Glastonbury 2009 Ticket Prices To Increase In New Shake Up

You'll be able to get tickets early...

by Jason Gregory
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Glastonbury 2009 Ticket Prices To Increase In New Shake Up

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Ticket prices for next year's Glastonbury Festival are to rise as part of an extensive shake up to the ticketing system.

As yet, the new ticket price has not been made public - but the rise is needed to help cover budget costs, organisers have said.

The new ticketing system will allow people to reserve tickets six months ahead of normal for a £50 deposit.

They will then be asked to pay the full amount on April 1st, or incur a £10 charge if they choose not to proceed with their purchase.

Organisers hope that the new system will avoid the confusion and slow ticket sales that plagued this year's event.

"Everybody wants to come - everywhere I go people say 'oh we should've been there and we're so fed up about it' because it was so good," organiser Michael Eavis told the BBC.

Mr Eavis also revealed that the festival would probably go for a more traditional headliner in 2009 – despite the success of US rapper Jay-Z last month.

"We'll probably be going for the more traditional headliner next year because there are more of them around and after this year everyone wants to come onboard because it was such a good do. The thing is people are coming back,” he added.

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Errr..... wont this just make it even more complicated?
~ by The Yak 7/24/2008
- It was explained in just over four lines and is perfectly clear to me, how can yopu say that it is complicated? This year was my first Glasto... it was awesome. Why do people keep saying otherwise?! I will defo be trying to get tickets next year!
  ~ by Only18 7/24/2008
- I’ll explain how it used to work in 2 lines, shall I? Walk into shop. Buy ticket.
  ~ by The Yak 7/26/2008
nice one eavis why dont you go and book some crap acts now so everyone can get really excited about spending tons of money on what is becoming a mean fiddler piece of crap festival!
~ by glastonberry 7/24/2008
- Moan moan fucking moan... is this Tom cunt chops Kasabian?
  ~ by eavisinc 7/24/2008
best festival ever!
~ by chockablock 7/24/2008
the festival was amazing..even tho the line up wasnt as amaazing as it was in 07 it was still one heck of a festival!! and alsooo the entertainment made up for the shitty line ups YAAAAAAAAAAA GO GLASTO raising ticket prices is crazy
~ by yoshi 8/26/2008

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