In case you haven’t heard and you still want to go, the Glastonbury ticket registration process will re-open later this afternoon.
Just under 40,000 tickets are left for a festival that has been dogged by abuse from fans who refuse to sit in the mud for someone who doesn’t play guitar on Saturday night.
Re-register here from 4pm today with your personal details and a passport-sized photo. If you’re successful, you’ll be sent a direct link to snaffle up tickets. Why?
“This will give [festival goers] the chance to see the best line-up of any festival this summer,” says organiser Michael Eavis, whose event runs from the 27th ‘til the 29th of June and will still, he insists, be headlined by Jay-Z, The Verve and Kings of Leon.
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I dont really understand why
registration wasn't just open till a day or so before the tickets went onsale anyway. The only reason they wanted details is for the photo on ticket stopping tout thing so it always seemed like they were shooting themselves in the foot by making it a limited thing.
ah well, got my ticket and havent watched a band on the main stage the last two years (this isnt me trying to sound uber-indie) so meh.
i'm i the only one..
that think this down to the verve and kings of leon being utter utter shite choices of headliner?
IMO i dont even think they're big enough to headline somewhere like V, let alone glastonbury....
Jay Z would have been an inspired choice if it was exclusive. although not completely sure he should have been headlining, not unless he get some celebrity mates on board (nas, kayne, beyonce etc)...be a real shitter if he pulled out though.
thats meant to say
am i?
I genuienly dont think it is ANYTHING to do with headliners
well, very little
its to do with there being a shitload of festivals about at the moment and the fact that it has been muddy as fuck the last THREE Glastonbury's. Last year was especially hard work. Plus (despite loving Glastonbury they are morons sometimes) they went on about wanting a younger crowd for ages and then forgot to put it back a couple of weeks when loads of uni student WONT have exams and will be able to come.
“This will give [festival goers] the chance to see the best line-up of any festival this summer,”
Hahahahahaahahahahahahaha, no STOP IT Michael, this is just too much!
Too much Brothers pear cider I think.
The old boy has finally lorsst at.
this all looks
remarkably desperate, doesn't it?
No Koopa No Deal
more raging speedhorn please
who actually gives a fuck about headliners anyway
especially for something like glastonbury?
to be fair
quite a lot of people. plus its the only artists most people know about so it does suggest a certain feel for the rest of the festival/line-up that a lot of people probably won't be into.
i think the whole registration has done more harm than good. whether eavis cares to admit it, the touts would have snapped up all those tickets and he would be able to boast the same 'sold out in an hour' headline that reading/leeds has.
Yeah, but
that's the whole point. He's at least trying to make sure that the tickets DON'T go to touts, which is a pretty honorable way of doing it, especially considering that it probably cost a fair amount to set up. It'll sell out, even if it doesn't do so instantly..
i agree that it's honourable
but purely from a business p.o.v. it puts glastonbury in a weaker position. because of this, next year there won't be such a mad scramble for tickets and a festival can't keep going forever if people aren't buying the tickets.
i think when eavis originally did the registration thing he did it from a position of invincibility, but he's got his work cut out for him to sell the next couple of glastonburys.
It's just too many people there
Everyone I know who I've been with in previous years has given up on it. It was just too crowded and others got pissed off with several years of mud. Also the headliners haven't really helped. They don't give me any reason to want to go unlike if REM, Radiohead, White Stripes were headlining, then I may have gone.
Oh and Jay-Zed is the best of the three headliners listed. I don't think the others are big enough for it.
But as your bog-standard 'guitar music' fan,
I can't actually tell you the names of any of this guy's songs.
With Kanye West, I could. He uses samples and he's always in the public eye and he's on adverts and the Sartorialist etc. And he's done that lovely new song with thingy.
But The Verve are one of the big bands of the 90s, surely? Urban Hymns sold a lot.
I guess he isn't that big, in the uk anyway
But I reckon he would be quite good to watch.
On the Verve they may well have been massive in 1997, but I didn't think people cared for them much, there wasn't much of a clamour for them to reform was there? Not like Pixies had or there is for The Smiths and Stone Roses. A bit like travis, they were huge but it would be inconceivable for them to headline.
So much of the vitriol has been about "the headliners" or "the line-up"
and you know those people mean "Jay-Z" (this isn't conjecture, I've been reading too many message boards). If his inclusion was genuinely the difference for any one person between going and not going, any such people should take a very long hard look at themselves.
As for the weather putting people off... I can completely understand that, to be honest. But I'm still going.
i'm sorry, but
Jay-Z, the Verve and Kings of Leon are three SHIT headliners
no two ways about it
Jay Z
is probably the best headliner they've had since Radiohead last did it
^ this
i'd also say they haven't got the token 'one for the oldies' headliner like normal that gets the dads in (the who, mccartney, bowie etc). i think that was a mistake....
The others aren't though
The verve weren't particularly well greeted on their return and by most accounts their shows have been pretty lackluster. Kings of Leon are ok but hardly headline material.
Fair enough
but I think suggestions that it's because of Jay-Z that ticket sales are down is ridiculous
indeed
the main names are always generally less than inspiring to me, and the idea of glasto has been all about what's going on on the many other stages and different areas, not just about a few bands on the big stages... it's the whole experience, rather than a few headline bands...
i guess the demographic may have changed, maybe they should downsize it and get back to what it used to be.
Well I think there are two main reasons
One is that as it became so big last time and partially to do with the weather in recent years a lot of people who have been before have given up on it. No one who I've been with before is going this year.
The other is there is no big draw, unlike in previous years, (Arctic monkeys, coldplay, oasis, radiohead) who will attract loads of people who wouldn't go otherwise. Not that it would be necessarily a bad thing.
just as big perhaps
but not my bag. like a poster above though, if you got to Glastonbury for the main stage you miss a hell of a lot of what the festival is about. there's been way too many people last few years for it to be comfortable and the selection of musical acts has not been that great recently. it feels a bit too much like a promotional stop off rather than the 'most interesting acts'. but i just put that down to Eavis' daughter dealing with that end of things now and she seems to be a bit of a sucker for celebs...
oh yeah
and verve/Kings of Leon arn't big enough. Neil Diamond even feels a bit weird...but so did Bassey last year I suppose. Bring back Brian Wilson...at least the suncame out for him.
neil diamond
ace!
people honestly dont have a clue sometimes
it will sell out. Sure, there was less demand this year for obvious reasons but I doubt much of it was to do with the headliners. Im fairly sure about 30% of the tickets sold for Reading were bought by touts, whereas NONE were bought by touts for Glastonbury. People just absolutely love slagging Glastonbury off having never been for some reason.
^^ this and then some
for some strange reason some folk, and a fair few on this board, seem have a chip on their shoulder about it.
Personally, i'd go no matter who was headlining. I'd go if registration was ten times the effort. I'd go it if was raining all week. I'm probably in the minority in that but i just fucking love the atmosphere and the party-vibes.
DIS users - chips on their shoulders?
No way!!! Are you serious??
Fuck!!!
Its the weather, its the headliners, its the capacity. Change the record please!!!
Moo
I blame the cows.
All that muck.
deadly
D.E.A.D.L.Y
Yeah,
Completely agree with whoever said last year was too crowded. The new area was really good but didn't justify the massively upped capacity, particularly when there wasn't much going on there later on. At times the queues and crowds were infuriating. That combined with the mud put me off. I had an absolutely brilliant weekend but still came away saying I probably wouldn't go top the next one. I've been to five Glastonburys and three have been ridiculously wet. I know it's not the organisers fault but I really didn't fancy those odds.
Oh, and I don't really give a hoot about the headliners.
it was too crowded I'd agree
but if the weather had been better I don't think it would have been bad.
Considering before the fence (which people STILL moan about for some unexplained reason) there was always at least about an extra 50,000, they've always had loads of people there, and now at least they have the facilities to deal with them (I dont think I've ever queued for a toilet or to get food for more than about 2 minutes)
Swings and Roundabouts
Glasto in its current format, has come to the end of its life cycle in my opinion, and all of the other 'big' festivals will follow suit. I have been going to T in the Park for 10 years, and have witnessed the increase in the number and diversity of acts, thus attracting a wider range of punters and subsequently ruining the festival atmosphere. Long queues, bad toilets and kids with knives tend to have an adverse affect on proceedings. Sometimes these things should be kept small, it allows people to feel like they are part of something special.
I like how it's massive and you always get lost
it's part of the fun really. I do think all this is good in a way, they'll have to have a rethink and maybe come back next year with something better.
All of your opinions
about Glastonbury are spot on.
it's because
I am god
1970s Wagon Wheel sized lies
I went to Glastonbury in 2005 for the first time and totally fell in love with the whole place and the people and came back believing I had been privy to some special force of nature for those few magical days (all that Glasto-guff my old timer mates go on about…well, yeah, they were right, it was true it was “different”) but last year was just a bit like having a Wagon Wheel having not had once since you were a kid. But sort of in reverse cos it wasn’t too small it was too big. If you get what I mean. Yeah, Wagon Wheels. But too big.
I think having had a glorious sunny and fabulously warm and fuzzy Latitude and Bestival last year put the nail in it for me – there were just too many people at Glastonbury and the mud was a bummer whatever anyone says about it all being part of the spirit of it they are LYING big 1970s Wagon Wheel sized lies, who really wants to trudge through cow sh*t?
Kate Moss will still go.
The thing is
With all the fuss of it not selling out quickly, the fact that they sold 100,000 tickets in a day - which is more than any other major UK festival can hold, happy to corrected.
So it's not exactly doom and gloom.
On that note.........
can i just reitterate, the line up is rubbish...........
poppycot...
Why is everyone making out as though this is some kind of disaster?
I'd actually say it's more Kings of Leon and The Verve who are the weaker headliners, whack 'em on the other and they'd be right at home. Jay Z I think will do a "classic" performance and draw bigger than the other 2.
The problem to me seems that all the acts playing are doing all the other festivals, all the other sunny festivals and that are at a time of year when people are on holidays and the weather is nice. Kids have exams at that time of year.
Reading sold out quick because of touts there's hundred of them on Ebay already.
It used to take Glastonbury a few weeks to sell out in the past, were these failures?
Let's stop treading on eggshells...
It's cos Jay-Z is *shh* American, innit?
also
this time last year they were going on about not having massive headliners, so people dont just come to see one band
Why is everyone down on KoL?
They were the best thing on at Leeds last year.
They're worth a shot at headlining somewhere. Admittedly, Glasto for a first headline slot is a bit much, but then Eavis has done it before.
He was the first person to give Muse a headline slot, and no-one thought they'd stand a chance against Oasis and Macca. They pissed all over them.
I'd just reserve judgement.
And anyway, anyone I've ever spoken to about Glasto says it's about more than the music. So why the huge fuss about the *music*?
tv
becuase since it's been covered on the telly (BBC) everyone classes it as a music festival, rather than the music and arts festival it used to promote itself as (and is still officially called).
i think since his daughter has taken over it's become really focused on the music, which is a shame as the other stuff is great (especially when it rains).
Anyway, just got my tickets...wind, rain or shine the atmosphere will be great.
the whole thing
is just completely played out. glastonbury doesn't have that mystique it used to have, festivals were fashionable over the last couple of years and now seem to be on the downturn (thank fuck, less idiots) and to be frank, jay z, the verve and kings of leon, though i like all three acts do not stand up to, off the top of my head:
rem, neil young, kanye...or similar.
jay z
is an insired choice for headline. and kings of leon could be a real surprise. the verve are a shit choice for headline. this whole idea of glasto in crisis is a load of shit. it will sekk out - just because it doesn't happen straight away is of no consequence. maybe the trendy c**ts looking for the experience because its cool are all having their hair done that weekend...
$$$
I'm putting it down to people having less disposable income, and worrying too much about where there pennies are going, at least thats my reason
i blame
global warming
i blame inner city rental prices