Leeds: Your reflections on festivals and the cost of seeing live music

Are you going to any festivals this year and have ticket prices ever put you off from going to them?

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00:00Last festival I went to was Leeds Fest and I paid like $150, $170, something around that

00:06mark.

00:07Is that for a standard ticket?

00:08That's for the weekend standard.

00:09Yeah, weekend ticket.

00:10Standard?

00:11Friday, Saturday, Sunday and part of Monday, but we left on Sunday.

00:15Oh, okay.

00:16Fair enough.

00:17Yeah.

00:18I think the prices generally go up.

00:19I think they could be cheaper, but then again, like it's, to be honest, you're paying for

00:22something that's on the entertainment side of things.

00:25So if you really want to be entertained, you're going to pay what you got to pay.

00:28We're going to Hideout, which is a festival in Croatia, and we booked it because we wanted

00:33to go and we've got an Airbnb.

00:35Yeah, we've got to work through Airbnb.

00:37I think the prices have gotten a little bit maybe out of hand, but at the same time, if

00:42the price didn't go up, would they be able to make money from it?

00:44Who's to say?

00:45There was a bit of a discussion in terms of artists and how much they get paid, because

00:49a lot of them, you'd be surprised from their album sales and stuff like that, they don't

00:53get paid a lot.

00:54You'd expect them to get paid a lot more, but they usually get the most revenue from

00:58like festivals and concerts.

00:59Okay.

01:00So that's very interesting.

01:01And I think that's very interesting.

01:03Especially for you all that time, we can put all of them on the kennel, but then we'd

01:04go in to the back one, and they're actually going to the next speaker of your house and

01:05at the same time.

01:06So that's really a great point.

01:07That's really interesting.

01:08In the meantime, there's going to be where you are categorical.

01:09I think it's a great point.

01:10That's really nice.

01:11There's a great point.