Glastonbury Sells Out ... Again

177,000 tickets sold with no lineup annouced. That is incredibly significant. Some people consider Bonnaroo to be too oversized at around 80,000. I'm not sure I can imagine a festival that was more than twice that number. It seems obvious that they could sell even more tickets to Glasto with this latest allotment selling out in only two and a half hours. They must be doing something right over there across the ocean.

Music fans who thought they had missed out on the chance to go to this year's Glastonbury Festival were celebrating after snapping up thousands of returned tickets.

The booking phoneline was predictably swamped with calls from people desperate to get their hands on the sought-after tickets after they went on sale at 9am on Sunday.

By 11.30am all the tickets, which were either unwanted or cancelled, had been sold.

"They've all gone now and that part of the process is over," a spokesman said.

"We're quite relieved about it and it seems to have been successful.

"We can now look forward to June 1 when the line-up will be announced."

Fans snapped up 137,500 tickets in a record time of less than two hours when they went on sale earlier this month.

An extra 27,500 revellers were able to get their hands on the sought-after tickets this year after organisers won approval to boost the capacity to a record 177,000.

But it did little to satisfy the huge demand for the festival, as hundreds of thousands of revellers were left disappointed after missing out on the £145 tickets.

Organiser Michael Eavis previously said up to 20,000 tickets could be up for grabs on Sunday, but the exact numbers available were not immediately specified.

Source: music-news.com

Check out this clip, from Glastonbury 2005, of the great Elvis Costello performing the seminal "Allison" into the other Elvis' "Suspicious Minds".