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Ticket details for this year's event are announced

January 4, 2008 | 11 Comments
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Ticket details for this year’s Glastonbury festival have been announced by the organisers.

Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 6 - as in recent years this is a Sunday.

In an identical move to last year, applicants will have to register their photo and contact details at Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk or by filling in a photo registration which will be made available at camping store chain Millets.

Each registrant will be issued with a unique identification number which will correspond to their photo.

The photos will then be printed on each personalised ticket.

Full details will become available via the festival’s website in the middle of January.

The Glastonbury festival will take place from June 27-29 at Worthy Farm in Pilton.

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stevee1966

Jan 4, 2008

Fantastic - another demoralising Sunday morning of constant engaged tones and busy websites. Why haven't the organisers followed the lead of the Led Zeppelin gig and done a random ballot. Exactly the same chance of getting a ticket but without the hassle of being glued to the phone and keyboard for 3 pointless hours before finding out on some news channel that all the tickets have gone.

mattmower

Jan 6, 2008

The thing with a random ballet is if you're going as a group of friends and only one person gets a ticket they'll have to spend the weekend in a one man tent. As good as Glasto would be your own, it wouldn't be the same.

Rhebecca

Jan 6, 2008

The ticketing system is fine in theory. But in reality there's ONE website and ONE phone line- ridiculous. If it were the first time tickets for Glasto had been sold this way I'd cut them some slack. But it's been a couple of years now and that's more than enough time to realize that way too many people are going to want tickets and a single website or phone number simply won't be enough to cope with the high volume of people.

Then again, they haven't announced all the detailsyet. Maybe they've made some changes this year.

MrDaveS1986

Jan 6, 2008

Good idea Stevee, gives everybody a fair playing field.

LightUser

Jan 6, 2008

Nor will I be wasting another Sunday morning. Having not got through last year I decided to go to Bestival instead - indeed the best festival I have been to, as the name implies. I already have my 2008 Bestival ticket booked and would advise you to do the same Stevee1966.

willo1188

Jan 6, 2008

you can't do a random ballot for this kind of thing! this is a festival! if t was random, then it would be a lottery! A perservering person is much better than a lucky person!

And I'm really with this ID system. It works but there are many problems with it. First is that people have to plan months early for their tickets and that people who actually do want to sell their tickets for realistic reasons aren't allowed because the touts buggered everything up. Ebay are the main culprits here because they refuse to stop the touts selling their tickets.

Really the best way for this is for people to get full refunds on their tickets if they can no longer go and the refunds go straight back to Glasto so they can sell them off again. Either that or any profits from the tickets on ebay should be given to charity as it's disgusting how people make money out of buying more tickets and selling them off for extortionate prices.

jafordham

Jan 6, 2008

Because, Stevee, if it was just a lottery whereby all you had to do is register, anybody with a passing fancy would give it a bash. They would then be in with the same chance of getting a ticket as somebody who is prepared to set up every conceivable method of ticket purchasing and hammer the phone/internet for 3 hours. I've probably got more than 20 mates who always manage to get tickets. If you want it bad enough, it'll happen. A couple of friends even went to the trouble of forming a band and getting asked to play.

SPALICE

Jan 6, 2008

Ask Harvey Goldsmith and he will tell you that random ballots do not work as they do not address the problems with secondary ticket sales (touting). He should know because he made a real mess when it came to the Led Zep ballot. Whereas Michael Eavis knows that tickets with your photographs on them prevent secondary tickets sales because if your photo isn't on the ticket your not getting in! Job done......

purple_gem

Jan 6, 2008

i heard they were gonna put more tickets on the phone lines this year to try and make more young people go. doesn't make sense but whatever.
i got through on the internet last time after an hour constant refreshing and redialling - definately worth it though!
praying i get through this year, i'll be totally gutted if i don't.

gilboise

Jan 6, 2008

Probably because the Eavis' realise that those that can be bothered to sit by their phones for a few hours are more likely to truely want to attend the festival, rather than the huge number that will enter the ballot on the back of seeing "The Killers" on the BBC last year.

cosmiccharlie

Jan 6, 2008

Another overpriced corporate event that I would be happy to avoid, I think it is rubbish that no lists of bands etc have been released and yet they are still charging an extortionate amount of cash.what a rip off