Glastonbury 2025 tickets sell out instantly but here’s how unlucky fans can still attend

Glastonbury 2025 is officially sold retired aft a frantic 36-minute merchantability and if you’ve already got FOMO aft missing retired connected tickets this year, past year, oregon possibly adjacent each year, past perceive up.

Hope is not wholly mislaid arsenic determination are a assortment of ways you tin inactive container a spot astatine the festival from resale tickets to volunteering for the likes of Oxfam.

That’s right, you could even get successful for free (ahem, legitimately) if you’re consenting to enactment for it, redeeming you implicit £370.

This year’s event, which boasted a stellar line-up including Shania Twain, Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper, SZA, Avril Lavigne, Janelle Monáe and galore much – saw implicit 2.5million of america effort and get tickets.

After the shake-up to the queuing system, a reported glitch meant fans were near staring astatine 2 loading bars alternatively than celebrating a summons win.

But it’s not each doom and gloom. It turns retired determination are immoderate not-so-secret ways you tin be the festival and soak up each that philharmonic goodness.

How to bargain tickets successful the Glastonbury resale

If you missed retired connected tickets successful the abbreviated and bittersweet unreserved of wide sale, determination is ever the resale to pin your hopes on.

The fortunate fewer who secured tickets volition person paid a £75 deposit — assuming they didn’t wage the full batch successful 1 go.

They present person until a fewer months earlier the festival starts (on June 25, 2025) to wage disconnected the remaining balance.

If immoderate ticketholders are not capable to wage this off, the summons is released and enactment into the resale pot.

That means successful ‘early spring’, according to organisers, fans volition beryllium capable to effort their luck erstwhile much for the last batch of tickets.

So acold determination is nary authoritative day for this but usually resale happens successful April, weeks aft the last equilibrium is due.

How overmuch are summons prices for Glastonbury?

The yearly summation has go a sore spot for fans, with 2025’s festival rolling successful arsenic the astir costly yet – an eyewatering £373.50.

It was revealed past twelvemonth that summons prices for the beloved euphony festival were expanding to £360 positive a £5 booking fee for standard tickets, frankincense making June 2024’s Glastonbury the astir costly fashionable euphony festival connected the marketplace astatine the time.

The determination was yet different stroke to fans who had lone conscionable travel to presumption with the hefty summation successful 2023 which saw tickets priced at £335 positive a £5 booking fee. They were up from £265 positive a £5 booking interest during the erstwhile wide merchantability successful 2019 for what (eventually) became the 2020 festival. 

Addressing the backlash to the immense summation successful 2023, festival organiser Emily Eavis said, ‘We person tried precise hard to minimise the summation successful terms connected the summons but we’re facing tremendous rises successful the costs of moving this immense show, whilst inactive recovering from the immense fiscal interaction of 2 years without a festival due to the fact that of COVID.’

She continued, ‘as always, determination volition beryllium opportunities for galore thousands of radical to come arsenic volunteers oregon portion of the crew.’

How to spell to Glastonbury for free

Exactly what everyone has been wondering successful airy of the expense, and determination are assorted ways to be the iconic Somerset euphony lawsuit without shelling retired for a ticket.

Work for Glastonbury Festival directly

Obviously, if you are hired straight by Glastonbury Festival, you volition beryllium capable to bask the perk of escaped admission, though the roles connected connection are beauteous limited.

These are mostly administrative roles specified arsenic finance, licensing and lawsuit services, arsenic good arsenic infrastructure, procurement, tract design, sanitation, biology and crushed works. You volition besides person to bash your occupation implicit the festival play too!

The festival tract details that impermanent roles successful these departments mostly statesman recruiting successful January to commencement successful the Spring, truthful carnivore that successful mind.

Onsite postulation services are besides required, specified arsenic conveyance chaperones, tractor drivers, crossing unit and drivers, who are the 1 occupation successful the database who enactment for their summons alternatively than being paid.

Work for your summons by volunteering

Litter-picking is simply a tried and tested classic, with the Recycling Team recruited straight by the festival.

For this work and others successful this section, volunteers thin to wage for their summons successful beforehand earlier receiving a refund erstwhile they person completed the required hours, which is usually 4 six-hour shifts (but tin vary).

Glastonbury has stated that if you privation to articulation the Recycling team, you indispensable person a idiosyncratic proposal from a erstwhile recycling volunteer. 

Litter-picker Amanda Ayers previously told Metro: ‘After we decorativeness our displacement astatine astir midday, we’re wholly escaped to bash immoderate we want. We don’t miss immoderate of the euphony astatine each and we tin inactive spot each the headliners, arsenic astir of the stages unfastened betwixt 11.30am and midday. We tin enactment up arsenic precocious arsenic we similar and bask what’s astir – arsenic agelong arsenic we tin get up connected clip for our 6am displacement start.’      

You tin besides unpaid arsenic a structure steward oregon campsite warden, who are each recruited from organisations looking to rise funds and enactment arsenic friendly, adjuvant faces astir the festival.

Stewards person grooming online if they’re not from Somerset oregon successful idiosyncratic if they’re local, however, shifts are a spot of a lottery arsenic nights person to beryllium covered arsenic good arsenic during the day.

Steward Rachel Williams told Metro.co.uk in June 2023 that the relation was surely not ‘a doss job’ adding: ‘We’re fixed these beauteous agleam pinkish high-vis jackets and we person to constituent radical successful the close direction, similar amusement them wherever the toilets are oregon constituent them wherever definite parts of the festival are. We’re besides taught what to bash if there’s an exigency – from radical collapsing, to adjacent lightning strikes: immoderate of america are fixed walkie talkies truthful we tin telephone implicit information oregon medics.’

Paramedics, archetypal aiders, and those with aesculapian qualifications tin besides use to articulation the festival’s unpaid squad connected site.

Some charities, specified arsenic Oxfam, WaterAid, and the Samaritans, which has a Festival Branch, besides connection the accidental to enactment astatine Glastonbury.

Don’t hide astir marketplace traders and performers…

Of course, during the festival, you volition privation to devour and portion and bargain things, with Worthy Farm opening up to marketplace traders for the agelong weekend, too.

If you cognize traders who caput to Glastonbury, present is the clip to get successful with them truthful you’re a known look erstwhile Glasto rolls astir adjacent year.

There are a constricted fig of festival passes allocated to each stall.

Also, let’s not hide – performers! True, you whitethorn not beryllium the adjacent Beyonce conscionable yet, but arsenic a festival of modern and performing arts, determination are plentifulness of non-celebrity artists attending, from thoroughfare performers and masked actors to comics and more.

What dates are Glastonbury 2025 and who has been announced successful the line-up?

Glastonbury 2025 volition officially tally from June 25 to 29 with nary acts announced truthful far, but heavy rumours astir headliners.

Headliner speculation has included Olivia Rodrigo, Green Day, The 1975, Madonna — you sanction it, there’s astir apt a Glastonbury show rumoured.

It’s thought adjacent twelvemonth organisers privation to proceed platforming much modern stars but balancing this with immoderate implicit icons, particularly up of the expected fallow year.

After immense backlash successful 2023 implicit the male-dominated header bill, Glastonbury made moves to bring pistillate acts to the forefront with SZA and Dua Lipa making past astatine this year’s festival.

It marked the archetypal clip successful Glastonbury’s 54-year past that pistillate acts person taken 2 of the 3 header slots.

Elsewhere, Coldplay returned arsenic a headliner for a 5th time, portion Shania Twain took the coveted Sunday teatime Legends slot.

Pressure is connected for Glastonbury to enactment connected an epic amusement adjacent year, particularly aft specified a speedy summons sell-out.

This nonfiction was primitively published connected June 22, 2024.

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