With less than three weeks to go until Glastonbury, the official festival app has finally launched, giving festivalgoers a taste of what to expect come June 28.
The app, which was launched with the festival’s official partner, Vodafone, can be downloaded from the Google Play and Apple stores under the name Official Glastonbury App 2024, and boasts a host of brand-new features.
Top of the list is Spotify integration: a new Discover feature will recommend artists performing at the festival, based on the Spotify profiles of the app user.
There’s also Map Pinning, which will hopefully end the pain of trying to find your friends in a festival site of 200,000 people. This allows fans to set waypoints on the app’s Map section and share them with others, which in turn will make it easier to meet up with people, or even find their tent at the end of a long night raving. Handily, there’s also directional navigation at hand too: just set the destination and follow.
People who use the Map will also be able to filter the festival site for specific information – such as food stalls, merch stands and even the best accessible campsites or viewing platforms. There is also a Vodafone charging tent in the centre of the festival, near the Other Stage, for WiFi and those in need of a power socket or two.
Pre-existing features have also been upgraded, in particular the Line-up element. While people have long been able to see line-up information, the improved version will let fans share their lines-up with each other (or on social media), pin their favourite stages to the top of the page and organise the line-up by artist, stage and time.
It will also highlight when favourited artists overlap: handy for sorting clashes in advance.
This year’s Glastonbury Festival takes place from June 28 to July 1 and will see an estimated 200,000 people descend upon Worthy Farm in Somerset for a long weekend of musical celebrations.
This year’s headliners are Coldplay, SZA, and Dua Lipa, but Shania Twain will also be making an appearance in the Legends slot – while South Korean K-Pop band Seventeen will be making their festival debut too.
