Glastonbury 2022

Get a group of 6 together and try in all the sales and you might be surprised.

Big crew trying for tickets is not a guarantee of success but easily the best way to go about it. We got nothing for 2019. We were all sorted for 2020. Only had one drop out in the 2 years since which is pretty good going. Mostly newbies so I am looking forward to seeing their reactions.

Anyone get the tickets yet (from those that had See change to delivery?).

At the risk of starting an argument, that recent lack of tickets could be some slight bit of karma. Even when I had almost no cash at my first Glasto in 1986, and got offered a wrist band thrown over a hedge, I still paid the £17 entry. I had other chances in 1989 and 1999 but paid in. Options via security guards taking bribes in later years but I either had a ticket or didn't go.

I'm not holier than thou (hey, hop over the fence at Coachella or Primavera please) but Glasto has always been a not-for-profit festival that used to give all monies to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament so I didn't want to cheat them of the cash. Later on it was Water Aid/Oxfam/Greenpeace so I'dd not achieve anything by effectively stealing cash from those lobbying charities. This ain't some monstrous corporate promoter running a festival. It's a farming family with a lot of decent people working for nothing or very little. They've turned down huge broadcasting offers from Sky and others so they can keep it for public broadcast on the BBC. They've refused loads of corporate advertising and don't have a beer sponsor, never had.

Great people, glad they're still going against the odds and they deserve every last bit of cash we give them for putting on the greatest show on earth. Ethics matter.

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It's a marathon, it's always best to not go too hard on Wednesday. Save it for the weekend.

Last time I went before the wall went up was 1999. That was dangerous, got into a near crush on a bottleneck crossing the small bridge between the Pyramid and Other. My girlfriend at the time was terrified, me not so happy either. A couple of people fall and you'll have multiple deaths in a stampede. Entirely down to having circa 220k people on a setup designed for 100k. Some bad vibes too with people getting narked by the overcrowding. Ironically some of that by those who'd scaled the fence. And much theft. More or less wiped out since.

Because of the gatecrashers in 1999 and 2000 the festival was almost shut down. That freeloading would have deprived many festival goers of entertainment and charities of income. Not cool in my eyes.

Most of the 80s and 90s fests also didn't sell out, even some in the 2000s so generally people entering without paying were directly taking cash from charities who needed it.

And I agree re luck of the draw. 2022 my first success for eight years and am content if I don't get tickets for another 4/5 years. I wish there was some system where those going in 2022 were invalidated for 2023 to give a different 140k people a chance of attending next year.

See you at the box office queue!

I experienced a similar crush in 1993 when going to see The Orb on the NME Stage. My feet were briefly lifted off the ground after we passed through one of the (much narrower back then) bridges. Unpleasant alright. But yeah by 2000 even i thought it had gotten out of control and things had to change.

I'm pretty sure all the '90s festivals (except 1990) were sell outs. Some quicker than others but you certainly couldn't buy a ticket at the gate. Different times, and i must admit that in the '00s, despite it still being an amazing festival, i did miss the wildness of the previous decade.

Glastonbury ruined Feile for me though as i saw what a festival should be! It wasn't until EP that we got anything remotely similar on this island.

I didn’t because I don’t mind collecting them at the gate and I don’t trust seetickets anyway. I can do without wondering whether or not they’ll arrive on time.

Collecting them at the gate means you have to trust See Tickets regardless. I'd prefer them delivered and if they don't arrive, worst case scenario, I'll get them at the gate.

As long as they aren’t still on the way to your postal address when you have to leave for the festival. This happens to people on efestivals who come from the states or further abroad and leave a week or more before gates open. You should be ok coming from Ireland but it can still take a week or more to post stuff between the UK and Ireland now. With just over 2 weeks to go I’d want my tickets to be arriving this week really.

Are you in the UK or one of the heads in Ireland that got Seetickets to update to delivery?

Friends (based in Ireland) who had their tickets changed to delivery reached out to See asking what is going on and got asked if they wanted to switch back to collection. They'll likely take it as they need to head out on the Monday before the festival so the last post is about 10 days away (9 if An Post don't deliver Saturday). I've a feeling I'll be reaching out to See to do the same as there is no movement on my ticket. Has ANYONE in Ireland got a ticket posted yet?