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Glastonbury 2004

Jack The Bodiless

10:58 / 02.04.04

Anyone managed to get tickets? Spooky and I have, after HOURS of playing the redial madman, and I understand that Ma'at and partner and a couple of other friends have also been successful - so we're going! Yay!

Any one else?

12:45 / 02.04.04

Never been to the festival, but I did go to Glastonbury a few weeks ago, and it was a lovely place (although a bit cold when I went). I'd definitely recommend that area of Somerset, so for anyone that doesn't manage to get tickets to the festival, go to Somerset some other time!

13:14 / 02.04.04

Well, I just happend to be sitting at work this morning, when an old mate phoned me up out of the blue and said did I want one of the two tickets he'd just managed to secure. Someone else had dropped out. Did I - chuffin 'eck, did I! Bit his hand off, so yeeeeesssssss!

GO GO BARB GLASTONBURY

21:10 / 02.04.04

I don't get it. Eavis was blaming the bigger-then-usual rush on the fact that Paul McCartney and Oasis had confirmed themselves before the tickets went on sale.

What the fuck is this, 1996: The Revenge? This paralell universe sucks.

foot long subbacultcha

09:55 / 04.04.04

Got my ticket!

But Pixies aren't playing

Getting tickets this year was a real arse. I know several people that lost a night's sleep and got nothing. Shame.

Jack The Bodiless

11:44 / 05.04.04

Jesus - Eavis doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, as usual. He creates the superfence, forcing anyone who wants to go to buy a ticket (or engage in ridiculous degrees of con artistry and risk missing the whole thing). He limits ticket buying to two per household, and refuses sale by credit card, to try and stop the touts. He then wonders why everyone and his monkey logged onto the website/called the order line the second the tickets went on sale. 200 people trying to take 300,000 orders? Pathetic old man...

The line-up's not confirmed, is it? So maybe the Pixies might still play... maybe? Pleasegodplease...

Illmatic, scoobyjah - magic, will hopefully get together with you then...

12:01 / 05.04.04

I wanna go! But I have to get a ticket first I guess...

20:04 / 05.04.04

If you can be bothered to actually visit Glastonbury Tourist Information office you can still get tickets from the very nice lady who works there. But there's no point phoning up because she takes the phone off the hook due to the volume of calls.

Oh and you might want to say you live in Somerset.

06:16 / 06.04.04

Hmmm, You do realise that the Superfence was demanded by the Emergency Services and the Local Council? The big nasty changes to the festival has come due to having to go into business with The Mean Fiddler, just so the festival can continue.

There is no other festival in the UK that matches Glastonbury for punter draw and sheer scale. What the hell are you supposed to do with 100,000 people in a field anyway? It just got too big for itself, and the only executable way of fixing things (in the eyes of the Powers that Be) was to make it more commercial and thus more responsible for things like Security in the surrounding villages and making sure the kids can get to school. And that costs money.

The alternative, of course, was no Glastonbury at all.

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The ticket thing though, I have no idea what he was thinking. Doh!

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foot long subbacultcha

07:47 / 06.04.04

The super fence is quite scary, but I agree with Angel on its necessity. I just can't see a better alternative and still have Glasto survive. It IS still possible to get in, though, if you pull a MacGuyver. I met quite a few people last year who brought scaling equipment with them. No kidding.

The handling of the tickets was a joke. I admire the measures to stop touts, but the infrastructure they had to deal with the demand was pitiful. I've heard that the phone lines were running over Voice Over IP, and a few people were using scripts to notify them when they'd get through. Don't know if this is true, though. The ridiculous number of hits on the aloud site shows that similar attempts were being made to have a more "convenient" experience online. Apparently wayahead runs on a couple of IIS boxes. Ugh.

As to my sorrow over the whole Pixies thing, I'm holding onto some hope, but the main headliners and some other acts have been confirmed, and still no mention. Also, if you examine the tour listings for the band, no mention of Glasto.

I should point out, however, that it's not really the line up that makes the festival special. That's what I reckon, anyway.

Jack, Illmatic, would love to meet you guys and anyone else who makes it there. We must definitely arrange this. Drop a private message some time.

Jack The Bodiless

10:31 / 06.04.04

Definitely.

For the record, I wasn't dissing the superfence - increased security is a definite plus when you're looking at in-festival crime being down 75%. I just think, like you guys, that the existence of the superfence and the ramifications thereof should have been part of the organisers' thinking when setting up the ticket-buying infrastructure. It could have been a lot less painful than this. I don't mind queuing for a couple of hours to get red hot tickets, but getting an engaged tone for fourteen hours and losing a hell of a lot of sleep, just to get lucky - that's stupid. Half my mates still managed to get tickets through contacts in the industry, anyway.

foot long subbacultcha

12:30 / 06.04.04

Blame the tools

The interesting part is the the explanation of what happened to duplicate tickets:

Glastonbury organisers said that duplicate orders have been cancelled and returned to the system. All these tickets have been sold. "Any further returned tickets and duplicate orders will be absorbed by the needs of traders, staff, and locals," festival organisers said.

Goodness Gracious Meme

19:28 / 07.04.04

Cherry Bomb, if you still want to go, the only way yr likely to get in is to work for someone trading at Glasto.

Which ain't a bad way to do it. In return for working a few shifts, you get free entry, and access to traders camping/facilities-loos etc. which, as they're being used by a fraction of the people the 'public' facilities are so are much less ick. I worked for an organic cafe so also therefore got free decent food.

Either that, or get yrself a rockstar boyfriend

15:14 / 12.04.04

I have a spare ticket. PM me...Can change the details on it too...

17:10 / 12.04.04

[Gathering mods don’t get proper mod hats, instead we wear a flower in our hair. So, Mod Flower:]

It’s probably half-worth noting at this point that Xdfddgd is a brand new poster with a total of 3 posts to hir name. Take that with as much salt as you want but all ‘Lithers might want to think twice before parting with cash or providing personal details.

Xdfddgd: theres a page here with suggestions on how to go about offering stuff on Barbelith, and more general tips on posting etiquette. Not to be snippy, but any chance of you reading it at some point?

Jack The Bodiless

21:29 / 16.06.04

Soooo. Next week, then! Anyone else apart from Ill and scoobs coming?

foot long subbacultcha

11:04 / 17.06.04

Jack - you've got my number so we should be ok for meeting. Illmatic - drop us a message or email so we can swap contact info.

Wow, holiday time is almost here.

Jack The Bodiless

11:33 / 21.06.04

OK, you should both have my number now - anyone else attending?

12:29 / 22.06.04

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited!!

w00t!!!

14:57 / 23.06.04

just heard eavis on the radio - he's dug the wilhelm reich orgone cloudbuster out of the shed in a bid to stop the rain..

lol

Jack The Bodiless

17:45 / 29.06.04

gak. Had fantastic time - however, did not get to do anything like as much as I wanted, due largely to being rather drunk a hell of a lot of the time. Ill, sorry I never got to actually find you again, man - had this whole drunken cat-herding thing going on, and my two cats onj Sunday evening got stuck in the casino and didn't want to leave...

foot long subbacultcha

18:46 / 29.06.04

I didn't get a chance to do much of my grand plan either. There was too much FUN to distract everyone. I didn't get a chance to meet anyone I wanted to at the festival, mainly due to bloody phone network problems. If i didn't have a campsite to go back to I'd have probably spent the entirety of the festival on my own meeting strange and new people (which is a good way to spend it, to be fair)