Glastonbury ticket details

robinph

This year you will need to be pre registering with a photo that they will then print on your ticket if you are then lucky enough to get one when they actually go on sale in April:

Ticket details

Don't tell too many other people though or it will make it harder for me to get my ticket.

Toast

Thats rather messy. Are they going to end up doing a totally different set of rules for the international applicants again?

robinph

I've not seen any specific details for international orders as yet, although they tend to forget about us until the last moment. I would guess it will be very similar to 2005 though but with the new difficulty of having to include postage stamps in with your photo that you send off with the pre-registration.

voidoid

Toast wrote:

Thats rather messy. Are they going to end up doing a totally different set of rules for the international applicants again?

Well if you read the link

efestivals wrote:

you can fill in the form online at a special mini-site on the official Glastonbury website (at http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk from 1st Feb).

Toast

I read the link and it's not clear if you will be able to actually submit the form online or if you will have to fill it in, print it and post it with all the associated SAE messing around. If its all online then theres not a problem but it could easily be half and half.

I doubt they'll be too happy with 100,000 badly cropped digital photos of people from cameraphones taken in their mirrors. If they force the physical posting of pictures then they can insist on passport photos from machines easier.

comet

we must be mad to go through all these hoops and the April 1st internet mayhem and the flights and the crap food and lack of sleep and the possible mud and rain .................... oh well of course theres the music but still

robinph

Hopefully this will put a good few people off bothering, or they will just not notice until too late, and then come April it will not actually be as difficult as before to get the tickets.

voidoid

comet wrote:

we must be mad to go through all these hoops and the April 1st internet mayhem and the flights and the crap food and lack of sleep and the possible mud and rain .................... oh well of course theres the music but still

Excuse me.
WHAT?

robinph

voidoid wrote:

Excuse me.
WHAT?

Someone clearly does not spend enough time exploring the site and finding places serving more than just the soggy chips and crap burgers around the main stages. People need to try the other side of the tracks, literally, and you'll find some excellent food.

robinph

#Elites wrote:

wow photo ID On the ticket? impossible to tout then?! , what happens if you want to buy ..2 tickets?

Both people need to pre-register with a photo then when it then comes to actually booking for the tickets, if you are lucky enough to get through, and you are paying for both tickets then you enter the both of the pre-registration codes.

This pre-registering thing does not mean that you have a ticket or are any more likely to get one than before though, well unless we keep it quiet and don't tell anyone else about this.

voidoid

13 hours of hitting refresh is not my idea of "fun".

I welcome this small inconvenience, it'll only make the 1st of April easier. It'll be no trickier than registering to a website.

glastonburyfestivals wrote:

What are the changes to ticket sales procedure in 2007?

As part of Glastonbury Festivals continuing campaign to combat touting, pre sales registration is being introduced this year. Everyone wanting to buy a ticket for the 2007 Festival will first have to register. This will mean supplying your contact details and a passport standard photo. Each ticket sold will feature the photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-exchangeable.

“It’s a much fairer system,” says Michael Eavis. “It means unscrupulous people won’t be able to sell their tickets on for a profit. The people who buy the tickets on 1 April will be the people who are actually coming to the festival.”

You will need to register between February 1st and 28th, 2007 . You will be able to register both ‘on-line’ and by post. There will be no charge for ‘on-line’ registration but postal applications will need to be accompanied by 2 First Class stamps to cover postage and processing. Forms will be available for download from the registration site which will go live on February 1st, as will the ‘on-line’ registration site. Forms will also be available from February 1st from all Millets stores; Millets will donate 10p for each form issued to WaterAid, one of our Worthwhile Causes.

Information about how to access the registration site, together with full details of how tickets will be sold and their cost, will be announced on this site during January.

(Please note that no information collected by registration will be offered for sale or use by any third party organisation. Unsuccessful ticket applicants will have their data destroyed and all ticket holders’ registration details and photos will be destroyed within one month of the event.)

youcancallmeal

I was a bit put off by this idea when I first heard it but if done right I reckon it'll be a lot better. We had awful trouble getting in last time because one of my friends spelt my name wrong when booking the tickets :mad: Also hopefully they will do away with having to go to Shepton Mallet to pick up tickets, thats was a nightmare in 2005.

Toast

Glastonbury ticket buying is a bit more of an artform than stick a https in front of the url. 2005 had about 3 buffer pages before getting to the actual book tickets form each with a little less chance of loading up the first 10 times than the last. If you hang around the efestivals site they often will post the direct link when its known. Dedication and forward planning will get you tickets. It took 4hrs to sell out last time. Even if its only 2 hrs this time thats 2hrs you can be trying and if you try for that 2 hrs you will eventually get a ticket unless you are incredibly unlucky or just suck at using a web browser.

Mushy

Michael Eavis/Virtual Festivals.com wrote:

It seems The Killers WILL be performing at Glastonbury Festival after all. The Las Vegas band had been written off after it emerged they'd been booked to headline V Festival - but Michael Eavis has hinted otherwise...


The Killers had long been tipped to headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night at Glastonbury Festival.

However, all that seemed to have changed in December, after singer Brandon Flowers revealed he had not yet received the call from Michael Eavis - just days after Eavis confirmed that all his headliners had been booked.

Weeks later it was revealed by The Sun that The Killers would headline V Festival, casting further doubts over a Glastonbury appearance.

But now it looks as if the US rockers will in fact play the Somerset festival, after Eavis laughed off suggestions that the band were "one that got away".

Glasto's founder told Virtual Festivals: "The Killers have got away? Where did you hear that, in the papers? Well, you might be in for a shock then!"

He refused to confirm whether the band would be headlining the Friday night, but did divulge that two of his Pyramid Stage headliners were British acts, while the other one was American.

What is certain is that one of those "British acts" will be closing the festival on Sunday night, with The Who and The Police likely contenders.

Eavis said: "For Sunday night we've got one of my favourite ever bands, a homegrown band that goes back a long way, and they are just terrific - the real deal."

While the Glastonbury Festival boss shut up shop when asked to elaborate on his riddle-some revelations, he did confirm one artist who will be performing at Worthy Farm this year.

He said: "I can't really tell you any more, but I will tell you someone who's playing who I'm really looking forward to as well, and that's John Fogerty, who used to be in Credence Clearwater Revival. He'll be fantastic."

Eavis also virtually confirmed Kasabian and The Kooks for the festival, after revealing how they're two of the newer bands he's been listening to lately.

Asked whether it would be fair to assume they'd both be appearing, he quipped: "Well it looks like it, doesn't it?"

Kasabian have been talked about as potential headliners for the Saturday night, following gleeful pronouncements by singer Tom Meighan about playing the festival during recent gigs.

Other acts set to play include Kaiser Chiefs, The Chemical Brothers, Razorlight, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Arcade Fire and Chumbawumba - who were the first band to confirm themselves via their website.

Glastonbury Festival 2007 takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, from 22-24 June. Tickets go on sale on 1 April, however there is a new registration process being introduced from 1 February. See HERE or click on the links below for more info.

Stay posted to Virtual Festival for the full interview with Michael Eavis, as well as another exclusive story. All this week...

So the Killers then? For all you heading to Glasto(or trying to anyway), would ya like to see them? Also two British and one American headliner. What do ye makes of that? Looks likely for the Who to perform, that'd be cool to see. Who else would ya think might play?

youcancallmeal

I'm not too fussed about The Killers headlining but Kasabian!? Their last album was crap and the first one was mediocre at best. Really hope the second British act to headline is Radiohead, now that would be good.