BOOMTOWN Fair has sold more than 5,000 tickets within a few hours of going on sale on Monday.

Within hours all of the Early Bird discounted tier one tickets had been snapped up.

Applications for volunteers roles such as stewarding and set building opened today.

The festival, which has sold out every year for the past five years, saw an unprecedented amount of people accessing the website to get their hands on one of the coveted discounted festival tickets.

A limited number of tier two tickets at £135 are still availableas are tier three ones priced at £150.

The event will be held on the Matterly Estate on August 7-10 2014.