Changes to Glasto Ticketing

[Lazy Llama]

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

Cards for debit. That's all they allow.

Doh, of course you're right.

 

[Sunray]

You can buy prepaid maestro/visa cards these days.

 

[JTG]

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.

afaik it's actually cheaper than Reading and far, far bigger and better.

 

[Sunray]

Its good value but its not cheap either. Over the last 7 years the cost of Reading and Glastonbury have risen about 80%, inflation over that period is less than 3%, which would put the ticket price at 109.

If your earning the minimum wage as a 18-21 year old, its gone up 20% in that same period to 4.45 an hour. That has to have an effect on who can attend. If you living with your mum and dad, might be able to afford it or of they pay.

I know for certain that I am not getting any more entertainment than I did in 2000? It so fucking big that 95% of what is on I miss anyway.

 

[moose]

I suspect the real reason the punky youth don't go want to go is that it has a reputation for being full of old hippies

 

[William of Walworth]

I suspect the real reason the punky youth don't go want to go is that it has a reputation for being full of old hippies

What do THEY know, eh??

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

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

I've said before that the only way to avoid the hysterical over-hype of Glasto is to actually be there.

I will go if i am given a free ticket and travel and accomodation (helicopter and 4star hotel) otherwise forget it..

Next year I am going to go somewher hot and sunny with a beach and a decent cocktail bar.. For the same money I spent at glastonbury I could have a week by the pool.

If I go to a festival it will have to be one of these wierd eastern european ones. Where all the same people at glastonbury play for a 3rd of the price. It remains to be seen what the drugs, booze and council noise restrictions are like though..

 

[J77]

It's quite telling that Eavis has picked up on the fact that his festival has a majority appeal for the 2.4 children types these days.

Do the yoof even want to get muddy tho'?

They're probably more happy with the iPods.

Which means his attendence will be the ones who went in the old days, grew old, and had the aforementioned 2.4, mortgage, Ford Mondeo.

Life, innit

 

[pinkmonkey]

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

I remember a certain Urbanite getting a mobile phonecall from her school and subsequently getting into big trouble for not attending it, when we were sittting around the campfire at Glastonbury.

It's so true, it's at the wrong time of year if you are under 20. El jugs cousin would love to go but his exams only finished after the festival.

 

[tarannau]

I suspect the real reason the punky youth don't go want to go is that it has a reputation for being full of old hippies

Yep. If it's any compensation I thought that about Glastonbury as a nipper - it just wasn't the thing a South London lad would go to. M25 orbital raves and dingy warehouses were fine, but who the fuck would want to go to see a load of superannuated prog rockers and fey indie wannabees in a field.

Cue forward 15 years later and a re-education programme by LQ and I really look forward to Glastonbury every time. i can't see much of the yoof around me beating a path to camp if I'm honest - it's always going to be more familiar feeling and popular option with middle class types.

 

[bus]

Next year I am going to go somewher hot and sunny with a beach and a decent cocktail bar.. For the same money I spent at glastonbury I could have a week by the pool.

that sounds really boring though.......

 

[cybertect]

when i went to my first glastonbury in 95 as an 18 year old i walked in to my local hmv three months before and bought a ticket using the ticket master service that HMV used to do. i paid my money, i got my ticket. its a shame that you cant do that anymore.

I think I strolled in and bought my ticket for '97 at HMV in Oxford Street about week before

 

[moose]

It was pay on the gate when I first went

Eavis needs to release the line-up before ticket sales if he wants to attract young-uns.

 

[kyser_soze]

On this 'more on the phones' thing...

Surely Eavis realises that adults who are organised enough to go into work on a Sunday morning to try and book tickets en masse will also have the wherewithall to do the same for phone bookings?

 

[moose]

And another thing: taking into account his previous loony proclamation that he fancied being able to restrict people to going only every three years, those young people wouldn't get to go to many Glastos till they were out of the target age range.

 

[untethered]

I think I strolled in and bought my ticket for '97 at HMV in Oxford Street about week before

I bought my ticket for 1993 in 1995. It was only a quid and it came with a free sack of drugs.

 

[William of Walworth]

On this 'more on the phones' thing...

Surely Eavis realises that adults who are organised enough to go into work on a Sunday morning to try and book tickets en masse will also have the wherewithall to do the same for phone bookings?

Absolutely, kinda obvious really, but I hadn't really thought about that one...

And it's Sir Michael CBE to you .... despite his mad n' crazy ' ideas'

 

[holsten]

on a phone booking they can know what they are looking for

 

[pagan]

Old upside down head is talking out of his arse.
The few 16 yr olds I know are extremely net savvy, have high speed broadband, have more Myspace contacts than Eavis could imagine and don't have landlines and mobiles so one person can be making two calls to the hotline.

If he's serious about attracting 16-18 yr olds he will:

Stop booking acts like The Who, Macca, Oasis, Coldplay and Shirley
Restrict campervan sales
Get sponsorship from Nuts or Zoo instaed of The Grauniad
Do away with the Greenfields/Healing Areas and replace them with a great big interactive Wii/PSP zone
Book endless boring emo bands (oh, dear, am I showing my age, is that what 'the kids' like nowadays )
Basically concrete over Worthy Farm to create a more Reading/T in Park vibe (kids hate camping)
Reduce ticket prices to something reasonable like £50

At the end of the day, Glasto had grown organically until 2000, then the need for the fence changed everything.....There is no way of 'changing it back' either to include more kids or crusties or black people. It is what it is.

 

[absinthe pirate]

Well i'd like to think i'm still very young - i'm only 21!

And i can tell you why this year was my first glasto

1) I never had £150 as a teenager and

oh wait thats it

This year is the first time i have had the resources to go for a weeks holiday and pay for it fair and square - i find it funny that people think teenagers wouldn't want to miss one of the last weeks of term for glasto though...