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glasto isnt for profit so they could literally never afford to do such a thing.

I think it's the latter, like when you consider all the legacy bands of old, there was a steady stream of bands ageing out and newer bands taking up their legacy spot.   In the 90s, the legacy bands were Status Quo, Iron Maiden, Guns n Roses etc whilst Red Hot Chilis, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, Metallica were the new wave of music.   Then those became the legacy bands whilst acts like Blink, Green Day etc came through. Now those are the legacy bands, whilst Fallout Boy, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Paramore, QOTSA, Biffy were brought through.   Unfortunately the way we listened to music changed with the iPod, and having a favourite band you could jam to their CD/tape became having 5000 songs on shuffle and having access to 100 bands that sound the same. Those new legacy bands shot blanks and dropped off.

I presumed all bands/artists/performers got tickets...

Totally agree. I just think it was maybe that comment that made us assume they weren’t part of the conversation this year. Seems like something’s maybe shifted based on the rumours today though 

The drop downs on that page only offer you departure points where there's the correct number of tickets available - so all those drop downs are a choice between "0" and "4", nothing in between.   Can't change a registration without going back to the reg form - which to my mind carries a substantial risk.