The BBC reports that half the tickets for 2009's Glastonbury music festival have been sold already, eight months before the Somerset festival is due to take place.

Tickets went on sale on Sunday morning and by early evening more than half the 137,500 places were snapped up.

Fans were able reserve places by paying a £50 deposit, or they could buy their tickets outright for £175 each.

Spokesman John Shearlaw said he was "chuffed" so many tickets had gone for the event at Worthy Farm, Pilton.

Next year's Glastonbury runs for five days, from June 24 to 28.

The early ticket sale comes after last year's event failed to sell out on the first day.

Despite that, Shearlaw said he had not expected the tickets to sell out so far in advance.

"That would have been extraordinary, without a line-up and eight months before the event," he said.

"You can look at it from both sides because if they had all sold out, there would have been eight months of turning people away.

"We are very calm about it - it's a vote of confidence."

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