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  1. Because the licence specifically forbids it.
  2. Thanks for confirming that. For some reason I'd imagined it would be like the October sales where they email everyone to give them the opportunity to buy their own tickets.
  3. Can anyone confirm that it's now only the lead booker who receives the email to pay for the tickets, rather than giving the option for people to pay individually?
  4. Wouldn't that just open the door to multiple registrations in exactly the same way as a ballot system? Or am I missing something?
  5. I'm pretty sure the festival wouldn't go for any system that makes it more unaffordable unnecessarilly. It would just favour the wealthier.
  6. That's interesting because the BBC reported that it was Mr Collins that made the comment about attendees and security numbers in reply to Cllr Carswell's suggestion that the number of drugs seizures by the festival should be released. It appears he was just reminding the councillors that the raw stats don't reveal too much.
  7. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/30/glastonbury-festival-may-forced-lower-capacity-combat-illegal/ It's behind a paywall so I can't read it all, but I assuming this is BS. This seems to be referring to the council discussion over front of house drugs testing (reported a few days ago). The police nor council do not have access to the number of drugs seized by security, so someone simply commented that an increase in security or a reduction in numbers attending the festival would affect the figures for the number of seizures. That appears to be where this story has come from. I've not read anywhere that anybody at the meeting actually called for a reduction of capacity. Not sure how soon MDC publishes the minutes of their meetings and can't see it online yet, but if anyone has access to the full article pease post it up.
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    William of Walworth

    I never met him personally but used to enjoy his posts and missed them when he stopped frequenting here. My condolences to all that knew him.
  9. It’s not a massive display to be honest - even a modest local Bonfire Night is way more spectacular. I’m sure security is a source of some of the people getting in without a ticket, but the industrial scale of smuggling people in that happened a few years ago has been clamped down on. Most of the comments here have been about other crew getting people in. It’s something that has always gone on, but the suggestion is that cost cutting and the bad feeling caused by it has led to an increase in the numbers getting in this way.
  10. Maybe it wasn’t, but the security always seem to say that regardless.
  11. No worries. Ultimately the gate keepers are those with the info, who have to decide how much to share and who to share it with. No harm in asking for a DM though. 🙂
  12. Gate-keepers? Seriously?
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    BBC Coverage 2022

    Yeah, like Punksnotdead says they get shown on the highlight shows. Though thinking about it I’ve got stuff recorded from previous years where the info section just says ‘Sets by *whatever bands*’ but there’s also been plenty of coverage of various areas of the festival.
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    BBC Coverage 2022

    The rest of the festival is only covered as little segments of walkabouts - this is Block Nine, the Circus, etc. They only include short snapshots of any bands that happen to be playing. Really I’d like to see far more of this stuff. I appreciate it’s not really possible for them to cover full sets of bands without it looking like the output of some random YouTube blogger, but a few more small crews trying to catch more of the true nature of the festival would be appreciated. Though the Mail would just winge about the extra staff.
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    Toilets

    The provision of toilets is legislated for, and I don’t recall the MDC annual report on the festival flagging this as an issue. Unlike people peeing on the land. Probably best to bear in mind that certain times and places are likely to get busy and try to take that into account. It’s not really feasible to provide the number of extra toilets to cater for relatively short periods of peak demand.
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