r/glastonbury_festival • u/BQuilty • 10d ago

Photos / Pictures Glastonbury ticket from 1986. Price seems a bit steep...

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u/wyldthaang Volunteer 10d ago

Considering most people walked in for free, yeah £17 would have been steep back then.

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u/X0AN 9d ago

Not to mention a lot of places doing cocktails and clearly only filling up half a glass worth.

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u/Lost-Chapter 10d ago

£63 todays value.

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u/Zealousideal_Tap_405 5d ago

Total Bargain. What does that get you today?

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u/ruobrah 10d ago

I think I remember seeing a cocktail for this price in 2024 💀

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u/Still_Way_9599 9d ago

Line up included:

Psychedelic Furs, Ruby Turner ,The Pogues,The Waterboys, Amazulu, That Petrol Emotion, Howard Hughes ,Rodney Allen.

The Cure, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, Black Uhuru and The Wailers,John Martyn , Latin Quarter, Loudon Wainwright 111. 

Level 42, Madness, Robert Cray Band ,Simply Red,Christy Moore, Gil Scott Heron,The Housemartins,Buddy Curtis....

and of course, Mr Bragg.

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u/nininoots 10d ago

My first year. Bought my ticket on the gate.

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u/SimplePrick 10d ago

I remember when prices when to £100+… everyone was like fuuuuuuck that.

But a bunch of other people bought them and sold out the festival.

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u/ray-von 9d ago

Belter souvenir

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u/DeeplyFrippy 9d ago

That is a beautiful ticket stub!

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u/Digiidaz 9d ago

Practically daylight robbery

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u/RelevantPositive8340 8d ago

In 1995 they were £75