Less than two weeks before its much-anticipated sale, Glastonbury Festival has announced a change to the way people will be getting their hands on next year’s tickets.
The change, which was confirmed on November 5, will see hopeful customers assigned to a queue to access the booking process - as opposed to being held at a landing page until being ushered through to the ticket page.
“The booking process itself for 2025 will be the same as in previous years, however, the way in which you join the booking process is changing,” the festival said in a statement.
Once in the queue, fans will be greeted with a progress bar that will track how close they are to getting through to booking - and Glastonbury has also asked fans not to refresh the page or use multiple tabs and devices, or risk losing their place.
It added that this time around, customers who log on once the sale has started will be added to the back of the queue, “so it’s important to make sure you are online and ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens”.
However, the buying process itself seems not to have changed. Once through to the booking page, customers will need to enter their registration numbers and postcodes, as well as that of the other five people in their group.
All registration numbers, postcodes and names must be correct - and ticket buyers will have 10 minutes to fill out the information before the end of the session, before adding their payment details.
Glastonbury tickets have always been infamously hard to secure. In 2019, 2.5 million people registered for tickets, while only 143,000 were made available. Last year, tickets sold out in under an hour - while the team said that “very limited” numbers of tickets had been made available for resale.
The sale for 2025 tickets will start at 6pm on Thursday November 14 for coach, and at 9am on Sunday November 17 for general admission.
Customers will be required to pay a £75 deposit per ticket, with the rest of the fee (totalling £373.50) payable in April.
