Britain’s Top Rock Festival Fails To Turn Profit

“For the first time since its inception almost four decades ago, the Glastonbury festival did not make any money this year. […] ‘Glastonbury costs £22m now, it’s a huge cost,’ [organizer Michael] Eavis recently told BBC 6 Music. ‘The infrastructure, the fencing, the roads, the water and the loos, the marquees, the management, the security and the police, it goes on and on so we do have to sell out in order to make it work.'”