Jay-Z Not To Blame For Glastonbury Registration Falls

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Glastonbury festival organiser Emily Eavis has claimed that the number of people registering to be able to buy Glastonbury tickets in 2008 is down on last year's figures because of the bad weather at the festival in recent years and not Jay-Z.

It was previously reported that organaiser Michael Eavis had said that registration had fallen dramaticly after announcing Jay-Z as one of the main headliners.

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Eavis said: “There’s not as many as last year because we haven’t got the super, big, big, big sort of headlining act anymore. We’ve gone for something middle range, although Jay-Z is huge in America.

“But it’s not like Radiohead or a Muse or a Coldplay or an Oasis, is it? So we didn’t expect the demand to be quite as high.”
 

Now Emily Eavis has said that she thought that figures were down because of the bad weather in the last two Glastonbury festivals, in 2005 and 2007, were characterised by mud and rain, putting people off, and that suggestions that the announcement that Jay-Z would be playing a headline slot was to blame were unfounded.

"I'm sure it's because of the weather," she told NME.COM. "People only remember the last festival, so if it was really muddy… I don't blame them, to be honest. Everybody needs a rest."