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I think this is the one. If it's with the chap from Holding Absence on top, then it could be cracking.

I got the coach from Birmingham in 2022, my email said Hill Street. On the day about 1 hour before departure time I got text and email changing location to Inge Street near the Hippodrome. Don't know about the last 2 festivals, but be aware.  

I think the spirit of this is right but it’s only really fair when See and Glastonbury take as many steps as possible to ensure that the system isn’t exploited. Now, an event of this size and the amount of demand, that is a logistical and technical nightmare and they try their best. But I’m completely with those who are calling for tickets that got bought from more unsavoury methods to be cancelled or at the very least for their to be some kind of ballot that rewards those putting in a small bit of effort. It teaches a lesson and levels the playing field yet again. Not that it would magically stop people from trying to game the system mind you.    I first tried to get tickets in 2018 and had an abysmal failure, simply cause I didn’t know what to expect. 2019, I was a bit wiser and spaced out my refreshes and had multiple devices as per the advice I’d read and got tickets. 2022 - sailed right through on the coach sale after 10 minutes. Each of those times, I improved my standing in terms of having committed people in groups, wiring computer to router, multiple devices etc. I learned from experience and from reading this forum.    But it is objectively ridiculous that a music festival has a learning curve just for trying to buy tickets and that curve seems to be growing steeper and steeper every year. As a 20 something man, I can deal with it, but I feel for those teenagers who are hardcore music fans / musicians themselves and their parents who want to give them the opportunity to take them to the most famous festival in the world. Are we really moving into a society where the easiest way to go to Glastonbury is to become a moderately emerging artist yourself? Not everyone has the time and space to be thinking of joining a syndicate and anyone that’s justifying that as something that “works” should probably assess how crazy it is that we’ve gotten to this point in the first place as a culture and as a society. The whole thing when you step back and look at it is just silly and it doesn’t have to be this way.    Your average person is going to be like “YASS, get in, finally got them” and their mates will promise them pints that are never honoured - but that is the spirit of things. They’ll have a great summer. Majority of us - you, reading this - will know what feels like and it is the nectar that gives the festival its magic, but everyone deserves a fair punt at experiencing that, no? I think that’s what we all agree on, right?

I don't think anyone (even him) would complain if he needs to go back to more reasonably sized venue.

Basement Jaxx have self-announced themselves for this