dirtysteve

Actually, there is one tweak I would make that might increase fairness; reduce the maximum number of tickets per transaction to 4. At the moment, with 6 being allowed, that's potentially only 21600 or so transactions (130K tickets / 6). Changing to 4 would increase that to 32500 or so potential transactions, giving more opportunity for people to get into a booking form and snag tickets. I don't think it'd increase the number of people trying much as I'd expect most people who want a ticket are trying and if they get through will buy for their group.

There is no fairer way to do the ticket sale than the way it's currently done. Changing to any other system (especially a quasi-ballot/lottery) would be a horrible mistake imo. They solved the issue of ticket touting with pictures and names on tickets, so at least we can be sure that we're competing against real people who want to go rather than capitalist vultures who want to make a fortune out of our desperation.

Awesome, thanks both. 🙂

Anybody ever taken a kid (under 13, so no festival ticket) on the coach? I'm going to have a punt tonight, I know it's very unlikely that I'll bag a ticket and I don't really want to get the coach, but I'll be wanting to take my littl'un with me if I do get a ticket. I think I read on Glastonbury site a while ago that extra coach seats could be bought for kids, is that done at same time as booking???

The first year I took my eldest, when he was 4, he was so horrified by using the long drops on the Wednesday that he didn't then have another crap until we stopped in Fleet services on the way home on Sunday evening.... lol

I'm not yet convinced about this tbh. It is definitely always been much more luck than judgement (although preparedness certainly helps to increase your luck), but the last ticket day (and the few before perhaps?) there were people taking advantage of See Tickets' booking system arrangement; the hosts file/IP trick. Even a small amount of people using this to hog the booking screen and rinse out dozens of orders each would be enough to make it much more difficult for normal folk to get a look in. I do wonder if that trick has now been totally disabled/made redundant? We'll see tonight, perhaps...

You know, I've often walked past these big piles of free wood days into the festival and thought that it was a miracle that some cheeky little scamp with a head full of persians hadn't simply set fire to it all for a laugh and a big impromptu bonfire on the pathway...

The Vodafone app competition might be a one and done entry, I've just checked and it hasn't refreshed to allow me to enter again. A lot of their reward competitions you can enter every day that the thing is running for, isn't that how they did the Glastonbury one last year?

Vodafone competition is live on the app, 100 pairs of tickets in the hat, tap the reward to enter. I didn't win 😞. No mention at a glance whether it's a one off or a daily comp. Good luck all!

I vaguely remember a guy crowd surfing at Brian Wilson in 2005 on an actual surf board...

Other than it being absolute murder getting onto the site on the Wednesday morning (9 hours in a traffic jam I think it was!!!) and James opening the Other Stage being delayed due to conditions, I don't remember anything else about the weather in 2016. So, on that basis, I'm concluding it wasn't that bad... 😛 I do have a jam jar filled with mud from 2016 that I scraped off my kid's buggy for a memento when we got home, though.

Fair enough! It definitely rained as we were coming in, and I have always remembered it as being more or less unrelenting from then on, but maybe the first day or so was merely damp and then the rest of the festival was horrific and that has curdled in my memory. Like I said in my post upthread, I was plenty full of drugs that year... Either way, 2007 was absolutely bloody horrible.

Nah, we came on the Wednesday, coach got to the site by around 11am and it was pissing it hard, I vividly remember me and my girlfriend looking out of the coach window as the heavens opened and talking about how we hoped it would blow over quickly. It was definitely the Wednesday, I have only ever gone to the festival on the Wednesday. And I'm not confusing it with another year as 2007 was the only year I've taken a coach.

Yeah, those were great times before that loophole got closed. First time I did mushrooms was a box bought from a head shop stall at Download 2003. I sat on the grass in the sun and watched Iggy Pop instigate a stage invasion, I wasn't ever sure if it had really happened or not until he did the same thing at Glastonbury a few years later. Are you sure? The way I remember it is it started raining as our coach entered Somerset and was pissing it down by the time we got to the site, and then didn't really stop raining right through to the Monday morning.

Christ, it was horrible. The first couple of days weren't too bad an experience, I was full of enough drugs that I didn't much care about the conditions, which were objectively horrific but I was still having lots of fun. By the Saturday afternoon, though, it started to feel like it might never be dry and warm again. The weekend dragged on forever, brief bursts of fun followed by hours of slipping and sliding through ankle-deep liquid mud. Always cold. Every scrap of clothing I owned soaked through. Legs rubbed raw by wellies. Monday morning waiting in the driving rain in the mud-logged coach field for an hours-delayed ride home was a hateful experience, especially as I had ill-advisedly finished off my supply of mushrooms while packing up in the forlorn hope a little trip might cheer me up. As I finally crammed myself into a coach seat, drenched, stone cold, and absolutely stinking, I told myself "Never again, never again will I go to Glastonbury Festival". I've been every year since, obvs... 🙂