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Hannah Roberts

Glastonbury ticket sales cut for 2025 to ease overcrowding, says Emily Eavis

Emily Eavis opens the gates on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Glastonbury Festival has sold “a few thousand less tickets” this year in a bid to avoid overcrowding, organiser Emily Eavis has said.

The music festival, which usually has capacity for 210,000 people, is returning later this month, with British pop band The 1975, folk star Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts, and US pop singer Olivia Rodrigo topping the bill.

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