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Glastonbury out in front on touts
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Fri 21st Jul 06



Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival 2007

Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis has told BBC's 6 Music that the Festival will make it even harder for tickets to be re-sold next year.

He said "We seem to be ahead of the field on it which is rather weird - me being a rather humble dairy farmer from Somerset! But it really really bothers me when people buy a Glastonbury ticket for 120 quid, and sell it for 600. A lot of other promoters don't seem to mind what happens to the tickets afterwards, but it does really bother me."

Glastonbury has set a high standard on measures that can be taken to combat the reselling of tickets, and although other promoters have often moaned about touts, their stated unhappiness about the problem hasn't led them to follow suit.


Michael Eavis
Michael Eavis
Eavis also told 6 Music that he thinks other events sold out so quickly this year because there was no Glastonbury. Next year he says the others will have to raise their game. "We've got the headliners that we were really looking for, the Saturday's still got a choice of two or three at the moment, but I've got Friday and Sunday. And of course we've got all the headliners on the other stages, and that's a lot easier for us, isn't it?"

eFestivals thinks that those two firm headliners are likely to be The Who on the Friday, and Kylie on the Sunday.

published: 06:35 (GMT)




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