I don't understand what all the bitching is about here honestly!!! The two big festivals here in Ireland, tickets were upwards of 200e - 250e each for 3 days of shit expensive food (9euro for a fucking plate of PASTA - I mean wtf?? thankfully I was working at said festival and got concessions but I feel sorry for the poor bastards paying that kind of money) shitty weather (bring your wellies folks!) and nackers who'd as soon stab you as look at you at the big one(Oxegen). Seriously folks, 130e is still a steal (though the 8euro credit card fee on metaltix I found was the cheekiest load of bollox I've ever seen - so 138e total :s ) for what you get, this is still great money and dirt cheap for most western european countries. Even with the exchange rates n all that, it can hardly be called "expensive" in the states or Oz or most parts of the western world now can it??? Honestly, I'm surprised they kept their price so low for so long. Not that I want it to go any higher (I've still got flights to pay for dammit!!!!) but hey, I can understand the price going up. Tis how these events naturally evolve. Guess we just have to trust that it's being done to guarantee the maintained survival of WOA and not for pure profit reasons.
On another note however...the organizers did say they weren't going to sell any more tickets as the did this year. This year it was fucking insanely overcrowded on Thursday night with Maiden. Seriously, I fucked off back to the campsite for most of it (was like a ghost town lol). I reckoned most of those extra 20k people were there purely for maiden and went off back home or something afterwards cause it seemed pretty alright for the rest of the weekend, i.e. you had room to breathe on fri and sat. If theyre thinking they can cram that many people into the festival for the whole bloody weekend this is going to be a nightmare!!! Thoughts on this??
