Glastonbury has launched particulars of a brand new queuing system to buy tickets for subsequent yr’s competition.
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 overall sale following at 9am GMT the next Sunday (17).
Normal admission tickets will probably be priced at £373.50 plus a £5 reserving charge. After they inevitably promote out, a re-sale will start within the spring, following the primary 2025 line-up announcement.
In a brand new Q&A bit 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 identical as in earlier years, nonetheless, the best way wherein 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 essential to ensure you are on-line prepared no less than a couple of minutes earlier than the sale opens.”
The directions added: “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.”
Prospects have been then warned to not “refresh this web page or use a number of gadgets or tabs or it’s possible you’ll lose your house within the queue”. The replace got here alongside a collection of screenshots exhibiting how the brand new system would work.
It continued: “Once you attain the entrance of the queue, you can be requested to enter the registration quantity and registered postcode for the lead booker and as much as 5 different individuals for whom you are trying to e-book tickets. You should have 10 minutes to finish this web page earlier than your session expires, nonetheless tickets usually are not allotted at this level.
“Once you proceed, the main points you’ve gotten supplied will probably be displayed on the subsequent web page.”
Moreover, clients might be able to use cost strategies like Google Pay or Apple Pay this yr – relying on their chosen machine. Nonetheless, tickets won’t be allotted till the cost has been processed. You will discover extra info right here.
See Tickets used a queue system for the upcoming Sam Fender UK and Eire tour not too long ago.
Equally, Ticketmaster makes use of a queue perform for its large reside reveals and excursions. Over the summer time, tons of 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 buy as much as six at a time through See Tickets solely, and might want to pay a £75 deposit. Coach journey tickets will incur further prices based mostly on the journey costs. The remaining stability for the tickets will probably 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 constantly in a bid to achieve the reserving web page – which is often extraordinarily busy as a consequence of excessive demand.
For the 2024 competition, coach and ticket packages offered out in 25 minutes earlier than the normal ticket sale offered out in slightly 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 could be a fairer technique to allocate tickets. Nonetheless, co-organiser Emily Eavis responded to those calls final summer time.
“It’s been a dialogue, truly,” she defined. “I believe there are such a lot of individuals on our database which can be registered for tickets. And I believe lots of them don’t strive as arduous as [others].
“Half of them strive actually, actually, actually arduous [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 arduous to say the proportion precisely.”
Eavis continued: “And I believe if we did a poll, we’d find yourself with some individuals [getting tickets] who weren’t essentially as bothered about coming.
“It’s actually arduous to say this yr ’trigger I do know lots of people didn’t get tickets, they usually wished them. However lots of the time, individuals who actually, actually need them do get them via volunteering or via competitions.”
She added: “I do know it’s arduous, it’s arduous. 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 “positively 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 normal admission re-sale promoting out in 22 minutes.
It adopted the information that Glastonbury 2024 had the “highest proportion of ticket balances paid ever” – that means that “very restricted” tickets have been accessible within the re-sale, in accordance with Eavis.
No acts have been introduced for subsequent summer time’s competition but – however present headliner rumours embrace Sam Fender, Inexperienced Day, Olivia Rodrigo and Woman Gaga. There’s hypothesis round potential units from Cher and Alanis Morrisette too. The primary wave of artists is historically revealed in early March.
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