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23 hours ago, Kaboom Boxer said:
Nice. I haven’t managed to get Heilung to work for me but loving Black Pumas.
Yes missed their first tour which sold out very fast, but very keen to catch up with the Black Pumas
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4 hours ago, Cherry Tree said:
How much are they charging for Chris Martin, I would go up to £20. I can’t justify anymore for something that would just sit at the back of a cupboard.
He'd pop out pretty sharpish if he heard Kylie or Stormzy start tuning up downstairs....
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20 hours ago, Beerqueen said:
I don't know if this is the right place to discuss who we'd like to see this year - I've lost track a bit.
I know he has been mentioned and can't remember if he's ruled out but I'm just watching random YouTube videos (home alone with a bottle of wine!) and Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush Don't Give Up has come on. Bloody wonderful. I know Kate won't ever appear but I'd definitely love Peter Gabriel to be there.
@Superscallyhe was the first one I went to see not knowing him particularly well but fell in love with. Age 14/15 at Hammy Pally. My first gig.
Would be fantastic, his live shows are incredible! Finished a tour a few months ago, so I’d say it’s not too likely, but I’d definitely be there if he plays!
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9 hours ago, Ommadawn said:
I think that has happened in the past. Register to a local business and then change the address to your own. I think that's now been tightened up.
They ask for proof now if you do things like that - recent utility / council tax / polling card sort of thing
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1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
What? Nick Cave's hair?
That's the mane thing
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Yes, if See just issued a statement saying that they're aware of the issue, and though they won't be taking action against those who used it this time, in future sales they will detect and void all sales that weren't on the official 'blessed' servers after they've gone through
They might well never actually do this, but the threat of it could be enough to put potential host-hackers off
(or they could just configure those extra servers to not process Glastonbury tickets and then at least this hack is rendered void)
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6 minutes ago, Chicken Bob said:
Who says there’s a refresh limit? Where’s that information come from ?
You can test it yourself here: https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/content/extras
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2 hours ago, dulcificum said:
Can you give more details on these? I thought there was hosts file ip address stuff in 2013, I can't see how a typo would help?
My understanding is that in 2013, there was a typo in the server addresses in the load-balancer, which meant that one of the attached servers was not in use (because its IP address had been typed in wrongly). So when the actual IP address of the second server was discovered, it could be attached to using the hosts file entry and easily bought from
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5 minutes ago, Sam Watson said:
Can someone explain this to me in Layman’s terms please.
Normally buying a Glasto ticket means waiting for a buying slot on one of a handful of dedicated computers, aka servers, that See make available for this task, and to access them you go through the normal https://glastonbury.seetickets link.
These servers, as we know, are heavily overloaded with handling these ticket transactions, so most of us are held at a waiting screen for our opportunity to transact with them.
But it appears that See also have some other ticket servers, either held in reserve in case one of the main ones fails, or indeed kept back from the Glasto ticket sale to service any other ticketing tasks for other events, as they wouldn't want to degrade the performance for these events just because the Glasto sale is on at the same time.
However, these other servers *can* also sell Glasto tickets, if asked nicely, as they are connected to the same back-end See tickets system.
So there is a hack you can do to your own computer's files to make it approach one of these ticking-over servers *as if it were* a dedicated Glasto ticket server, and it appears that under these conditions these spare servers will in fact then process the ticket application successfully. They are far less overwhelmed with requests for tickets, since they are not officially available to Glasto ticket buyers, so they are far easier to get an open ticket-buying slot on.
So this 'hosts file' hack directs your request for a Glasto ticket (deposit) to one of these servers instead - and it works!
(Not that I used it fwiw)
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6 minutes ago, Bolivia95 said:
I’ve seen a few people this year claiming a ‘back door’ link using an IP. Has this always been a thing? I’ve seen the posts from 2012 but not much mention of it since.
This comment is from 2018 which I think is referring to 2012.
Yes that was referring back to the 2013 'untargeted server' hosts file hack, and subsequent speculation about there being spare servers in case of any frontline servers falling over, which IIRC hadn't been discovered by that point
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2 minutes ago, M-T said:
I've seen chat indicating this may have always been a 'feature' - the question is will See address it due to the changes needed on their side.
5 IPs seem to have been involved, curious how were these isolated - anyone can share?I'm no expert at all, but could it be that the IP addresses of a handful of See ticket servers were noted during sales of tickets for other events, and today they were co-opted into buying Glasto tickets?
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32 minutes ago, donshakey said:
For Firefox what is the best auto-refresh extension?
Auto Refresh Page seems pretty good - but probably any with any decent reviews is fine
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6 minutes ago, parsonjack said:
No probs with deleting all cache and cookies ahead of the sale. You may just need to ok the prompt to accept cookies when you next first open the Seetickets page....and possibly the same on other websites you use. You might also get logged out of some sites, including this one, and just need to log back in again. All best done in advance of 0900 tomorrow obvs.
But presumably we only really *need* to clear the seetickets.com cookies & cache? Saves all the re-logging in, etc. for other sites?
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4 hours ago, Stave_1974 said:
Anyone used a Monza card for payments?
Any issues?
I did last year when the payment system was a bit f***ed up and Monzo when through swimmingly after my NatWest had screwed up
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2 hours ago, Penrhos said:
We had a few people trying from work and they had the "refreshing too fast" issue so I suspect you could have the same issue if 20+ people are all exiting via one external ip-address. Probably means you just have to hit F5 less often
Out of interest, how did you know that you had the "refreshing too fast" issue at work? I've never been able to tell whether the holding page I see is the normal one or the refreshing-too-fast one, so I'd be interested in any tips.....
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15 minutes ago, MrZigster said:
We're due a wet one. And Coldplay always bring the rain.
Even if not weather-wise....
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19 minutes ago, Helsbels said:
I really should know this by now after many years of ticket buying. But if I get a white screen, what do I do?
I *think* if you get a white screen, you've nothing to lose by closing the browser and starting again - paging Parson Jack.....
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3 hours ago, sarah98373 said:
Thanks both. Funnily enough I used the very same auto-refresh extension last year and got tickets, but I couldn’t remember if there was an option last time to stop it auto-refreshing and if they’d since taken it off or something. Just wanted to double check. 🙂
I think at least one of the auto-refreshers will stop refreshing if it simply detects that the url of the page has changed from the one it was started on, so this wouldn't need you to find a specific word to detect
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4 minutes ago, Suprefan said:
Cause they would get a headline slot. Glasto isnt offering that in the slightest along with money.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Glasto *did* offer a headline slot to a reformed Talking Heads - not a small event by any means
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Gladys Knight on her farewell tour next June - London on the Thursday, Swansea on the Saturday....
Surely she'll be stopping off midway on the farm on the Friday??
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On 9/14/2023 at 5:28 PM, Ayrshire Chris said:
Nick Caves version of cosmic dancer is excellent!
Ooh yes that sounds fantastic, will have to find this....
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On 8/16/2023 at 4:51 AM, foolee said:
Didn’t get an email. Do I need to be concerned and is there anything I need to update and by when? Thanks for anyone’s help!
If you registered any time from the start of 2020 onwards, then you don't need to do anything.
If your registration dates from before 2020, you need to just go into your details and confirm that you want to keep the registration (optionally updating your photo and/or personal details)
https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/registration/lookup
No great panic - you've got until Monday 2nd Oct to do it
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Yeah, time of day.... always (nearly always) start my Glastoday at West Holts with a pint of Brothers toffee-apple cider with the mates planning the day (that never works out like that), but Avalon is often a wonderful mid-afternoon marvel, especially when it has a decent heritage act; West Holts bar really came into its own this year as the de-facto meeting point, with some brilliant acts of its own after-hours; and have *really* loved some Pyramid headliners in last few years; but the real after-hours places for me (not really a SE corner dude) are Small World, Lizard (esp. when they're doing some world or afrobeat DJ-ing) and I have a very soft spot for early morning and late night Cabaret - so, dunno! We're a bit spoiled rly aren't we
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Glastocam!
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7 hours ago, kalifire said:Haven’t the fields usually had a trim by now? They haven’t been mowed in months, I don’t think.
Was on-site about 3 weeks ago, and the fields in front of el Pointio were getting a trim at the time. Maybe there's just one guy working their way around the site...... slowly....
Give me someone new to listen to
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The Last Dinner Party - stunning on Woodsies last year, and just gone stratospheric since then. Other Stage this year!