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by Gen Williams
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None of the line-up has been officially released yet, but Iron Maiden, Pixies and Foo Fighters are rumoured to be headlining, and the general line-up is tipped to include the Manics, Bloc Party, Killing Joke, Marilyn Manson, The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age and The Tears. New Order are also strongly rumoured to be putting in an appearance. The first line-up announcements are expected this month, and the tickets have, as they do every year, gone up in price; this year tickets are onsale at a whopping £125 plus booking fee, plus postage, etc etc etc. In total festival-goers booking online can expect to fork out nearly £137 for tickets. You'll also have to pay an extra £10 if you want to get there before 11am on Thursday.
Tickets are currently available from Seetickets.com and Aloud.com.
DiScuss: Who d'you think'll play? What do you think of the rumoured line-up? How do you feel about the £10 rise in the ticket price since last year?
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seems to be less of an emo festival this year.
hold on tickets are ridiculous price!!!!
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the first year i camped, i /think/ i paid £78 or thereabouts for tickets. that was in 1999.
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Everything sells so quick now, they know they can charge that much and get away with it. I've never wanted comfort at festivals before, but with the staggeringly-above-inflation rises of the last few years, I'd like to see that apparent in the site facilities. What are the odds? -
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the worst part is, you pay that much to get there.
god forbid you would want a t-shirt, or some food and drink! -
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festivals are far too damn expensive ... and the line-ups are never as good as they used to be.
first festival i went to had bands like pavement on the bill ... now what do we get , the bravery ! -
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the facilities have actually gotten worse.
the phone charging tent is a joke. a couple of years ago, you rocked up with yr mobile, handed it in, collected it a bit later. you had to queue a bit and the charge didn't last as long as a proper charge, but them's the draws.
last year i didn't even attempt to use the charging facilities - there were lots of kids sitting around at tables with their mobiles plugged into sockets - i don't know how long they all had to sit there waiting for their phones to charge but it looked shambolic.
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In retaliation to the high ticket prices I think I'll throw my own festival the same weekend as Reading. I christen it Lowreypalooza, and my guest room/back garden will be the camping and performance areas. The Pixies and Radiohead (guest appearance by John Lennon rumored) are headlining if you're interested. -
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the worst thing about Reading is the feeling that you're being ripped off at every point. The worst bit is paying £5 or howevermuch it is, just to find out when the bands are on. Disgracefull. -
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I propose we just all go to my local park, hire out a generator and take a hi-fi down there.
My Mum's got the Will Young album handy.
We could make a day of it. -
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get a generator ... drive out into the middle of nowhere ... get some drink and a bbq ... get a couple of bands to play
itl be like the old generator partys that kyuss used to have, awesome -
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Only with my Mum's CD collection, White Lightning and the moral overtone that hanging around a children's park for too long in a large group almost constitutes paedophilia. -
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has no-one else noticed the 'early-entry' pass? That is, you can pay an extra £10 to enter the festival on Wednesday after 6pm as opposed to on Thursday...
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Bearing in mind how difficult it is to camp anywhere if you don't get there within the first hour, how many will be tempted? Too many. -
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that's ridiculous.... so much money for a bloody ticket!!! I really wanted to go but now i think i shall pass on it. Perhaps just watch Glastonbury on the telly or use my horse's field to pitch a marquee and have some bands playing.... and the only snag is that you have to supply the booze and food :) -
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it's only expected though
when something sells out year after year and you can't increase the capacity to increase revenue...
have people started moaning about the line up before all the good band lower down the bill get announced yet? -
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in my youth we always went on the wednesday anyway, it was great you had first pickins of pallettes for firewood metal tubes for flag poles and patio furniture. -
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That ticket price is really bad.
Especially when you consider you can't take your own drink in to the arena, (or the fact that theres an arena bit at all) you have to actually pay to find out when and where bands are playing. The generally crap facilities, the generally uneasy atmosphere, the annoying 'we're away from our parents, we'll all go and break stuff' mentality of people there, the lack of decent camping spots...
On the plus side, It does usually have good bands playing, and its sometimes nice to sit on the grass by the river with a beer.
I'll go if I can't get a ticket for Glastonbury. -
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seems to be a lot of talk of setting up own festivals in kiddies parks, fields etc...we should make one. DiY DiS Fest! -
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Well I just bought mine... -
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The simple answer is to get yourselves down to truck fest. -
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yeah....im going to truck...gonna kick ass -
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With Mean Fiddler now playing their part in organizing the Glastonbury festival too (the ticket prices being near identical), are we not getting very close to seeing a monopoly going on involving the big festivals in England?
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"this year tickets are onsale at a whopping £125 plus booking fee, plus postage, etc etc etc."
Hmmm, bought mine about a month ago from Stargreen, 128 quid 'all in'. -
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think it was £8 for programme and neckhangything -
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If you think of it as in "I'll see at least 15 bands" it works out quite cheap, especially as you'd pay £30+ to see the headliners (though I'd only want to see the Pixies) but it's still a rip-off. I couldn't actually believe you don't get a program included in the price when I went last year for the first time, having been to Glastonbury three times.
What's quite ridiculous is that the ticket price is the same as Glastonbury's, and yet Glastonbury is about fifty times bigger, employs many many many more people, AND manages to give money to charity. -
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That is exactly right. Its just simply offensiv to pretend that it is necessary to charge such a rate.
Anyway, does anyone agree interpol will play? -
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I think it's getting ridiculous with them raising the price by about £5 - £10 every year. Soon it'll be completely out of the price range of a lot of people. -
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take a spare handset (of course everyone has a 5110 or something knocking around) and swap sim cards when it comes down to it.
who wants to do a sweepstake on when they sell out?
i'm saying within a week... -
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i don't have one. :\
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me neither actually.
my phone has no arial, so to recieve calls i have a sewing pin on a piece of thread that i shove into the socket, with a hairband to keep it in place.
BUT!
ask around. many people seem to have half decent phones. most will have upgraded to them, and thus have crappy ones in drawers.
i find at festivals that you use all your battery in the first hour getting everyone to the right part of the site to camp, and then you can turn it off, checking for messages every few hours.
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Festivals are exploitive of music fans (be shocked and horrified, everyone). Festivals are able to do this because demand is so high that they could charge one grandmother per customer and they'd still sell out. All this is for the pleasure of living in conditions that pale in comparison to a Sudanese refugee camp for several days, and probably contracting some disgusting skin disease while there. Is it worth another tenner? In my opinion, yes, but then I never was very good spending my money sensibly (hence the £1000 worth of Pokemon cards and the set of left-handed golf clubs serving as a reminder of misguided youth, currently residing in my loft). -
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One year I took a bottle of Coke into the arena with vodka in it, which the security oaf opened and sniffed, then let me in, happy that I wasn't daring to sneak alcohol in (God forbid). So, um, handy tip kids, vodka's difficult to smell.
And yes, the ticket price is a rip off, and agreed on having to shell out £5/6 on a programme you don't want in order to get a timetable. Other than that I like it though, I kinda like the general feel of the place. And the line-up's usually great. -
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What's wrong with you kids?? In my day we didn't take mobiles (or even have them actually, in some cases) and there certainly wasn't a charging tent. Did we, or did we not all survive perfectly well? Hmm?
Anyway, charge it up before you go. Problem solved. Or drive and take a car charger. Or stop calling your mates every five minutes.
Kids, tsk! -
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Go to the Move festival in Manchester. Decent bands and decent prices. Last year they had the Pixies and lots of other groups there. However it is at a cricket ground. -
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Nah bollocks, we always used to tip up at dusk on the Thursday and get a good spot. That was a couple of years ago mind... -
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New Order, Iron Maiden and Killing Joke!!!!!
times must be hard...
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certainly it's no surprise that the price increases year on year. it's just the sheer amount by which it's inflated that's so ghastly.
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walk in late and night and sweartogod, they don't give a shit. particularly as the weekend wears on. walked in with a carling cup brim-ful of vodka last year. not a flicker of an eyelid in sight.
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i charge mine before i go, and keep it turned off for as much of the festival as possible. yet it always dies by saturday morning.
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you're fine if you get there on thursday. it's a big place. :)
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cor. missed those! i've been checking various ticket sites for a while, and they all seemed to say "offsale" or "not yet onsale". heh.
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http://www.stargreen.com/events?artist=CARLING_WEEKEND%3A_READING_FESTIVAL_2005
looks like £140 now... -
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You got one of them new fangled camcorder/flashlight/kettle jobs that run out of juice after a couple of hours then? I'll sell you my old skool one that lasts for a week. £150 it's yours. -
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hahaha.
well the one i had last year, that ran out in a day and a half, has in fact since been stolen by some stupid fucker with tragically low technological standards. and now i have a nicer one. maybe it'll last till saturday evening. who can say!
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On average, I think it's cheaper to go to a festival for £125+ etc. etc., then going to see all the bands that you want to see there seperately at their gigs. If Iron Maiden do headline Reading...seeing them at their own tour is going to cost quite a bit...
...and the venue-place don't have stinky portaloos and mud and grass and tents and stuff...riiiight? =)
My God I cant wait till August. -
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Anyone got any idea if there will be a second batch of tickets??? -
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i second this question-does anyone have ANY idea when the second batch will be released?? or where else online you can get a ticket for the set price??
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