Glastonbury 2008 Has Slowest Ticket Sales in Years
7 April 2008
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The Glastonbury Festival 2008 tickets had its slowest sales volume in many years; the organizers blamed previous year’s mud.
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury Festival founder, said yesterday that by the evening they’ve sold around 100,000 tickets, despite selling out within hours in previous years.
Many people are saying that this year’s line-up is also to blame for the slow volume of ticket sales. Jay-Z is headlining the Somerset event which hasn’t been widely welcome.
Mr Eavis said:
It’s a nice little sale for a Sunday morning. And that’s without them even knowing who’s playing - we haven’t announced our line-up yet. In previous years all tickets were sold out within a couple of hours, but I think three years of mud may have taken their toll, but even so, 100,000 isn’t bad.
Last year, 177,000 people attended the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and more than 700 acts played.
The festival has been criticised in recent years for becoming more commercialised and changing the target audience, brought on by new strict ticketing measures. Glastonbury is also facing growing competition from smaller festivals, such as the Connect Festival, at Inveraray Castle, launched last year.
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I think its more to do with the headline than the mud this year to be honest.
I also believe that is to do with headline Durkin. However just today the organisers decided to re-open ticket offices, and once again blamed it on the weather.
The Glastonbury crowd wants indie and rock music nothing else!