Glastonbury 2008

[bouncer_the_dog]

Massive Attack on the Saturday eh? I wonder if the sound will be as good as Bjork's?

 

[Pavlik]

Massive Attack on the Saturday eh? I wonder if the sound will be as good as Bjork's?

I was offered a last minute ticket to see them at the pilton party (one band I've always wanted to see btw) and then a few hours after I bought it my 'friends' said they'd made a mistake and I couldnt have it after all.
Assholes.

I'm still not sure if they're worth standing for hours (knee deep in mud) for though.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

So the Eavis' say 'this could be the last EVER GLASTO! roll-up roll-up register your tickets now! get 'em before they're gone! LAST EVER GLASTO!!!'

 

[david dissadent]

The registration are very very flat. They are currently on track not get enough people registering to sell out. I think there will be a late surge but the headliners have really just added to the feel of a tired old format.

Massive Attack on the Other Stage is the first of the five announced so far that will really get the traditional glastonbury fans excited, so perhaps the trend will pick up. Im starting to feel a bit guilty about being so down on the old girl. But having said that they pissed so so many people off with the age comments last year and many of the changes aimed at attracting a different audiance. Maybe pumping the Jazzworld and smaller stages and wooing back the older audiance again will go some way to rectifying the sitaution, the sort of people who havent read the NME since PWEI, NAD and Carter were on the covers.

With Muse at V and Rage Against the Machine at Reading I really have to say those are two headliners that make me sit up and drool slightly.

 

[El Jefe]

So the Eavis' say 'this could be the last EVER GLASTO! roll-up roll-up register your tickets now! get 'em before they're gone! LAST EVER GLASTO!!!'

Did you actually read the link you posted?

Arse

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Did you actually read the link you posted?

Arse

The BBC often backtracks on stories and rectifies them beyond recognition while retaining the original link. Don't know if that's the case here; just an observation.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Did you actually read the link you posted?

Arse

I posted a link? Hey! how did that get in there

 

[corporate whore]

See Eavis is saying if you register for tix, you'll stay on there for the next 3 - whatever happened to opening it up for a new crowd?

 

[JTG]

See Eavis is saying if you register for tix, you'll stay on there for the next 3 - whatever happened to opening it up for a new crowd?

where do they say they're closing registrations for new people then?

 

[JTG]

The registration are very very flat. They are currently on track not get enough people registering to sell out. I think there will be a late surge but the headliners have really just added to the feel of a tired old format.

Massive Attack on the Other Stage is the first of the five announced so far that will really get the traditional glastonbury fans excited, so perhaps the trend will pick up. Im starting to feel a bit guilty about being so down on the old girl. But having said that they pissed so so many people off with the age comments last year and many of the changes aimed at attracting a different audiance. Maybe pumping the Jazzworld and smaller stages and wooing back the older audiance again will go some way to rectifying the sitaution, the sort of people who havent read the NME since PWEI, NAD and Carter were on the covers.

With Muse at V and Rage Against the Machine at Reading I really have to say those are two headliners that make me sit up and drool slightly.

Good so with any luck it will just about sell out, to people who aren't tits. Who will all be at Reading

 

[corporate whore]

where do they say they're closing registrations for new people then?

Where did I say they were? It just strikes me as being a little contradictory given Eavis was recently wittering on about the need to keep it fresh and get a new, younger crowd in.

Is all.

 

[Tort]

This from the official website:-

Registration Update From Michael

Hello everybody.

So we've got exactly one month to go until the registration period for this year's festival tickets ends and it all seems to be going really well. We still think this is the best and fairest way to make sure that the tickets go to people who actually want to come to the festival, rather than touts.

A few of our regulars have written to me with concerns, having heard in the media that we're trying to get more young people to come to the festival this year. I should probably set the record straight about that; we're only talking about a small percentage increase in the number of young people, which we're aiming to do simply by having more telephone sales lines. That should give people with less sophisticated web gear a slightly better chance of getting tickets (we found last year that the people with the quickest broadband speeds tended to get most of the tickets).

But we're certainly not excluding older people who want to come! Anyone who can endure and enjoy 3 years of bad weather on the trot and wants to come back, deserves the utmost respect from me. I'm just trying to get more youngsters to have a go and get on board, who might be put off by all the palaver we have to go through, to avoid being swindled by touts.
Everyone has the same chance of getting tickets by phone or online. There are no allocations set aside for festival goers of different ages - it will still be on a first come, first served basis. The only difference is that there will be more phone lines with double the number of operators than last year, plus a free phone number from a normal land line phone. That should help younger people, but it will probably suit pensioners too! We love all our visitors equally.

The other difference this year is that you can tick a box when you register which allows your 2008 registration to be used for the 2009 and 2010 festivals. We couldn't do that last year because of data protection issues. I think it'll be nice for people not to have to worry about registering again for a few years and it seems to have been a popular option with the people who've registered so far.

This wonderful week of fine weather gets us all on a terrific high as we prepare the fields, bridges and tracks for June time. Bookings are almost done and you've probably heard all the rumours, but the official line up won't be announced until the 1st of June. So the worst bit for me now, is actually saying "sorry but no" to some of the bands that I would love to put on.

Michael Eavis

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news.aspx?id=1921

 

[TopCat]

I thought Michael Eavis's commenets about their being too many older people at Glastonbury and that he wanted more young people to be totally crass. He was approaching that retard vicars son radio one dj who once told all the white people to get to the back ata gig.



The commenst seem to be backfiring though...

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Do we know how many people who registered last year actually tried for tickets? Would less registrations possibley indicate a potential fall in ticket sales? I find it hard to believe they wouldn't sell out. But perhaps the above statement combined with frantic denials it won't be the last Glasto indicate a twinge of nervousness? Could supposedly less registrations be agitating the well oiled 'down to earth' Eavis 'I shouldn't tell you this but..' publicity machine?

 

[Tort]

Do we know how many people who registered last year actually tried for tickets? Would less registrations possibley indicate a potential fall in ticket sales? I find it hard to believe they wouldn't sell out. But perhaps the above statement combined with frantic denials it won't be the last Glasto indicate a twinge of nervousness? Could supposedly less registrations be agitating the well oiled 'down to earth' Eavis 'I shouldn't tell you this but..' publicity machine?

Eavis gets nervous over whether it will sell out every year but it will & in record time more than likely. Registrations are well down – still less than 70,000 – but there is still a month to go & there was a massive surge in the last few days last year. Plus the initial registration period was only 28 days last year against 43 days this time. It’s impossible to tell how many people actually tried for tickets last year. There were a lot of duplicate registrations due to rejected photos & various other reasons. But the final figure was well over 300,000 so naturally with only 135,000 tickets up for grabs they’ll all go very quickly even if that figure is reduced by say a third this year.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Hmmm... Glasto-tickonomic speculation is always interesting...

<scratches beard>
<tries to think of evan davis style analogy>
<can't>

 

[William of Walworth]

So the Eavis' say 'this could be the last EVER GLASTO! roll-up roll-up register your tickets now! get 'em before they're gone! LAST EVER GLASTO!!!'

You can put as negative a spin on that as you like, but there is no evidence at all that this is going to be the last one, nor that Emily even claimed anything as definite as that, or anything close.

No time for more -- off for now.

 

[ChrisFilter]

You can put as negative a spin on that as you like, but there is no evidence at all that this is going to be the last one, nor that Emily even claimed anything as definite as that, or anything close.

No time for more -- off for now.

The quotes I read said they were treating this Glastonbury as the last because it couldn't go on forever. I'm sure if they quit that they'll be bought out by the Fiddler or the like.

 

[Pavlik]

I'm sure if they quit that they'll be bought out by the Fiddler or the like.

Would you really want 200,000 people on your land every summer if you weren't involved? I think it would move in that case.
Personally I think it'd be great if they did kill it off.
Leave the way open for some smaller festies to develop.

They obviously like doing the smaller events like the pilton party.
We used to go to some fantastic little gigs in their barn when I was a snot nosed teen and just getting into music.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Would you really want 200,000 people on your land every summer if you weren't involved?

Depends how much money you (or your chosen charities0 were offered.

 

[JTG]

I like Glastonbury but when they decide to knock it on the head I hope to goodness nobody tries to resurrect it in some other form. Just leave it be, all good things come to an end eventually.

 

[newbie]

We used to go to some fantastic little gigs in their barn when I was a snot nosed teen and just getting into music.

The waggon shed gigs were great fun

 

[Tort]

I like Glastonbury but when they decide to knock it on the head I hope to goodness nobody tries to resurrect it in some other form. Just leave it be, all good things come to an end eventually.

There was talk in the past of it possibly moving down the road to the Bath & West Showground if ever the Eavis' decided to call it a day at Worthy Farm. Can't see it having the same attraction personally if it did.

 

[newbie]

Nor me. The first Womad was held there, it's an utterly soulless wasteland.

 

[Pavlik]

Nor me. The first Womad was held there, it's an utterly soulless wasteland.

I saw the stranglers there and really wished i hadnt.

re, the wagon shed. We went to see The Only Ones there, sat in the car and shared a joint between four of us and got so stoned that we didnt notice the band were on til we heard 'another girl another planet' as an encore. Doh!

 

[newbie]

I think I went to that one. Memory is a bit hazy though

 

[moonsi til]

I am not going to register this year simply because I want to attend a few different festivals and go to India in November and as Glasto incurs the most expense in terms of time and money .....it has been a very hard decision and I wish the registration period would end so that I (and others) can't talk me into applying.

 

[Pavlik]

I think I went to that one. Memory is a bit hazy though

fair enough really. it must have been about 30 years ago.

 

[moose]

Registrations are well down – still less than 70,000

If I thought there would be fewer people, I might still want to go

 

[isitme]

The photograph I used last year has been rejected this year. I am going to complain on Monday, has anyone got a number?