Glastonbury '07

Chardee MacDennis

Need to register today to be eligible for a ticket.

you need to submit a picture which is printed on your ticket - so you cant sell them on. crazy...

edit: register on www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

eth0_

It's not crazy considering they are sold on for THOUSANDS of pounds. What's the big deal? It takes two minutes to fill in your name and address and upload a photo.

And the pre-registration is open until the end of February - you do not *have to register today*.

Chardee MacDennis

sorry meant to say need to register to get a ticket and registration is OPEN today!!

Also i know why you need the pic etc, but its just a bit weird that you'll have a picture of yourself on the ticket.

Ro: maaan!

Excellent idea.

gucci

i think its a great policy, sure its probably bringing us closer to "big brother" style future where pictures and ID is on everything but it also brings us realistically closer to ensure genuine music fans get a realistic chance of going to the show.
i also think its great idea that you have until the end of feb to register as i havent got a picture today

Mossy Monk

if only the same policy was introduced for tickets at all big events

robinph

gucci wrote:

i think its a great policy, sure its probably bringing us closer to "big brother" style future where pictures and ID is on everything

But no one would ever have guessed that Glastonbury would be the first even to some up with this system though.

Have to get myself a mug shot done tommorow though, and then hope for some good luck on ticket day.

Toast

I dont know whats better about this system.. that some people get freaked out about privacy concerns and refuse to use it therefore freeing up tickets for more saner folk or the fact that it stops touts.

I think anyone who is worried about the photo id aspect somehow being used in a Big Brother way is deluded. Have you seen the level of correlation between the appearance of the average music festival goers? They'll get 100,000 pictures of mildly studenty,artsy,hippieish folk. They all look like Jay and Silent Bob... both of them.. simultaneously.

Shiminay

lol

If they were smart, Ticketmaster would have implemented a similar (international) system with a "no id, no ticket" rule years ago and let them keep a central db of gig-goers.

gucci

Kharn wrote:

lol

If they were smart, Ticketmaster would have implemented a similar (international) system with a "no id, no ticket" rule years ago and let them keep a central db of gig-goers.

true, they already have an account where you no longer need to type in your credit card details address etc, and your names actually do be printed on tickets (im nearly sure)
im sure it wouldnt take alot to go that one step further and photo id the tickets or have a ticketmaster ID card or something with a corresponding barcode.........i dunno maybe im getting carried away here!!

Ro: maaan!

While I'm in favour of any anti-tout system they bring in, I could see it causing problems for this to apply to all gigs. Festivals usually involve packing, travelling etc. People invest a lot in them and aren't that likely to change their minds or decide to go to something else that weekend instead of it. But people are always selling tickets to gigs, or giving them to friends if it's someone they know's birthday the same day or somesuch. They'd need to have some way of transferring the ticket over to someone else. Which would pretty much make it useless...

Toast

Warlords of Pez confirmed to play. Not a word of a lie. This and the Chumbawumba acoustic set have me sold!

Mushy

The Who, Arctic Monkeys and Bjork are all hadlining various bits of it. Bjork isnt Main Stage I think, not sure bout the Monkeys

Lex

A few of us are interested in heading over for this if we get tickets (unlikely I know!), but it seems that everyone has to register individually.

Is there any way to register as a group of three so that either we all get tickets or no-one does?

It'd be a complete balls if only one or two of us got a non-tranferable ticket!

Has anyone any idea of a way around this?

Just searching through the boards over on the Glastonbury site but I cant find an answer to this question.

bandy

Only 2 registered persons per booking

There is (or at least been) an option to cancel tickets up to mid May - so you could bail out then.

After that no refunds / exchanges or transfers are allowed.

eth0_

iirc you can send the ticket back for refund.

I think it's a great idea, a lot of the Glasto profits go to charity and it must sicken them to see tickets selling for thousands of pounds on ebay, money that should be going to a good cause.

robinph

eth0_ wrote:

iirc you can send the ticket back for refund.

Last year you could still cancel the tickets up to the end of May, there was then a small resale that happened shortly after that again to offload the last few tickets.

For us foreigners though you'll never actually see your ticket until the day that you arrive as they don't send them out to non UK addresses any more so you'll only actually get you hands on the ticket once you've picked it up from Shepton Mallet.

Every person that wants to go has to get a pre-registration number. Each order that is place on ticket day though can be for 2 people so if you do get through then you at least won't be totally alone. If it is a family booking then you can order another 2 tickets for under 16's at the same time. Only credit cards will be allowed to be used for making bookings for non UK orders and it cannot be a UK bank credit card, only UK debit cards can be used for UK orders. Only one order (for 2 tickets, or 4 if there are under 16's in the party) can be made with each card.

Lex

thanks for the info folks.

voidoid

gucci wrote:

i think its a great policy, sure its probably bringing us closer to "big brother" style future where pictures and ID is on everything but it also brings us realistically closer to ensure genuine music fans get a realistic chance of going to the show.
i also think its great idea that you have until the end of feb to register as i havent got a picture today

It's actually a step away from "big brother" surveilance when compared to last year. You don't need any ID besides your ticket and I know some of the waning number of hardcore crustys were unhappy about the prospect of getting a national ID card last year.

Your details don't even have to be accurate. You could call yourself "Dr. Boba Fett III" and it wouldn't matter as long as it was you in the photo.

still

voidoid wrote:

It's actually a step away from "big brother" surveilance when compared to last year. You don't need any ID besides your ticket and I know some of the waning number of hardcore crustys were unhappy about the prospect of getting a national ID card last year.

Your details don't even have to be accurate. You could call yourself "Dr. Boba Fett III" and it wouldn't matter as long as it was you in the photo.

Are you sure???

Do they not expect the same person as that registered to purchase the ticket as well? If Dr Boba Fett III was the registered individual could Mr Richard Thimpson purchase a ticket with his cr card for this Dr Boba Fett III ????


Messed up if you can't.

But it would be great if you could, the amount of cool and imaginative names would be worth working on the turnstlyes for.

robinph

Ignore my previous about the limit of two tickets per card as it now seems that they are increasing this limit to 4 per card regardless of if two of the people are under 16 or not. Good news for people wanting to go as a group, bad news for whoever places the booking for your group though as they will be taking a hit of £600 until they get the cash back from their mates.

bandy

Ok Scratch my comment that you can only buy 2 tickets per transaction - its just gone up to 4

Michael Eavis has issued the following statement:-

“This year, because of the new registration system, and in response to many requests, I am pleased to announce that when tickets go on sale on 1st April, it will be possible to buy up to four tickets in a single transaction.

Not only will this be more convenient for families and groups, but it should vastly reduce the number of cars coming to the farm.”

Jimmy81

bandy wrote:

“This year, because of the new registration system, and in response to many requests, I am pleased to announce that when tickets go on sale on 1st April, it will be possible to buy up to four tickets in a single transaction.

But u still need 4 registration codes tho? yeah?

robinph

#Elites wrote:

how hard is it accualy to buy tickets? like if i log into the site April First, the second they come on...do i have a shot?

or will the website fcuk up?

It will possibly be easier this year to get tickets, and even more so now that they have this 4 tickets per transaction change as well. There will be less people trying to access the ticket servers this year as people who have not pre-registered don't stand a chance anyway and if more people are buying 4 at a time then that will reduce the load as well.

Jimmy81 wrote:

But u still need 4 registration codes tho? yeah?

Yes, every person going will need to get a registration number. Those numbers will then be used during the actual ticket buying process.

deaddonkey

I'm as anti tout as they come, but I don't like this

i was meant to be going to a gig with my little brother last weekend, but he got the flu and couldn't come, so i sold his ticket at just under face value to someone who wanted a ticket at the venue (not a tout)
If honest people can't do that or pass on a ticket to a mate for a surprise birthday present or whatever at the last minute, it's not fair, **** does happen.

voidoid

still wrote:

Are you sure???

Do they not expect the same person as that registered to purchase the ticket as well? If Dr Boba Fett III was the registered individual could Mr Richard Thimpson purchase a ticket with his cr card for this Dr Boba Fett III ????


Messed up if you can't.

But it would be great if you could, the amount of cool and imaginative names would be worth working on the turnstlyes for.

Of course you can. Sure look at all the parents who's credit cards will be used to purchase tickets for their kids and their kid's friends.


deaddonkey, Yes, shit does very much happen. I'm pretty sure though that if these measures weren't put in there'd most likely be more people already cancelled tickets than people who can't attend due to illness. If they accepted returns closer to the festival date, or even up to the day of the festival that would be solved.

We'll have to wait and see what the policy on returns will be this year.

robinph

Bump for the benifit of anyone that wasn't paying attention at the beggining of the month, only one day left to register or you have zero chance of getting to Glastonbury this year.

bandy

robinph wrote:

Bump for the benifit of anyone that wasn't paying attention at the beggining of the month, only one day left to register or you have zero chance of getting to Glastonbury this year.

Despite being already oversubscribed that have just extended the deadline to 5th March...

Potcher

agree 100% deaddonkey this has happend to me a lot.
Theres nothing like walking up to a tout thats trying to flog a ticket to someone for more than face value and then handing that person a ticket for under face value.
I've actually given 1 or 2 tickets away for free in me time.

Toast

bandy wrote:

Despite being already oversubscribed that have just extended the deadline to 5th March...

Oversubsrcibed? Theyve 260,000 people who registered their interest in going and something like 120,000 tickets to sell. Not everyone who has regged will go. If anything the registered number is too low to guarantee that it will even sell out that number of tickets available. It would be nice if they just stuck it to the people who didnt get their asses in gear but it would be pretty embarassing if all this fiddling resulted in them having to retract their plans and sell spare tickets normally.

robinph

bandy wrote:

Despite being already oversubscribed that have just extended the deadline to 5th March...

I expect that a large number of the registrations that they have logged are for peoples pets and imaginary friends.

pig on the wing

i'm sorry if this has already been brought up, but :

No announcement about the line up will be made by the Festival before tickets go on sale.

what the hell? what if you bought a ticket and hate the line-up? you can't even re-sell the ticket

robinph

pig on the wing wrote:

what the hell? what if you bought a ticket and hate the line-up? you can't even re-sell the ticket

I'm guessing you've not been to Glastonbury before, or if you have then you just spent three days running between the Pyramid and Other stages?

pig on the wing

care to answer my query in non-glastunbury-attendee terminology?

Unshelved

care to answer my query in non-glastunbury-attendee terminology?

He means that there's a hell of a lot more to Glastonbury than headline acts and many people spend the whole weekend there without seeing any of the bands on the main stages (which are called the Pyramid Stage and the Other Stage). If you're thinking of going don't worry too much about the big acts - the best thing about Glastonbury is the wandering around and enjoying the whole experience and general vibe (yes it turned me into a hippy), not stressing out about seeing this band or that band.

Well that and the cider.

Toast

Glastonbury isnt a music festival. Its a contemporary performing arts festival.

bandy

pig on the wing wrote:

care to answer my query in non-glastunbury-attendee terminology?

The line up is not released by the organisers in advance. If you re really line up driven then there is the option to cancel up to the 5th May and get a refund. There are plenty of leaks about line up - the most comprehensive list is here

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/lineups.php

Glastonbury is way more that the music - believe me your chances (or desire) to see all of your line up choices will soon disappear once on site....

pig on the wing

the only reason i might attend it is because of the bands. i missed out on arcade fire tickets and "the 'o' festival" has very little talent ot attract me (kings of leon is the only other band i'd consider seeing) .

youcancallmeal

I'm thinking of booking my flights now to try and get them cheap, would be running the obvious risk of not getting a ticket though and being stung with the flights

bandy

Some of us have gone ahead and booked flights, some not... I took the gamble and bought - they can only go in price and am back feeling confident about tickets

Also it appears that Aer Lingus have pulled out of the DUB - BRS route so theres less availability of flights this year - I d imagine fares will shoot up once ticket day is over

Jimmy81

If we are lucky enough to get tickets then our plan is to take a car on the ferry to holyhead and drive down.

robinph

The license application has just been granted by Mendip council at lunchtime today. This license covers the next four years as well so unless too many people piss in the hedges this year it should all be OK for a while until they take the next year off. Also the license has an increase in population to 177,500 which means 135,00 tickets.

Don't forget to get up bright and early on Sunday and make sure that you have your registration numbers and the surnames, as given when registering, of each person you are buying for. Also ensure you have enough money on your card to cover the full cost of the tickets.

youcancallmeal

robinph wrote:

The license application has just been granted by Mendip council at lunchtime today. This license covers the next four years as well so unless too many people piss in the hedges this year it should all be OK for a while until they take the next year off. Also the license has an increase in population to 177,500 which means 135,00 tickets.

Don't forget to get up bright and early on Sunday and make sure that you have your registration numbers and the surnames, as given when registering, of each person you are buying for. Also ensure you have enough money on your card to cover the full cost of the tickets.

Ssshhh the less people that know about the better chance we have of getting tickets. I'll be gutted if I don't get tickets this year, I've even booked the time off work....

Jimmy81

From reading the messageboard on the Glastonbury festival website, it seems that there will be a fairly decent chance of getting a ticket this year.

This is based on a calculation of the amount of tickets there are available and the highest mentioned registration number. I think the odds mentioned were 1 in 2, which is pretty decent i think.

Considering not everyone who registered will buy a ticket, due to duplication of registration, deciding not to go etc and the fact that the registration deadline was extended leads me to believe that if you are on the net Sun at 9am and keep trying till they sell out, you WILL get a ticket.

robinph

youcancallme>al wrote:

Ssshhh the less people that know about the better chance we have of getting tickets. I'll be gutted if I don't get tickets this year, I've even booked the time off work....

I think we are relatively safe from people just deciding on ticket day to get a ticket now and so bringing down the servers. There was supposed to be something like 300,000 registered I think but as about half of those are going to be people just putting in fake registrations to see how high the number had got to, and I also know a few people who have registered just incase but have no intention of going, I think we should be relatively OK.

My main concern is that the internet does not grind to a halt in Bristol on Sunday morning, as friends have found in previous years, whilst I got through perfectly fine from Dublin seeing as I'm temporarily relocated.

Toast

robinph wrote:

My main concern is that the internet does not grind to a halt in Bristol on Sunday morning, as friends have found in previous years, whilst I got through perfectly fine from Dublin seeing as I'm temporarily relocated.

I dont think its the internet in Bristol that is the culprit but the servers that do international orders are different to the ones that do the UK orders. Having said that the pages were still pretty slow and subject to timeout over here as well.. you must have got lucky.

robinph

Toast wrote:

I dont think its the internet in Bristol that is the culprit but the servers that do international orders are different to the ones that do the UK orders. Having said that the pages were still pretty slow and subject to timeout over here as well.. you must have got lucky.

Could also be because I was always being sneaky and placing UK orders via an international ISP though.

youcancallmeal

I remember in 2005 I was on the phone and the net but got nothing for the first hour and then one of my mates called and got me to try a different link and I got through straight away. Hopefully something like that will happen again.

Lex

If it does I hope you post up the link!
After you've secured your ticks obv!

I'll have to have an early night Sat....

robinph

It looks like most of the additional ticket allocation (22,500) that they have been licensed for is only for coach passengers. There is likely to be and extra option when ordering to select where you want to get the coach from, if you were to select one of those options though then your only way of getting the ticket will be from the driver on that coach, you cannot just pay the extra coach fare and then drive down instead.

robinph

Don't click on this link too often before 9am on Sunday or you might bring the servers down prematurely, but add it to your bookmarks just to be ready.

Ticket ordering link