Jeremy Clarkson Farm-Fest branded a ‘shambles’ as traders leave early
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/jeremy-clarkson-diddly-squat-farm-fest-traders-b1283546.html
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Jeremy Clarkson Farm-Fest branded a ‘shambles’ as traders leave early
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/jeremy-clarkson-diddly-squat-farm-fest-traders-b1283546.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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>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
This guy is so out of touch with reality, no wonder if flopped.
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
Why is everyone surprised or complaining haha
He does this each season for his tv show and it always fail. Amazon gets a few episode out of it and everyone goes ‘oh Jeremy’
You are acting like you all knew it would fail, yeh cause we’ve seen it the last four years. And Amazon gets an article in the standard for people to people to complain about
Because its all overpriced marked up shite perhaps???
Shocked seems such a compassionate upstanding person ol Clarkson.
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Doesn’t matter for Clarkson himself, he’ll make far more through Amazon from the storyline of setting up the festival than he ever would through the festival itself.
It’s a win win for him.
I’m sure it’s good content for his farming reality tv show
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This is going to make a compelling episode of Clarkson’s Farm.
I saw another trader reply to the woman who sparked all of the media backlash.
They made a decent profit and said the majority of stalls did. There were issues on the first day but the event organisers addressed them and the second day was a massive improvement. On Saturday or Sunday over 50,000 people attended. There were some issues the organisers couldn’t fix this year but will next. He said it’s a new festival and most people went into it knowing there’d be teething issues, but considering everything it was really well run.
I saw a couple of the stalls who struggled and it was like pet food, pet toys, leathery, and farm products/butchery.
And yeah, honestly. Who is going to want to carry round a paid of riding boots and a carrier bag full of mince on a scorching hot day? It’s not really the organisers fault for that.
“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.
Not surprised at £60 a pop. For that price I’d hope some of those ticket sales would’ve been divvied up to the traders. Not much, but something.
Most others won’t have much disposable cash to spend there for £60.
£60 just to get in for the day? Pahaha trying to price out your fan base in favour for a class that doesnt like you will never work. Sorry Clarkson, its blue collar or go hungry.
The sort of people that shill overpriced potatos to wallies that queue up all day for a festival because clarksons attached deserve it
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.
The VIP/priority parking was a joke. We waited an hour in queuing traffic only to be told by a copper to go turn around and park in the normal parking instead, as it’ll be quicker to get into the venue. I’ve since heard rumours the VIP parking was overbooked, hence the gridlocked traffic in surrounding villages. Must have been terrible for the locals.
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