Eavis you fool!

You would have thought that farmer Michael Eavis would be satisfied with the level of popularity that the Glastonbury Festival has generated over the years that he would want to make life as easy as possible for those who wish to purchase a ticket to go for the weekend. But No, that wouldn’t be fun now would it.

Instead, in a ridiculous bid to thwart the filth of the ticketing experience (touts), Eavis has come up with the idea of a passport style ticket with the holders face printed on it. This will ensure that the person who orders the ticket must be the person who goes to the festival as their face will be on the ticket. It will mean that no touts will be able to sell tickets, or anyone else for that fact.

This seems all well and good if you are one to adopt the moral high ground and are against touts, but the agro of actually managing to acquire a ticket is borderline piss take. You need to register your details online or at a Millets store and send the details off with a passport sized photograph before the end of February. Note: This doesn’t mean you get a ticket. You then must phone up one of the ticketing agency numbers on April 1st to then try and get your ticket. It has been made perfectly clear that you will not get a ticket if you haven’t registered your details, so don’t even try.

I simply can’t understand why Eavis is being so awkward about this. Every other festival makes it simple to buy tickets; you just phone up and order. Tickets for this years Download Festival and the Reading and Leeds Carling Weekend are already on sale and if you phoned up right now, you would be able to buy a ticket no problem. But not with Glastonbury. I have to mention that I have been to Glastonbury and it was an amazing experience and is no doubt the best festival I have been too. Though I don’t think this warrants the amount of security that is being placed on the tickets this year.

So many people will not get a ticket this year who buy off touts, which I don’t have a problem with. I really don’t see the reason why people feel they need to be eliminated. Tickets for big shows and gigs can be sold out within an hour and if you miss out then that’s it. But touts help give people an extra options if they don’t manage to get tickets for something they really want to see. Fair enough you may pay a little over face value but that’s not always a major problem.

Also, what if someone, or a group of people all have tickets and then cant make it. They will not be able to sell the tickets on to friends so then the tickets will just go to waste, which really does make this idea from Eavis a stupid one. He seems to have gotten the idea in his head that Glastonbury should be put on a pedestal and treated religiously.

News for you Mikey boy; your festival is the same as everyone else’s, so start believing it.