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Glastonbury Tickets Still Available After 8 Hours On Sale

by Vinny | April 6, 2008 at 03:17 pm

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This does surprise me usually the tickets are rarer than rocking horse s***.

Three years of muddy mayhem may have dampened the excitement of Glastonbury-goers, as tickets remain on sale eight hours after they were made available to buy.

Festival founder Michael Eavis said around 100,000 tickets had sold online and by phone on Sunday, out of a total of 137,500 passes.

"In previous years all tickets were sold-out within a couple of hours," the Methodist dairy farmer said.

Glastonbury Sunset, originally uploaded by wentloog.

Festival goers amongst the tents above the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2007

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cynthia yoo

at 16:37 on April 6th, 2008

Are you going? Will we be seeing some live-posts from Glastonbury?

Vinny

at 16:41 on April 6th, 2008

I am far too old Cynthia and hate loud noise, maybe some of our younger NP members in the UK maybe going and can report back.

liamssoft

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at 17:12 on April 6th, 2008

Vinny, I like this story. It's good stuff. Could be because the youngsters are £12 per month worse off with the 10% tax band being abolished.

Vinny

at 17:24 on April 6th, 2008

Thanks liamsoft I think most people in the UK are worse off unless you are like John "feed your face" Prescott and get 4 grand in food expences or "squeaky clean" Gordon Brown with his 5 grand cleaning expences.

Jordan Yerman

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at 04:57 on April 11th, 2008

Many moons ago, some friends of mine cut a hole in the fence outside the festival, charging music fans a quid to get in... official tickets would sell out very quickly. These days it's much harder to sneak in, but I'm sure it happens- once covered in mud, the yoof are so hard to count!