The much-anticipated ticket sales for Glastonbury Festival 2025 kicked off on Thursday evening, sparking a massive online rush.
A hordes of music lovers were predicted to scramble for a chance to attend the magical event scheduled at Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 25 to June 29 next year, with additional pressure to secure spots due to 2026 being a designated fallow year.
In light of the expected rush, festival organisers have revamped the booking system, implementing an auto-queue feature. Fans looking to purchase tickets on Thursday and during the Saturday sale need to be queued up online ahead of time.
The initial batch vanished within minutes33, to be precise. At 6:33 pm, SeeTickets announced: “Coach tickets for @Glastonbury 2025 are now SOLD OUT. The general admission ticket sale will take place Sunday at 9am (GMT).”
Glastonbury organisers added: “the Glastonbury 2025 tickets + coach travel which were on sale this evening have now all been sold. Our thanks to everyone who bought one. Standard tickets are on sale at 9am GMT on Sunday morning – and @nationalexpress will offer coach travel to standard ticket holders from across the UK.”
Many fans though were not thrilled with the new ticket progress bar and many questioned whether anyone had achieved more than two bars.
Earlier this month, festival bosses announced that those looking for tickets to next year’s event will be placed in online virtual queues – sparking similarity to how tickets for Oasis’ big reunion tour were first made available.
X, formerly Twitter, became flooded with complaints about the new booking queue page, which read: “Please do not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs as you may lose your place in the queue. When it is your turn, you will be have 10 minutes to enter the ticket booking site.”
@seanstardust_ said: “I didn’t think I would miss manically refreshing but looking at these two green bars for 10 mins is BORING,” as @IraBanerjee2 posted: “Wow this Glastonbury queuing experience is so boring I kinda miss the manic refreshing now.”
@bonaldmcdonald added: “being in a queue for Glastonbury tickets is so boring what happened to manically refreshing the page every five seconds,” as @HannahAlOthman wrote: “This Glastonbury ticket buying system is much fairer but much more boring.”
‘Where are the queue numbers?!’ asked @craftybison, while @muinatabdul added with a screen shot: ‘My new enemy.’
‘New Glastonbury ticket system is awful,’ added @FPL_Marcello, while @A_L_P__ added: ‘bring back the refresh!’
‘Are we all just stuck on two green bars?’; asked @HollieFitzxo while @TheLakesTony said: ‘Sort of missing the aggressive f5’ing to be honest
@glastonbury. This @seetickets queue is moving slower than my rural post office on a Monday morning.’
Hope isn’t lost for those who missed out, as general admission tickets will be up for grabs again this coming Sunday, 17 November, starting at 9 am.
Tickets will cost £373.50 + £5 booking fee and are sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com. See Tickets is the exclusive seller of Glastonbury Festival’s coveted passes; no other agency or website has tickets to offer, reported Manchester Evening News.
However, being registered for the event does not ensure a ticket, with recent years seeing demands vastly exceed what’s available.
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