been almost 10 times and enjoyed my last two better than any before.

You can talk about "it was better in my day" etc but the facts are seeing someone like Elton John for example in a crowd of 200 thousand people for basically his last gig ever is a memory you will never forget. You see artists you grew up with and it still has the magic.

The more quieter parts of the festival are super family orientated too. It has a good mix and the BBC coverage much like Top of the Pop's back in the day is culturally important for music fans worldwide. It does a great service to both the UK and art in general.

[Suelovesboo]

I went back in the early 2000’s working at a friends stall it was great got paid for listening to bands

[sickssix]

I've been there a few times. Only bought a ticket one time costing £13.50 which is how much it's gone up since last year. It's s**t now in comparison. Back in the day there were no cops on the festival site. Only when it got bigger the public road became part of the site did the cops turn up. The atmosphere now is just like any of the other festivals. There were no posh kids there. No arm waving. Phones didn't exist. You got free milk at the dairy which was cool. The peace convoy did most of the security. No VIP areas. No glamping. BBC ignored it. yeah it was okay. Hung out with John Peel one Saturday afternoon.. 🚬⛺
It's all about 💰 now

[theguvnor]

Founder Michael once revealed that Coldplay and Paul McCartney were both paid around £200, 000 for past headline sets.

[theguvnor]

Glastonbury Festival-goers have been left gobsmacked by this year's food prices - with simple fries going for a hefty £8 - after arriving at Worthy Farm this weekend.

[theguvnor]

Paul Mccartneys fee last year was £200, 000 compared to his normal fee of £4 million.