Unbelievable Comments from Founder of Mean Fiddler!

[farewellandgoodnight]

I know it's a year old but is still relevant in my opinion. As a huge Glasto fan I can't believe that somebody in this guy's position would come out with something like this.

http://strangeglue.com/news/blame-glasto-f...-mikee/10001698

"Last week's news was full of people blaming headlining act Jay-Z for sluggish ticket sales for this year's Glastonbury festival, this week, it's the turn of organiser Michael Eavis.

Mean Fiddler founder Vince Power was quoted as saying "The registration has annoyed people, this whole business of the anticipation of trying to get a ticket, not get a ticket. Michael [Eavis] came back with his own way and created this hugely complicated entry system which kills the spirit of a festival in my opinion."

"It's free enterprise isn't it?," he adds. "If somebody buys a ticket and they're really clever enough to sell it for four times its value – I would like to shake their hand."

What a knob this bloke sounds! If he thinks that it's fair for people to have to pay up to a thousand pounds a ticket due to some bastard's greed then he should be ashamed of himself. Tickets were going for well over a grand a pop in 2004/05.

The registration was the best thing Michael Eavis could've done and all other festivals should follow suit. Imagine if on day one rather than all the tickets selling out in seconds due to touts it was actually the people wanting to go who bought them? Shocking I know but we can but hope.

Maybe shitholes like V would stop getting above their station then and thinking that day one sellouts were due to anything other that opportunistic greedy bastards buying eight tickets each destined for ebay.

I think that apparently slower than usual sales since registration are purely due to the elimination of the tout factor. I'd like to see how fast the other festivals' tickets would sell out if the people buying them were the ones that were actually going to use them.

I'd be interested in other peoples opinions on this because I think Glasto has been unfairly derided of late over slower ticket sales when all thats happened is that they've introduced a fair sales system.

Edited May 27, 2009 by farewellandgoodnight

[Alcatraz]

Aren't Reading using some website that allows you to sell your ticket on for more than face value as well.

This guy really is a knob as well

Edited May 27, 2009 by Alcatraz

[joelovesleeds!]

What a clown! 'I would like to shake their hand'

[oafc0000]

I know it's a year old but is still relevant in my opinion. As a huge Glasto fan I can't believe that somebody in this guy's position would come out with something like this.

"Last week's news was full of people blaming headlining act Jay-Z for sluggish ticket sales for this year's Glastonbury festival, this week, it's the turn of organiser Michael Eavis.

Mean Fiddler founder Vince Power was quoted as saying "The registration has annoyed people, this whole business of the anticipation of trying to get a ticket, not get a ticket. Michael [Eavis] came back with his own way and created this hugely complicated entry system which kills the spirit of a festival in my opinion."

"It's free enterprise isn't it?," he adds. "If somebody buys a ticket and they're really clever enough to sell it for four times its value – I would like to shake their hand."

What a knob this bloke sounds! If he thinks that it's fair for people to have to pay up to a thousand pounds a ticket due to some bastard's greed then he should be ashamed of himself. Tickets were going for well over a grand a pop in 2004/05.

The registration was the best thing Michael Eavis could've done and all other festivals should follow suit. Imagine if on day one rather than all the tickets selling out in seconds due to touts it was actually the people wanting to go who bought them? Shocking I know but we can but hope.

Maybe shitholes like V would stop getting above their station then and thinking that day one sellouts were due to anything other that opportunistic greedy bastards buying eight tickets each destined for ebay.

I think that apparently slower than usual sales since registration are purely due to the elimination of the tout factor. I'd like to see how fast the other festivals' tickets would sell out if the people buying them were the ones that were actually going to use them.

I'd be interested in other peoples opinions on this because I think Glasto has been unfairly derided of late over slower ticket sales when all thats happened is that they've introduced a fair sales system.

Edited May 27, 2009 by oafc0000

[oafc0000]

Aren't Reading using some website that allows you to sell your ticket on for more than face value as.

This guy really is a knob as well

[joshwarrr]

Aren't Reading using some website that allows you to sell your ticket on for more than face value as.

This guy really is a knob as well

[Howl]

"I would like to shake their hand."

[jamin12]

Complicated system? What, typing in your name and address and adding a photo of yourself?

If you can't do that your thick as shit.

The guys a moron. The system stops the fantastic, charity-supporting festival from being abused.

[Mardy]

f**king scum. If you've got spare tickets give 'em away if you can afford it, face value if you need the money. any more than that, you're pretty much a twat in my book.

[sammysundae]

i love the registration system. its worked really well. maybe reading and leeds have to shift tickets on the image thing. but glasto lets the festival do the talking. and it still sells out. and its about 1000 times better value for money

[Alcatraz]

It has to be said, I'm not sure if this guy is still with Festival Republic. He runs Hop Farm Festival doesn't he.

Still, makes you appreciate the Big E(avis)

[Storm_NL]

I've noticed more and more that events without this kind of safeguard sell out stupid fast.

Then all of a sudden, various other sites are flooded with money-grabbing tossers selling the same tickets for a huge mark-up.

Registration has been a huge success and not damaged the festival in any way.

Besides, it's always amusing to see how your photo turns out on the tickets...

[farewellandgoodnight]

The thing is Reading and Leeds will never introduce a (fair) registration system cos they couldn't care less who buys the tickets and how much people get ripped off as long as they sell out.

Michael Eavis genuinely wants to give the people a good deal and ensure people aren't taken to the cleaners.

[joshwarrr]

Besides, it's always amusing to see how your photo turns out on the tickets...

[Sam Crawley]

Well said Alcatraz, when I started reading, my default reaction was pure hate, of people like him, of sponging touts, of the record labels, of London Transport (err, getting off topic Sam!)..

But then I thought.. God Bless the Michael and Emily Eavis for creating the fairest ticketing system of any major event or festival. They are leading the way in decent honest ticketing, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart for it.

Peace and love all

[coolethan]

Slighty tangental but do you think if registration wasn't in existence the tickets would still be fetching the insane tout money they were getting? The headliners can't be blamed - the fest has sold out without them being announced - and while the weather had been dreadful in 2005 and 2007, I think it's more of a fashion thing that it hasn't sold out. It was the thing to do in the early noughties so everyone did it.

Thats my reasoning anyway.

Last year the weather was super despite a bumpy start and this year it's going to be even better.

[Storm_NL]

No its not. I don't know what I was thinking about at the time but I look like a grumpy c**t.

[joshwarrr]

You must be the only person to have a true representation on their ticket!

[Red Day]

I think the registration system has been a fantastic move... This guy really needs to rethink who's hands he sakes... I think selling a ticket for four times it value is a bit scummy to be frank...

[Pinhead]

Noticed on the Hop Farm PR his new idea of "a return to festival basics", and "a departure from all those now too commercial festivals". Hope he welcomes then too the nostalgic return of all the tickets for his new event being bought up and touted into oblivion.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

To be honest the guy has a point about the registration system. I feel extremely uncomfortable with the idea of uploading that much information just to get a ticket. But from what I understand I am alone in that view.

I believe it does go against the grain of what the festival may have stood for in the past.

[Storm_NL]

I am safe in the knowledge that my dads looks a hell of a lot worse.

[joshwarrr]

Is he going too?

Maybe that's why some of the tickets are being sent out so slowly...

Printer had a fit and jammed up....

Edited May 27, 2009 by joshwarrr

[Alcatraz]

To be honest the guy has a point about the registration system. I feel extremely uncomfortable with the idea of uploading that much information just to get a ticket. But from what I understand I am alone in that view.

I believe it does go against the grain of what the festival may have stood for in the past.

[farewellandgoodnight]

Slighty tangental but do you think if registration wasn't in existence the tickets would still be fetching the insane tout money they were getting? The headliners can't be blamed - the fest has sold out without them being announced - and while the weather had been dreadful in 2005 and 2007, I think it's more of a fashion thing that it hasn't sold out. It was the thing to do in the early noughties so everyone did it.

Thats my reasoning anyway.

Last year the weather was super despite a bumpy start and this year it's going to be even better.