Glastonbury 2025 to make use of queuing system to purchase tickets for first time

Glastonbury has launched particulars of a brand new queuing system to buy tickets for subsequent yr’s pageant.

The 2025 version of the legendary Worthy Farm occasion is because of happen between Wednesday June 25 and Sunday June 29.

As introduced final month, the primary batch of tickets will go on sale subsequent week. Those that are registered can try to purchase coach/ticket packages from 6pm GMT subsequent Thursday (November 14), with the final sale following at 9am GMT the next Sunday (17).

Basic admission tickets might be priced at £373.50 plus a £5 reserving price. After they inevitably promote out, a re-sale will begin within the spring, following the primary 2025 line-up announcement.

In a brand new Q&A piece on the official Glastonbury web site, organisers have confirmed the introduction of a brand new queuing system on See Tickets – the occasion’s official and unique ticketing platform.

Sharing info on “what’s new for 2025”, bosses wrote: “The reserving course of itself for 2025 would be the similar as in earlier years, nonetheless, the best way by which you be part of the reserving course of is altering.”

It continued: “Moderately than refreshing the holding web page to try to entry the reserving web page, this yr, 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.

“Anybody who logs on as soon as the sale has began will routinely be added to the again of the queue, so it’s vital to be sure to are on-line prepared a minimum of a couple of minutes earlier than the sale opens.”

The directions added: “As soon as you’re within the queue, a progress bar will point out how shut you’re to reaching the reserving web page.”

Clients have been then warned to not “refresh this web page or use a number of units or tabs or you might lose your home within the queue”. The replace got here alongside a sequence of screenshots exhibiting how the brand new system would work.

It continued: “Whenever you attain the entrance of the queue, you may be requested to enter the registration quantity and registered postcode for the lead booker and as much as 5 different folks for whom you are trying to ebook tickets. You’ll have 10 minutes to finish this web page earlier than your session expires, nonetheless tickets are usually not allotted at this level.

“Whenever you proceed, the main points you will have supplied might be displayed on the following web page.”

Moreover, clients might be able to use fee strategies like Google Pay or Apple Pay this yr – relying on their chosen machine. Nevertheless, tickets is not going to be allotted till the fee has been processed. You could find extra info right here.

See Tickets used a queue system for the upcoming Sam Fender UK and Eire tour lately.

Equally, Ticketmaster makes use of a queue operate for its large stay reveals and excursions. Over the summer season, a whole lot of hundreds of Oasis followers have been held in lengthy strains for the band’s 2025 UK and Eire reunion gigs. Many customers additionally reported being kicked out of the queue after Ticketmaster falsely recognized them as a bot.

These wanting to purchase tickets for Glastonbury 2025 should purchase as much as six at a time by way of See Tickets solely, and might want to pay a £75 deposit. Coach journey tickets will incur extra prices based mostly on the journey costs. The remaining steadiness for the tickets might be charged within the first week of April 2025.

As talked about by Glastonbury, followers have beforehand needed to manually refresh the See Tickets web site repeatedly in a bid to achieve the reserving web page – which is normally extraordinarily busy as a consequence of excessive demand.

For the 2024 pageant, coach and ticket packages offered out in 25 minutes earlier than the basic ticket sale offered out in just below an hour final November. Yearly, clients air their frustrations at lacking out on social media.

Some have even known as for a poll system to be launched, arguing that this might be a fairer approach to allocate tickets. Nevertheless, co-organiser Emily Eavis responded to those calls final summer season.

“It’s been a dialogue, really,” she defined. “I feel there are such a lot of folks on our database which might be registered for tickets. And I feel plenty of them don’t strive as onerous as [others].

“Half of them strive actually, actually, actually onerous [to buy tickets] and half of them perhaps strive after which don’t – they’re not as bothered about coming. So I’m not saying… it’s onerous to say the proportion precisely.”

Eavis continued: “And I feel if we did a poll, we’d find yourself with some folks [getting tickets] who weren’t essentially as bothered about coming.

“It’s actually onerous to say this yr ’trigger I do know lots of people didn’t get tickets, and so they needed them. However plenty of the time, individuals who actually, actually need them do get them by means of volunteering or by means of competitions.”

She added: “I do know it’s onerous, it’s onerous. It’s one of many worst sides to the job… there aren’t sufficient tickets for everyone.”

Eavis went on to say that organisers “can’t do something about it” and “undoubtedly can’t do two weekends” back-to-back like Coachella does. “We simply couldn’t – are you able to think about?” she defined.

In April, coach and ticket resale choices offered out in simply 18 minutes, with the basic admission re-sale promoting out in 22 minutes.

It adopted the information that Glastonbury 2024 had the “highest proportion of ticket balances paid ever” – which means that “very restricted” tickets have been out there within the re-sale, based on Eavis.

No acts have been introduced for subsequent summer season’s pageant but – however present headliner rumours embody Sam Fender, Inexperienced Day, Olivia Rodrigo and Girl Gaga. There’s hypothesis round potential units from Cher and Alanis Morrisette too. The primary wave of artists is historically revealed in early March.

Glastonbury Competition may have a fallow yr in 2026, it has been confirmed.