The number of people registering for tickets to this year's Glastonbury Festival is down, festival boss Michael Eavis.
In 2007, hundreds of thousands of music fans logged onto the ticketing website on April 1st after a whopping 400,000 had previously registered their details to allow them entry. However, Eavis told the BBC in a new interview that demand was down in 2008.
The registration process officially closed on Friday, but Eavis said the numbers he was seeing were to be expected. "There's not as many as last year because we haven't got the super, big, big, big sort of headlining act anymore," he said. We've gone for something middle range although Jay-Z is huge in America."
"It's going to be absolutely brilliant. But it's not like a Radiohead or a Muse or a Coldplay or an Oasis is it? So we didn't expect the demand to be quite as high."
Eavis adds he's still unsure about how much they'll be charging for tickets this year, "We're trying to give away £2m a year to the charities stuff and the good works and stuff that we do. So to achieve that we have to charge a little bit more."
Emily Eavis, who is taking over the reigns in a bigger way each year with booking bands and entertainment, added to the Beeb the Park Area will be much improved this year, "I think it's always quite nice to stumble across things rather than put everything done as a solid programme.
"We're sort of leaving a few gaps and we've got a few things lined up that will be really, really good."
Kings Of Leon, Jay-Z and The Verve headline this year's event, with the full line-up announced in June.
