Skip to playerSkip to main contentSkip to footer
  • 14/07/2025
With a number of festivals cancelled this year due to rising costs and a lack of tickets sales, we asked people on the street in Manchester whether festivals were getting too pricey.
Transcript
00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Hewson-Betson. Today I'm out on the streets of Manchester talking to people about festivals.
00:05And that's because they're getting more and more expensive. Glastonbury, for example, costs £125 per day per person.
00:12We want to know, are people keen to go to festivals or do they think the cost is just too much?
00:17I think it is. I think everything's got very expensive. But for us, we're just getting to that age when I think for a long period of time we need a bit of comfort and somewhere to sit down more.
00:29We haven't been, and if we did go, we'd probably be more for a day.
00:34I think Glastonbury is the exception because, like we said, if there's an amazing headline that you'd pay £150 or even £200 to get and see that it is worth it and obviously it's a whole experience.
00:46But for me, I think it's just everything else. It's so difficult to get tickets. I don't actually even know how I would go about getting a ticket.
00:53It seems like you need to know someone who knows how to do it and it just seems like a big balance.

Recommended