Wealth & Money Quote by Peter Hook

Mud, in Peter Hook's telling, isn't a problem to be solved; it's part of the product. The line lands because it flips the usual consumer logic: instead of weather ruining the experience, the discomfort becomes proof of authenticity. He's teasing, but he's also clocking a weirdly stable truth about live music culture, especially in the UK tradition where festivals are as much endurance ritual as entertainment. You don't just attend; you submit to it.

The joke carries a quiet critique of entitlement. "Asking for your money back" is the language of customer service and corporate accountability, grafted onto an event built on chaos, bodies, and the elements. Hook turns that mismatch into comedy: you can't demand a pristine, frictionless festival without sanding off what makes it feel real. Mud is the receipt.

Coming from Hook - a musician whose legacy is tied to scenes that prized grit over gloss - it also reads as a defense of mess as aesthetic. Post-punk wasn't interested in polishing away the evidence of labor, sweat, or bad lighting. Same principle here: the mud is a badge that you've been there, that you didn't consume the weekend like content, you lived it.

Under the banter is an argument about memory. Nobody tells stories about the perfectly dry afternoon. Mud is narrative fuel: the shared inconvenience that bonds strangers and gives the music a setting. Hook isn't romanticizing misery so much as naming the alchemy: the worse the conditions, the more earned the joy feels.