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Glastonbury tickets go on sale in HMV after festival fails to sell out
Last updated at 09:50am on 11.06.08
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.
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Reader views (3)
Yeah, bad conditions, as someone who's wallowed and been stuck in the Glastonbury mud many many times I can say that most of the time I've been sufficiently "relaxed" to not care. Isn't it also incredible that every other time it's rained it's not only sold out but people have been consistently trying to get under, over or through the fences?
- William Whizz, London
'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.
Which is strange as the last few years it has been an absolute nightmare trying to get tickets.
Also nobody has the £500 each required to make a good weekend of it (ticket price, transport, food, drink, waterproofs, tent, post gig visit to skin specialist / GU clinic etc).
- Jimbob, Kensington
Just goes to show that the ticket touts buy the tickets doesn't it?
- Heather, Essex, England
