Glastonbury Tickets!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

We got our tickets!

After a tense 45minutes of reloading the seetickets page on 2 computers and costantly redialing the phone number we succeeded! Not only did we get our tickets, we got our campervan ticket as well!

There was a slight false alarm at one point, having entered the regestration details on the seetickets site, the page for payments refused to load, so after 15minutes of refreshing this page the correct page appeared for filling in payment details! Woooooooo Hoooooooooooooo!

We're going to Pilton!

Not sure about seeing Jay-Z, but am definitely looking forward to the Kings Of Leon!!

And for those of you who were also lucky enough to get tickets, No Peeing In the Hedges!!

Banksy Creates Crap Art At Glastonbury Festival

Our Banksy has done it again, the cheeky creative genius has created a henge at glastonbury from the famous portaloos!

I wonder how many festival punters are going to get so mashed up or desperate that they'll try and use them!

Original story appeared in the Guardian - 14-06-07

Thanks to towleroad for blogging about it first!

Glastonbury Tickets on eBay for £8,000+

Michael Eavis is reported as being disappointed with the quality of the tickets printed for this years Glastonbury Festival (BBC Story). Tickets are now appearing on eBay, though it does look like there is some Auction Wrecking going on as this example shows -

Anyone wanting to risk the getting turned away on the gates as the photo part of the ID must be backed up by other forms of ID, so there's no real way around this added security level.

As for anyone fool enough to think the car park tickets will enable them to get close enough to try and sneak in better think again as there will be a check that car occupants have tickets before they actually leave the main road to drive the mile or 2 to the actual car-parks! Even if a 'fence-jumper' gets close enough to the fence they will be quite disappointed when faced by the impregnable 'Ring-of-Steel'. In the 2 previous years that this fence has been used there has been no reports of anyone successfully getting over it, and very few actual attempts at it either. The fence is 10ft of solid metal with a 3foot angled overhang, even the SAS would consider this impossible to scale without equipment. The other popular idea has always been tunneling under it, well as the same material that is used for the fence is also laid on the ground next to the fence and bolted to the uprights this is also making tunneling impossible to all but the most hardened miners. The enclosed road either side of the fence to allow security to drive quickly to any point of the fence with floodlights and a secondary 8 foot mesh 'Heras' fence, either side of this road means the tower lookouts will get plenty of time to get a patrol to you before you even touched the 'Ring-of-Steel'.

Basically, if you haven't got a ticket, forget about trying to get in and stock up at home to catch the web-cam, webcasts, TV coverage and Radio broadcasts courtesy of the BBC. You may also want to be thankful of clean porcelain and cold, reasonably priced beer without having to queue!

You can catch up with our adventures of the festival here on our glastonbury page which we hope to be updating the slideshow daily during the festival!

The Book Garden @ Glastonbury Festival 2007

The Book Garden will be appearing at this years Glastonbury Festival alongside such acts as The Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Iggy Pop, The Who, Bjork, Chemical Brothers and many more! Well, we won't actually be on stage as such, and selling books isn't exactly performance art, but we'll be there with a stock of approx 4,000 books. The majority will be general fiction, though we will be have a large selection of Travel Guides, Art Books, and Theatre Texts & Plays as well as sections on Health and Spirituality.

You will be able to find us on C market and this little map will hopefully be a guide to where we'll be. So pop in and see us, books will be available from 30p and very few will be priced more than a fiver. We also intend to offer a post home service for those who'd rather not carry a book around or want to send a gift to a friend/relative from the festival.

If we can get online we will be posting updates here and on this web page

Glastonbury Festival Shopping List!

We're counting down the days to Glastonbury Festival 2007. We're taking a few thousand books along for our little stall, so if you're going to the greatest festival in europe, pop in and see us and browse our selection of travel guides, art books, theatre books and general fiction. We will also be offering to post your purchase home for a small fee to save you carrying it or it getting bashed about. The Book Garden will be on C market, not to far from the famous Cider Bus!

We thought we'd post some essential festival items that you have just about got time to get hold of before you go!


* Start Anticipating the Festival Fun!
A sample of books that will wet your appetite for the festival season!

I Was There. The Gigs that Changed the World (Paperback) ~ Mark Paytress

Jimi Hendrix – Live at Woodstock [1969]

Glastonbury: An Oral History of the Music, Mud and Magic


* Roughing it at the festival?
You don't need to if you get prepared!

Braun Oral B Advanced Power 400 battery toothbrush

Proteam 360/01 - All Weather Camping Light

HL-09 flash headlight/headband

Mini camping lantern

Wind up camping lantern

Proteam 360/07 - Quickseat Carver Chair

Three leg camping stool

Water Carrier - 5 litre

Inflatable camping pillow

Self inflating cushion

Portable Gas Stove

Backpackers camping stove

Cool Camping ~ Laura James


* Capture the festival Spirit
Some reasonable priced cameras to capture the festival moments

Fuji FinePix A500 Digital Camera

Samsung Digimax A503 - Silver [5MP 5 X Digital Zoom]

Vivicam 3720 Digital Camera - Black (3MP)


* Relive your festival memories
Do something special with the best photo's of the festival!

Canon iP1700 Home Printer with Borderless Photo Printer up to A4

Memox - 7 inch Digital Photo Frame