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Glastonbury 2013 Tickets sell out in a record 100 minutes
Monday 8th October 2012 | Tiffany
Thousands miss out in a mad rush for Glastonbury 2013 tickets
Tickets for next year’s Glastonbury Festival sold out yesterday in record time. With 135,000 tickets sold out in 1 hour and 35 minutes, this year’s sales saw a lightning-bolt (or Usain Bolt) speed of more than 1,500 tickets per minute! Having had a ‘fallow’ year in 2012, (that means ‘let’s let the farm land recover’ to us non-farm folk), festival addicts were already suffering Glastonbury withdrawal symptoms, and tickets were snapped up quicker than you can say....erm....mudbath?
The ticket distribution site, SeeTickets, opened at 9am on Sunday Morning, but crashed before tickets even went on sale, due to the sheer volume (millions!) of Glasto-hopefuls on the site. Some unlucky punters weren’t even able to load the site’s homepage. Despite Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis promising that this year’s ticket sales would run more smoothly in an interview with NME earlier this year, stating that she had “assurance from SeeTickets that it is going to work well”, many ticket hopefuls were fronted with the frustrating message: 'This site is currently receiving very high volumes of traffic. You're seeing this holding page because we've reached the maximum number of request we are able to handle at one time.' Looks like Emily’s wishful thinking came back to bite her (and thousands of unlucky fans) in the butt.
Some took to Twitter to vent, one user writing: 'See Tickets what are you doing I'm dying here'. Organisers Ms. Eavis and her father Michael Eavis said that they were "genuinely humbled by the sheer number of people" who wanted to go, but "demand simply outstripped supply", adding: "We would like to say an enormous thanks to everyone who managed to buy a ticket – but we'd also like to extend our sincere apologies to the many thousands who missed out". Ms. Eavis later tweeted her apologies for the problems experienced with the booking site.
Registration for tickets re-opens on Wednesday; where users will be able to register for the resale of returned tickets, due to go on sale in April 2013. Tickets cost £205, plus £11 which cover booking and postage fees. User registration details, once entered, will remain for future Glastonbury festivals.
Glastonbury 2013 opens on June 26 at the Worthy Farm in Somerset, and the lineup has already generated much speculation hype. Prince and The Rolling Stones are the big names so far that have been tipped as headline acts.
So you’ve missed out on a ticket, how do you plan to get into Glastonbury 2013? Well I know that I can’t be dealing with the emotional heartbreak of not getting a ticket on the SeeTickets website AGAIN, so my best bet is to become an internationally acclaimed singer in the next few months. I’ll see you there :-). For now, I’ll be trying to forget my current lack of ticket and will focus on my imminent pop-stardom, tutored by video of Beyoncé’s booty-shaking from Glastonbury 2011. (watch below!!)
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by Tiffany Wilson
