Glastonbury Festival tickets now available without a registration number

purchasers require ID to purchase and for entry to the festival

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 18th Jun 2008

Glastonbury Festival 2008 - around the site (3)
Photo credit: Kirsty Umback

Glastonbury Festival 2008

Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June 2008
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£155
Daily capacity: 150,000

From today, Wednesday 18th June, tickets for Glastonbury Festival can be booked by phone on 0800 079 2008 or online by credit card or debit card from seetickets click here without a registration number.

Ticket buyers will need to provide their name and address and make sure that they bring personal photographic ID to the Festival when they arrive. This ensures that they comply with the Festival's anti-touting policy. All credit and debit cards are accepted.

The tickets will be sold simply and easily with all ticket buyers needing to provide their name, make their payment by credit or debit card, and make sure that they bring personal photographic ID to the Festival when they arrive. With the festival only a week away, the registration process would delay customers getting tickets. The registration process was brought in to combat touting, and the measures have proved successful. The phone lines and booking site will remain open as long as tickets are available.

As well as being available to buy online, Glastonbury Festival tickets, are also available to buy in HMV and at the Bristol Ticket Shop, The Mall Galleries, Bristol (or over the phone 0117 929 9008 or 0870 44 44 400) without submitting a registration number.

The HMV stores where tickets are available are:
HMV Bristol, 21/23 Broadmead
HMV Glasgow, Argyle Street
HMV Newcastle, 56 Northumberland Street
HMV Manchester, 90 Market Street
HMV Birmingham, 38 High Street
HMV Cardiff, 53 Queens Street
HMV London, 150 Oxford Street

Those buying tickets in stores just need to provide their name, pay across the counter and make sure that they bring personal photographic ID to the Festival when they arrive. This ensures that they comply with the Festival's anti-touting policy. Tickets are subject to booking fee, with a maximum of six tickets per customer.

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To see the huge range of acts playing the Festival including headliners Kings of Leon, Jay-Z, The Verve, as well as Amy Winehouse, Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Manu Chao, more new music acts than you could possibly see, a dance village covering every genre, and still many hundreds more music acts, circus, theatre, cabaret, poetry, a huge kids field, and weird happenings around every corner - take a look at the stage/area listings, or the Glastonbury 2008 line-ups.

Glastonbury Festival takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June, with the site open to ticket-holders from Wednesday 25th June.

Remember that this year the Festival wants festival-goers to work them to Love the farm, Leave no Trace by travelling light, only bringing what you're willing to carry home. When you buy your tent and camping gear, don't buy the cheapest, get something you'll want to keep. when it's time to go, pack up your stuff and take it away.

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