I have nothing against youngsters getting out of their brains , listening to great music and enjoying being in club Boomtown

I know that when I was in my teens I believed there were grandparents who would be appalled and here I am, that grandpa complaining.

My missus going down to Winchester yesterday got caught up in the massive crowd of kids making their way to buses to take them to the site out of town on top of your transport to get to Winchester.

and then there’s the ticket to get into Boomtown for four days (Wednesday to Sunday), somewhere in the South Downs

Oh and you’ll need a tent which will cost you a starting price of £100 and end up a little more

We are talking a lot of money before the expense of getting out of your head (remember a song by Pulp?) in a field in Hampshire.

Here I go but I think that Glastonbury has taken a generation of youngsters into middle age and they are prepared to pay £1,000 because they are well-off. But this looks like a festival for young kids, for students who are in an altogether place and with a great big hole to follow in their bank account.

I hear a lot of calls from the next generation about intergenerational unfairness so will have to remind those in their 20s and 30s that people used to get to these events by hitch-hiking, had no money to pay for admission so many festivals were free or (Glastonbury) amazing and cheap and people had their own tents and didn’t buy one which had beds.

The festival started in 2010, last year it had a death and it is a pain in the backside for the local residents and the local wildlife. It was nearly closed down earlier this year ,this from the BBC 

Each year there are complaints from the nimby crew and from people growing out of their first year’s experience but I don’t buy any of that

People should hate the festival scene as they grow up.  Glastonbury is a swamp of reminiscence and should be made 35+ age restricted; kids should be let loose to live in squats and make them rock.

My problem is not with the nuisance factor to Winchester and the South Downs, it is about the way festivals now cost a grand to go to. Well there’s someone on the other side who is smiling because all the tickets sell out like “Glasto”.

The Power of Now is the slogan from the people who are putting this stuff together and hats off to them for being entrepreneurial but if t his is what youngsters expect, then I wonder what festival culture is about.

Festival Boomtown is festival rip-off as far as I can see. You can make your own mind up using this link.

Beethoven’s 7th at the Royal Albert Hall for £8, stop getting ripped off- do it yourself kids!

How about going back to free music? That’s my generation! Here’s my missus doing it for free at the Swan in Clewer.