Glastonbury ticket details revealed Organisers hoping to sell an extra 25,000 tickets 
Almost 140,000 expected this year
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis revealed this week he hopes to completely eradicate ticket touts at this year's festival by introducing a new security measure.
The famed music and arts festival returns this year after a year's lay-off to allow the ground time to recover - and could see its attendance rise to a whopping 137,500 with a possible 25,000 increase in the works.
Eavis also revealed how we hopes to sidestep ticket resellers, who try to buy up great quantities of tickets to resell at a higher price on auction sites like eBay. The people who buy the tickets on April 1 will be the people who are actually coming to the festival," he said, revealing people who wish to purchase tickets on April 1st will be required to register their details, along with a passport sized photo, from February 1-28.
Eavis is currently awaiting local councillors to grant the capacity increase, and as soon as he's given the green light, the festival boss plans to extend the site into a neighbouring farmers land to cope with the increase, as well as adding more parking, camping and entertainment facilities.
"We are extending the site with another 100 acres, bringing the total to 1,200 going west towards Glastonbury", Eavis added to The Western Daily Press. "It seems such a huge success and we have so much room here that we will be using a lot of neighbouring farmers' land - it's an alternative land use which in the present climate is good news."
Subject to the license being granted, Glastonbury 2007 will take place over the weekend of June 22-24.
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