21st November Glum Glasto for Grandad

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With tickets for Glasonbury 2025 selling out in a mere 30 minutes organisers are slapping themselves on the back after their new ticket allocation system appears to have been a great success. Unless you are over 35 that is.

Unlike the fiasco which occured when people attempted to get their hands on the Willi Wonka golden tickets for the Gallagher brothers reunion when websites crashed as people attempted to enter virtual queues, the Eavis family used a very different approach.

Jumping on the back ot the Captcha identity system which many people are familiar with as a means of identifying potential purchasers as human rather than automated bots, this years Glastonbury required potential ticket buyers to actually identfy artists who may or may not appear at the festival from a line up of equally vague and vacuous looking individuals.

Ivan Album, a 60 year old granddad of three from Hucknall, who admits to liking a bit of old Dire Straits, some 1970's Genesis and a couple of songs by Bruce Horsby fell at the first hurdle whe he was unable to identify images of Doja Cat, Lil Naz or any K Pop band.

Speaking to Grace Under Pressure, Mr Album lamented, "It's hard enough trying to identify zebra crossings, buses and all the parts of a motorcycle but working out my Chappel Roan from my Charlie XCX is way beyond me."

“I spent ages looking for someone like Alfred Bramble from Steptoe and Son when I was asked to identify Rag n Bone man before my 12 year old daughter told me it was actually a singer. So it looks as if I'll be staying at home watching re runs of the Old Grey Whistle test on my VHS player."



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