In an interview with BBC Radio Bristol, Glastonbury Festival founder and organiser Michael Eavis revealed that he wants to set up a register of all ticket holders for this year's event so that when next year's tickets come up for sale, people not on the database would be given priority.
After the main line up was announced all tickets promptly sold out in 24 hours before being offered for up to £1,000 a pair (up from £105 each) soon after on the (evil) internet.
Other, slightly less vocal, festival organisers have confirmed that they are looking at "new ticket distribution methods", but say there is no definite system, database or register in place yet, adding: "We are continually looking at ways to improve the distribution of tickets."
The Pyramid Stage could also become a permanent feature with the intention of making it easier to get permission for the festival in the following years claims Eavis, telling BBC Radio Bristol: "It would be just the frame - not the cover or inside staging - as it looks good. People come from all over the world to see the shape, which is a major tourist attraction." Mendip Council is considering the application.
Discuss: How's the register going to work? you'll just get a mate to buy your tickets next year if you got some this time won't you? Will there even be a Glasto 2004? Who'll be playing?
Eavis reveals Glasto 2004 ticket plans
Re: Eavis reveals Glasto 2004 ticket plans
it sold out in a day.
lots of people missed out, maybe im naive, sounds like he's trying to make sure as many peole get a crack as poss to me tho.
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It's a nice idea, but as Damian's said, how's it going to be enforced? Everyone buys their tickets from different places - some people buy lots then (not like touts) just sell for face value to people they know.
Surely the only way to properly make it work is to have another site somewhere else in the country, hence increasing ticket availability? But then it wouldn't be Glastonbury I suppose...
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Re: Eavis reveals Glasto 2004 ticket plans
People will be dishonest to beat the system - getting a friend or relative to buy tickets - and once those not on the database have their tickets, you can bet your bottom dollar those pesky touts will get in there... if they haven't use the same tactic to grab a load of tickets already.
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Having said that, if I get beaten to the tickets next year then that's bad luck for me, but I'll be doing everything I can on the day they're issued!
Thanks,
Damian.
Glasto 2004
Next year, if I manage to get a ticket in time, I'll be going again. I've been every year since 1994 (as a paying customer each time, and before you ask, I'm not rich - I always have this instead of a holiday because I can't afford both).
Quite how it would be policed, I don't know either. I bought my tickets from the ticket shop in Bristol, so my name isn't on a database anywhere.
I'm not saying I have no sympathy for what is being said here... I love the festival and would be genuinely gutted if I wasn't going. That's why I'm doubly determined to make sure I go next year too. Where would this end? Imagine if Radiohead asked fans who went to their recent 'small' shows not to attend the arena shows in November. Or if you were only allowed to attend every third Oasis tour (I use this merely as an example as Oasis have bored me witless since 1997). To reiterate - with any event, there are only a certain number of tickets to go round. Unfortunate but true.
Am I being uncharitable? Answers on a postcard.
Cheers,
Damian.
PS. As for the issue raised in another thread here about the price of the ticket, I just can't agree. It's the best value for money in the world. Just take a look at what you get for it, and what they put back too. I earn a rubbish wage, and I'm very happy to save up. Why aren't people picking on the festivals that do it entirely for profit?