Glastonbury Festival hopefuls will no longer be able to mindlessly refresh the page (Picture: Tim Dyson/Redferns)
Glastonbury Festival’s infamous ticket-buying bloodbath just made a serious change and fans are officially worried for November 14.
The legendary festival – which will take place on Worthy Farm on June 25 to 29 – has always been a total ticketing free for all, as fans simply repeatedly refresh glastonbury.seetickets.com in the hope they will get the timing just right to swoop into the purchase room.
But the days of hard F5 refreshes every few seconds are officially behind us, and hopefuls will be instead staring at their screen in what will likely be a very, very long queue.
The festival has revealed: ‘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.
‘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.’
There is now going to be a queue system (Picture: Glastonbury)
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 ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens.
‘Once you are in the queue, a progress bar will indicate how close you are to reaching the booking page.’
The festival also stressed: ‘Please do not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs or you may lose your place in the queue.’
Once you get to the front of the queue, business resumes as normal, and festival-hopefuls will enter registration numbers, postcodes, for themselves and up to five other people.
Don’t use this opportunity to make a cup of tea though – obviously – as you will only have 10 minutes to complete the booking.
May the odds be ever in your favour…
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