Michael Kimb Jones

Like 400,000 other people got up early Sunday morning to attempt to get my Glastonbury tickets.

Fortunately I was one of the lucky ones and managed to bag 2 weekend coach tickets.

The new registration system seemed to have made little difference to the ‘lottery’ feeling you get every time you try and get tickets to this wonderful festival. I still had to get up extra early, fire up the PC, the laptop, the landline and mobile phones and sustain a full on assault.

This year it took 1.5 hours and about 3000 re-loads of the mystical ordering page. Time after time after time the page went down, came back up went down, back up, down, up, down, you get the idea. I found this rather strange as only 400,000 people had registered for tickets. Therefore, unlike the free-for-alls of the years gone by, I believed the new system would be quite stable, it was not.

Even with the these problems, I shouldn’t complain. A lot of people were left high and dry and it was a lot easier this year than in 2004 when I spent over 6 hours online trying to gain access to the ordering page.

So, I paid £400 to spend 4 days in a mud soaked field getting trench foot while my body slowly evolves into a state of permanent but stable shock.

You never know, it could be sunny this year.