Glastonbury Festival's registration system is an unparalleled success

Glastonbury Festival 2015

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2015
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£220 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 198,000

Glastonbury Festival are pleased to report that they haven't been aware of anybody trying to sell fake tickets this year, proof that their registration system has achieved what it wanted and stopped touting scumbags selling tickets for inflated prices.

With just a few weeks to go the Festival want to ensure people are not ripped off and left disappointed by re-iterating that following April’s ticket resale, tickets to Glastonbury 2015 are now completely sold out. There are NO tickets of any type still available, so do not purchase tickets from anyone as they could be fake Glastonbury Festival tickets.

Organisers say they aren't aware of any being sold this year on auction sites like eBay, something which happened a lot before the photo registration scheme was introduced.

Glastonbury Festival implemented the registration system with photos, which costs pennies per person to manage, back in 2007 as part of a yearly determined effort to stop the resale of Glastonbury tickets for stupidly inflated prices set by touts, or the selling of fake tickets which have left purchasers hurt and upset.

Organisers add that they have also had no calls about the validity of tickets this year. Historically people have phoned up to say that their mate is offering to sell tickets and ask if it's legitimate, and the Festival have been able to say no.

Organisers are remaining vigilant as there are still just under three weeks to go and they may have a final flurry of fake tickets, but as yet it's been a great success. This may be after a high profile touting case earlier this year, (here), where a con woman was jailed for selling fake tickets which made the public at large more aware that tickets for Glastonbury Festival are not to sold on the secondary market.

Commercial Director Robert Richards says organisers are pleased with how well the system has worked for the last seven Festivals saying, "Yet again this shows we have a system which has killed off the secondary market, and that's a good thing because it means people come to the festival paying face value, and they are the people who have put the effort in to get a ticket, and it's not about money."

Robert Richards came up with the registration system, which became necessary after the fence around the Festival was introduced. The secondary consequence of the security of the site meant suddenly if Festival goers didn't have a ticket they couldn't get in. It was then a case of no ticket no entry, and very quickly tickets became hot property.

He and founder Michael Eavis came up with the measure to stop people spending £800-£900 (back when tickets were £100) to come to the Festival. Organisers were worried that if people spent that much money they would expect better facilities than the Festival actually provided. They also wanted the Festival to be egalitarian, not to become tickets only for the highest bidders. It is always a major concern of Michael and his daughter Emily to keep the price as low as possible, and to put on the most incredible event available for all.

Organisers had considered the idea of chip technology, or cards, but those options would have cost millions of pounds back then. But through working with SeeTickets they came up with the registration system, which has been hailed a great success in stopping ticket sales on the secondary market, and fake ticket sales and it hasn't been expensive to implement.

Speaking to organisers yesterday they did also hint that that there may be future measures in place to stop campervan tickets being traded, as they are aware that they could be being sold for profit.

With tickets all snapped up for this year, if you want to go to the Festival next year, you must ensure you are registered. Everyone who wants a ticket to the Festival in 2016 must be registered, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15.

Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register. Each ticket features a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable.

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2016. If you opt to save this information you will be able to use your registration number again in future years. Make sure the e-mail address you provide is one to which you will have long term access.

If you want to recover an existing registration number, click here.

There is no need to to re-register again if registration has already been carried out. Existing registrations can be recovered, updated, edited or deleted by clicking here.

It is advised that registrations are checked prior to tickets going on sale to ensure all registrations have been accepted and the details attached to them are correct.

If you no longer have access to your registered email address you will need to re-register.

In order to buy a ticket festival goers must be registered, with online registration only taking a few minutes, this needs to be completed before tickets go on sale. Online registration for 2016 can be carried out by clicking here.

This year's Friday headliner is Foo Fighters, on Saturday it will be Kanye West, and closing Sunday night are The Who.

The line-up is vast but here's a few of the other names who will be appearing over the five days - Lionel Richie in the teatime legends slot, Patti Smith & her band, Rudimental, Deadmau5, Paul Weller, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Suede, The Chemical Brothers (live), Belle & Sebastian, Clean Bandit, Jungle, Jamie XX, Gregory Porter, Super Furry Animals, Jon Hopkins, Sharon Van Etten, Kate Tempest, Wolf Alice, Perfume Genius, Hozier, Father John Misty, Courtney Barnett, Fat White Family, La Roux, Death Cab For Cutie, Kasai Allstars, FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks), Modestep, Circa Waves, Peace, Young Fathers, The Moody Blues, Florence + The Machine, Pharrell Williams, Alt-J, Motorhead, Mary J Blige, Alabama Shakes, Paloma Faith, The Waterboys, The Fall, George Ezra, and many, many more.

This year's sold out Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2015 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset.

To see who is playing where and when see our Glastonbury Festival 2015 line-up page.

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