TheDayman

If rain is predicted, pack your clothes in bin bags in your bag... nothing worse than wet clothes before the festival even starts!

Haha, more so a long list from over the years (between us all). No doubt we wont actually bring everything but handy to have a big list to reference against when we're doing the pre-festival pack

Here's my list... you might find a few things on it https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V88N14wUY2afPZ8ad24OMjrQ3GLnAqh53aGwWqGWDN8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Sorry, we might be arguing a similar point - I think the physical tickets are great but I'd be in favour of a more streamlined system as long as it didn't open the gates to touting. Yeah, maybe. I suppose the argument is that this year seems particularly tight. That said, this could very well just be a hangover from covid lockdown (and Brexit for internationals) given every other year has worked very well.

I don't think anything will completely stop it but it definitely greatly reduces. For one, it's usually just tickets here and there rather than a whole economy based off it (think viagogo, seatwave, etc.)

Absolutely wild behaviour! 😂

Yeah, this is my feeling too (which I didn't mind until I read that the box office wasn't going to be open until 8am on the Wednesday... queuing for hours once is hard enough as it is)

Well, as you know the concerns with the Irish tickets is documented fairly extensively here. Hopefully I'm coming back here to eat my words next week but 7 days really leaves no margin for error at all. They need to be sent within the next 24hours if they're to arrive by Wednesday. We've also been told that the box office won't open until 8am on Wednesday which means International tickets (and anyone else that has opted for box office) will need to double queue and most likely will face many, many hours waiting to get in. I can only imagine what that's going to feel like if the weather is extreme in either way.

If they want to keep it to physical tickets with a photo - which I think is fantastic as it stops touting - they need to invest in better infrastructure. This messing around with distribution last minute, with ticket printers potentially overloaded with the volume of festivals happening, is leading to added pressure and ultimately mistakes.

Given Melvin Benn is back involved, who runs Festival Republic, which is owned by Live Nation Events - who also own Ticketmaster - I wouldn't be surprised if they were on the horizon. That said, they've also had a mare with Download Festival this weekend so 🤷

Lol, "closer to the festival"... as if the 12 days to campervan access is ages away!

Because I'm really sad (or maybe just avoiding work) when I saw all the fuss around Download Festival tickets not arriving in time, I decided to do a little digging during the week on ticket printing... I work in events so had a fair idea that See Tickets wouldn't be printing the tickets themselves and a quick Google search brought up a company in Bristol that amongst many other things, advertises that they print tickets - and car parking passes - for Glastonbury, Leeds and Reading. Given the latter two are run by Festival Republic, as is Download, it's probably not far fetched to guess that Download passes were also printed here. Now, the reason I've highlighted car parking passes is because Download Festival's official social media accounts had to come out a few days back to inform Festival goers that car parking passes were delayed and for those that hadn't received they could show their email confirmation and ID instead. I'm wondering that, if its the same company fulfilling Glastonburys tickets, parking passes, etc., etc., maybe it's there where the initial pressure is building up. Either way, my biggest issue right now is the lack of information. I completely understand if companies are struggling with the return to normal life. Sure Dublin Airport had a complete meltdown only last week. If the festival would just be open and let us know what their plans are it would go a long way to allowing us plan accordingly too.

Wild stuff.

Interesting... any Irish here with a campervan ticket? They'll need theirs on Tuesday

Yep, that's why we got ours updated to delivery - no info on how we'd get in to the car park without our passes (or how to even get to the box office from the car parks which is normally at the coach drop off)

Yeah, we've 7 tickets across 4 addresses. 3 of the addresses (which are 6 tickets) are "Tickets will be sent be secure post. A signature may be required", while one is "Tickets are in stock and will be despatched shortly to the address provided". That single tickets has had that status for at least 3 weeks now though. I wonder if that adds any weight to the theory that they're holding back Irish tickets to eventually default to box office...

We're in the same boat as you, heading across by Ferry on Monday to Bristol via. Holyhead. If they even gave us some detail on the box office like confirming it will be open from Tuesday (which I'm guessing they might need for the campers), I'd happily do the same and drive up just to collect the tickets.

I'm conscious that we don't want to ruin the buzz for all the International Contingent on their way to the farm so I've started a new thread for Irish tickets given how tight it is now. It'll be handy to keep any extra information any of us might get that could otherwise get lost elsewhere✌️

I was giving until midday today until I pulled a separate thread together on this (also I don't want to kill the vibe for all those real International travellers over in the International Contingent who have already started/starting their journeys to the farm!). So I'm open to correction but it looks like no Irish (ROI) tickets have been sent so far and realistically, that needs to happen before COB tomorrow if they expect them to arrive to us a minimum of 7 days out from the festival. Hopefully by the end of the day we'll all have dispatch notices, the tickets arrive with no problems and this becomes a redundant thread. However if not, and given how template answer See Tickets are with their responses so far, I thought it might be a good idea to group together here. Strength in numbers and all that. It will also be a good place to post any information you might get from See Tickets, through direct contact or otherwise, which might get lost somewhere else. As I say, fingers crossed everything works out fine but if not, it's harder to ignore a group than individuals.

As I said, I was speaking in general terms. I don't disagree with anything you've said. As you'll see, my original comment was on a point which I felt needed more scrutiny, not on the validity of the strike itself.

My point was that if we're judging pay based on the potential of seeing something tragic, a paramedic should be paid far more. I agree with Unions and do support those fighting for better pay and conditions. I don't however believe we should blindly support "just because" and feel it's extremely important that we allow the opportunity to be critical when examining the rationale for which new conditions are being argued. *Edit: reading that again I just want clarify that I was talking in general terms when I mentioned blindly supporting. I'm not from the UK so I don't really have any knowledge of details of the strike so cant really have much of an opinion

Your man at the top is getting booted out on Sunday so... Also, Adam probably should have blurred out his name in the bottom pic.

I don't want to get into the debate on this but felt I needed to point out that a paramedics starting and average wage is lower than a train driver.

Someone suggested in another thread that maybe See Tickets have no intention of sending to Ireland and that they'll all default to box office in the coming days. I'm starting to think this might be the case given we're yet to hear of any ROI tickets being sent and given how much push back some people (including yourself?) got when they requested the change to delivery...

Maybe a little too good... 👀