Glastonbury 2020 ... now 2022
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utterly gutted. we got through 3 times but newbies in our buying group f
ked our well worn system. first time someone had already bought an individual in our group a ticket which froze it( supposed to buy the group 6 at a time ). second time someone had the wrong reg number. 3rd said sold out just as confirming it. utter fking muppets. never not gone. tbf i had a feeling wouldnt get them this year as 50th. will try in resale but if that doent work i'm going out the country when its on 
every other buying group in our system got one so we got 20 odd tickets just not ours who set the thing up dont mind not getting one via not getting through but vvv fked off people couldnt follow simple rules
ked our well worn system. first time someone had already bought an individual in our group a ticket which froze it( supposed to buy the group 6 at a time ). second time someone had the wrong reg number. 3rd said sold out just as confirming it. utter fking muppets. never not gone. tbf i had a feeling wouldnt get them this year as 50th. will try in resale but if that doent work i'm going out the country when its on every other buying group in our system got one so we got 20 odd tickets just not ours who set the thing up dont mind not getting one via not getting through but vvv fked off people couldnt follow simple rulesEdited by petemurphy on Sunday 6th October 18:07
None either.
But it did make me thinkback to the pre-internet days - you saw a gig listed in the classifieds in NME / Melody Maker, you sent your cheque off and you hoped you got a ticket back in the post rather than your back cheque crossed. Went to a number of Glastonbury's through the 1990s by post applications.
Myself and a friend sent off 30 applications for the Stone Roses Spike Island.
We got six tickets between the two of us. We went, and so did four very grateful friends. I wish I'd thought on a bit as when the gig was announced it wasn't 'that famous'". Whom know what favours I could have got from holding onto the spare tickets rather than giving them to mates at cost.
Bloody hell, forgot how cheap that was looking back - yet most gigs I'd have gone to in't the day were £3-4 quid, James, Inspirals, The Fall, New Jo Division, Mondays, Frank Sidebottom, Adventure Babies, Denim, Suede, Chortlon Skids. Only three hours wages back then for a full days gig. Yet look at the prices now.
But it did make me thinkback to the pre-internet days - you saw a gig listed in the classifieds in NME / Melody Maker, you sent your cheque off and you hoped you got a ticket back in the post rather than your back cheque crossed. Went to a number of Glastonbury's through the 1990s by post applications.
Myself and a friend sent off 30 applications for the Stone Roses Spike Island.
We got six tickets between the two of us. We went, and so did four very grateful friends. I wish I'd thought on a bit as when the gig was announced it wasn't 'that famous'". Whom know what favours I could have got from holding onto the spare tickets rather than giving them to mates at cost.
Bloody hell, forgot how cheap that was looking back - yet most gigs I'd have gone to in't the day were £3-4 quid, James, Inspirals, The Fall, New Jo Division, Mondays, Frank Sidebottom, Adventure Babies, Denim, Suede, Chortlon Skids. Only three hours wages back then for a full days gig. Yet look at the prices now.
We got our 6 tix and another group of our pals got their 6 - we were part of a bigger group with 15 groups of 6. Of these 15, 5 groups succeeded
It was much tougher than usual
I got through and put details in but it wouldn't move to the next page, that happened to me twice and to others in our group
We've been lucky and have been to them all since 2010 but the tension and anxiety leading up to and during the sale is pretty unpleasant
Sorry for everyone that missed out it sucks been there many times but there are 2 more resales & we've had a lot of luck in them too
It was much tougher than usual
I got through and put details in but it wouldn't move to the next page, that happened to me twice and to others in our group
We've been lucky and have been to them all since 2010 but the tension and anxiety leading up to and during the sale is pretty unpleasant
Sorry for everyone that missed out it sucks been there many times but there are 2 more resales & we've had a lot of luck in them too
petemurphy said:
utterly gutted. we got through 3 times but newbies in our buying group fked our well worn system. first time someone had already bought an individual in our group a ticket which froze it( supposed to buy the group 6 at a time ). second time someone had the wrong reg number. 3rd said sold out just as confirming it. utter fking muppets. never not gone. tbf i had a feeling wouldnt get them this year as 50th. will try in resale but if that doent work i'm going out the country when its on every other buying group in our system got one so we got 20 odd tickets just not ours who set the thing up dont mind not getting one via not getting through but vvv fked off people couldnt follow simple rules
Feel for you bro, my mates were quite dim before, on the whatsapp group saying 'any luck yet' or 'holding page' etc - why bother. I beat it out of them in the end, that sort of incompetence is infuriating. Just don't have muppets like that in your group.ked our well worn system. first time someone had already bought an individual in our group a ticket which froze it( supposed to buy the group 6 at a time ). second time someone had the wrong reg number. 3rd said sold out just as confirming it. utter fking muppets. never not gone. tbf i had a feeling wouldnt get them this year as 50th. will try in resale but if that doent work i'm going out the country when its on every other buying group in our system got one so we got 20 odd tickets just not ours who set the thing up dont mind not getting one via not getting through but vvv fked off people couldnt follow simple rulesEdited by petemurphy on Sunday 6th October 18:07
alangtt said:
3 for me yayyy! I woke up at 430 in apanic and couldn't get back to sleep after that. 
made up.
Well done. My 4yo smacked me on the head with a toy at 7am to wake me up, normally I’d have been miffed but I let the little tyke off as it meant I got online in plenty time, I slept through it last year! made up. miniman said:
The core site application will likely be accepting traffic from a number of load balancers on a first-come first-served basis. However there will also likely be an edge network caching traffic. The screenshots I’ve seen suggest it’s not terribly sophisticated (i.e. you get a basic error message when you can’t connect, rather than a branded / tailored message).
Hi thank you for this information, there is loads of crap posted on this topic. Given what you can ascertain how would you approach maximising your chances, and are there any way you would approach ‘cheating’ the system?jakesmith said:
Feel for you bro, my mates were quite dim before, on the whatsapp group saying 'any luck yet' or 'holding page' etc - why bother. I beat it out of them in the end, that sort of incompetence is infuriating. Just don't have muppets like that in your group.
oh ive learnt although tbh prob to no avail as the 50th was prob gonna be my last one. people fking chatting on whatsapp when they should be refreshing. fking amateurs grrr!First year in 6 that we didn't get any between us. Same as most, got through to the fill out page as they were selling out, bring you up before they bash you back down!
Wishing everyone that got tickets the best of luck with the weather and what should be an amazing year at the festival
Wishing everyone that got tickets the best of luck with the weather and what should be an amazing year at the festival
petemurphy said:
jakesmith said:
Feel for you bro, my mates were quite dim before, on the whatsapp group saying 'any luck yet' or 'holding page' etc - why bother. I beat it out of them in the end, that sort of incompetence is infuriating. Just don't have muppets like that in your group.
oh ive learnt although tbh prob to no avail as the 50th was prob gonna be my last one. people fking chatting on whatsapp when they should be refreshing. fking amateurs grrr!HTP99 said:
Yep my daughter; I was refreshing and flicking between browsers in between having to swipe away WhatsApp message from her, moaning that she couldn't get through with screenshot to back it up!
ha i can only blame the parents 
"we swapped groups did you not see the message" was the one that sent me ballistic. so you froze our f
king groups you idiotsPurpleTurtle said:
I got coach tickets on Thursday night for a group of five of us, rather bizarrely on a free WiFi connection in a local pub, had to type in all the bloody details on my iPhone hoping I didn’t make a mistake!
Sadly (and I know I’m guilty of this - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em) the fact that so many people join groups and all try for them means that the website gets massively overloaded. They could find alternatives to this (a ballot system, for example) but still people would try to ‘cheat’ the system via multiple registrations etc.
Can any techies on here explain how millions of hits on a website like this at the same time are prioritised? Is it really just luck that you capture a page at the precise microsecond one becomes available?
Same approach here. I can't see any reason for guilt though. You're not creating any more traffic to the site or utilising any trickery.Sadly (and I know I’m guilty of this - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em) the fact that so many people join groups and all try for them means that the website gets massively overloaded. They could find alternatives to this (a ballot system, for example) but still people would try to ‘cheat’ the system via multiple registrations etc.
Can any techies on here explain how millions of hits on a website like this at the same time are prioritised? Is it really just luck that you capture a page at the precise microsecond one becomes available?
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Sunday 6th October 13:04
I was the only one of our group to get through to the proper page, and in my 7th year I've only got through to the page twice so it's still all based on luck and while we're giving ourselves an edge, SeeTickets servers operate on this basis by default. Similarly those using auto refresh apps are boosting their chances and exploiting the lack of any other queuing mechanism.
HTP99 said:
petemurphy said:
jakesmith said:
Feel for you bro, my mates were quite dim before, on the whatsapp group saying 'any luck yet' or 'holding page' etc - why bother. I beat it out of them in the end, that sort of incompetence is infuriating. Just don't have muppets like that in your group.
oh ive learnt although tbh prob to no avail as the 50th was prob gonna be my last one. people fking chatting on whatsapp when they should be refreshing. fking amateurs grrr!R Mutt said:
PurpleTurtle said:
I got coach tickets on Thursday night for a group of five of us, rather bizarrely on a free WiFi connection in a local pub, had to type in all the bloody details on my iPhone hoping I didn’t make a mistake!
Sadly (and I know I’m guilty of this - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em) the fact that so many people join groups and all try for them means that the website gets massively overloaded. They could find alternatives to this (a ballot system, for example) but still people would try to ‘cheat’ the system via multiple registrations etc.
Can any techies on here explain how millions of hits on a website like this at the same time are prioritised? Is it really just luck that you capture a page at the precise microsecond one becomes available?
Same approach here. I can't see any reason for guilt though. You're not creating any more traffic to the site or utilising any trickery.Sadly (and I know I’m guilty of this - if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em) the fact that so many people join groups and all try for them means that the website gets massively overloaded. They could find alternatives to this (a ballot system, for example) but still people would try to ‘cheat’ the system via multiple registrations etc.
Can any techies on here explain how millions of hits on a website like this at the same time are prioritised? Is it really just luck that you capture a page at the precise microsecond one becomes available?
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Sunday 6th October 13:04
I was the only one of our group to get through to the proper page, and in my 7th year I've only got through to the page twice so it's still all based on luck and while we're giving ourselves an edge, SeeTickets servers operate on this basis by default. Similarly those using auto refresh apps are boosting their chances and exploiting the lack of any other queuing mechanism.
For the EFL Championship play-off final at Wembley last season they did a queueing system where everyone was sent a bespoke, single-use link, you jumped on it at the alloted time and it (supposedly randomly) allocated you a place in the queue. Any refresh of pages etc saw you ejected from the queue and starting at the back. This seems an altogether 'fairer' system in my view.
The whole scrum for Glastonbury tickets has in my view become 'a thing' since the advent of social media, particularly Instagram. It has become a cool thing to be seen to be doing. "Look at me Insta-ing the f*** out of standing on the podium at the Beat Hotel, welcome to my fake life!"
I honestly think that if they were able to ban social media at Glastonbury then only half the people that go would want to go.
I doubt it will change much though, because the hype is self-perpetuating, the organisers love it. In 2009 when I first started going I was able to buy a ticket online 5 weeks before the festival, and it only sold out a couple of days beforehand. That was the Jay-Z year, they were on the cusp of going bust. Since then it has become the hottest ticket in town, even with the line-up unannounced. If you are Michael Eavis do you change that?
Edited by PurpleTurtle on Monday 7th October 12:31
Got entry to Glastonbury and it only cost me £57 off ebay..
Sorted !
The problem with glastonbury it has no real competition,
Bring back Monsters of Rock at Castle Donnington. Far better than Glastonbury.
I once woke up cuddling a Welshman and he swapped something good to smoke for a slap up breakfast I did on a pan ontop of some slightly damp wood.
You could throw bottles at the stage in those days, mostly full of cider, but if you got a "warm one" over you, then you did wonder.
This seems like yuppies and millenials and snowflakes and S club 7 followers in comparison.
PAH. Lucky you all missed out. Just get completely blitzed at home, have a tent in the garden and then annoy the neighbours with music too loud at 6am before your full english breakfast. Saves money, saves all the traffic...
Put a wheat of corn in your mouth and pretend you are Mr Eavis.
Sorted !
The problem with glastonbury it has no real competition,
Bring back Monsters of Rock at Castle Donnington. Far better than Glastonbury.
I once woke up cuddling a Welshman and he swapped something good to smoke for a slap up breakfast I did on a pan ontop of some slightly damp wood.
You could throw bottles at the stage in those days, mostly full of cider, but if you got a "warm one" over you, then you did wonder.
This seems like yuppies and millenials and snowflakes and S club 7 followers in comparison.
PAH. Lucky you all missed out. Just get completely blitzed at home, have a tent in the garden and then annoy the neighbours with music too loud at 6am before your full english breakfast. Saves money, saves all the traffic...
Put a wheat of corn in your mouth and pretend you are Mr Eavis.
Gandahar said:
I think this
"!utterly gutted. we got through 3 times but newbies in our buying group fked our well worn system."
sums up Glastonbury 2020.
It's not rock n roll, it is being rocked and being rolled over.
It needs spanking down with competition.
There was decent competition in Bestival but thats gone bust unfortunately"!utterly gutted. we got through 3 times but newbies in our buying group fked our well worn system."
sums up Glastonbury 2020.
It's not rock n roll, it is being rocked and being rolled over.
It needs spanking down with competition.
Without sounds like a proper "liked it before it was famous" muppet, it has annoyingly very much become a tick list festival, people need to be able to say they have gone and you can see that in the crowds, glorious day, stages pumping out music and the queue for the chill and charge tent is the longest on site as the w
kers simply must Instagram that they are thereI only went in for tickets this year as it was 50th, not hugely arsed we didnt get them, might give Boomtown a go as heard good things
J8 SVG said:
First year in 6 that we didn't get any between us. Same as most, got through to the fill out page as they were selling out, bring you up before they bash you back down!
Wishing everyone that got tickets the best of luck with the weather and what should be an amazing year at the festival
Same for me, I've been to the last 6 but didn't manage to get any tickets this time. Gutted.Wishing everyone that got tickets the best of luck with the weather and what should be an amazing year at the festival
I can only hope that it rains all weekend and Coldplay headline again!
I'm possibly going to console myself by heading off to festival in Europe instead. INMusic festival in Croatia has had some cracking line ups over the last few years.
80sMatchbox said:
Same for me, I've been to the last 6 but didn't manage to get any tickets this time. Gutted.
I can only hope that it rains all weekend and Coldplay headline again!
I'm possibly going to console myself by heading off to festival in Europe instead. INMusic festival in Croatia has had some cracking line ups over the last few years.
think i may book a spa weekend and hope it rains and sit in my jacuzzi laughing! I can only hope that it rains all weekend and Coldplay headline again!
I'm possibly going to console myself by heading off to festival in Europe instead. INMusic festival in Croatia has had some cracking line ups over the last few years.
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