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This isn't true - at all! She has announced a lead single called Houdini, in the promo for which she has long dark hair, and no info on the album yet. Is this what happens when somebody asks ChatGPT to generate an example campaign for Dua Lipa's next album?!

When you compare this to similar entertainment, it isn't THAT out of line. For example: Arsenal vs Tottenham this Sunday - the cheapest ticket in the stadium is £68, up to around £130 general admission, at least double that for Club Level, and more for executive boxes. And that's a form of entertainment where ticket income pales into insignificance compared to the billions of pounds of TV revenue. Musicals in London - for example The Lion King. Cheapest "floor" seat is £90, then £110, £150 and £200. This is for something that is EXACTLY the same for each of the 8 times a week it runs. (You can get tickets for as little as £35 upstairs and at the back). So £90-£200 for a flagship concert by one of the world's biggest artists, doesn't seem out of synch with all of this. I mean, I would rather it wasn't all that expensive - and this is a million miles away from paying £8 for a 3-band bill in a grassroots venue - but then nobody is making money and the whole ecosystem is financially unviable for the latter.

My 14yr old dauguter got a code for the general sale - no ticket buying history, just registered with an email. I registered for Amex presale, and got waitlisted, despite: Having bought something (with the same email address) from Olivia Rodrigo's online store within the last 2 months. Having an extensive Ticketmaster order history for similar artists (on an account with the same email). Having an Amex Platinum card So I think at this point, I'm assuming they don't do any of the Verified Fan stuff that they (claim to) do in the US - and that it's just complete luck of the draw... Which leads to the inevitable conclusion that the whole pre-registration thing is mostly about managing the impact of high demand on Ticketmaster's servers (by making it harder for bots etc), and not really about getting tickets into the hands of fans.

O-Rod in to 6/1 with Sky Bet now. Looking at that market, there are some insane(ly stingy) prices there. Dave is ODDS ON to headline the Pyramid (along with Dua Lipa and Coldplay) - either they know something, or there's been a flood of money on him, or that's just really really tight. Also a lot of stupid stuff like Spice Girls at 9/2, Oasis at 8/1 - neither are likely now, are they?!

Thinking about Glastonbury, and looking at her European dates - this has to be the first act that’s a very firm possibility for a big slot, surely? I’d say Pyramid Sub is pretty nailed on from here. L

Wasn't in £335 last year? So 10% on top of that would mean in the region of £370.

Really does make you wonder why Madrid demand is so low. There are 2 nights in Lisbon even! And it isn’t like she’s also doing Barcelona, to split demand in Spain. It must be demand driven - so is Spain alone in just not really finding her a big deal?

I think today has managed to be the only day of my life so far, where I feel a TINY bit sorry for Ticketmaster - for the flak they seem to be getting over unavailablity of 'normal' tickets and prevalence of VIP tickets instead. We seem to have a situation where anybody in the UK could have signed up last October, completely free of charge, for a presale which seems to have delivered close to a 100% chance of being able to get tickets at face value. Then in the general sale, it sounds like 95% of those who registered were waitlisted. Of the 5% who are getting through, most are finding that normal tickets are sold out, and only £600 VIP tickets are left. And they seem to be blaming Ticketmaster for this. The idea that Taylor Swift - the artist with probably the most clout, and most control over pretty much every aspect of everything she does - isn't (a) aware of these VIP tickets, (b) wouldn't have blessed them, (c) will be collecting the revenue from them, and (d) is most likely the architect - just isn't a credible position. If you think £600 VIP tickets are a ripoff (and they are - essentially just normal tickets being sold for £500, with a £100 merch box thrown in) - it's important to be clear that Taylor Swift is 90% the one ripping you off here. Ticketmaster are just the facilitator - and it seems, the provider of a level of deniability...

I just went back and checked my email - I registered on the day it was all announced - but never received a confirmation email (I did get a confirmation screen). I also didn't get an email last week, about the change of schedule. None of this really bothers me, because I also then got (and got tickets via) Midnights presale. But it does make me wonder whether a pile of registrations from announcement day have disappeared into the ether.

It does feel like the general sale might be a bit like the presale - in that the number of codes being given out is ROUGHLY in proportion to the number of tickets available. So I think if you have a code, you have a decent chance of getting tickets - especially for the dates that are later to go on sale, as people burn their codes ASAP. Which would also explain the seemingly very high % of people being waitlisted rather than getting a code.

You've definitely been unlucky there. I've logged into 5 of the 6 London sales, and by Tuesday was being offered lower bowl and level 2 seats. It was defintely getting quicker and easier as the sales windows went on - by this morning I was in within 5 minutes, was offered really good lower tier seats, but picked up front pit standing instead.

Errr yes, there are issues using AXS on an iPhone in particular. Refresh too many times, and you get banned from the site for an hour. There is a setting you can switch to avoid this (and videos showing how to do it).

Isn't the expectation that: (a) because songs that are in the setlist get streamed a lot, and until today she didn't get paid when Speak Now was streamed, but now she will - and (b) because she's now going to be promoting Speak Now to coincide with the release... That lots more of these songs are going to start appearing in the setlist? I assume we'll find out in Kansas City tonight...

I think we're pretty much nailed on to get at least 2 more Wembley nights, after the end of what's currently been announced. LA went up to 5 nights at the end of the US run, then randomly announced a 6th night last week (for a show in 5 weeks from now). Could easily see the same for the Wembley August run.

I am on O2, which was useless both last year and this year. So I converted my normal SIM to an eSIM, and got an additional Vodafone pay as you go SIM for the festival. Used Vodafone for mobile data, which covers WhatsApp and all the socials etc. In the middle of the festival site, I had pretty much uninterrupted coverage. Was a bit patchy in Sticklinch during the mornings (when everybody was there) - but I was on babysiting duty on Friday night, and watched the entire Arctic Monkeys set on iPlayer from the campsite, on uninterrupted 4G. O2 contract is up for renewal at the end of the year - don't get much value from O2 priority (which was the reason for joining them in the first place), so think I will defect...

There was a great book published last year called "Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars", by Nick Duerden. He tracks down and talks to all manner of people who have ridden the rollercoaster to the top - and then back down again (and some back up again). Lots of musicians' stories feature in it - would thoroughly recommend it.

Absolutely nothing to stop her flying over for a quick 3am Shangri-La set, or 11am Pyramid opener? 🤣

Suede dates at Brixton, scheduled for December (and already pushed back once) have just been cancelled. 3 smaller replacement dates at Brixton Electric, so it's not a band-related issue that's forced the cancellation. Not loking good for reopening any time soon...

Not sure I agree with this - he was due to play second last at Reading. I know it's a separate stage, but it isn't as big as the stage that The Killers are due to play immediately afterwards. Plus the fact that they have 6 headliners for 3 days. On this year's lineup, Sam Fender, The Killers and Billie Eilish are Pyramid headliner equivalents. Foals, Capaldi and Imagine Dragons are a clear step down - like Pyramid sub or Other headline-level.

On whether Dua Lipa is big enough to headline the Pyramid. There are about 400 songs that have a billion or more Spotify plays (essentially THE benchmark for a huge hit in the Spotify era). Dua Lipa has 7 of these. She is a globally massive superstar, with 6-10 of the biggest songs of the last decade, has played Glastonbury before, and was booked to headline the Other Stage in 2020, before her last (incredibly successful) album. Can we please put to bed any question of whether she is big enough or not. She undoubtedly is, and it's only a question of her tour schedule aligning as to exactly when she'll get the gig.

There was a bar called The Taphouse, on the walk between West Holts and Leftfield, which had an indie diso most nights. Also a bar next to BBC Introducing, which did similar on at least one night (and last year as well). So there are a couple - but I agree, limited compared to the places that cater for all genres of dance music.

Did Sticklinch both last year and this year - with kids aged 14 and 9. For me, it removes probably the 3 things I like least about the Glastonbury experience: 1. Having to lug all your stuff for 40mins before even getting to the gate, then for however long afterwards - and back again. At Sticklinch you park in the next field, so its 5-10 mins max from car to tent. 2. Having to do all of that in a massive bunfight at the crack of dawn on Wednesday (both from a traffic and queue-to-get-in perspective), if you want a decent spot. We left home at lunchtime on Wednesday knowing that a spot was waiting for us, and breezed in a few hours later with no queues at all. 3. Doing all of the above, then waking up on Friday morning to find somebody has arrived in the night and pitched their tent right outside your front door. Tents are a decent size (our 4-person bell tent could fit 4 inflatable mattresses in one half of the tent, leaving the other half free for stuff and whatever else). And if you do the full 5 nights, that cost about £180/night - or £45 per person per night. As others have said, the queues for toilets and showers (and breakfast) were annoying, and didn't seem like a "premium" experience from the queue perspective at least. I think its also quite a bit more basic than glamping at other festivals. I'm not sure I'm going back to regular camping, having done this - despite the pitfalls.

I had a similar feeling to the OP - saw 1 act on Thursday, 6 on Friday, 7 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. But the list of people I wanted-to-but-didn't see is far longer than that. I think (other than a stacked lineup) a lot of this is because the place is just so big - with (often) significant gaps between artists on the same stage, a trek between stages, and battling crowds along the way. For example on Friday I saw Pale Waves at Woodsies - this finished at 5:30pm. We then embarked on the logistics of getting a group into the Pyramid field for Foo Fighters, who arrived 45mins later and played for an hour. Then we were in the tsunami of people heading for Fred Again, who started at 8:30pm. So essentially between 5:30 and 8:30 - 3 hours of "prime time" - I saw one act. Could probably have done better than this - but then equally, on Saturday you could have been in the Pyramid field for five hours from 7pm onwards and only seen 2 acts.

Just done our third with the kids - who are now 14 and 9. First one was in 2019, with 10 and 5-yr-olds. As others have said, it's a different experience to being in an adult-only group - in 2019 I think I only saw about half a dozen bands all weekend. But a fantastic, albeit different, experience - and the kids love it. Kidzfield is something I'd never experienced (having been half a dozen times) until 2019 - and the set of attractions there is just incredible. A shame that some say "kids should be banned" - the adult, late-night side of Glastonbury is growing fast - but we should remember that the Kidzfield was a core part of the festival before Shangri-La and Block 9 even existed. I think our main issue now is that any other festival will seem small and rubbish by comparison. Going to have to introduce my 14yr old to the delights of Reading at some point, and it will seem....different.

She is already playing Dublin on Friday and Saturday. In many cities when we get to presale, she has had a habit of adding a Sunday date, and may yet do this for Dublin. Even if not, the logistics of spending a month in the UK, then heading to Ireland, then backtracking to Glastonbury, do not look great. There is no way she can get the "Eras Tour" stage setup from Ireland to Glastonbury in what would effectively be less than 12 hours between walking off stage in Dublin on Saturday, and acts starting on the Pyramid on Sunday. - both time and space would completely prevent this. So she would be making a big backtrack, would have to rejig her production and (most likely) setlist, play a show that isn't like any other on the Eras Tour - and she may well announce another Dublin date which rules her out anyway! Obviously the bookies are keen to take money from whoever wants to bet on this - but all feels very unlikely indeed.