Mainstage World https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/ A magazine about music festivals around the world. Every fact carries a source and a date, and we walk the grounds in 360 so you can see them before you go. en Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 What a festival ticket really costs, and the numbers nobody prints next to the price https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/what-a-festival-ticket-really-costs/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/what-a-festival-ticket-really-costs/ UNTOLD from 522.79 Lei, Roskilde in eight instalments that add up to 2,716 DKK, Glastonbury at 378.50 pounds before postage, parking or a campervan. Every figure read off the festival's own page, with the day we read it. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 The dates being published for Tomorrowland 2027 are last year's https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/tomorrowland-2027-dates-are-last-years/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/tomorrowland-2027-dates-are-last-years/ Tomorrowland has not announced 2027. The dates going around are the 2026 ones, and in 2027 they land on a Saturday, which is not a day Tomorrowland has ever started on. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Festival camping, and the five rules that catch people out at the gate https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/festival-camping-what-nobody-tells-you/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/festival-camping-what-nobody-tells-you/ Your camping ticket is not your entry ticket. At Sziget every person checks in separately with their own ID. At Glastonbury a coach booking locks you out of a campervan. Read off the festivals' own pages on 11 August 2026. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 The money you never get back, and the dates that decide whether you do https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/the-money-you-never-get-back/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/the-money-you-never-get-back/ Every festival keeps money that people were entitled to. Glastonbury's ticket refund line is a fixed date and time. Electric Castle refunds a wristband only by bank transfer, inside a form that closes. UNTOLD hands it over in person. Read on 11 August 2026. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Electric Castle cashless: the 10 lei step, the 2,500 lei ceiling and the refund window https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/electric-castle-cashless-and-refunds/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/electric-castle-cashless-and-refunds/ Register the ticket first, top up in multiples of ten, and remember there is a five hour window each morning when the on site machines are shut. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Getting to Electric Castle without a car https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/electric-castle-getting-there/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/electric-castle-getting-there/ Bontida is 30 kilometres from Cluj and the festival itself tells you not to drive. The buses, the train, and the one that sells out. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Two of Europe's biggest festivals are not happening in 2026, and one of them planned it https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/festivals-not-happening-2026/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/festivals-not-happening-2026/ Glastonbury is taking a deliberate year off and has already published its 2027 dates. EXIT has no Petrovaradin edition at all. One of these is a plan, the other is a change. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 The summer of 2026, and what actually happened at each of them https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/summer-2026-what-actually-happened/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/summer-2026-what-actually-happened/ UNTOLD finishes today. Tomorrowland ran two weekends in July, Electric Castle four days in Bontida, Sziget opens in two days. Glastonbury did not happen at all and EXIT left its fortress. The season, checked festival by festival. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 The UNTOLD wristband: how the money works, and how to get yours back https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-cashless-wristband/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-cashless-wristband/ UNTOLD is completely cashless, which catches out almost everybody on their first night. Here is how topping up worked in 2026, and the three places you could get your unspent money back. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 UNTOLD gate times, re-entry, and the list of things they take off you https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-gates-and-banned-items/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-gates-and-banned-items/ Gates at 16:00, a pass good until 05:00, two re-entries a day and a bag no bigger than 29 by 21 by 12 centimetres. The 2026 rules, with the source under each one. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Walk inside UNTOLD before you decide to go https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/walk-inside-untold-in-360/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/walk-inside-untold-in-360/ We filmed UNTOLD in 360 in 2025, twenty six spheres at eight thousand pixels wide. You can stand in the arena and look around instead of looking at somebody's photograph of it. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 We filmed UNTOLD 2025 in 360 and published it https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-2025-filmed-in-360/ https://mainstage.360businesstour.com/untold-2025-filmed-in-360/ Twenty six spheres at 7680 by 3840, shot inside the 2025 edition and put online where anyone could walk through it. This is the work Mainstage World was built on top of. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0000