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Glasto-Tastic

Well then, it’s that time of year again.

I’m sure I’ve done this calculation before, but here are some figures:

– Following this week’s licence approval, the total festival capacity has been increased to 177,500, of which 37,500 will be for festival workers, 5000 will be day tickets for the Sunday for local residents, and 135,000 will be regular tickets sold through http://www.seetickets.com.
– On top of the ticket charge of £145, See Tickets will be collecting £5 per ticket in fees, plus a £4 charge per order for delivery.
– £5 x 135,000 = £675,000. Given that this is just one of the many events they sell tickets for (so it doesn’t have to pay the full annual cost of running their servers and manning the phone lines) that’s not bad at all for a couple of week’s work. And something to think about should you find yourself staring at a “Service Busy” page at some point on Sunday morning and wondering why a company in the business of selling tickets for major events doesn’t have enough capacity to deal with lots of people hitting their servers at the same time…

In other related news, I notice that the NME tell me that Emily Eavis has managed to convince Pete Doherty to play Glasto for £100. Well, I imagine that Doherty will do pretty much anything if he needs a hundred quid urgently to, um, buy something…

UPDATE: …and I notice that the NME have now compiled their own list of the lineup so far. Their lineup is “in alphabetical order”, but they’ve put all the “The” bands under “t”.

Ah. Bless.