Off: Glastonbury

[Keith Barton]

Today, Monday April 14, the Mendip Council will vote on the increase of the tickets to 100.000 tickets. When they agree, 20.000 tickets extra will become available to the public.

The Glastonbury Festival seems to sell out before the end of April. The creditcard hotline sold its entire ticket allocation (30.000) in two weeks. Another 30.000 tickets are sold by the official ticket agents. The festival is trying to increase the ticket capacity from 80.000 to 100.000 tickets. Maybe some ticket suppliers have tickets available at the moment.

The festival will be organized on June 27-28-29 in Pilton, between Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet, in the countryside of the Somerset Levels, 750 acres of farmland are turned into a huge festival area. Somerset is in the south western part of England, south of Bristol. More than 500 acts will perform on 17 stages and camping facilities are available from Thursday till Monday.

There is an info line providing information on performers and travel, call in the UK: +44 839 668899

For press and stalls enquiries, call in the UK:+44 1458 834596

The presales started on March 17. Admission is by advance ticket only and the tickets are £75. Tickets can be obtained from the festival and from the usual ticket outlets. There will be 80.000 tickets available to the public till further notice. For tickets by post, write to: Glastonbury Festivals Ltd.
                                               Bristol
                                               BS38 7EN (no SAE required)

Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to Glastonbury Festivals Ltd. (£77, 21 days for delivery, tickets are sent by registered mail).

For tickets by phone, call in the UK (the number isn't available at the moment, maybe later this month):+44 1179 767868

National Express are running coaches from 34 locations around Britain to the festival, details are available from National Express:+44 990 808080

For a caravan or a motorhome you will need a separate advance ticket at £20.

Official information will be posted on the day before the festival begins !!
Most of the bands listed on this page are only strong rumours and not confirmed by the festival organisation. Only when you go to the festival you can be sure that you can enjoy some of the bands listed here.

Confirmed artists are indicated *

Ani DiFranco *
Ash *
Baby Bird *
The Beautiful South
Black Sabbath
Bluetones
BR5-49 *
Daft Punk *
David Byrne *
Chemical Brothers *
Chuck Prophet *
Coal Porters *
Shawn Colvin *
Neneh Cherry
Sheryl Crow *
The Daily Planet *
Jonathan Fire Eater
Fugees
Fun Lovin' Criminals *
Iona *
James *
Kula Shaker *
Van Morrison *
Manic Street Preachers
Mixmaster Morris
Ocean Colour Scene *
The Orb *
Oyster Band *
Phish *
Placebo *
Prodigy *
Radiohead *
Lou Reed
DJ Ritu
Rolling Stones
Smashing Pumpkins *
Supergrass *
Paul Weller *
Neil Young *




No Hawkwind :-( but Nik Turner will no doubt be playing on every cafe stage he possibly can :-)

See you there,

Keith