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He also travelled all the way to Dubai to play at Sandstorm Festival and U-turned at the last minute. I'm surprised people and organisers work with him as he wastes a huge amount of time/money. From a recent IG post, it sounds like the collab album will be delayed indefinitely until two notorious prisoners are released. I wouldn't be surprised if the album joins 5+ others that never came out, which is a shame as it sounds better than I expected.

To go one step further, the festival don’t care either surrounding a little blip like this - the festival sold out 9 months prior through whichever method. SEE provide the infrastructure and as you say it’s not GFLs problem as long as it’s fixed for next time.

Let’s hope she doesn’t have a bitch fit and ruin the entire thing or I doubt she’ll be back again!

Yeah, you'd be using a non-secure version of the site. These days most browsers insist on HTTPS but you can often manually bypass it.

All good points, especially regarding people who don't know each other trying for tickets. But from the view of GFL, they sell the festival out 8 months ahead of the event (excluding resale) so why make any changes? They have a social media swell of disgruntled buyers for a few days and it dies down again. Tickets are known to be hard to get and if anything I think this adds to their status, so arranging anything brand new would likely have bigger overheads when you take into account development costs etc.

For events of this magnitude, people will always find ways to beat the system. It's the same as anything that will outstrip demand, including sneakers etc. If people didn't modify their Hosts file or use internal links, they'll create Bots to buy tickets for them. People are always ahead of the curve and there's no way to make anything online completely fair or bulletproof. You can bet they'll attempt to patch and prevent it next year, but it can depend on their priorities. I remember buying 2 PS5s when they were particularly rare by modifying the site source code (which was a known method, the Mail were reporting on it) and none of us had our orders rescinded or banned. As long as the event sells out there isn't always a need to fret over it.

Yeah, we try to make sure if I do an overnight, she does the same number etc - my wife is the same and the spa day will be my expense, but rightfully so! Sod that, I’m done at two. We have twins both sides of the family so we’d probably end up with four! Eventually they’d take up most of my ticket buying slots!

The golden rule is no ‘celebrating’ 😉 this month for getting tickets for 2024 as you won’t be there in June!

That’s a fantastic attitude for your wife to have. I have year-old twins and I think it’s important to do your own thing occasionally for both Mum and Dad. Last year, being local I stayed Wed-Sun and popped home a few times (I was at Ashcombe Park so could leave and return whenever) but in2024 we’re moving closer to Worthy Farm (one town over from the local weekend tickets annoyingly!) so I’ll commute daily to sort the kids and have a decent bed/shower/food.

In for the 10th consecutive year. See you on the farm!

You can't, you'll need to sort your own travel home - but congratulations!

Been going for 9 years (hopefully 10) and the refresh limit has never made any difference - I had a device running at 0.5sec per refresh and it got us in last year on the general sale. I don't believe there is a decoy holding page, the page that appears outside of sale times is because the system thinks that there must be a queue when people test it - so it throws up the holding page as a response. That said, this is an entirely separate device on a different network in case there are consequences of the regular refresh - but never had an issue yet.

I mean it’s more the fact they moved it less than four hours before the sale - they didn’t give people time to react. They would’ve known for ages that this would be a problem which would make changing plans easier. It’s a poor show from such a well established festival, more on timing than anything.

Agree, but you could see this as an effort to resolve a mistake - which will shut people up somewhat.

Nah there's no way this is the case - GFL have always been extremely risk adverse to bad publicity, which the registration issue would give them. It's a very poor U-turn with less than 4 hours to go until the Coach sale.

Ah yes, I was thinking of LAN. Carry on!

My best guess would be MAC address as it’s entirely possible to see over IP. Just a note, I used a tool with over 60+ requests per minute last year and it worked like a charm. My view on the holding page when refreshing the site on non ticket days is this probably just triggers the holding page to display to facilitate perceived traffic.

Don't worry, had the same email and also wondered - going to bet it's just an auto mailer as I only did mine yesterday evening.

Plus all the money that they'll inevitably have put into designing that new system - makes no sense to backtrack now.

I can't think of a single reason why they wouldn't use it - seems like the new system to me, it seemed to work like clockwork and made the load far easier on their servers. Plus all the complaints from prior years of payments failing, pages timing out etc. Just seems extremely likely that they'll stay with this method. The festival is guaranteed to sell out and this method does it even faster. IMO, it wouldn't make any sense to revert to the old method again now.

I've now resigned to extremely unlikely to get a ticket, being the new method is the first people on the page are guaranteed a ticket, since it now sends a link to pay later. I could see the general sale being over in 10 minutes, perhaps 15 minutes for the coach one. The new method surely lowers chances massively. In previous years, I had got us in through persistence and picking up cancelled/failed transactions right at the end - but these don't exist in the sale anymore. Being local, I'm hoping the Sunday day ticket sale will be easier.

Yep, think i'm joining the club - symptoms came on yesterday, I don't drink so not a hangover or do any sort of narcotics. Not tested but feel similar to how I did in 2022 with Covid. Fun times!

Really? That’s all you took from that response? I think we’re in agreement she should never return then 😂

Nope, nowhere near a Glastonbury headliner and her attitude will just prevent her from coming back. She was acting like she’s so irreplaceable, she’s the only one who lost out (aside her fans) by dicking about with her hair and not listening to the organisers. The festival will continue to sell out year on year and have far better acts, she made no impact whatsoever and wasted a huge amount of time. The production of the stage was lovely, but the actual set was incredibly dull. Looked like it had been lifted and shifted from an arena tour (other artists are guilty of this as well) with no consideration for a festival audience. Contractually, she would’ve agreed to the set time and should’ve turned up to deliver her end - it’s a job at the end of the day and not some massive fanfare due to her fame. if it’s true that she was shouting and screaming at the stage staff after, this is disgusting behaviour that should be condemned - I don’t care who you are or how popular your music is. Good riddance, hope she never comes back to Worthy Farm. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

I can’t see it personally as it was a bonus track on Curtain Call, but he is also good friends with Elton