busybeeburns
03-04-2007, 08:36 AM
Music fans swamped the event's booking telephone line and Web site when the tickets, at 145 pounds each, went on sale on Sunday morning. Within 90 minutes, 137,500 were sold.
The official festival Web site crashed 30 minutes before the tickets went on sale as it struggled to cope with demand.
An extra 27,500 revellers were able to buy a ticket this year after organisers won approval to boost capacity to 177,000.
Glastonbury returns after a year's absence to its Worthy Farm home in Somerset on June 22-24, with the line-up rumoured to include The Who, Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4014946a1860.html
The official festival Web site crashed 30 minutes before the tickets went on sale as it struggled to cope with demand.
An extra 27,500 revellers were able to buy a ticket this year after organisers won approval to boost capacity to 177,000.
Glastonbury returns after a year's absence to its Worthy Farm home in Somerset on June 22-24, with the line-up rumoured to include The Who, Kaiser Chiefs and the Arctic Monkeys.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4014946a1860.html