Tickets for the Glastonbury Festival will be on sale in HMV music stores today in a last ditch attempt to make the event a sell-out.

The festival has sold out within hours in previous years but this year's line up, with hip-hop artist Jay-Z as the headline act, has been blamed for putting people off.

However, the event's 72-year-old founder Michael Eavis said that the bad weather which has plagued the festival for the last three years had deterred people.

Muddy: The bad weather has been blamed for putting people off

His daughter Emily said: 'It's almost certainly down to bad weather,.

'We've had three years of quite heavy conditions and people are kind of making their minds up according to the weather I think.'

She added: 'You can really notice that when it's warm weather the tickets do go faster.'

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And Mr Eavis added: 'With just a couple of weeks to go, we want to make it as easy as possible for people to buy the last few festival tickets.

'We’ve got a fantastic line-up, the most beautiful site in the country and I’d love to see you all there.'

HMV stores in London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow and Bristol will sell tickets from today.