Glastonbury 2024
Discussion
Who's in then?
Registration closes 5pm Monday 30th October
Coach ticket sale 6pm Thursday 2nd November
General sale 9am Sunday 5th November
Ticket price: £355 + £5 booking fee
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information...
I was contemplating taking a year off - cost of living crisis and all that - but all my fellow attendees still want to go and I suspect I will have the massive FOMO!
I might try for tickets and if I don't get one then c'est la vie. My little posse has been incredibly lucky over the last 15yrs to always get tickets when we've wanted to. A lot of that is because we're willing to do the coach package, so you are fishing in a much smaller pond of people wanting to depart from your departure point only.
Weather-wise we have been treated to several dry years so I'm guessing a wet one will come along soon!
Pyramid headliner predictions? I'm going with Madonna, Liam Gallagher and Depeche Mode.
Registration closes 5pm Monday 30th October
Coach ticket sale 6pm Thursday 2nd November
General sale 9am Sunday 5th November
Ticket price: £355 + £5 booking fee
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information...
I was contemplating taking a year off - cost of living crisis and all that - but all my fellow attendees still want to go and I suspect I will have the massive FOMO!
I might try for tickets and if I don't get one then c'est la vie. My little posse has been incredibly lucky over the last 15yrs to always get tickets when we've wanted to. A lot of that is because we're willing to do the coach package, so you are fishing in a much smaller pond of people wanting to depart from your departure point only.
Weather-wise we have been treated to several dry years so I'm guessing a wet one will come along soon!
Pyramid headliner predictions? I'm going with Madonna, Liam Gallagher and Depeche Mode.
HTP99 said:
It appears the sale of tickets has been moved back 2 weeks due to some people not realising they had to re-register, WTF that is their problem, I knew, my wife knew, I'm sure the majority knew, so some didn't read their e-mails, it's not as if this wasn't publicised, that is their problem.
https://twitter.com/glastonbury/status/17200783725...
It's not the fault of the registrants though.https://twitter.com/glastonbury/status/17200783725...
The situation is that people have gone in and checked their registrations before the cut-off date, changed anything necessary, got a confirmation that all is updated, but then when they have gone to double check on their details after the cut-off they have found themselves to NOT be registered
That's hardly their fault, is it, having done everything requested in good faith?
The joke organisation that is Seetickets have clearly failed to make the updates at the back-end, then deleted a load of 'lapsed' registrations that weren't actually lapsed.
It's an uncommitted update, in database parlance, somebody has made a simple but fairly seismic IT balls up.
They most likely didn't log the newly captured details, so are unable to repair the situation behind the scenes without having to fess 'up to having dropped a massive b
k, hence opening registrations again. There's loads of people all over social media blaming the punters but it is - quelle surprise - a colossal FUBAR by Seetickets.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Thursday 2nd November 17:55
I managed to get a ticket, as I have done for every year since 2008 when this booking madness started. That year I booked my ticket online a week before the festival, it only sold out a few days beforehand.
We had a syndicate of 52 people trying, and got tickets for 45 of us. However most of that was down to one guy - a friend of a friend of a friend - who was able to get SEVEN buying windows - I know not how! Personally I never got beyond the holding page, and that story was the same for pretty much everyone else in our syndicate. Two other people got as far as entering their registration numbers, but it timed out on them after they'd pressed 'buy' and then went sold out.
My ticket came via someone else who got an eigth buying window; one of my buying group of six people I am in that syndicate with was in Vegas for the F1, he'd asked an old pal of his to try on our behalf, he was successful, so once again (for the fifth year running now) I have a ticket because a stranger to me was able to get 'in' on the website at the right time. I've pinged him my 75 quid deposit and all good to go.
It's a crazy system. I really think they should do some sort of ballot, but I think the Eavis' love the hype it generates. I doubt there is any other music festival in the world which sells out an unannounced line-up 8 months in advance.
We had a syndicate of 52 people trying, and got tickets for 45 of us. However most of that was down to one guy - a friend of a friend of a friend - who was able to get SEVEN buying windows - I know not how! Personally I never got beyond the holding page, and that story was the same for pretty much everyone else in our syndicate. Two other people got as far as entering their registration numbers, but it timed out on them after they'd pressed 'buy' and then went sold out.
My ticket came via someone else who got an eigth buying window; one of my buying group of six people I am in that syndicate with was in Vegas for the F1, he'd asked an old pal of his to try on our behalf, he was successful, so once again (for the fifth year running now) I have a ticket because a stranger to me was able to get 'in' on the website at the right time. I've pinged him my 75 quid deposit and all good to go.
It's a crazy system. I really think they should do some sort of ballot, but I think the Eavis' love the hype it generates. I doubt there is any other music festival in the world which sells out an unannounced line-up 8 months in advance.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Monday 20th November 12:58
I’ve been very lucky and managed to get a ticket every year it has been on since 2008.
I have a ticket this year but an going to chuck it back in the resale. It’s a fairly middling line up (for me) with a few highlights, but not enough to justify the time and expense for me. I rarely watch the Pyramid headliners, but even the (as yet unannounced) Acoustic & Avalon stages probably won’t have enough to hold my interest.
Am going to redirect the budget at Latitude and End Of The Road instead.
Hopefully whoever gets my ticket in the resale will go and have an amazing time.
I have a ticket this year but an going to chuck it back in the resale. It’s a fairly middling line up (for me) with a few highlights, but not enough to justify the time and expense for me. I rarely watch the Pyramid headliners, but even the (as yet unannounced) Acoustic & Avalon stages probably won’t have enough to hold my interest.
Am going to redirect the budget at Latitude and End Of The Road instead.
Hopefully whoever gets my ticket in the resale will go and have an amazing time.
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Thursday 14th March 13:22
That's the thing with Glastonbury, all the unexpected bits. I wouldn't describe myself as a fan of Paul Carrack or Mike and the Mechanics other than a casual liking of 'The Living Years', but he played the Acoustic Stage last year (never on telly, and not always acoustic) and was absolutely outstanding, probably my favourite act of the festival. I am normally yer textbook '6 Music Dad' into anything indie rock, but he just blew me away as a massively talented musician and singer.
I mentioned to Mrs PT that I'm considering chucking my ticket in, but she doubts it! The interesting dynamic now is whether I take our son, who at 9yrs old goes free - he's a veteran of at least two festivals a year since he was 6 months old, so knows the proverbial drill. It's now a case of "well, the music might not be brilliant, but I could take him and he could enjoy all the Kidz Field stuff without me moaning that I'm missing The Beatles reforming over on the Pyramid etc etc etc" .
I don't do all the South East corner business as I like my kip, usually tucked up in my tent for 1am, so I could turn it into a fun father/son bonding trip. I'll have plenty of mates with me (that he knows, and are all themselves parents of older kids) so if I need to get an hour to myself to immerse in some noodling to someone I love up at The Park I can do.
The big doubt at the back of my mind is that I might not get tickets the next few years, then all of a sudden he's 13, I'd be less keen on bunking him off school, and he'll cost me an additional 400 quid to get in by then. Decision, decisions!
I mentioned to Mrs PT that I'm considering chucking my ticket in, but she doubts it! The interesting dynamic now is whether I take our son, who at 9yrs old goes free - he's a veteran of at least two festivals a year since he was 6 months old, so knows the proverbial drill. It's now a case of "well, the music might not be brilliant, but I could take him and he could enjoy all the Kidz Field stuff without me moaning that I'm missing The Beatles reforming over on the Pyramid etc etc etc" .
I don't do all the South East corner business as I like my kip, usually tucked up in my tent for 1am, so I could turn it into a fun father/son bonding trip. I'll have plenty of mates with me (that he knows, and are all themselves parents of older kids) so if I need to get an hour to myself to immerse in some noodling to someone I love up at The Park I can do.
The big doubt at the back of my mind is that I might not get tickets the next few years, then all of a sudden he's 13, I'd be less keen on bunking him off school, and he'll cost me an additional 400 quid to get in by then. Decision, decisions!
Full line up out, I'm looking forward to it.
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/lin...
I've got a few annoying clashes but that is always the case. Just need a bit of sun now!
https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/lin...
I've got a few annoying clashes but that is always the case. Just need a bit of sun now!
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