Jeremy Clarkson Farm-Fest ha definito un “caos” poiché i commercianti se ne vanno presto
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/jeremy-clarkson-diddly-squat-farm-fest-traders-b1283546.html
di tylerthe-theatre
Jeremy Clarkson Farm-Fest ha definito un “caos” poiché i commercianti se ne vanno presto
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/jeremy-clarkson-diddly-squat-farm-fest-traders-b1283546.html
di tylerthe-theatre
26 commenti
>Adult tickets cost £35 for a half-day admission, while a full day cost £60.
Who on earth is going to pay that just to go shopping? No wonder it bombed. Trying to coast purely on the Clarkson name.
£60 to enter the festival.
Ok, it had some decent acts performing or whatever but who is spending £60 to enter a country festival and then buying a presumably high priced horse saddle.
Either you make the fest cheap to enter and do that kind of trade or you make it expensive and forgo the trade.
Everywhere seemed quiet this weekend as it was just unbearably hot. Even so, I doubt there was much left in the tank for Artisan Apple Crumble when people have paid £100 a ticket just to get in.
To be fair, who wants a hot jacket potato for £14 on a hot day ( or any day at that price) or a bow tie for their dog? Ask the ice cream sellers if they didn’t make any money
No shit that was going to flop.
£60 a head to do some shopping and listen to a few live bands. Of course it was going to flop. What is the hook aside from trying to milk every ounce of the Clarkson brand
I don’t think it flopped as they made bank. But I have yet to see any traders make any decent profit yet. So see next year who goes back (traders)
But spend £60 per person to enter this or go to the seaside for free. When the weather is this hot its the beach or stay inside.
Think the festival did fine. But some of the traiders are complaining that their sales didn’t meet expectations and that they took a huge loss on attending
From the stuff I’ve seen online the traders that did badly aren’t exactly the kind of thing I’d purchase on a whim.
One lady they quote was selling discount pet food. I appreciate it’s a good thing to buy but I’m unlikely to save a fiver on a bag of dog food then carry a 25kg bag round a hot show on a busy day.
Another one was clothing for pets and custom “accessories”
I appreciate people do like this stuff but when people are paying £60 to get in, and £120 on lunch for a family then their disposable income to spend on other stuff at events goes down no matter who you are.
I will say as a festival trader (not at this event) that heatwave weekends are typically some of the worst trading days of the year.
Unless you sell ice cream.
Why are you people angry at someone charging £60 for adults who can afford it to enjoy themselves?
Live music, sociality and networking are worth it to some. Imagine being outraged about this? It’s sad
Article seems to suggest 55k were predicted to turn up and 50k did. It is relatively unsurprising that people were turning up to visit the farm / watch the acts / get some food as opposed to buy tat from all the stalls
Because its all overpriced marked up shite perhaps???
I’m sure it’s good content for his farming reality tv show
[removed]
[removed]
“The three-day festival at Clarkson’s 300-acre Diddly Squat farm at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire”
Diddly Squat is in Oxfordshire, not at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire.
I’ll offer an alternative perspective, because most of the commenters on here didn’t go, whereas I did.
£35 for half a day 10-5pm, took my two kids under 5 (both free). So £70.
Lots of animals, tractors and fairground rides. The RAF falcon parachute was really great to watch.
The negatives from our perspective was the signage and toilets, feel like I missed out of half the stuff there and we had to walk too far to find a toilet.
Was too hot, but that’s obviously not their fault. I expect to pay a premium at a festival. All in all a good day out and will go again if it’s on next year.
[deleted]
I was there. The ticket price was on the high side but I suppose reflects the idea of it being two festivals in one (Country Show / Music Festival). It was pretty busy. The venue was not a great choice and created a bad layout with dead ends, quite corners and unless you bought the £10 guide, the online map was too “artsy” and made it difficult to find anything. Trader placement will have been everything.
Not bad for a first attempt. If they do it again hopefully it changes to a venue that is more open planned. The heat was a killer but most traders were either selling generic tat like rubber ducks or large furniture like hot tubs which clearly wasn’t what the crowd wanted. Didn’t see many people holding shopping bags… there was enough entertainment to not need to do any shopping.
Clarkson also made it clear in his grand opening speech that the festival was not his idea or creation (It won’t be in the show). He was approached by someone else to front it.
I live near the venue and was playing golf within earshot of one of the stages on Saturday. The roads aren’t up to the volumes who were driving, especially with HS2 fucking all access up round here.
It’s £30+ to get into the Three Counties, or an RHS show as a non member, and whilst you get to see sheep shearing or lumberjack shows, there’s no Groove Armada.
I was out in Leamington on Saturday night, which is the local piss up option for Farm Fest and it was pretty lively, but that might just have been the lovely weather
Sounds like the traders who suffered bought into the farmer bullshit where as the audience were top gear fans who just wanted a Clarkson beer, a Clarkson pie and the chance to sniff the air that Clarkson might have once farted in. They were never going to be buying horse saddles.
We went along on Sunday mainly drawn in by the ‘Clarkson’ thing as my son loved the show (we’d watched it all too so thought it would be fun). Son got a pic with Kaleb too so he was happy with that. Paid for VIP tickets and got decent parking and access to some nicer covered areas with bars. The included drinks were nice too.
The site was enormous, which has its pros in that there was loads to see. Not particularly well signposted though and lots of little shops. Had the weather been cooler we would have definitely spent more time walking around them – but as it was we spent lots of time finding shade and water. Food was extortionate (£15 for a ‘fancy’ mac and cheese etc). The traders saying they’ve not turned a profit should consider the weather which hugely influenced our desire to shop negatively. We’d paid for our dog but left him at home as we thought it was stupid to take him along due to the heat and so didn’t even go into the dog part.
There was a fair bit to do and be entertained by but all in I think the tickets were overpriced for the number of shops present – as after paying nearly £70 for lunch (pasta & chips based) I closed the wallet!
Would we go again? Probably, but we’d eat lunch at home, head out for the afternoon and stay for the music which we didn’t see as the kids were starting to struggle with the heat.
A friend of mine had their stand stolen. They set up the day before only to turn up on the day and everything was gone. No warning or communication or anything.
Obviously they tried to chase but all the events support and sales lines went to voicemail so they just had to abandon the event.
Insane.
It often feels like Reddit is very detached from reality when it comes to Jeremy Clarkson. He’s been a massive cunt on many things, but you only need to attend his farm shop and pub to see just how popular he is. You can go at practically any time and his pub alone is rammed with people 40+ that either think he’s a “legend”, or from those that grew up with him on TV saying outlandish things that enjoy his farm show.
So there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that £60 would be a steal for the kind of people that drive hours to see his farm shop, spend a stupid amount on stuff you can buy at most garden centres nowadays, and then spend a ton in his pub. Where things will always get dicey is in those not affiliated with his brand AND are in the industry, and it looks like this is where things have kinda fallen flat.
The kind of people going don’t want farm stuff, much like how many people that were on the many-year waiting list for Top Gear weren’t car enthusiasts with a Bentley in the garage. It’d be like Pagani not selling any cars or merch at a Grand Tour event.
Looking into this it seems the sellers complaining are mainly ones not suited to the type of event it was, it looks like a mini festival, not much demand for a new horse saddle among festival crowds.
While I was at Devon County Show this weekend and we were rammed. Execllent weather. Lovely atmosphere.
Sold a lot nore than I expected. Some lines had run out by midday of day two of the three day event.