Glastonbury tickets hoops multiply

The official Glastonbury festival site has announced exactly how people can purchase their tickets for the UK's best loved music festival on April 3rd. Never mind the £133 that it'll cost per head. You're only allowed two tickets per purchaser. And when you arrive @ the site, you'll have to be carrying some form of photo ID.

One of the options - highlighted on the Glastonbury site - is to get a citizen's card. The only trouble is that you need to provide full details of a professional referee. So for most people that'll be their doctor or dentist. Why can't you give your pub landlord, the INQ wonders?

Anyway, it's yet another sign that like it or not, ID cards will become indispensable in the UK - probably through backdoor methods rather than one single law which people can object to.

The INQ spoke to an unlikely supporter of the no-ID campaign, Dave Birch of digital payment specialists, Consult Hyperion. Birch told the INQ he had the doughnuts ready for a pre-arranged meeting with the no-ID campaigners and was most disappointed when they didn't show up.

Birch argues that a well-designed ID card provides appropriate data and nothing else. So he's concerned that too much information will be unnecessarily stored on ID cards and shared willy-nilly.

Incidentally, given that the official Glasto site, operated by Mediastream, fell over yesterday, the INQ hopes that EMAP Performance's aloud.com will perform efficiently on April 3rd. µ