I understand when hospitality tickets are sold to media etc the companies have to give the names of those in receipt of the tickets to the festival office in advance of the festival. Tickets are printed with the name of the recipient and photo ID such as passports shown when the tickets are exchanged for wristbands, and names checked against the festival list. Politicians have always appeared as guests, reckon many use media connections. Even Boris bloody Johnson has been spotted in the past.
Agreed on the Friday. LCD into Fontaines was high on my cherished memories from the farm, glorious.
I mean with Finsbury - it did pretty well as soon as it went on sale pretty much, I believe. Not sure where numbers are up to now.
Whilst things may leak for Glastonbury, nothing will be official to a couple of months from the festival, so there'd be no concern there for them.