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Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis says about 90 percent of the tickets for this summer's concert series on his Somerset farm have been sold. The BBC said festival organizers opted to start offering the 137,500 ducets for the June event earlier than usual after tickets to the 2008 festival didn't sell out in advance. You'll be amazed when you hear the headliners we've got coming this year, and we've already sold 90 percent of the tickets for this year, the BBC quoted Eavis as saying as he accepted an award for environmental work at the Midem music conference in France.

The last run of tickets to England's Glastonbury performing arts festival are to go on sale this week, organizers said. Tickets that cost about $310 apiece plus applicable fees are to go on sale Wednesday at HMV stores in England, Scotland and Wales, the BBC said.

By Tryst Williams The organiser of Glastonbury Festival says he wants to attract younger people to next year's event after claiming it has become "too middle- aged" and "respectable".

By Richard Simpson THE organiser of the Glastonbury Festival has made an extraordinary attack on its fans, saying they are becoming too middle-aged, middle class and respectable.