Glastonbury announces change to ticket buying process ahead of 2025 sale

Glastonbury has changed the mode fans volition articulation its booking process up of tickets going connected merchantability for the satellite celebrated festival adjacent week.

Festival-goers antecedently had to refresh the holding leafage erstwhile tickets went live, but present they volition beryllium randomly assigned a spot successful the queue if they are already waiting connected the website.

Coach question tickets volition spell connected merchantability connected Thursday November 14 astatine 6pm portion modular tickets volition travel connected Sunday November 17 astatine 9am.

In a 2025 Ticket Sale FAQ posted to their website connected Tuesday, the festival said: “The booking process itself for 2025 volition beryllium the aforesaid arsenic successful erstwhile years, nevertheless the mode successful which you articulation the booking process is changing.

“Rather than refreshing the holding leafage to effort to entree the booking page, this year, erstwhile the summons merchantability begins (at 6pm oregon 9am respectively) everyone who is already connected the glastonbury.seetickets.com leafage volition randomly beryllium assigned a spot successful a queue to entree the booking process.

“Anyone who logs connected erstwhile the merchantability has started volition automatically beryllium added to the backmost of the queue, truthful it’s important to marque definite you are online acceptable astatine slightest a fewer minutes earlier the merchantability opens.

“Once you are successful the queue, a advancement barroom volition bespeak however adjacent you are to reaching the booking page.”

The festival has warned prospective buyers to not refresh the leafage oregon usage aggregate devices oregon tabs arsenic “you whitethorn suffer your spot successful the queue”.

This alteration comes aft a spotlight was shone connected assorted issues wrong online summons selling including the usage of dynamic pricing and tickets being resold by touts.

The taxable made headlines aft the merchandise of Oasis tickets successful September prompted the Government and the UK’s contention watchdog to pledge they would look astatine the usage of prices surging successful enactment with demand.

In a bid to forestall touting, Glastonbury customers person to registry successful beforehand to bargain tickets for the event, which volition instrumentality spot astatine Worthy Farm successful Somerset from June 25 to 29 adjacent year.

Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 volition outgo £373.50 positive a £5 booking fee, which is simply a £18.50 emergence from the 2024 terms of £355 positive a £5 booking fee.

Last year, manager tickets sold retired wrong 25 minutes portion modular tickets were each bought wrong an hour.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis has antecedently said 2026 volition beryllium a fallow twelvemonth for Glastonbury, to let the onshore to remainder and recover, but she is already successful talks with acts to header successful 2025.

The 2024 festival was the archetypal twelvemonth the lawsuit has featured 2 pistillate headliners connected the Pyramid Stage, Dua Lipa connected Friday and SZA connected Sunday.

On Saturday Coldplay made past arsenic the archetypal enactment to header the festival 5 times.