Glastonbury tickets still available

[monkey]

What's the score there? Do you lot know something we don't? Last year they sold out within 2 hours and it's now been nearly 7 and there are still tickets available! Is it something to do with Jay Z headlining?

[northwind]

Reading and Leeds are selling much faster than usual, maybe people have decided to go to a proper music festival? ;)

[fizzwheel]

Because it always rains that weekend, and despite the best efforts of the Eavis' that site floods because the main stage is in a dip and it turns into a f*cking bog.

I'm not surprised people arent booking what with that and the almight f*ckup they made out of the transport / buses etc back to the train station last year...

Trouble is its got to big, massive fence etc etc. I remember when you could get in for free and legitamately on Sunday afternoons...

[monkey]

Well it won't rain this year because I'm going. So there.

What's the score with getting there on a bike and parking it there? I'm considering taking the banger.

[missyburd]

Apparently they've ''changed the booking system'' and that's why tickets have been selling slower....ab-ser-lutely nothing to do with Jay-Z headlining, who they trying to kid :rolleyes:

[Ch00]

Apparently they've ''changed the booking system'' and that's why tickets have been selling slower....ab-ser-lutely nothing to do with Jay-Z headlining, who they trying to kid :rolleyes:

Thats what i heard, I think it was on the news on Radio 1 today.

Ch00

[ogden]

I spent an hour and a half fighting through the constant site and phone availability problems this morning trying to submit the order form. I'm surprised tickets are still available 13 hours later but after the last few years there was no option but to be up early with multiple phones and computers on the go - I'd hate to miss one.

At least this year everyone who really wants a ticket should be able to get one. That has to be a good thing and makes a pleasant change. It probably doesn't hurt that there hasn't been the media frenzy about festival tickets that we've seen in recent years.

Wellies to the ready - bring on the mud!

[ogden]

Well it won't rain this year because I'm going. So there.

Yeah, right. Pack some wellies. I wore some old cat boots one year, with the cracked soles bodged up with instant gasket and gaffer tape round the tops sealing them against my legs. Trench foot smells really nasty.

What's the score with getting there on a bike and parking it there? I'm considering taking the banger.

It's a doddle. There's a secure bike parking compound inside the main perimeter, right by the bus station. You ride in, park up, swap your tax disc for a chit and bob's your mother's brother. The only problems you might have are strapping on enough luggage to carry your beer (http://www.pre.org/album/2004-Summer/slides/Image055.php) or getting through the mud at the entrance, but neither is insurmountable.

Lugging stuff across the site in bike gear isn't much fun either - the year I took the b12 down, the bloke parked next to me had a wheelbarrow on the back of his bike *and* a pillion!

[monkey]

Cheers Ogden. I spent 2 hours last year on two or at times three phones. It was the day of a family Christening and I had ALL the family on the phones on the way up there. As it was a group christening after the little one was done I left the Church and carried on phoning. It took me an hour and a half AFTER they'd sold out just to find that out!

Glad we've got the tickets but a bit perterbed as if someone knows something we don't.

I'll be taking the Transalp so there should be enough room for the luggage. Maybe even strap stuff to the front of it. I'll tell the Missus to bring minimal make up! Last year in America on a Harley half of the pannier space was full of beauty products, most of which she never used.

:)

[ogden]

One other tip: take a sidestand puck.

I forgot and had to fish a can of lager out of a pannier, down it and stamp the can flat, all while holding the bike upright while the stand tried to sink into the mud.

Terrible ordeal, it was ;)

[philbut]

i'm working yay - look out for a blonde hippy working as a lollypop lady at one of the crossings - thats me. can't decide whether to take the bike or get a lift of my mates. Plus side of a lift is that I Don't have my bike gear to deal with, down side is that we'll have to sit in a massive que to get out.

Hope you all managed to get a ticket in the end! Sod the rain, just remeber to camp on the hill!

[missyburd]

A couple of housemates volunteered as stewards last year and plan to do the same again this year, easy way into the festival side of things really, you still get to see a fair few of the bands and whatnot :)

[ogden]

I looked at the Oxfam steward route a couple of years ago. They want you to do a couple of years at Reading/WOMAD/whatever before they let you anywhere near Glastonbury and, however good a hot shower might sound, if I'm going to burn the thick end of a week's leave to go Wednesday-Monday then I'd rather spend it on my own terms than working.

I know people who've done the Workers Beer Company thing and had a great time, with full access to the backstage compound and everything, that money can't buy, but my union (when I was in one) weren't affiliated with the WBC so that was a non-starter.

It's only 160 quid and this year getting a ticket seems like a doddle (if only I'd known that at 9am) but I suppose it's a good way to let student types get in for free...

Phil, we'll have to swap numbers at some point, though I have a history of bumping into people I know unexpectedly - 175000 people on site and it's all but guaranteed you'll meet at some point, even by accident!

[monkey]

I'm 30 a week before so if we do meet it's gonna be messy......

[ogden]

I'm 30 a week before so if we do meet it's gonna be messy......

Pah. Turning 30 was a piece of ... er ... a doddle. It's creeping ever-closer to 40 that sucks.