Glastonbury Festival registration starts

Glastonbury Festival 2008 Registration has opened today (Friday 1st February) at 9am and will remain open until midnight Friday 14th March.

Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and this year, for the first time, that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Each ticket sold will feature a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. So if you plan to buy tickets for friends or family you must make sure they all register!

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale at 9am on Sunday 6th April, but if you don’t register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2008, which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton over the weekend Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the gates opening on Wednesday 25th.

Online registration can be carried out here.

Registration involves:
1. Providing contact details: name, address, postcode and a valid e-mail address.
2. Sending a passport standard photo: you will be required to upload your passport standard photo in jpeg form for online registration. If a ticket is successfully purchased this picture will be printed on it to make it unique and must therefore be an acceptable facial image. The image must meet passport photo requirements.
3. Receiving a registration number: to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2008 this number must be quoted, it will be a unique registration number. So write it down somewhere safe and do not lose it! As last year, there will be a link to a webpage provided where the registration number can be entered and all details that were entered checked. If the registration was online the details can be edited if incorrect.

Or you can register by post either by completing a registration form, available from any branch of Millets (the camping store), or one can be sent to you by sending a stamped self addressed envelope to:
Glastonbury Registration,
Millets,
Mansard Close,
Westgate,
Northampton
NN5 5DL.

Completed registrations must be postmarked no later than Friday 14th March and sent to:
Glastonbury
PO Box 2445
Glasgow G40 9AG

Successful registrants will be notified of their registration number by post within two weeks.

No information collected through registration will be offered for sale or use by any other organisation. All data will be destroyed one month after the Festival.

There is no limit to the total number of people who will be allowed to register. Registering more than once will not increase your likelihood of getting a ticket. Every registration will have an equal chance of buying tickets irrespective of how or when it was made during the registration period. Registration can be made on behalf of other people as long as all their contact details and photos can be provided. If you live outside the UK, the only option is to register online.

If you have not received a confirmation email within two days of your online application check your spam folder. If your registration has been rejected, or you have not received confirmation, please re-apply before Friday 14th March.

If you send in a postal application and do not receive notification of your registration number within two weeks of sending it in, it is best to re-register in case your registration has been rejected, or did not reach them in the first place.

If you register towards the end of the time period, and your registration is not accepted, you might not receive notification before the deadline on Friday 14th March, so best to get that registration number early.

If there is a change of address of those registering between the end of registration and the festival, then once they have a ticket they will be able to change the address that was provided at registration by contacting Seetickets.

If you have any questions it is worth looking at the Glastonbury FAQ page here.

The process for buying tickets, when on sale from 9am on Sunday 6th April, will require each buyer to input their name and their unique valid registration number for each ticket they purchase. The price of 2008 tickets will be confirmed in early March. Tickets will be sent out by courier to the addresses specified when making the sale, and if ordering more than one ticket, all tickets will be dispatched to the address provided during registration for the first name on the ticket booking.

Checks will be made at the gates and if you are clearly not the person whose face is printed on the ticket you will be denied entry.

A higher proportion of the available tickets will sold via telephone this year, because Michael (mistakenly!) believes that young people have less access to the internet than others, and are as a group more likely to use the phone than the internet.

It's thought that the licenced number of people allowed on site will be the same as for 2007 (177,500) and that the number of tickets on sale will also be the same, with 132,500 weekend tickets available, as well as 5,000 Sunday-only tickets for locals. The ticket price has still to be confirmed.

Don't forget to keep an eye on our Glastonbury 2008 rumours.


Glastonbury 2007 before the rain

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