It’s a Sunday morning in November, which for millions of people across the country indicates one thing – the final attempt to get your hands on Glastonbury Festival tickets this year.
There is of course the re-sale in April next year – but this is the main event for festival goers. The first sale of tickets for the 2025 festival was on Thursday evening – and it saw the first batch of tickets sell out in just 33 minutes.
Any Glastonbury Festival aficionado will know of the pain, stress and agony of having to refresh multiple devices in the hopes that you can get your hands on one of the most sought after gig tickets in the world.
But this year things are a little different, festival organisers have revamped the booking system, implementing an auto-queue feature. Fans looking to purchase tickets on the Sunday sale need to be queued up online ahead of time. Many fans though were not thrilled with the new ticket progress bar and many questioned whether anyone had achieved more than two bars.
Eager Glastonbury fans took to X, formerly Twitter, in their moment of need this morning to vent their frustration at only seeing ‘two bars” on the online queueing page in front of them – and it seemed to be the case for most people hoping to get their hands on tickets.
One X user said: “I’m assuming two bars is the website laughing at me”, whilst another shared a picture of the screen in front of them with the caption: “What fresh hell is this”, and another said “Is this purgatory?”. Another appropriately called it the ‘bar of doom’.
Even opticians Specsavers got involved – tweeting a picture of the two green bars with the caption: “The worst eye test in the world has just dropped…#Glastonbury”.
Another user, who failed to get tickets on Thursday and tried again this morning added: “Joke of a sale both times never moved from two bars.” Whilst another said: “Time to stare at two green bars for the next half hour before the sold out announcement comes. At least with previous years I felt like I was doing something pressing F5 #Glastonbury“.