Changes to Glasto Ticketing
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
What a load of bollocks.
Crispy said:
why? young people are weird, smell funny and nab all the best drugs.
Crispy said:
Yep. I'm part of an older crowd and we're damn fucking organised on ticket day. I suspect the young 'uns aren't.
The festival (any festival) needs new blood to keep going. Fair enough I think.
I want to be going there decades from now, but it would be a bit pants if I was surrounded by "me".
bouncer_the_dog
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Ever since the super fence glastonbury's crowd has been made up of people who are too good at using the internet. Geeks basically. 
I remember when i were a lad, there was the rag'n'tix man. Little cart, he had, used to come up and down all the backstreets shouting "any old iron? anyone want a ticket to Pilton Pop".. we'd just wander out and buy a ticket. Or we wouldn't - we'd wait till next time. And they were only 11p. And you could leave your back door open... And everyone loved their dear ole mum
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bouncer_the_dog
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Dubversion said:
noob
I wonder about this. In spite of our extended group (who incidentally include quite a few 19 - 23s as well as older folk) all assuming that the internet was the way to get through, when it came to it this year, almost none of us got a foot in the door, internet-wise.
A mate of mine got my ticket at an internet cafe, but then I got nowhere on the net, and neither did the rest of us, but I proceeded to get through on the phone THREE TIMES in half an hour or so, and bought tickets for several of my mates on the phone.
The "problem" with the internet ticket buying process was that once you "got in", you could buy your four tickets, click BACK, then keep buying more sets for all your friends.
So, I don't know about favouring older people (what? surely most teens are still living at home with parents, who probably pay for a decent broadband...) but it DEFINITELY favoured big groups ALL going, at the expense of people going in ones and twos who couldn't even get onto the server.
Giles..
A mate of mine got my ticket at an internet cafe, but then I got nowhere on the net, and neither did the rest of us, but I proceeded to get through on the phone THREE TIMES in half an hour or so, and bought tickets for several of my mates on the phone.
The "problem" with the internet ticket buying process was that once you "got in", you could buy your four tickets, click BACK, then keep buying more sets for all your friends.
So, I don't know about favouring older people (what? surely most teens are still living at home with parents, who probably pay for a decent broadband...) but it DEFINITELY favoured big groups ALL going, at the expense of people going in ones and twos who couldn't even get onto the server.
Giles..
bouncer_the_dog
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I think the massive cost in going also favours older people (particularly 30+ IT types 
). Pain in the arse getting there + trapped on site where everything is expensive. Why not go to Reading or Leeds, with line ups featuring bands these younglings probably listen to..
). Pain in the arse getting there + trapped on site where everything is expensive. Why not go to Reading or Leeds, with line ups featuring bands these younglings probably listen to..
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Are 16-18 year-olds going to want to go to an ageing festival were all their parents are wearing wacky clothes and dancing around on drugs. I wouldn't have thought so.
