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Glastonbury Tickets On Sale In October!

added 24 July 2008 at 09.56

Fans wanting to go to next year's Glastonbury will be able to reserve their tickets six months earlier than normal.

100,000 tickets will be available from October, providing would-be Glasto-goers leave a deposit of £50. The full amount will be required as usual on 1 April 2009 and anyone not wanted to pay the balance will be charged a fee of £10.

Michael Eavis claims that this new initiative is to avoid the on-sale dates of other major festivals - in the hope of avoiding this year's slow sales. Plus, he wanted to avoid the “confusion” of this year’s on-sale.

"Everybody wants to come,” the eternally cheerful Mr Eavis told the BBC. “Everywhere I go people say Oh, we should've been there and we're so fed up about it, because it was so good. "There was so much stuff going on - Trash City, Shangri-La, The Park - people are kicking themselves because they didn't go, so there really will be a big demand."

However, the Glasto boss warned that there would be a price hike for next year’s tickets. “We actually did [this year] cheap - we couldn't cover the costs at that price. It wasn't a loss, but it wasn't as good as it should've been.”

Despite this, and a stressful period in the run up to this year’s event that saw Eavis lose half a stone in weight through worry, he’s looking forward to 2009: "It's completely different to how we were talking six months ago when we were saying, Oh no is this the end? It's on its way out because we didn't sell out straight away... We had all those stories about the demise of the festival and they were completely wrong”

But don’t expect another Jay-Z in ’09. "We'll probably be going for the more traditional headliner next year because there are more of them around. After this year, everyone wants to come onboard because it was such a good do.”

What do you think? Has Glastonbury had its day, or will you be there next year? Was Michael Eavis proved wrong about Jay-Z? And will you be putting your hand in your pocket for a more expensive Glasto ticket?

Tagged as Festivals, Glastonbury

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1. Can't help but think this is another ruse to make more money for Mean Fiddler and Mr Eavis. If all tickets sold on 1 Oct, that will be £5m in the bank 9 months prior to the festival, a good little earner byanyones standards. The £10 admin fee if you decide not to go is very high, other ticketoutlets have a policy of £4-£4.50 not £10. If everyone decided not to go after registering that would be a £1m profit up front.
   Only some of the profits go toward charity, mean fiddler are a business and want to make as much money as possible, in 08 a pint was £3.65, mile from the farm 85p a pint, profitering I think. i'm being priced out of Glasto ( after 8 times) so will look to Latitude or Bestival next year. Glastonbury generatess more money than any other festival in the UK and Mean Fiddler rely on Mr Eavis (minority stakeholder) to persuade the headliners to come in at £150k max,he ( they) Gcould pay more but chooses not to.
   
   Glastonbury is a money making concern just like all other large festivals dont fall for all the green earth, charity hype. Mean fiddler want to make a profit, and they do.
   
   
   

   Posted by jmcefc on 27/07/2008 20:13:15 | report abuse

2. "We'll probably be going for the more traditional headliner next year''
   
   IN YOUR FACE JAY-Z!! IN YOUR BIG ARROGANT FACE!!
   
   Might go next year now.

   Posted by Louis on 25/07/2008 17:55:54 | report abuse

3. I shall definitely be registering for my ticket...!!!

   Posted by Faby on 24/07/2008 21:47:34 | report abuse

4. Eavis is a legend - this Kelly person obviously doesn't know what they're talking about.
   However, the main question is whether Glasto has "had its day".
   As an "old git" I've been to over a dozen Glasto's from the mid 1980's to recent times and enjoyed them all (as far as I can remember!) and you won't catch me saying things like "it's not as good as it was in the old days" - it's different for sure, and I miss some of what it used to be like when you drove your car onto the site, parked just below the farm house and pitched next to it! but in many ways it got better every year. However, I have to say I've not even tried for tickets for the last couple of years. Maybe I've just got too old, but I've started going to smaller festivals again and enjoying only having a choice of 2 or 3 things at a time, only having a 5 min walk between stages, and bumping into the same people at various times over the festival. I still think everyone should do at least one Glasto, but it's reached its size-limit as far as I'm concerned.
   If they want to make it even better, then rather than just putting on even more events to choose from, they should extend it so that it lasts for maybe 5 days. Perhaps there could be a 3 day ticket at the same sort of price as now, and a 5 day at an extra cost. If I was paying more to get 200 bands rather than 100, I'd prefer the extra 100 to be on a different day, else I'm paying more for more choice, but not actually seeing any more bands (and there's enough choice for anyone there already!)

   Posted by T-Time on 24/07/2008 14:23:25 | report abuse

5. Eavis is a legend - this Kelly person obviously doesn't know what they're talking about.
   However, the main question is whether Glasto has "had its day".
   As an "old git" I've been to over a dozen Glasto's from the mid 1980's to recent times and enjoyed them all (as far as I can remember!) and you won't catch me saying things like "it's not as good as it was in the old days" - it's different for sure, and I miss some of what it used to be like when you drove your car onto the site, parked just below the farm house and pitched next to it! but in many ways it got better every year. However, I have to say I've not even tried for tickets for the last couple of years. Maybe I've just got too old, but I've started going to smaller festivals again and enjoying only having a choice of 2 or 3 things at a time, only having a 5 min walk between stages, and bumping into the same people at various times over the festival. I still think everyone should do at least one Glasto, but it's reached its size-limit as far as I'm concerned.
   If they want to make it even better, then rather than just putting on even more events to choose from, they should extend it so that it lasts for maybe 5 days. Perhaps there could be a 3 day ticket at the same sort of price as now, and a 5 day at an extra cost. If I was paying more to get 200 bands rather than 100, I'd prefer the extra 100 to be on a different day, else I'm paying more for more choice, but not actually seeing any more bands (and there's enough choice for anyone there already!)

   Posted by T-Time on 24/07/2008 13:58:48 | report abuse

6. I forgot to say, Kelly, basically you're an idiot

   Posted by Peedagedon on 24/07/2008 13:24:29 | report abuse

7. Kelly - seriously? Do you know that he puts the profits toward charity, I think it's oxfam (could be wrong) - in 2007 he was able to contribute £2m after he had paid for everything. He can only pay headliners £150k max, compared to some of the other big festivals, where they can pay up to £1m if needs be.

   Posted by Peedagedon on 24/07/2008 13:22:04 | report abuse

8. so eavis wants more money next year? is there no end to this mans arrogence?

   Posted by kelly on 24/07/2008 12:24:15 | report abuse