Reading Festival residents’ tickets available soon
Ignore this sign
Remember how Reading Festival was granted an increase in capacity last year, up from 78,500 to a total of 85,000 by 2011? No? Well then you’ll definitely have missed the accompanying news: that Reading residents now get first dibs on a batch of 3,500 tickets to the festival.
If you live in an RG1, RG2, RG4, RG6, RG30 or RG31 postcode which falls under Reading Borough Council, or an RG4 postcode within Mapledurham Village which falls under South Oxon Council, you can go online from 26 March at 6.45pm to pick up tickets. The conditions for eligibility are a little confusing, but the ticket site will check your postcode before letting you purchase.
The residents-only tickets will be available till midnight on 28 March (or until they sell out), before the big general sale happens on 29 March. During that window, you should be able to buy tickets from http://www.seetickets.com/readingresidents, though the page isn’t live at the time of writing. For more details, check the festival website.
While this is clearly a good thing for all rock fans in Reading, we do see one problem: the line-up isn’t announced until 29 March, so you’ll have to buy the tickets without knowing who’s going to be up there on stage.
This doesn’t really bother us (we’d hate to miss the biggest event in the town’s calendar), but if you shell out £175 hoping for a killer headliner only to find it’s Kings of Leon yet again then you might be a touch disappointed.
Oh, one other thing. Thinking of buying a couple to sell on at a profit? Don’t bother - they’ll be checking ID on the gate. Besides, ticket touting is evil.
March 20th, 2010 at 3:47 am
I’m going to risk it and be buying my tickets immediately when they come on sale after the lineup is announced.
Probably going to go for one of the days so knowing the lineup is crucial.
March 20th, 2010 at 5:47 am
I think that’s a safe option - and day tickets are usually much easier to come by than the weekend ones anyway.
I haven’t kept up with who’s rumoured for this year. Any ideas?
March 21st, 2010 at 4:35 am
Well that’s annoying. I live off Whitley Wood Lane RG2 right by J11 (literally probably the last road before you can hit it), but my road, for some stupid reason, falls under Wokingham Borough Council! The next road down is RBC, we’re the only road that’s not! We’re always affected by football matches and of course the festival, but I suppose it will be unlikely for us to get tix.
Will check and see when the site is up I guess, but the description makes it sound unlikely. We weren’t even allowed one of those Reading passports!