- by Jason Gregory
- Thursday, July 24, 2008
- Photo by: WENN
Ticket prices for next year's Glastonbury Festival are to rise as part of an extensive shake up to the ticketing system. CLICK HERE to see our Best Bits from Glastonbury 2008 now - and the following links for day by day photo round-ups. Glastonbury in photos: Day One - CLICK HERE
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?
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- 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!
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- best festival ever!
- 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
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