Leeds Festival ticket prices in 2012
How much do tickets for Leeds 2012 cost?
The second of our short series of Q&A for Leeds 2012, we’ve picked on another common question posed by many of our visitors: how much does it cost to buy Leeds Fest 2012 tickets?
edit – prices have been announced: £197.50 for a weekend ticket, £85 for a day ticket.
The answer right now is: ticket prices have not been announced officially so no one outside of Festival Republic really knows. They tend to reveal the prices as late in the day as possible.
However, we can review the price of weekend tickets over the past decade and come up with an educated guess for how much they will be this year.
Previous Years (2004 to 2011)
In 2004, a weekend ticket with camping would have costed the Leeds Festival goer £105.
Prices rose by £20 in 2005 to £125.
In 2006, the cost of a ticket rose by a further £10 to £135 and a year later a weekend camping ticket for Leeds 2007 would set you back £145.
Prices rose by a tenner again in 2008 when they were then pegged at £155.
Weekend Tickets in 2009 were set at £175 (an increase of £20) and £180 in 2010 (the lowest ever annual increase of just £5).
And now to more recent times: prices rose by £12.50 last year to £192.50.
Leeds 2012 Ticket Prices
So where does that leave us for prices this year?
We expect another increase this year, with the price to be in the region of £197.50 to £205.
Since there might be negative chat if organisers break through the £200 barrier, we think they might stay just under. £199 anyone?
What do you think? Do you agree or do you think prices will be higher or lower than we suggest?
Please let us know your thoughts on the Leeds ticket prices below (registration is not required).
And if you’re reading this after the announcement in March then you can buy Leeds Festival 2012 Tickets here, where we indicate who are the official ticket outlets approved by Festival Republic.
pre sale tickets are up for �205 through vodafone VIP service + �15 if you want early bird entry !!
@Linz – online sales are 4 tickets per person/card.
Does anyone know if there are any restriction when paying with credit card? I heard you can only buy two tickets per credit card but I need three :/ anyone??
@Alex, those are last year’s prices, Ticketmaster hasn’t updated their data yet. They won’t do so until this year’s prices are officially announced.
ticketmaster states price is �192.50 + �8.00 booking fee, then no doubt add a postage cost too. Looking at approx �210 for the weekend ticket
�200 is silly. Had to save for 3 months last year, and doing the same this year just incase it reaches over �200. Doubt I’ll be able to go next year with chosen uni being 9000. Also I believe the line-up should be realised before the tickets as last year paid 218 including early bird and saw 4 bands, so wasn’t really worth the money :/
No more than 200 pound i say, or other peolple will be visiting cheaper festivals. absouletly ridiculas for students to pay that sort of price.
im 16 and still affording a �200 quid ticket all on my own accord. not gonna like being a full time student am i^^
but 200pound is reasonable for what quality usually comes from leeds. buying tickets to see all the bands/acts you want to see at leeds would cost so much more all together.
Honestly when you know your gunna get to see top bands for a weekend for �200, it is an oright deal to be fair! But then again, i’m a student and getting laid off work because they cant afford to keep me on.. I say you release the tickets AFTER the line-up so people get a chance to see who’s on, whether or not they want to go, because by the time I decide if I wanna go, tickets will be gone, and sold at even higher prices on eBay, so overall it isnt fair
I totally agree, I see both sides of the argument… As an unemployed full time student, �200 is ridiculous, no-one can afford that and I think if the ticket prices are set to that, then Leeds festival will slowly die because no-one I know and certainly not me can afford that… Come on guys
I think �200 is a fair deal for the tickets, and if the organizers of the festival lower the price then the festival itself will suffer. If you consider the amount of bands you see throughout the weekend and the fact that many of them would cost around �20-60 a pop to go see live then it’s the bargain of the century.
Muse, Elbow, Interpol, Friendly fires, Pulp, The Strokes, Cage the Elephant, Little Comets, Metronomy, The Vaccines, Thirty Seconds To Mars, My Chemical Romance, The National, The Kills, Bombay Bicycle Club and Grouplove all for about �200? Fantastic.
People need to be more realistic. I’m a student too, I pay for everything I have/want myself and I firmly believe that if you really want to go then you’ll find the money to do so. Maybe spending the time to go look for a job would be more productive than moaning about not having enough money to purchase a ticket?
�200 pound is just too much, lots of people simply do not have access to that much money and I think the attendance would decrease if it was to cost �200, especially with the current economic crisis.
People need to understand that the prices go up for a reason. Yes it’s not fair to you if you want to go but can’t afford it but these festivals need the money too to be able to actually exist at all. If you don’t think it’s worth the money, then fair enough, complain about it and just don’t go but it’s not going to change the fact that these things change for a reason. Either way, it’ll probably still sell out anyway regardless of the price because some people think the experience will be worth the price.
�200!?
This would take me months to save for the festival, id rather go abroad I have just paid for a week all inclusive �328.00. With these price increases I think you’ll alot of custom specially students I only live off �40 a week at university due to every rising in cost.
If we paid �200 or more we should get something included as we would have to pay for transport, food and drinks for the whole weekend as well.
I hope that the price does get decreased as I would go but couldn’t afford �200 or more.
Yeah I agree with whats been said a lot of people that go to festivals are students and with youth unemployment going up and uni fees going upp its just stupid to take the prices up more. Im a student and I struggled to afford it last year so I think raising ticket prices is crazy don’t you get your workers for free? Anyway I think you should lower ticket prices and you will attract a lot more students and if it goes above �200 me and a lot of my friends wont be going this year.
In all honesty, if I paid �200 for a weekend ticket I’d want to see TOP QUALITY headliners and announced BEFORE purchase of the ticket. I paid �230 for my flights and 3 star hotel to Magaluf end of September last year for a week! My uni fees are �8500 for Leeds Met this year. Money is something I have learnt not to be in possession of recently
PLEASE lower ticket prices! Tones more student/young people would be swayed to Leeds Festival. I am coming this year to Leeds BUT reckon it will be my last if prices inflate. Oh and shouldn’t they lower prices anyway as the Olympics are in London?
I couldn’t agree more Lucy ^^^
Atleast the week abroad you’re guaranteed the hot sunshine!
It’ll be interesting to find out who’d headlining to see if the continuing rise in price is actually worth it.
Surely they’d make more money by lowering the price so more people will then want/afford to buy a ticket?
With the way things are at the moment ie, expensive student fees, unemployment rate, general cut backs in spending etc it’s upsetting to know places of total enjoyment like this are going to be difficult to go to this year!
Like you said, what the festivals don’t take into consideration are the prices of travel. (which also seems to be getting more and more expensive)
Think I know what my early xmas present wil be this year haha.
i think that if the prices go over �200 it will reducce the amount of people that will buy a ticket… its basically doubled in 8year that’s just unreal!
Festival ticket prices are just ridiculous these days! I mean ‘�200′ – really?
I dont know about everyone else, but i have to save up for months in order to fund a festival weekend. �200 just for a ticket, not including transport, equipment, food and drink.. its more like paying for a week abroad!
Personally I dont know how the organisers can charge more than they already are, It should be obvious that people have less disposable income these days, and by doubling the price since 2004 seems extreme to me.
Sure its a great experience, but if you’re going to charge that much – Then make it bloody worth it!