MORE T, ANYBODY?

The cancellation of "touted" T in the Park tickets means that there's suddenly a slew of thousands of extra pairs available for this year's festival - they'll be on sale from 9am on Saturday.

There are 12,000 extra tickets - some through "cancellations", some created by an expanded site - so we expect they'll be sold in a couple of blinks.

Organiser Geoff Ellis is thrilled:

"It's great news for us that there is now a system in place to help identify and eliminate touts. And once again, we would urge fans not to buy from unofficial sources."

Trouble is, of course, we don't really know whose tickets have been cancelled, or why; have they had their money back? Have they had their booking fees returned? Were they given an opportunity to argue against their sudden exclusion?

While few would object to touts being closed out of ripping people off, we're a little alarmed at this latest spreading of summary cancellations. Are they saying that you no longer have the right to decide what you'll do with your ticket after you've forked out a hundred pounds or so? If you bought a ticket in good faith, and then found out you can't go, why shouldn't you be able to sell it on at a premium if you can find someone who's willing to pay that price?

Ellis has no answers, because he's busy planning:

He said: "The site will be surrounded by a fortress fence which will include an exclusion zone.

"This fence will also be around the camp site, and together with increased security patrols, it will ensure protection and comfort for those who have already bought tickets."

Rumours that the 2007 T fest will ensure even greater "protection and comfort" by taking place in a fabulous city of domes somewhere underground could not be confirmed.

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