Glastonbury tickets 2025 live: Tickets sell out after fans endure ‘horrendous’ queue
Fans hoping to get tickets for next year’s Worthy Farm event had to navigate new queuing system for first time
The Glastonbury Festival 2025 tickets have officially sold out after 37 minutes.
Festival organisers debuted a new system for ticket buyers on Sunday (16 November), but many disappointed hopefuls branded it “horrendous” after all the tickets were whipped up after 37 minutes.
According to the Glastonbury website, fans were “randomly assigned a place in a queue” rather than having to refresh the holding page when the tickets went live.
The unlucky fans who did not bag a ticket took to social media to slam the new system, which was introduced for the first time this year and had already sparked concerns ahead of the sale.
One addressed the festival’s organiser as they posted on social media: “@emilyeavis why oh why have have you input this system. Worse than before. Punters hate it being out of their control. It’s horrendous.”
No headliners have been announced for next year’s festival – but demand is expected to be higher than ever as Glastonbury, which is set for between Wednesday 25 June to Sunday 29 June, will be taking a year off in 2026.
Over half of the tickets have sold out
A nice little encouraging update from Glastonbur organisers appeared on the waiting page at 9.24am.
“Over half the tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now been sold.”
It’s official
This is giving strong “lights up at the end of the night” energy.
Glastonbury hopefuls left upset over ticketing system
Another year, another bunch of people left unhappy after failing to get Glastonbury tickets.
While the new teicketing system was designed to make the entire thing a cleaner operation, there are still many hoping to go to the festival for the first time who won’t see that dream realised for at least another two years, as the festival will be taking a break in 2026.
There have been calls to introduce “a fairer system” when tickets for Glastonbury 2027 go on sale.
Please create a fairer system that prioritise those of us who fail to get tickets year on year!
— Simon McEvoy (@tweetsimonm) November 17, 2024
Unlucky fans who did not bag tickets to Glastonbury Festival 2025 have taken to social media to slam the new ticket queue system.
Fans slam ‘outrageous’ Glastonbury ticket queue as festival sells out in 37 minutes
The road to Glastonbury: What makes a Pyramid Stage headliner, and why is it so hard to find them?
As Worthy Farm gears up once again to welcome Glastonbury fans, the question of who should take top billing at the UK’s best-loved music festival is becoming harder to answer.
Not to mention increasingly controversial.
So what do organisers look for in a headline act? And should they be changing tack?
Roisin O’Connor reports
The road to Glastonbury: Why is it so hard to find a headliner?
Eminem ‘lined up’ for Glastonbury 2025 headline slot
A report has claimed that music giant Eminem is being lined up to headline Glastonbury Festival for its 2025 event.
According to an “insider”, Glastonbury organisers are seeking to avoid similar criticisms next year by securing one of the biggest names in music for the Pyramid Stage.
Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has never performed at Glastonbury before, though has headlined other prominent European festivals, including Reading and Leeds in 2017.
The report, published by the Daily Mail, claims that discussions are already underway between Glastonbury and Eminem’s representatives, with the festival eager to acquire the “Slim Shady” rapper’s talents.
Among the other major acts to have been rumoured for a headline slot in recent years are Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Stevie Wonder.
Read more below.
Glastonbury Festival announces major change to ticket-buying process ahead of sale
The change was confirmed on Tuesday 5 November, ahead of the sales on 14 and 17 November.
“The booking process itself for 2025 will be the same as in previous years, however, the way in which you join the booking process is changing,” a statement on the Glastonbury website said.
“Rather than refreshing the holding page to attempt to access the booking page, this year, when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process.”
The statement said that anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, “so it’s important to make sure you are online and ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens”.
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