Anyone who has attempted to secure tickets for the UK’s largest music festival knows the stress involved. In recent times, Glastonbury has consistently sold out within hours of tickets becoming available, as millions of eager fans frantically refresh their screens on countless laptops, phones, and tablets, all vying to be among the fortunate few. In a bid to reduce the chaos, Glastonbury has introduced a change to its ticketing system ahead of this year’s sales, scheduled for later this month. The automatic queuing system will be operational before the coach ticket sale on 14 November and the general sale on 17 November. This time, anyone already on the See Tickets webpage when the sale starts will be randomly placed into a queue. A progress bar will then indicate the wait time before you can purchase your tickets. If you access the page after the sale begins—at 6pm and 9am GMT respectively—you will be added to the end of the queue. As before, once you reach the purchasing page, you can buy tickets in groups of up to six. This new system differs from the previous method, where festivalgoers had to log into the See Tickets page after the sale opened, repeatedly refreshing in hopes of navigating through the flood of other concert-goers to the purchasing page. Now, Glastonbury’s system more closely resembles the ticketing queues used by other major events like Taylor Swift and Oasis concerts. Previously, attendees would use multiple devices to increase their chances of securing tickets. However, Glastonbury has warned that “running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to access the website may result in your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket. The same applies to sharing cookies and QueueIDs.” They advise using “one tab/device per IP address and not refreshing your page once you are in the queue.” As before, Glastonbury has a registration system in place, requiring hopeful ticket buyers to sign up ahead of the sale. Tickets are linked to individuals with photo ID to prevent resale by touts. Registration closes on 11 November. Ticket prices have increased again this year, with general sale tickets costing attendees £373.50 (€454.50). The hope is that this new system will make the process easier and fairer for those trying to access the highly sought-after festival. 2024’s event was a sensory overload with standout performances from major stars like Dua Lipa. Some dedicated fans are worried that this new system will disrupt their well-organized setups involving multiple devices and detailed group chats and spreadsheets for ticket buying. However, in an ideal scenario, this change will streamline the ticket purchasing process and make it more accessible and fairly distributed among all hopeful attendees. Glastonbury will take place from 25-29 June 2025. No acts have been announced yet, but whoever headlines, this will undoubtedly be one of the hottest tickets of the summer.
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