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How did people book festival tickets pre-internet?

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i suspect it was 2003-2004. In 2003 I bought a ticket from my (then) local record shop (Concepts in Durham) without any bother. 2004 rolled around and there just seemed a lot more hype, so we spent most of the day on the phone trying to get tickets (the website died after about 5s). I don't think that any were on sale in shops from that point on. For me that was the transition point.

Actually glastonbury did used to sell out in the nineties - one year I got a ticket after it had sold out from a classified ad in the Leicester Mercury from a girl who'd bought a ticket but her mum had forbidden her to go! Think that was about '95. I'd say Glasto had reached it's 'national event' status by the late nineties but ticket sales declined as fence-jumping became ever more popular culminating in the year the bubble burst in 2000 when 250,000 people showed up but tickets didn't sell out.

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