Glastonbury is altering the way in which followers can purchase tickets for the world-famous pageant.
Whereas the reserving course of itself will stay the identical, the way in which folks be a part of it’s completely different.
Organisers warned hopefuls to log in “at least a few minutes” earlier than the sale opens on 14 November, to keep away from refreshing the web page and to not try and sport the system by utilizing a number of gadgets.
Followers should be registered by 5pm GMT on Monday 11 November.
Tickets for the annual occasion at Worthy Farm in Somerset value £373.50 plus a £5 reserving price, and are offered solely by means of the See Tickets web site, with no third-party sellers concerned.
The sale follows chaos earlier this 12 months when tickets for the Oasis reunion went on sale, seeing a large number of disillusioned followers in addition to those that felt cheated after being charged a whole bunch of kilos extra for his or her tickets than was initially marketed.
The pageant web site explains: “Fairly than refreshing the holding web page to try to entry the reserving web page, this 12 months, when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everybody who’s already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com web page will randomly be assigned a spot in a queue to entry the reserving course of.
“Anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, so it’s important to make sure you are online ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens.
“As soon as you might be within the queue, a progress bar will point out how shut you might be to reaching the reserving web page.
“Please do not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs or you may lose your place in the queue.”
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Pic: Glastonbury Competition web site
As soon as followers attain the entrance of the queue and enter their registration particulars, they may be capable to buy a most of six tickets – however they won’t have lengthy to take action.
The location warns: “You will have 10 minutes to complete this page before your session expires, however tickets are not allocated at this point.”
It additionally cautions: “Do not attempt to minimise the tab or open new tabs. If you move away from the tab you are on your session may expire”.
The recommendation additionally says that if the quantity of visitors on the web site is especially excessive, customers might even see a “reduced version of the See Tickets booking site, with a minimal holding page”.
It provides: “This does not mean the site has crashed”.
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The group at Coldplay’s 2024 headline set at Glastonbury Competition. Pic: PA
The location discourages customers from utilizing a number of gadgets to extend their possibilities of getting tickets, warning it might actively hurt getting by means of.
It says: “Refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or many devices can look like suspicious behaviour and can harm your chances of getting through by triggering anti-bot software; therefore you must stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue”.
One exception to the refresh rule is that if the message, “All available tickets have now been allocated” pops up, at which level refreshing the web page will imply any orders that have not been processed will return on sale, and so might turn into that can be purchased.
As soon as the message “SOLD OUT” seems, it is sport over, and no extra tickets shall be launched again on the market.
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Competition-goers leaving this 12 months’s occasion. Pic: PA
There shall be one other probability, nonetheless, when any returned tickets go on resale within the spring, providing pageant followers a second chew of the cherry.
Whereas subsequent 12 months’s acts will not be introduced till after tickets go on sale, Oasis have already dominated themselves out of performing, telling followers: “Despite media speculation, Oasis will not be playing Glastonbury 2025 or any other festivals next year. The only way to see the band perform will be on their Oasis Live ’25 World Tour.”
2026 is prone to be a fallow 12 months for Glastonbury (a 12 months off), with the pageant historically happening 4 out of each 5 years, and the fifth 12 months reserved for rehabilitation of the land.
Glastonbury Competition takes place from 25 to 29 June 2025.
