Customary Glastonbury Competition tickets for 2025 offered out in lower than 40 minutes after organisers adopted a brand new reserving system.
The brand new system noticed Glastonbury hopefuls get “randomly assigned a spot in a queue” as a substitute of getting to refresh the holding web page as soon as they went dwell.
Organisers mentioned: “Due to everybody who purchased one and sorry to those that missed out, on a morning when demand was a lot greater than provide. There can be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.”
Earlier within the week coach tickets offered out inside half an hour for the well-known competition in Somerset, which is about to happen between 25 and 29 June subsequent yr.
Tickets for the annual occasion at Worthy Farm offered faster this yr than final yr when it took round an hour for all of them to go.
They value £373.50 plus a £5 reserving payment this yr, up £18.50 from the worth final yr, and have been offered solely by the See Tickets web site.
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Ticket sale strategies and costs for occasions have been a controversial matter this yr, significantly attributable to Oasis followers’ expertise attempting to get tickets to their reunion reveals in August.
Followers have been left outraged after spending hours queueing for tickets solely to seek out some had greater than doubled in value from round £148 to £355.
The band’s long-awaited reunion has led to a lot hypothesis that Noel and Liam Gallagher will headline Glastonbury, however they denied this whereas their tickets have been up on the market.
“Regardless of media hypothesis, Oasis won’t be enjoying Glastonbury 2025 or some other festivals subsequent yr,” they mentioned in an announcement. “The one method to see the band carry out can be on their Oasis Stay ’25 World Tour.”
The headliners this summer time on the long-lasting Pyramid Stage have been Dua Lipa, SZA and Coldplay, who made historical past as the primary act to headline the competition 5 occasions.
2026 is more likely to be a yr off for Glastonbury, with the competition historically going down 4 out of each 5 years, and the fifth yr reserved for rehabilitation of the land.