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Glasto ticket boost

Glasto: No ticket woe?

Glastonbury needs to change. And no we don't mean getting in hardcore rappers or signing up every ambient trip-hop act on the planet.

Festival freaks will now be able to secure tickets six months in advance – in fact from October this year – for the 2009 event.

This should put pay to the ridiculous registering and mega-phone queues of this year which festival dome-head supremo Michael Eavis blamed for slow sales - the first time in Glasto history there wasn't a mad stampede.

A fifty quid deposit will now guarantee your spot of mud and if Eavis decides to book every LA rap act, and it's not your cup of Cristal, you can claim back all but £10.

On April 1 – rather aptly for jokers – fans can stump up the balance.

Eavis reckoned; 'Everybody wants to come... There was so much stuff going on - Trash City, Shangri-La, The Park - there's all these other things that are going on as well as the main stages and everywhere I go people are kicking themselves because they didn't go, so there really will be a big demand.'

And talking to the BBC, he admitted he found this year's event stressful; 'I've never enjoyed it so much although I've had a lot of worries this year with the tickets not selling - I lost half a stone in weight at one point.

'I was so scared but it came through. So when you get so scared like that and then when it comes right in the end it's fantastic.'

And to Noel Gallagher’s delight, Eavis says he has no plans to find a controversial headline act like Jay-Z.

'We'll probably be going for the more traditional headliner next year because there are more of them around and after this year everyone wants to come onboard because it was such a good do.'

God help us, it sounds like Phil Collins might get the nod. Come back Jay-Z, please.

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