So, I was right about one thing on Friday, the fact we'd be running a 'T In The Park sells out in no time at all story' this morning. Here goes. T In The Park sold out in no time at all this weekend. There, done it. The remaining tickets for the Scottish music fest (a third were sold as early bird tickets last summer) sold out in just 40 minutes after going on sale on Saturday morning. Festival organiser Geoff Ellis told reporters: "While we thought that the T In The Park tickets would sell out quickly today, we are amazed that it has broken its own record as the fastest selling festival in the UK. Once again T In The Park fans have shown how much they love the festival and we look forward to seeing each and every one of you there". Ellis added that further tickets may be made available once the festival site's capacity is finalisd and any double bookings or tout purchases are removed from the system - and therefore encouraged those who failed to get tickets to wait for any additional ticket sale rather than feeling to need to bid for tickets through unofficial auctions or sources.
Of course yin and yang dictates that if I was very right about one thing in the Daily on Friday, I had to be wrong about something else to compensate. The, ahem, deliberate mistake in Friday's Daily was our update on the Glasto ticket registration system. We reported that 175,000 people had registered with the festival's advance ticket registration thingimy, and observed that if each of those 175,000 people bought their four ticket allocation, then there would be a lot of competition for the 140,000 tickets that will go on sale. But fans of terms and conditions have pointed out that although any one person can buy four tickets when they go on sale on 1 Apr, all of those four people would need to be among the 175,000 registered people, if that make sense. Which means that while 35,000 odd registered users are going to be disappointed, the chances of registered users getting a Glasto ticket are much higher than we suggested. So, that's good news really isn't it? Well, it is to anyone registered with the Glasto site who spent the weekend depressed after our Friday report. Unless, of course, another 500,000 people register before the 28 Feb deadline. Then you'd have to remain depressed.
Meanwhile, staying with festivals selling out in record time, we've just heard all 50,000 tickets for this year's Isle Of Wight Festival have sold out in record time too. So, if you'd wanted to go to that one but had not bought your tickets yet, there's another reason to be depressed. Hurrah.