Glastonbury has become too “middle-aged” and “respectable”, claims Michael Eavis. Speaking to the Metro today (12 July), the organiser of the festival blamed online ticket sales for the lack of younger faces in the audience this year and claimed that next year’s sale would see “40%” of the sales handed back to the phone lines.

"We're trying to get the youngsters back - the 16, 17 and 18-year-olds -because numbers were down this year," he explained. "People say we're getting middle class, which is stretching it a bit far, but we're attracting a lot more people in their 30s and 40s. These kids add so much to the flavour of it and should have a lot of fun but we're getting the 30 and 40-year-olds in, which changes the character of it. The demographic is changing and it's slightly worrying. We might lose the fascination the show has for the public.”

With most of the tickets in the past few years sold via the internet, Eavis claimed that teenagers were less likely to be able to get their hands on tickets, because the successful applicants were “likely to be older people, with the money for the fast connections. By selling 40% of tickets through phone lines, kids will be able to use their mobile phones to get tickets."

What do you think of Michael Eavis’s comments? Should there be more “younger” people at Glastonbury next year? Is the festival too middle-class these days? Are you a teenager who managed to get tickets on the internet? Have your say here.