Jenjie

Will shouted at Chris again during IMP :D

The future of the music festival is in peril, according to the founder of Glastonbury. Michael Eavis, who started Britain's biggest event on his Somerset farm in 1970, says the market place is crowded and cheaper gigs abroad pull crowds - with the same acts at a fraction of the price. Mr Eavis also blamed the economy, in particular a lack of jobs for young people and high tuition fees for lacklustre ticket sales. Eavis, who has an estimated fortune of £42 million, told The Times: 'It's on the way out. We've probably got another three or four years. 'Womad and Latitude are not selling out. Partly it's economics, but there is a feeling that that people have seen it all before. Speaking about his own festival, he said: 'We sell out only because we get huge headliners. In the year Jay-Z played we nearly went bankrupt.' The cost of a ticket to this year's Glastonbury was £200 and headline acts included Beyonce, U2, Coldplay, Morrissey and The Chemical Brothers. When tickets for this year's festival went on sale last October, they sold out within two hours. T in the Park which takes place at Balado in Kinross-shire this weekend sold out within an hour. Some 85,000 music lovers will descend on the three-day event in Scotland, where Beyonce and Coldplay will also headline. However Latitude Festival, which takes place next weekend in Southwold, Suffolk, still has almost 1,000 tickets left for a line-up which includes KT Tunstall, Bright Eyes and Suede. It has been suggested that there are around 40 per cent of the tickets left for both Reading and Leeds Festivals. Tickets for both cost £192.50. British music festivals face stiff competition from those across Europe. For Benicassim, a festival held on the beach in Barcelona with a line-up including Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and Elbow next weekend, tickets are £165 - and the sunshine comes almost guaranteed. Glastonbury started in 1970 - a day after the death of Jimi Hendrix. Some 1,500 festival-goers were charged a pound and the ticket price included milk from Eavis's Worthy Farm. Last year, Glastonbury celebrated its 40th birthday with Eavis taking to the Pyramid Stage on the final night with Stevie Wonder to sing the chorus of his hit Happy Birthday. At this year's Glastonbury 135,000 tickets were sold. Next year the event will take a break to allow the site a 'fallow' year and return in 2013. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012880/Festivals-dead-Glastonbury-organiser-Michael-Eavis-claims-boom-summer-music-events-years.html#ixzz1Rhmyxrd5

yup it looked a lot rougher than I had expected. there were a few crowd shots where i decided i was glad i didn't win tickets

yay :D and that crowd did look rough :shocked2:

I will draw the line at Dora though! :lol: i hope they all have a fab time too :D

just wants to see Coldplay live again. :cry: they could sing Zingzillas songs so long as i was there on front row!!! :lol:

which means the smaller prizes get bigger :D

Iaaaannnnnnn! if you read this before i get home from work, please can I have this pic on here :) http://www.wikicoldplay.com/Concert_Reviews_2011 ty ty ty :kiss: nice piccies Kirsten :D

thanks for the reviews & piccies :D http://www.wikicoldplay.com/6_July_2011:_Optimus_Alive_Festival,_Oeiras,_Portugal

hmmm any guesses as to when she wrote the letter? :lol:

as of yesterday there are no longer roadworks at J12 on the M62 eastbound :D my trip to work yesterday was almost blissful

he's very good with a mouse. would you like to borrow him for a few months? :P

I created a clock for the rest of the festivals so you can see what time it is in the relevant country. I can't work out how to embed it over here, but here's the link for the clock http://t.co/dek0FsR

slightly more times than he can say no in a row :lol: we've discovered the word no this week and boy are we using it :laugh3: :D

don't have any of those 3 :p so the ITV2 is good for me :D

watching ITV2 last night, they had an ad for the itunes festival. so looks like we might get highlights, if not the full thing :)

not a bad amount for a syndicate of 9 to share :D shall keep everything crossed :lol:

he's a strawberry blonde :) he's red with sun streaks at the moment!

are you taking him to see the planes without me? :cry:

great viva chant :D stolen from youtube via Coldplay.com. hoping it'll work [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4e9mz5nxY]YouTube - ‪Viva chant at Open'er‬‏[/ame]

on the front page :)

thanks for the reviews :D http://www.wikicoldplay.com/30_June_2011:_Heineken_Open%27er_Festival,_Gdynia,_Poland

they said they would do a draw fortnightly, so i think there's another opportunity next week

Viva La Vida [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJJ5hgIihQ]YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Viva La Vida | Heineken Open'er Festival 2011‬‏[/ame]

Yellow [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0GB2f_tqKk]YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Yellow Heineken Open'er Festival 30.06.2011 Poland live Opener Gdynia‬‏[/ame]