The behemoth that is Glastonbury festival kicks off in a field Pilton this weekend, a sprawling event that has long since outgrown its hippy traditions. Now headlined by mega stadium acts like U2, Coldplay and Beyonce. For most of us the smaller tents and side activities hold the most interest.
But if you are one of the lucky ones to have managed to secure a ticket we hope you have fun, some aren’t so lucky. So desperate are youngsters to get tickets, 16% confessed they would sell their own grandmother to get a ticket whilst nearly one in three (28%) would busk to get the cash.
Festival goers are pretty frisky too by the sounds of it too almost one in five (18%) young music fans have had a one-night stand at a festival and one in six (15%) have lost their undies, according to a new survey.
The research also found that festival essentials were the most common stolen or forgotten items with one in three (29%) leaving their shades and hats behind and one in four their tent.
With Glastonbury starting this week, Generator Hostels <http://www.generatorhostels.com/ , one of the leading international backpacker hostels, surveyed over 1,000 18-25 year olds about their festival experiences.
When asked what item they couldn’t live without at a festival nearly one in three (28%) identified wellies as their priority item – good news given the forecast for Glastonbury. One in five (19%) said toilet roll was their number one essential. Other festival must-haves included ‘she wees’, with one in 10 taking them to avoid being caught short and 14% saying they had to have wet wipes to keep things clean.
The survey found that the most popular international festivals this year are:
1. Glastonbury
2. Rock am Ring, GER
3. Benicassim, Spain
4. Roskilde, DK
5. Burning Man, US
Alison Armitage, director at Generator Hostels. said: “The festival season is just kicking off with Glastonbury this week and it’s a fun time of the year for hundreds of thousands. Many get stuck in and let their hair down and so it’s no surprise that music fans sometimes lose or forget items.”
“We see many coming to stay at our hostels during or after festivals looking for a dry, clean and secure place to recover,” she added.
