Glastonbury Festival 2024 - What You Need to Know

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Glastonbury Festival 2024 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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@TheBearStudios 14 дней назад

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.

@JimDriver 14 дней назад

I think it's unfair to say the BBC "got their hands on it" as they were coaxed in by the organisers and now pay a pretty penny to broadcast from Glastonbury. For them, it's a relatively cheap source of many hours of music and "culture" aimed at the oft-neglected 15- to 35-year-olds. For Glastonbury organisers, it's another income stream…

@paulelephant9521 11 дней назад

I don't think Glastonbury is any more oriented to money making or the BBC than it was in the very early 90s when I first went. It's always had a commercial edge, it's a flipping music festival! People want to see professional bands so money has to be generated through sales of tickets and beer etc. Yes the BBC film some parts of it, but I don't think that influences what acts get to play. It has certainly changed, and I do miss some of the freewheeling anarchy of the Glastonburys of the past, but I can also see how some things needed to change because of the success. People have a right to expect to be safe at a festival, so certain aspects had to be sorted out. Tbh I'm amazed how much of the old spitit is still there, it's still an amazing experience everytime I've gone, and I've enjoyed 2024 as much as any other year, which is pretty fantastic and a credit to Michael and Emily Eavis imo.

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

@@JimDriver glastonbury needs to be banned because its just a greedy money grab ...artists real ones should refuse to play there & the whole thing needs to die , the bbc is an evil lying government mouthpiece spouting propaganda & most self respecting 15 to 35 year olds know this & dont watch it

@terrypussypower 2 дня назад

@@paulelephant9521. Unless you went to the early Glastonburys, from ‘79 to ‘86, you don’t have a clue what it was like originally. It was incredible back then…. the nearest thing to a T.A.Z. (A Temporary Autonomous Zone…look it up) you could get in the U.K. at that time. The idea of coppers patrolling it was unthinkable! It’s total sh*t these days. Too many creeps.

@richardyoung6286 Год назад

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.

@JimDriver Год назад

I quite agree! Glastonbury is to be celebrated and it does so many good things. I’m just providing an alternative view of what else goes on alongside the great stuff. For whatever reason, dissent from the “authorised view” doesn’t really exist and I’m a big fan of light and shade…

@blueporta Год назад

not true - Bearded Theory and if i remember right, Beautiful Days allow you to bring your own booze in.

@dannyx2737 Год назад

What Starbucks do you go to where you can't buy coffee for £6?

@Glaiket Год назад

I think you underestimate how much it costs to put on!

@glastomole9570 Год назад

Now research the actual cost of putting on a show the Size of Glastonbury Jim - Plant hire, infrastructure, staging, toilets, security, policing, stewarding, fencing, medical, 30,000 crew and performers, licences, insurance the list goes on.. just for balance of course😉👍

@hughiedavies6069 14 дней назад

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

@JimDriver 14 дней назад

Fantastic that you enjoyed it! Maybe it's time to plan a trip back to Glastonbury before it disappears up its own b***side… ! 😀

@phillipmills5572 Год назад

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 .❤

@JimDriver Год назад

When I had a book stall there I was woken up many times by Save The Rhino playing Rave music. Is that what you meant Glastonbury started off as the original "woke" festival - Hawkwind, Guru Maharaj Ji, Peace and Love, and all that - and its decline in that department is really what my video is about…

@rozanowski 13 дней назад

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.

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

Not sure it's "easy money" but I think the organisers have refined it into a fine art. I saw one post where someone paid £19.50 for a medium-sized Yorkshire pudding loaded with roast pork, veg and gravy. The poster didn't complain about the price but it didn't look a lot for £20 (and Im a veggie!!)…

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

couldnt agree more

@pugtronix Год назад

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.

@JimDriver Год назад

The bigger it gets, the more impersonal it is. But also, the more money it makes… 😀😀

@jamesmckenna2059 3 месяца назад

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

@JimDriver 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing your excitement! It's great to connect with fellow festival-goers who appreciate great music.

@Glaiket Год назад

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.

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, the staff bars are definitely where most of the action happens!

@Suelovesboo Год назад

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

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, I always preferred Glastonbury when I was getting paid for being there… 😀

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

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.

@JimDriver Год назад

Indeed: it's a slick operation…

@djdarq6311 16 дней назад

Oh the horror

@mikaeljonsson1975 2 месяца назад

Is it VOB ( VOICE OF BACEPROT) Not in the list, Why?

@dennydharmasetiawan510 2 месяца назад

VOB 🤘 at Woodsies stage june 28 2024. Come and see them ❤

@mikaeljonsson1975 2 месяца назад

@@dennydharmasetiawan510 MANTAP & Terima kasih Danke Merci Thanks Tack!

@JimDriver 2 месяца назад

Undoubtedly!

@ianhope3203 Год назад

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

@JimDriver Год назад

Haha: quite right… 😀

@daleclarke4317 Год назад

Agree 100 % No way l want to pay £350 plus food & drink to spend 4 days with 150,000 unwashed bodies, queueing the toilets and Jeremy Corbyn & woke RS,s preaching to me ...much rather go down the pub with a few friends & enjoy the top acts * without the blondy, style screeching *

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

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

@JimDriver Год назад

Exactly! Both would get way more than that for a normal festival appearance (if you could get them!), although with Glastonbury headliners are rarely announced before tickets go on sale…

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

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

@JimDriver Год назад

Indeed!

@beth6205 5 месяцев назад

How on earth do I get tickets

@JimDriver 5 месяцев назад

Watch this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rfcLberEmhg.htmlsi

@beth6205 4 месяца назад

@@JimDriver Thank you I did watch it when it came out last year :) but will definitely watch it again trying in resales keep up the good content

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

I believe the food vendors are not allowed to use generators so they have to pay for electricity also.

@JimDriver Год назад

Good point That's the case with all traders at Glasto…

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

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.

@JimDriver Год назад

Hopefully a choice of mayonnaise, ketchup or salt?

@martinthomas6393 Год назад

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

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, Nik Turner had a few things to say about that before he passed on… 😃

@theguvnor5964 Год назад

@@JimDriver Hawkwind)the original,,,great band)Dave Brock still playing of course.

@tezzasmif. Год назад

And they changed the John Peel stage to Woodsie?! 🤮 I knew it wasn't all Peace & Love the year the mud was up to just below my knees and Michael Eaviss said they would fix the drainage for next time.. we went back and it was worse.. remember a man collapsed in the mud and died?

@JimDriver Год назад

I look back on the mud with fondness though the first year it happened (1997?) I lost half of my stock of books. Ah, happy days…

@Glaiket Год назад

The drainage was fixed this year??? The run offs ran under the production roads. Also it was bone dry!

@Glaiket Год назад

Well he is a paedo!

@tezzasmif. Год назад

So it's only taken the Eaviss's about 20 years to fix then 🤣

@christoguichard4311 Год назад

Did the Hogs ever play Glasto?

@JimDriver Год назад

A great question and I had to check! As far as I know, the Hogs have never graced the Glastonbury stage... but if you listen closely, you you would have heard Tony's music echoing last night when Arctic Monkeys were playing…

@mickyates9154 11 дней назад

I wonder if they have asked Prem Rawat to play the main stage again 😅 I'm guessing they don't want to know . Any inside info on the controversial Isle of Wight festival 70 and it's influence on the festival scene? Thatcher put the final nail in with the public order act 194 right to free assembly and the weekend hippies probably voted for her , those pesky peasants can't be allowed to get together in a field 🎶❤️💪☮️

@JimDriver 11 дней назад

I knew Prem Rawat when he was Guru Maharaj Ji and I live in his Acton Ashram! I can't really do an Isle of Wight "Expose" as I never went and I do ike to keep these accounts personal. Thanks for commenting!

@timngabyuk Год назад

Didn’t you run rhythm festival ???.. looks like the t shirt ;)

@JimDriver Год назад

Indeed I did! And that is my only remaining T-shirt from 2011 (my favourite) with the woodcut R logo design by Sarah Vardy.

@user-mk4by4xu8i 2 месяца назад

comin here.. just wana know this festiva.. because VOB gona play on stage.. for the firat time...

@dennydharmasetiawan510 2 месяца назад

VOB 🤘🇮🇩 Will perform on woodsies stage , june 28 ,2024

@user-mk4by4xu8i 2 месяца назад

@@dennydharmasetiawan510 yup in wooden stage and dom stage

@Andrew-rc3vh Год назад

It would take a Mongolian ten years of work to hire out a Mongolian tent for 3 days.

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, indeed. I'm not sure they would have been as luxurious as the ones as Glastonbury but your point is well made!

@henrycrofts1018 Год назад

BOOM TOWN

@JimDriver Год назад

Good pun: or are you referring to the festival of that name…

@ramonivanrosasarguellesrea7722 Год назад

Hola , que día se presenta Lana Del Rey?

@JimDriver Год назад

¡Gracias por prestar tanta atención a mi video! Lana Del Rey toca el sábado por la noche...

@honestopinion253 20 дней назад

I think your not including the cost of security and insurance also the massive cost of cleaning up afterwards

@JimDriver 19 дней назад

Thanks for taking part.! used to organise a music festival, so I know allabout all the hidden "extras": PRS is a big one, too but, believe me, the Glastonbury Festival balance sheet is very healthy… 😀

@djdarq6311 16 дней назад

@@JimDriver good I’m glad they will be able to keep it going

@krisbowditch827 Год назад

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 .🙈🙈🙈

@JimDriver Год назад

Official figures show that 142,000 pay to get in and 35,000 of attendees are staff, stall holders, performers and guests....

@themod7181 Год назад

They pay bands though

@JimDriver Год назад

@@themod7181 Have you watched the video? I point out that the bands that do get paid get less than they would anywhere else and quite a few are only paid expenses; some get nothing…

@Kittenwhisperer24 12 дней назад

Hmmmmm are all these genuine facts, what about all the good stuff They do

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

There's no end of coverage about the "good stuff they do" on the BBC and in the mainstream media. I'm just putting forward a tiny alternative point of view. And, as far as I know, everything I say is true…

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

like what putting up a prison fence to keep the peasants out ? charging ridiculous amounts of money for tickets & never offering tickets or inviting poor people (considering there are a lot of those in britain nowadays) having the bullying bbc as the broadcaster...the bullshitting bbc, the government mouthpiece bbc, the rip off scamming bbc that harasses everyone who has got a telly even if they dont watch the bbc...that is not a good thing or something to be proud of ...i mean it should have been banned after the jimmy savilles. i wouldnt let em film there if it was up to me, actually im surprised eavis hasnt set up his own youtuube channel & charging people to watch the festival especially since the rest of the world cant stream the bbc from their country unless they use a vpn...its about control though isnt it really or maybe not but we wont know & cant trust anything any of them say...thats the problem

@raymondbonington9355 13 дней назад

Rather see the Steve gibbons band down the half moon Putney 😀

@johnnylatham9738 Месяц назад

All you need to know now is it's a pile 9f Corporate Middle Class Shite nowadaze😂❤

@JimDriver Месяц назад

Yes, I don't think few people realise how much of a money-making machine Glastonbury is. And their PR presence is huge: you'll never hear any negative reporting in the mainstream media…

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

yeh even that if they donated & gave something back for using yerts that would be something

@DougCarr-rk7dc Месяц назад

Nothing shocks me pal. Glastonbury. Must have a quadruple fence now

@JimDriver Месяц назад

Maybe they should consider adding an alligator moat next!

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

@@JimDriver yep those pesky peasants eh

@andrewwilkinson553 12 дней назад

Did you forget VAT....did you enjoy covering income but not costs? Did you read the published accounts?

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

I included VAT and PRS in my calculations. If you can find any meaningful P&L accounts in the public domain, let me know. I'm not sure (as a private company) they exist…

@ufoenigma7858 3 месяца назад

What a 'racket'!

@JimDriver 3 месяца назад

Tennis has always been much enjoyed at Glasters… 😀😀

@TheMikeDudley 9 дней назад

But, but, Eavis thinks there's a "god", so... That's alright then. 😂🙄

@JimDriver 9 дней назад

Who knew Eavis had a direct line to the divine for booking bands!

@PDuB1 14 дней назад

“Maybe” “I believe” “They get a big chunk” “People have told me” “I believe… special tills” “Stages don’t get budget” “ a FB post, unpaid bands” “Bankers glamping” Not sure what your point here is but you seem to have a beef with glasto about money in general. What’s the hospitality broker got to do with anything?

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

Thanks for the comment and I get what you;re saying, The problem is the people involved don't advertise what they're doing but I've operated festivals (and been to literally hundreds in every capacity), and I know how things work. Plus I've been to Glastonbury many times from the 1980s (both front of stage and backstage) and I see what I see…

@PDuB1 12 дней назад

@@JimDriver I’ve worked in the bars at glasto since 2010 and I can tell you there’s absolutely nothing special about those tills! A special one is one that works all the way through the weekend 😏

@chrisstronach5495 23 дня назад

I've been to 10 Glastonburys. The last was 2000. It used to have a counter-cultural feel, and could be genuinely edgy. All you needed was a lump of hash, £20 and a few beers. It wasn't about the music - you could go a whole weekend without seeing a single band. It's been recuperated by the establishment, and is about as subversive as going to the toilet! Middle-class wankers! I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than go again!

@JimDriver 23 дня назад

Yes, Glastonbury is not what it was. There again, nor am I!! 😀😀

@chrisstronach5495 23 дня назад

@@JimDriver No, I'm getting a bit long-in-the-tooth for staying up all night and walking miles and miles. People don't realise the sheer size of the site. I'll put my feet up, with my pipe and slippers and listen to a Grateful Dead LP. 😂

@thatwasthedaythatwas 3 месяца назад

Work it then

@JimDriver 3 месяца назад

I'm twerking on it… 😄

@callanderbarbers Год назад

wow shocking what goes on, the original idea was amazing ,then the bbc wrecks everything, same thing happening to a big festival in Scotland, not so many music fans, now its trendys, with flowers in their hair n glitter, glamping, presecco, embraise the mud and drink cider people

@JimDriver Год назад

Glastonbury is what it is and there's still nothing like it in the world. I don't think the BBC had a detrimental effect on Glastonbury other than it opened the festival up to the mainstream and encouraged people to attend who previously would never have considered it… 😍💩

@junglie Год назад

Bring back our free festivals free stonehenge, glas has been shite since mean fiddler & emily eavis took over.

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, my view is it changed about the time of the Rave culture. They've always been good at making money TBH, but Emily seems slightly better at it than Michael!. I don't want to be a wet blanket but the Mean Fiddler hasn't been around for a long time… 😀

@junglie Год назад

@@JimDriver Good riddance they ruined the atmosphere of womad & glas when they took over security in 2001. not been since tbh.

@neilbradley5011 14 дней назад

Deeplyvale 1978 ,the one and only free festival I went to and it was amazing.

@insaydnb Год назад

30k for a pitch iv seen

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, I've just been contacted (anonymously, of course) by a food trader who's there now and who's just watched the video. He is paying £35k for his spot plus 35% after £55k is taken, and they charge him for full-price tickets for passes for any staff over 12 he has (he needs 15 to legally work the hours). Last year he paid the best part of £100k. And, of course, it's all plus VAT!

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

@@JimDriver wow & i met a couple in india who had been doing a stall for 25 years back in 2002 & im sure at the time they said it would be their last year because they were being charged 800 quid but i might have got that wrong & maybe it was now 2 grand instead of 800 quid ...it was a while ago

@stubru16 Год назад

The after dark party of Glastonbury is full of drugs I didn’t feel safe, the security turned a blind eye to it all. Very weird festival,

@JimDriver Год назад

Sorry to hear about your experience at the After Dark Party. Sounds like it got a bit too wild for you…

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

no thats good that they still allow people to do drugs because a festival is sterile without drugs ...live n let live but maybe it dpends what drugs as well....i cant really think of any that would make someone behave in a frightening way ...alcohol is probably the worst ive seen people under the influence of but maybe they got some new drugs i dont know about? ...i mean what is there...weed, speed, mdma, yabba, coke, crack, h, ketamine, mcat methadrone (yuk), mushrooms, lsd, spice, ghb, fentanyl, poppers (not really a drug), meth/ice,

@TheBelse Год назад

it' now sounds like a religious cash grab ..I'm SHOCKED ..I've been many times ..it's still awesome ..i reckon given the money ..we could use ALL the money on a better party.

@JimDriver Год назад

Yes, no one minds them making money but I wish they'd be more upfront about everything…

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

@@JimDriver i mind, im sick of rich people getting richer & poor getting poorer the gap is ridiculously wide & needs to get narrower because there is no middle anymore at all

@stephenolney6942 14 дней назад

Too many people there

@JimDriver 14 дней назад

If you were earning £850 from every single person there (a figure I recently heard!) , you might not thin k so!

@casscamden740 7 дней назад

thats what i thought when i saw footage & theyre really crowded like sardines as well

@user-dc7sx3sk3k 13 дней назад

terrible line up this year

@raymondbonington9355 13 дней назад

Squeeze were there not even filmed by the beeb ,

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

Yes, I know,!The bands who play, work out a seperate deal with the BBC for coverage (the Rolling tSones famously only allowed half their set to be broadcast)and many don't want to be filmed at all. Or, they are are on a stage that isn't televised, such as the Acoustic Stage…

@JimDriver 12 дней назад

Much more up-to-date line-up than in previous years, a sign that Emily Eavis has taken over completely, I think. Personally, there wasn't much for me to enjoy on TV this year but that's more a sign of my advanced age than a criticism… 😀

@lobbymccawker2083 6 месяцев назад

Glastonbury seems like a total rip off.

@JimDriver 6 месяцев назад

Glastonbury is a great festival but it’s also a relentless money-making enterprise!

@illhorse Год назад

So what? It's organised and run by owners and businesses who make money. Like everything else in the world. At least thousands of people have the best time of their life here. Whats the point of the video? What do u want to happen? Lower ticket price? More money to charity? Stop doing it? Pay the artists more? Most artists do it for the love and publicity. Always someone complaining just to try get famous via vids. Sad.

@JimDriver Год назад

Thanks for taking the time to watch and to comment on my video. I like to think that you made me just a little bit more famous and sad… 😀

@illhorse Год назад

@@JimDriver you may like to think it, doesn't make it true.