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Yes they thought he had pancreatic cancer, but it was in fact Neuroendocrine tumours which are much slower to develop. An operation helped give him some more years, but of course it gets you in the end 😢

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63728503

A really brave guy, battling with cancer and then coming back to playing live - saw him a few months ago, as well as at the farm. A true original. Very sad news.

Course residents of Pilton get guaranteed free tickets every year, which is the best of all worlds! But you might have a job persuading GF that 400 people live in the one tiny cottage..... (but if you do, let me see if I can scrape together a grand for you....)

I heard a very similar story, and the decisive factor was not the address of the payment card (I've often paid for other people's tickets with my card with no problem), but that he'd asked the tickets to be dispatched to somewhere entirely different to the registered address. So he was asked to provide utility bills at the address he was registered at (near the festival) to prove he lived there - which he couldn't because it belonged to his mum, whose name was on the bills. It was OK though, because like Beaver's story, this guy had actually bought the tickets in the General Sale as well, so the address mattered not diddly squat! So See are checking dispatch addresses vs. registered address, but not whether the tickets were even bought in the 'locals' sale! But it was a panicky moment for him, for sure....

Small World tent is excellent after the main stages finish! … oh and before that too!

Yes to NatBed! Playing Mighty Hoopla same month, so possible. Some excellent songs, and lovely person Oh let's have Samantha Mumba too, why not, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor back again....

I reckon, after this year's experience, that 'all tickets allocated' isn't the end. There may still be tickets that become un-allocated as payments fail, which I believe was still happening at 10:30 this time I now think you only know it's over when you get the 'Event not found' screen

Think you're right.... ticket prices very boring too.....

Well I'm not paying £200 per ticket to see him at the O2 - so my only hope is if he comes to the farm!!

Yes I got all excited about PG playing - but his show is bound to be fairly massive, so tricky to get to Pilton between Manchester and Dublin on the Friday / Sunday perhaps, but there's hope....

Yes it's like at any beer festival - they have ways of storing it and keeping it at the right temperature out in a field in almost any kind of weather

Yep exactly the same here - got in early doors with the direct link (others were maybe waiting for the ticket link page to refresh?), but then had to start again. Had another experience of confirming numbers and not getting through to the payment page, then another experience of paying with one-time code with NatWest but that timing out and back to the start Eventually got through at 10:27 and used Monzo to pay, and all went seamlessly (thank goodness!) Clearly the sale went on so long because many many payments were failing which put the tickets back into the pot time and time again It's not over when they tweet it is, or even when you get the page saying 'All tickets have now been allocated'. It's over when it comes up with 'Event not found'

Yep, agree with the sentiment on here - 2019 was great with that craft beer @marathonsteve posted above, and other bars having a great selection all over the site This year, greatly disappointing, with almost the same generic selection everywhere, including Cockmills in the Acoustic Tent field and the craft beer bar in Theatre, and Avalon, all selling pretty much the same poor selection As hinted here, it sniffs of some sort of clampdown by the dreadful corporates (Carlsberg?) - really hope that changes for next year (but tbh little expectation that it will). Will just have to work on my ability to carry stupendous quantities of decent ale in with my luggage.... where can I get a trolley..... 😄

At 9am you refresh the page, which makes the button active so that clicking it will take you to the booking/holding page Best of luck everyone!

You don't really need to stop the autorefresh by using a specific phrase - if the autorefresher gets you to the registrations page, then any further refreshes will still keep you on that page, so you're not in danger of losing it, it'll just stay lovely and refreshed. If you *really* want to stop it on that page, then something like "ADD UP TO 5 ADDITIONAL TICKETS" might be a good choice - it don't appear anywhere else.... You add that in Auto Refresh Plus for Chrome using the Page Monitor tab

Nah - you've got to get from glastonbury.seetickets.com to the holding page of doom ("You will be held at this page until the lifeforce seeps away from your soul.....") and *that's* the one you have to refresh..... but not more than 60 times in a minute

If one person gets through to at least the name/address confirmation page, then another person tries to enter any of the registrations of that first person, this second person will be blocked for 10 mins. The first person will be able to continue with no problems though. So if the second person was trying with any extra people who hadn't been sorted out by the first person, they're really missing out by losing 10 minutes of the ticket-buying process

Basically if it does nothing, it's not active - if it's active, it'll at least try to take you to another page, even if that results in the browser just showing activity (progress bar moving, refresh button spinning), or going to a blank page (in which case refresh, or go back and click again)

Try it out for yourself here and see.... https://glastonbury.seetickets.com/content/extras

There are Autorefresh plugins for most browsers - you install them from the browser's plugin 'marketplace'. You'd need a specific one for each browser type (Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc.) I haven't seen this personally, but the received wisdom (parsonjack, whom I trust completely!) is that if it autorefreshes on the actual booking page then it will simply refresh that actual page, so you don't lose it That said, some people are using an Autorefresh that looks for specified text appearing, or disappearing, so that it stops refreshing once that text appears, or goes, depending on how you set it up

That's good to hear - how many browsers do you have on the go?

Think it's around 20,000 coach, so that's about a ninth of the overall amount if we assume about 180,000 ticketed punters

Shh, don't interrupt the refreshing...... oh