Glastonbury Festival tickets sold out

LONDON, April 1 (UPI) -- The tickets for Britain's Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts went on sale early Sunday morning and were sold out less than two hours later.

The festivals organizers had been fearing that the new registration system, designed to prevent people from buying up large numbers of tickets and then reselling them to the public for a higher price, would malfunction, but their fears subsided when 400,000 fans registered, the BBC reported Sunday.

There were a total of 137,500 tickets available to the public when the box office opened Sunday morning, and just one hour 45 minutes later they were all gone.

The 2005 Glastonbury Festival held the previous sell out record, when the tickets sold out in less than three hours.

The 2007 Glasto will feature the Arctic Monkeys, Dame Shirley Bassey and The Who among others, but the full lineup will not be released until June.

"We had a quarter of a million of people queuing up to get through. It's probably the fastest time we have ever sold out," said Michael Eavis, who owns the farm where the festival is held.

The event will start in Somerset on June 22 and run until June 24.