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Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

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Artists: The White Stripes, The Darkness, The Libertines
Words: Andrew Future
Posted: 16 Apr '04, 14:47

Weekend tickets for the Carling Weekend Reading Festival have sold out. This follows V Festival Chelmsford’s sell out last week and the remaining Glastonbury tickets disappearing yesterday afternoon.

Download (featuring Metallica, Linkin Park, HIM) still has some tickets remaining however, and Move (Morrissey, Pixies, The Cure, Stereophonics) also goes on sale today.

Day tickets for Reading are still available at £45 a throw, though even if you buy three you will not be able to camp. Weekend tickets for Leeds are still available for £105. The event takes place across Bank Holiday weekend 27-29th August and will feature The Darkness, White Stripes, Morrissey, Supergrass, The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand and many more.

Try your luck with tickets here.

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Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

sigh,
eBay here I come
broken-windows | 16 Apr '04, 14:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

in all seriousness, are they introduceing measures to stop non ticket holders getting onto the camp site?
for years ive been speculating that id have as much fun without a ticket, just turning up and fucking around on the campsite for three days.
alcxxk | 16 Apr '04, 15:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it's more fun when you HAVE a ticket and just turn up and fuck around on the campsite for 3 days
-Raz- | 16 Apr '04, 15:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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they seem to check people for tickets entirely randomly as you enter the campsite on the first day, so if you made sure you stayed in the middle of the crowd away from any stewards as you go through the gates then i think you're pretty much guaranteed to get in. if they ask to see your ticket just sigh loudly and complain about having your hands full or something (not that they seemed to care when they asked to see mine, bastards....)
kerry | 19 Apr '04, 12:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

I don't know, that was my plan for this year. I'm gonna buy a day ticket for whichever day seems best and then go and stay for the whole weekend on the campsite. Hopefully I can get away with it, a few mates of mine did it last year and the year before.
jersey_devil | 16 Apr '04, 15:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

I had three day tickets last year because the tickets sold out too quickly. I just got a mate to meet me outside the campsite with two weekend tickets and then we both walked back in. You only need to do this if you're going in on the thursday. The rest of the weekend we just got our wristbands first thing and then you can go in and out all day. It depends how ofen you leave the site. You can change the wristbands over too!
It's not too much hassle, it's just annoying having to pay about £160-170 instead of whatever it cost this year.
A friend of mine now has a house in reading anyway, mmm, showers
lou- | 16 Apr '04, 15:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

crap, i was getting mine this weekend...goddammit. better get leeds ones then. maybe.
waves | 16 Apr '04, 16:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

I'm just buying three day tickets along with my friend- as long as I turn up on Friday morning, with my Friday day ticket I can just stay at the camp site all weekend- and exchange my day ticket every day. At £45 a day ticket, plus about £10/£15 collective postage and booking fee it should work out cheaper than an Ebay ticket.
danjp123 | 16 Apr '04, 16:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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u cant do that thats the point of having a weekend ticket ur not allowed to camp even when u have 3 day tickets, altho the stewards never seem to check anyway u just have to make sure u dont go for random walks around the site at night time cuz stewards appear in random places and tell u u shouldnt b there and ask to c ur wristband
black_lace | 22 Apr '04, 00:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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u cant do that thats the point of having a weekend ticket ur not allowed to camp even when u have 3 day tickets, altho the stewards never seem to check anyway u just have to make sure u dont go for random walks around the site at night time cuz stewards appear in random places and tell u u shouldnt b there and ask to c ur wristband
black_lace | 22 Apr '04, 00:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

why in the last few years have the public gone festival mad?
tommyboo | 16 Apr '04, 17:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

boohoo. big deal, get yerselves to truck instead!
kernelkrock | 16 Apr '04, 18:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

go truck! im intending to go this year for the first time! ive heard good things...
ex-cowboy | 16 Apr '04, 20:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

festivals are the ultimate area to show off an nu-haircut.
STUMBELEINE01 | 17 Apr '04, 00:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What? You mean a haircut with a rap section jammed in the middle?
ImageChange | 17 Apr '04, 08:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You should copyright that mate.
STUMBELEINE01 | 17 Apr '04, 20:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

Is everybody dumb? Who wants to see Green Day when you can see David Bowie

T in the Park anyone?
death1david | 17 Apr '04, 02:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

t in the park all the way!

i ve been the last 4 years and you cant beat it!

the line up has been shit at times but it didnt matter cos everybody was up for it, the last couple of years the line up has been brilliant tho and this year is no exception.

might be being biast but T looks like it has the best line up this year so far
ianybob | 18 Apr '04, 00:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Also, don't forget the Pile of Shite festival - that has Bowie too.
Andy | 18 Apr '04, 14:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

ImageChange -> legendary post!
mass | 18 Apr '04, 18:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm just gona get 1 off a tout, ritefully it's my ticket neway. last year a couple of my mates got 1 for about 150 quid, cheaper than ebay. They should av thought of a way to get rid of touts by now neway!!
ebolarama | 18 Apr '04, 21:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

I heard that you can turn up + get them on the door if ur early on Thursday anyways ill probably go 2 leeds its just as fun just smaller.....
StandingStill | 19 Apr '04, 22:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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if they r sold out on the festival website u wont b able to get them on the door unless u get them from touts and then u pay an absolute fortune for them
black_lace | 22 Apr '04, 00:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading Weekend Tickets All Gone

i'd just like to say to everyone reading this thread: NEVER use www.getmetickets.com- they RIP YOU OFF. I bought a weekend reading ticket for £200 and an extra £7 postage fee in march and they chose TODAY (wed) to tell me that i need to pick them up at noon on the friday. I read around and apparently they've been on watchdog for not even turning up and the net is full of stories of people who waited around for hours only to have someone turn up and say there were no tickets. Now I have to go and get one from a tout and although I know what a genuine ticket looks like, I'm terrified of buying a dud. Does anyone have any hints on buying off touts? Cheers. x
cherryred | 24 Aug '05, 17:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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there will be tickets on the box office, no? they usually hold a small batch back for people to come down and buy if they get there early.
alcxxk | 24 Aug '05, 21:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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get there friday midday and get one off a tour for under £50
not really that much to lose
you are clearly willing to pay for 4 of them
chances are they'll all be real
innit
-Raz- | 25 Aug '05, 00:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply