The World’s Most Expensive Music Festival Ticket Is Bad Value

We at Tone Deaf have this thing about ensuring our readers get to see live music for the best price possible, whether we’re giving you tips on how to get cheap concert tickets or giving you an FYI on all the best local gigs for under $15 happening in your town.

That’s why, dear readers, we insist you don’t fork out US$1 million (or AUD$1.3 million) for Secret Solstice festival’s new ultra-VIP ticket. Touted as the “world’s first $1 million festival ticket”, it’s simply not worth the money you’d be forking out.

Secret Solstice is an annual music festival held in Reykjavik, Iceland, and are perhaps best known as the folks who unveiled “the world’s most expensive festival ticket” when they dropped a pass to last year’s event that set some Saudi oil baron back $200k.

In return for that mortgage-sized fee, the cashed-up punter got first class return flights from anywhere on the planet for two people, a luxury five bedroom villa in Reykjavík for five nights, private chefs every night, and lunch inside the magma chamber of a dormant volcano.

We know what you’re thinking: you’ve done all that and you only paid $125k. Well, we hate to break it to you, but Secret Solstice’s million-dollar ticket is also a rort. In fact, you’re better off going with the GA pass for around $270.

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As FasterLouder note, the million-dollar ticket comes with some considerable perks, but as far as we can see, not much that wasn’t included in the $200k ticket released just a year ago. If we didn’t know any better, we’d say this whole thing was some kind of stunt.

Granted, you do get “two private concerts only for the holders of this exclusive ticket”, and with a lineup that features Radiohead, Deftones, and more, this is tempting, but you can probably get either band to play privately for you for less than a million any day of the week.

In the interests of making sure you get the best bang for your music buck, we simply cannot give Secret Solstice’s million-dollar ticket our tick of approval. We say take that money and buy another Maserati or open a restaurant with a bunch of footballers, you fat cats you.