Power: 'Glastonbury is too complicated'

Mean Fiddler founder Vince Power has said Glastonbury's ticket registration system is too "complicated".

The music promoter claimed the measures installed to prevent touts buying tickets by Michael Eavis was the reason behind lower numbers of applications for this year's festival.

Tickets are still available for Glastonbury 2008. In recent years the festival has always sold out in under 24 hours.

Commenting on the downturn in interest, Power said: "The registration has annoyed people, this whole business of the anticipation of trying to get a ticket, not get a ticket.

"Michael came back with his own way and created this hugely complicated entry system which kills the spirit of a festival in my opinion.

"It’s free enterprise isn’t it? If somebody buys a ticket and they're really clever enough to sell it for four times its value - I would like to shake their hand."

Eavis introduced the photograph registration system in 2007 after touts sold tickets for the summer bash on eBay in previous years.

Noel Gallagher blamed hip-hop headliner Jay-Z for the lack of interest in the festival, while Roger Daltrey criticised the ticket prices.