Half Glastonbury 2009 tickets sold
Half of the tickets for the Glastonbury 2009 music festival have been sold, eight months before the festival is even due to take place.
According to the BBC, tickets went on sale yesterday morning and more than half of the 137,500 places were snapped up.
Spokesman John Shearlaw said: “It’s brilliant that here we are in October talking about a festival that isn’t happening until next year.”
Glastonbury 2008 saw more than 130,000 revellers watch acts like rapper Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse and veteran songwriter Leonard Cohen.
Speaking about the headliners for next year, festival co-organiser Emily Eavis said: “It’s not Coldplay, it’s not U2 and it’s not the Rolling Stones”.
She added that the headliners should be announced: “pretty soon”.
Glastonbury 2009 will run for five days, from 24 to 28 June.
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Registration for Glastonbury Festival 2009 opens this weekend. For the first time you’ll be able to put down a £50 deposit for your ticket and pay the rest off next year.
Organiser Michael Eavis told Xfm they hope it’ll help it sell out this time. “Last time we were the last [festival] to sell,” he said. “ll the Vs, the Ts, the Readings went on before us and they stole some of our thunder, so I thought it was important that we stole some of theirs again.”
The bearded festival man claimed that the deposit idea was ideally suited to the current financial climate. “We decided to do this about three months ago, so the credit crisis wasn’t upon us at the time,” he explained, “But it will certainly fit that model won’t it?”
Eavis also dropped a tantalising hint about who may be on the bill in 2009. “There’s some talk of Kanye West playing The Other Stage, he’s sort of Jay-Z’s rival, or rather they come from that same stable, don’t they? I’d love him to do The Other Stage, but not the Pyramid.”
You can register and pay your deposit from 9am on Sunday, October 5. To register, you’ll need to upload a passport photo of yourself, along with your usual details at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk.
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