sold out End Of The Road partners with Twickets to offer fan-to-fan ticket resale platform

aimed at scuppering the secondary market

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 30th Aug 2016

around the festival site

Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September 2016
Larmer Tree Gardens, Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 5PT, England MAP
£195 for the weekend - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 14,000
Last updated: Tue 30th Aug 2016

With tickets all gone for for this weekend's End Of The Road which happens at Larmer Tree Gardens,Tollard Royal, Salisbury, in Wiltshire from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September 2016 the Dorset event has partnered with fan-to-fan ticket resale platform Twickets to launch a ticket reissue and waiting list service.

The ticket reissue service is aimed at scuppering the secondary market. If someone can’t attend, Twickets will now render the original ticket invalid and issue a brand new one to the new buyer. The fan-to-fan ticket resale platform that operates with a face-value policy and has over 500,000 users. Twickets fully protects its users with a guarantee against fraud and overpricing and serves to steer fans away from the exploitative secondary ticketing platforms, and guarantees entry for the ticket holder.

This will be the first time in UK entertainment that a reseller has been authorised to delete and then reissue an original ticket. The re-sale service will provide buyers with a new, unique ticket while the seller’s original is cancelled. The initiative guarantees entry to the new ticket holder and makes the exchange process logistically easier for both buyer and seller, as Twickets emails the new ticket over directly. Twickets plans to roll this out to more events over the coming months.

Twickets has also introduced a queueing process as part of the service, which aims to make keeping an eye out for sold out events a whole lot easier. Once someone has registered their interest, they will be added to the 'Waiting List', with the system automatically reserving an available ticket for the front of the list. The buyer will be alerted and given first refusal for a period of time before it is assigned to the next in line.

Already an official reseller for the now sold out End of The Road Festival, Twickets has introduced reissues to ensure a secure and convenient way of buying and selling face value tickets in the days running up to the event. The Waiting List function will kick in once an event has sold out on primary platforms.

"With the launch of our new reissue and waiting list service in conjunction with End of The Road, we hope to provide a secure and simple way for festival goers to buy unwanted tickets," said Richard Davies, founder of Twickets. "We are working hard to integrate ethical ticket resale across the events ecosystem and it’s great to be working with one of the most exciting festivals in the country, who share our commitment to cracking down on ticket touts."

End of The Road added, "It’s really important to us that people don’t get ripped off by counterfeits and touts when trying to resell their ticket for any event. At End of The Road we can actually do something about this by working with Twickets - an effective and reliable ethical face-value-or-less platform that allows our loyal audience - many of whom buy tickets months in advance - the opportunity to resell their tickets in a levelled playing field. We sell out every year, so we know the market has long been rife with exploitation. We are proud to work with an organisation as committed as we are to the customer experience, striving for the highest levels of honesty and fairness."

So despite being sold out fans have the chance to see this weekend's line-up that includes Joanna Newsom (only UK festival date), Animal Collective, and Bat For Lashes will headline. Also confirmed are Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, Goat, Thee Oh Sees, Phosphorescent, M. Ward, Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Steve Mason, Field Music, Bill Ryder Jones, Eleanor Friedberger, Teenage Fanclub (only UK festival date), The Shins (only UK festival in 2016), Cat's Eyes, BC Camplight, The Blind Shake, Lucy Dacus, Futur Primitif, Feels, Julia Jacklin, LionLimb, Pinegrove, Fews, Baywaves, The Leaf Library, Local Natives, Savages, Broken Social Scene, Thurston Moore Band, Scritti Politti, Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop, JD McPherson, Omar Souleyman, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Kelley Stoltz, Kevin Morby, Anna Meredith, Jenny Hval, Imarhan, Frankie Cosmos, Whitney, Anderson East, Karl Blau, Margo Price, Seratones, Marc Riley, Pacosan, Arrows Of Love, Jonathan Toubin, Laura Gibson, Methyl Ethel, Slow Down, Molasses, Younghusband, Oscar, The Garden, Flamingods, Rhain, Throws, Tigercats, Chris Cohen, BE, Blue House, Dr. Dog, U.S. Girls, Money, Shura, Dilly Dally, Sunflower Bean, The Big Moon, Meilyr Jones, Mothers, Amber Arcades, Kath Bloom, Basia Bulat, Dawn Landes, Shopping, Weaves, James Canty, Martha, Holly Macve, Bas Jan Ader, EERA, Hard Skin, Martha Ffion, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, and Lail Arad.

For the line-up details and stage splits as available see the End Of The Road line-up page.

Tickets were priced at £195 including camping. Youth (ages 13-17 years who must be accompanied by an adult) tickets are priced at £150, tickets for children aged 6-12 years (must be accompanied by an adult) are priced at £75, and a ticket for children aged 3-5 years in priced at £45, with free entry for a child aged 2 years, and under, they still need tickets can be purchased in advance. Tickets for a campervan/caravan pass are priced at £80, and car parking is priced at £6.

To see the Twickets offers click here.

End Of The Road will be allowing early entry to the festival this Thursday, 1st September, when camping and some parts of the festival site will be on Thursday afternoon. Festival goers can arrive, set up camp, spend the evening finding their way around and be ready to hit the festival when the entertainment starts on Friday. 




Latest Updates

End of the Road Festival 2024
festival details
last updated: Wed 7th Feb 2024
End Of The Road Festival 2023
photo galleries
last updated: Wed 13th Sep 2023
End of the Road Festival 2023
festival details
last updated: Tue 13th Jun 2023