(from Efestivals.co.uk)
Glastonbury Festival is to put the remaining festival tickets on sale exclusively at seven selected HMV stores.
They'll be available to buy simply and easily over the counter at the stores given below from 8am Wednesday 11th June, with ticket buyers merely needing to provide their name, pay across the counter and make sure that they bring personal photographic ID to the Festival when they arrive. This ensures that they comply with the Festival's anti-touting policy.
The HMV stores selling the tickets are at:
HMV Bristol, 21/23 Broadmead
HMV Glasgow, Argyle Street
HMV Newcastle, 56 Northumberland Street
HMV Manchester, 90 Market Street
HMV Birmingham, 38 High Street
HMV Cardiff, 53 Queens Street
HMV London, 150 Oxford Street
A ticket costs £155. Tickets are subject to booking fee, with a maximum of six tickets per customer. (At this moment tickets can still be bought online - the details are below).
"With just a couple of weeks to go, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to buy the last few festival tickets", said Festival organiser Michael Eavis. "We've got a fantastic line-up, the most beautiful site in the country and I'd love to see you all there."
bloody bastards
thats a right fuck in the arse for everyone who filled in the forms.
twats.
Pretty much what he said^
As a 'committed Glastonbury goer', I feel firmly fucked off by Michael Eavis.
I was sickened by his "bye bye" attitude to the older faithful and his want for kids. I was sickened at his turning down of Dave Gilmour. And now I'm sickened at this.
He's a senile prick who needs to check himself into a retirement home and let someone else take the reigns. Someone who knows what they're doing.
I hope it doesn't sell out, and I'm still confident it won't. And quite frankly, it will serve him right. Hopefully he will learn his lesson, the absolute bell-sniff.
:`D ^^^^ This ^^^^
"Someone else taking the reigns"
Don't Emily Eavis and Mean Fiddler book the bands for this festival too?
The only thing that really pisses me off about Glastonbury is that the festival has made a shitload of cash over the last twenty years, and yet they haven't upgraded the facilities accordingly. the massive price rises haven't improved things at all. In fact, raising capacity has made matters much worse.
It's a real gip to sink knee deep in mud and go to a toilet that makes you wish to lose your sense of smell forever, or wait an hour for a shower in the morning, when you know that with a bit of investment they could have sorted out a decent drainage system, and better facilities. Their lack of progress in this isn't just lackadaisical, it borders on contempt for their clientèle.
Yeah, they could at LEAST get a new sign painter.
I hate those Glasto signs.
Glasto should have it's own font name.
Wrightylew you
are an unbelievable cock. I'm stunned by your attitude to something so small as registering for a weekend rock festival, especially compared to everything Eavis has done in his life.
"committed Glastonbury goer" hahahahahaha. The "old faithful" that you speak of left the festival before you were 10. They had to be lost for the safeguarding of the future of the festival. And this is the same reason for the fences and pre-registering. Clearly.
Who the fuck are you to be so DISRESPECTFUL to a man who has arranged for millions of pounds of charity, given hundreds of thousands of people a great weekend for many years.
I don't like the bill much this year, so I'm not going but I'll stick with that point of view. I won't go. You have no right to go onto his property and wear your wanky indie t-shirts you know!? For you to post such retarded vomit about a guy that has his heart in the right place is plainly fucking disgusting. Get over yourself.
Rot. You're a tool. A real fucking tool.
Below here is where you retort with some witticism - just to show you're still cool. Go on. Fuckwit.
That's a brilliant post
apart from the bit about the line-up. The line-up is great.
it'll make Prole happy.
I hope it pisses it down!
and the main stage sinks taking Eavis with it!
eavis
as "senile prick" ? no mate, you're the prick here. also as a "committed glastonbury goer" (let me guess, you've been, ooh. three or four times?) i'm not hugely bothered about the registration process or not, who's playing or not, whether it rains or not.... glastonbury is way more than it's parts. eavis is still a legend, just that he's made a few mistakes this year d'oh you can't manipulate who buys the tickets). so it seems this year it'll only be for those who really want to be there. the rest can follow the media-led "glastonburys no longer cool" message and that's no bad thing.
^kidding himself
So the line-up is bad
The weather will most likely be bad
Eavis has screwed over fans with registration
The place is always too packed
and you make no positive points about it.
OOooh, you've really convinced me.
LOL
^thank fuck you're not going you miserable sod
The vast majority of people will have an excellent time. End of
...
Undoubtedly. Just less people than last year. Which I gather is the point.
Speaking for myself, I wouldn't spend over £100 of my own money to go sit in the mud and effluent with 50,000 hippies, 50,000 Guardian readers, all of whom think that listening to even 10 seconds of the likes of The Enemy and The Fratellis is an acceptable way to spend one's life.
I guess I just have self respect.
Nah.
The point is that despite registration (which was an effective way of stopping touting), the chance of rain and the odd crowds, which aren't exactly new, fun levels won't have changed.
Those who want to watch the fratellis and the enemy will go and watch them and the rest of us will watch the usual great lineup of bands and djs on the smaller stages.
I dare say that it'll be better than recent years now that it has lost its cool tag.
I guess that means I have no self respect though.
kidding myself?
no, some years are better than others, like everything in life. and i couldn't care less about convincing you. i just don't think mr eavis is a prick.
Fair enough.
I may have jumped the gun. I guess I was just offering my opinion on why I PERSONALLY wasn't going.
Next time I'll just nod in agreement to what everyone else has to say.
...
Surely anyone who really wants to be there will just go down to HMV and buy a ticket.
what's so bad about the registration?
So it's a bit of effort? If you wanna go it's worth it, and it gets rid of the MASSIVE tout problem, just see Reading/Leeds sales and ebay listings for a contrast.
Michael Eavis has 99 problems.
But the 'massive tout problem' ain't one.
^
genius
Say what?!
It hasn't sold out (for many reasons which I won't go into), it's only a few weeks away, so he's just going to let people buy them, like, IN PERSON??!? We should go round to his house and stone him. Just like I do with all those damn promoters who put leftover tickets for sale on the door after I've put time and effort into buying mine in advance...
what's this got to do with kidneys?
???
Sorry
I meant tickets.
Blimey, must be desperate to
shift those last few thousand tickets.
They've got some tickets left
They want to sell them and doing photo/register/wait for post at the last minute might put people off an 'impulse' buy.
This seems an entirely sensible thing for them to do. What's the big deal?
PEOPLE LOVE FUCKING MOANING ABOUT GLASTONBURY
that is what. Usually people who have never been.
Like my Mum
everynight she's moaning about it, and how she got an email about it hasn't sold tickets... LOL
shut up Mum >:(
what's the big deal indeed
you've gotta lol heartily at all these massive cnuts who harp on about how much eavis is a prick cos he wants to ensure a full house. So you've had to register. Whoop-de-fucking-do... it took 10 minutes and eradicated any possibility of touting. It's not like he's selling them half-price. Jeeeeeeeeeees
What Damian said
This is vaguely interesting in that it still hasnt sold out but there is nothing else of note in this to get angry about as far as I can tell.
Also, and I have been one of the keen slaggers off, that line up is a million times better than last years abysmal shit-fest.
Be polite please!
Even in the HMV's one has to take photo ID, so it may be the case that your name is put on there etc anyway...the only difference is that the registration took all of 5 mins and abit of typing to do....oh my poor weary fingers!!
I think its a great idea, like others have said, to prevent touts making ridiculous profits out of an event that aims to put all its profit towards charity, and the punters that support it.
I must admit this will be my first year of going to glastonbury...so i'm not seasoned glastonbury fan, I wasn't there since 1971, but from what I have heard from everyone that has been - and from all the literature about the festival - is that glastonburys main appeal isn't about the bands as surprising as that may sound for a festival. In fact I have heard thats what makes it special, that unlike character less festivals like V or reading, you can have a great time without aiming to see any bands at all and still feel that the £160 was well worth it.
And part of what has made glastonbury so special in that respect is the amazing dedication of the Eavis family and of their team of workers that have been dedicated to the festival and its ethos for years.
I would never tell anyone to refrain from voicing an oppinion, but surely there are more eloquent and polite ways of doing it that calling someone a "senile prick" or a "bell sniff"...quite frankly that makes you sound like someone I wouldn't want to hear the opinion of anyway, it makes you sound like a fool
This
is a pretty humiliating climbdown, isn't it? I'm going, and I really hope the unsold tickets will cut down the lamesters and overcrowding.
Surely it sucks a bit if you don't live in one of those HMV places? What are the Cornish to do?
that's my thought's exactly
if i were to get one, it would now cost me an extra £10 just to get to London. unless i get on in Bristol on the way through.
buy a ticket over the phone?
pretty much.
well
you can still book them online or over the phone.
As the man said, it takes all of 5 minutes to do which unless you work in one of these hmv's is probably quicker than booking through them
Ah right oh.
I didn't know you could do that. :-)
they really need that cap of "6 per person", don't they??!?
Whats actually going to happen
is that the weather is going to be glorious and suddenly the festival will sell out then look much better on tv again, then be back to selling out in 30 secs next year.