No Glastonbury 2023 Tickets? Make Your Kitchen a Stage!

Published on 21 Jun 2023

Scroll through a festival hopeful’s search history and you can typically track their story through their searches. Occasionally, what you uncover is a sad tale. For example, there’s this one:

“Glastonbury 2023 dates”
“How much are Glastonbury tickets?”
“When are Glastonbury tickets on sale?”
“Glastonbury registration”
“Glastonbury tickets See Tickets”
“Are Glastonbury tickets sold out?”
“VIP Glastonbury tickets price”
“Glastonbury resale”
“Glastonbury-themed party ideas”

It’s a harsh reality but most hopeful festivalgoers’ history will resemble this near miss for Glastonbury 2023 tickets. We know. It’s hard waiting another year, starved of the hippies, ravers, celebrities, the knee-high mud and the friends you make as you search for your tent.

That said, all is not lost if the chance passes. Whether it’s you moping about, or your kids, that final search can salvage the day. At Masterclass Kitchens, we have loads of  Glastonbury-themed party ideas to help you turn your kitchen into a Glastonbury VIP area that rivals the real thing.

Use Signposts and Wellies

What makes Glastonbury Festival different from a house party? Typically, most people don’t wear wellies to a house party or get lost in a crowd of 5,000 tents. But who says you can’t follow the theme?

Create a few signposts that direct visitors to the “Toilets,” “William’s Green” (the garden), the “Pyramid Stage” (your TV) and the “Bar” (your Bar Dresser) and you can live that dream. While you’re at it, ask guests to bring wellies for an authentic Glasto experience!

At Masterclass, our boot rooms provide ample space for shoes and outdoor apparel to help you keep your utility room clear. So, you have no need to worry should guest want to change out of them later.

Combine yours with a cleaning cupboard and one of our dividers and this setup can double as a utility room organisational space, well placed to help clean any party spills.

Enjoy the Glastonbury 2023 Line-Up

You don’t need tickets to enjoy Glastonbury’s 2023 line-up. Indeed, there’s nothing to stop you and your guests enjoying Lewis Capaldi, the Arctic Monkeys and Elton John as if you’re actually at the Pyramid Stage. All you need is two components: a media wall and some external speakers.

If you aren’t familiar with a media wall, the concept is simple: it’s just a wall fitted with a TV and enough storage options to maximise its viewing or gaming potential. Anyone can easily create a media wall with shelves using just one of two components:

• Oak floating shelves
• Extra-wide Linea kitchen cabinets

A great way to transform a kitchen into an entertainment space, a media wall will make your guests feel like Glastonbury ticket holders when you live-stream performances directly into your party. With the right set-up, you can even pump sound into your garden.

Imitate Festival Drink Hiders

Have you ever cut a hole in a loaf of bread or hoofed a bag over a wall to smuggle booze onto festival grounds? Considered a rite of passage for learning to hide alcohol, festivals spawn countless funny stories. Even if you can afford the bar, that’s not the point. Smuggling is a classic festival experience.

While you won’t need to go to these extremes at home, we do have a solution to help you replicate the feeling of naughtiness. Introducing… your Bar Dresser. Built like a personal speakeasy, this timeless cocktail display cabinet is perfect for entertaining Glasto guests, as well as civilised company.

Altogether, as a home bar unit, it contains a drink shelf, a hanging wine glass rack and a drink bottle storage area. Fitted with space-saving bi-fold doors, this fantastic feature is designed to close off and hide drinks when not in use, making it ideal for achieving that desired air of secrecy.

Fortunately, you can also open it up for easy access when you’re in the mood to invite round the neighbours—which you should for your Glasto party, by the way. After all, what better way to replicate the festival experience than by making new friends?

Create a Glastonbury Breakfast

At the festival, there are loads of Glastonbury breakfast options available, for which thousands of hungover attendees are immeasurably grateful. As a faux festival host, replicating this experience for guests that stay the night is a classy final touch.

What’s the best way to do it? In a word: prepare. Whether you want to offer fruit, cereal, a classic fry-up, or something spicy and exotic, you can do so by storing the ingredients in a Masterclass Breakfast Dresser.

More than just a tea and coffee station, this kitchen dresser unit offers all the glamour of a five-star hotel room minibar but with the convenience of a festival breakfast van. Open it in the morning and you can whip up an indulgent feast in seconds, much like the vendors at the legendary festival.

If you really want to make it a day to remember, perhaps gift guests some homemade merch inspired by Glastonbury shop goods to remind them of the time they visited your home-Glasto experience.

Make It a Tradition

Admittedly, if you’ve having a house party this year, it’s likely that Glastonbury Festival 2023 is underway and you already have your sights set on Glastonbury 2024 tickets. Try our tips this year, however, and you might find you prefer to create your very own Glastonbury VIP area in your home.

If that’s the case, then consider the level at which you could entertain on a regular basis if you fully optimised your kitchen for entertaining. Need more help on that front? Reach out to one of our showrooms and let our world-class consultants help. Or, if you just want inspiration for now, become a Masterclass Insider for free design tips, lifestyle guides and useful kitchen-centric resources.

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