Changes to Glasto Ticketing

[Final]

I think belboid has sussed the issue.

If you want to sell to late teens, then 0900 on a Sunday morning is possibly the worst time in the whole week you could pick to start the sale.

 

[paolo]

If you want to sell to late teens, then 0900 on a Sunday morning is possibly the worst time in the whole week you could pick to start the sale.

Err, yep!

 

[DJ Squelch]

Lots of schools/colleges don't break up till July. This might be another factor stopping the 16 - 18 yr olds (& teachers ) going.

 

[rocketman]

Is it just me, or didn't Glastonbury people say that they were trying to sort it out so different people got to go each year? But now they have changed the goal posts, what sort of safeguard will they apply to make it possible for people who didn't get tickets last time (but wanted them) will have a chance at tickets this time?

 

[corporate whore]

I thought kids were all obese nowadays?

To purchase a ticket for the Glastonbury Festival, press one.

I'm sorry, your fingers are too fat. To speak to an operator, mash your keypad now

 

[Sunray]

He can tinker with the ticketing all he likes. It won't make the slightest difference.

If you want to sell it to the 16-23 years olds then having a festival that costs well in excess of 200 quid to attend is the biggest barrier and that's just to get in, so with alcohol and food on top its even more.

 

[Rollem]

just lower the fucking ticket price mr eavis. it really aint rocket science man!

 

[malice]

if he wants it to feel younger he should just ban those fold-up chairs

 

[bluestreak]

has anyone mentioned THE WHO yet

 

[Rollem]

besides, i have a telephone that dials super fast

much faster than those that the yoots have

 

[aqua]

has anyone thought of reducing the ticket price if he wants younger people to go?

 

[Sunray]

has anyone mentioned THE WHO yet

The most apt title for 16-25 year olds.

 

[kyser_soze]

Hmmm...now correct me if I'm wrong here, but this 'yoof' demographic he's talking about...this would be the one for whom the internet is listed as a primary entertainment source, a primary source of making new friends, finding new music and are more likely to have broadband than their older counterparts?

Maybe the £150 cost of a ticket might have something to do with it...and The Who...and Shiley Bassey (even tho she was brill)

 

[bus]

more conkers from the partially haired one.

i'll believe it when i see it

 

[sojourner]

I'm not sure my daughter will take too kindly to being described as 'spunky'

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Maybe the eldest child from each Village in the land could be allocated a ticket and sent to Glasto as a right of passage, to return as a spunky adult.

 

[belboid]

sent to Glasto as a right of passage, to return as a spunky adult.

that sounds rather like what Chris Langham is in court for today....

 

[Skim]

Lots of schools/colleges don't break up till July. This might be another factor stopping the 16 - 18 yr olds (& teachers ) going.

Exactly. They'd have to bunk off school to go to the festival and in any case would probably be doing exams around that time.

And it's bloody expensive. I think Eavis should concentrate on attracting old people instead. You know, the Saga Holiday lot. Worthy Farm would be awash with drop-in coffee mornings and whist drives

 

[J77]

I used to have time of to attend

 

[JTG]

I heard of kids who were there on the Wednesday, set up, returned to Bath to sit their exams and went back again on the Friday.

 

[rutabowa]

i'm not going, i don't care what he does.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I have decided I won't go for at least 10 years...

 

[Lazy Llama]

I seem to remember that the license that was granted allowed the festival to be held any time until late August? So hold it later when kids can get off school, and with any luck the weather might be better.

Allow debit cards when purchasing tickets; as far as I know, no one under 18 is allowed a credit card in the UK?

The festival is now so popular that virtually anything he tries will be worked around. His best bet would be to announce that there would be no big name bands at the next festival and stick to that. That would keep away the "only here to see The Who/Arctic Monkeys/Manics" crowd and encourage the people who are genuinely interested in the festival and what it has to offer, rather than a few particular acts and going to "the event this season, dahling".

 

[William of Walworth]

I've decided I will go for the next 10 years ....

Not too fussed about the ticketing issue now, that BBC story makes it look like kiteflying on Mr Eavis's part. Many a slip between cup and lip etc. ...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Many a slip between cup and lip etc. ...

... due to the fact you are standing in a sticky mud quagmire..

 

[Dubversion]

i think the line-up is irrelevant - apart from anything, it's not announced till well after tickets sell out, and for every Bassey there are 10 Klaxons, Kooks and Kasabians...

As for the ticket price - it's barely more expensive than Reading, say, with FAR more bangs for your buck, so i'm not sure that's the issue either.

So i suspect it's down to the timing more than anything.

 

[William of Walworth]

... due to the fact you are standing in a sticky mud quagmire..

Thats right, every single year at Glastonbury. Ever. Including the next three. Inevitable.

I think I'm going to subscribe to bouncer the dog's new school of festographic weather forecasting -- use hindsight to predict the future!

I could set up a wibble tent in the Charlatan field and charge, just chuck a few crystals around to obscure my devious methods ...

 

[William of Walworth]

I seem to remember that the license that was granted allowed the festival to be held any time until late August? So hold it later when kids can get off school, and with any luck the weather might be better.

I'm fairly sure (can't remember exactly) that the terms of the licence
specified a limited period in late June???

You do appreciate that as soon as you move Glasto from late June to (say) August, would very likely (given sods law and statistical probability) be cue, as soon as it's done, for the hottest late June in years ... and quite possibly for several years?


Bouncer will be watching a scorching hot Glastonbury next year on TV .. or avoiding the TV

Elsewhere, some were arguing for moving Glastonbury to July. Well look at the July weather so far, with little better/more settled likely to come for a while longer yet maybe by the end of the month, with any luck

Ludicrous to make panicy changes like that on the basis of an excessively (to the point of freakishly) muddy and rainy festival. Far worse than 2005 ... we're overdue a dry one now and it's quite unlikely (IMO) that it won't come ... statistical balance of likelihood for next year, I'd say ...

In any case, Michael Eavis won't move the date and I doubt Emily would either. It's a non starter.

 

[Lazy Llama]

I'm fairly sure (can't remember exactly) that the terms of the license
specified a limited period in late June???

They wanted a license to cover until August 2010, but the final license was indeed granted stating "The festival must be held over the first complete weekend after the summer solstice in June, except in exceptional circumstances."

In any case, Michael Eavis won't move the date and I doubt Emily would either. It's a non starter.

19th - 20th September 1970 maybe?

 

[paolo]

Allow debit cards when purchasing tickets; as far as I know, no one under 18 is allowed a credit card in the UK?

They allow debit cards. In fact, they only allow debit cards.

Cards for debit. That's all they allow.