Second chance Glastonbury tickets snapped up
Music fans who thought they had missed out on the chance to go to this year’s Glastonbury Festival were celebrating today 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 this morning.
By 11.30am all the tickets, which were either unwanted or cancelled, had been sold for a second time.
“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 today, but the exact numbers available were not been specified.
Only people who pre-registered for the festival were eligible to buy the tickets, which went on sale today.
The new security measures, which include passport photos on the tickets for the first time, have so far helped beat the ticket touts.
Fans still have a faint hope of still getting to the festival, at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset, when a limited number of combined coach and tickets passes go on sale on Thursday morning.
The Arctic Monkeys, the Killers, The Who, Kaiser Chiefs, the Kooks and Shirley Bassey will all play at the festival, which runs from June 22-24.
