Glastonbury tickets sell out in 35 minutes with new queuing system: “Hello two bars my old friend”

17 November, 2024

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Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have sold out today (November 17) in just 32 minutes, prompting a variety of reactions from fans navigating a new queuing system.

The festival will return to Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset from June 25 to 29, 2025. It has already been confirmed that Glastonbury will take a fallow year in 2026.

Confirming the sell-out, Glastonbury wrote on their social media channels: “Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply.

“There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.”

Ahead of next year’s edition, Glastonbury has introduced a new queuing system for tickets, meaning that rather than needing to keep refreshing to access the booking page, everyone on the page was randomly assigned a place in a queue once sales began.

Glastonbury bosses confirmed on the festival’s website: “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.”

As with the coach sale, the reaction to the queuing system has been mixed. Some have said they prefer the adrenaline of refreshing the page every five seconds as was the case in previous years – “the refresh button for glastonbury tickets was so much better cause at least I could feel like I was doing something, going to nod off staring at two green bars all morning,” one X/Twitter user wrote.

Others were disorientated by the lack of queuing numbers, as is used in the Ticketmaster sale. “Begging #Glastonbury to add queue numbers so I know that I’m two millionth and can get on my with my day of sulking,” another X/Twitter user wrote.

Even Specsavers chimed in, describing the two bars on their social media channels as “the worst eye test in the world”.

Meanwhile, fans who were unsuccessful in getting tickets felt the new queuing system giving them an illusion of progress made the disappointment worse. “Getting 15 bars and then seeing the sold out sign might just be worse than sitting on 2 the entire time.
For the 7th year in a row, hello darkness my old friend,” one said.

Another said: “To everyone who got tickets, enjoy the festival. I hope it makes you very happy. Dear Lord, what a sad little life. You ruined my Sunday completely, so you could have the tickets. #glastonbury.”

A third wrote: “What sort of sick twisted joke is this, I’d rather of been at 2 bars and get the sold out message.”

Check out more reactions below:

Fans encountered the new queuing system for the first time in the coach and ticket package sale on Thursday (November 14). Tickets in that sale sold out within 32 minutes, slightly slower than last year when coach tickets sold out in just 25 minutes.

In 2023, coach tickets sold out in 22 minutes with main tickets selling out in an hour, and re-sale tickets selling out in just six minutes. The previous year, re-sale tickets sold out in 20.

For those unable to secure tickets this week, re-sale tickets are usually made available in the spring. However, these tend to sell out quickly, too, with coach and ticket re-sale bundles selling out in just 18 minutes and general re-sale tickets selling out in 22 minutes this year.

2024’s festival saw Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA headlining, with other memorable sets from the likes of Shania Twain, Little Simz, Fontaines D.C. and IDLES.

The line-up for 2025 is still under wraps – though co-organiser Emily Eavis confirmed at the end of this year’s festival that she was “already in talks” with some acts – but among the rumoured headliners are Olivia Rodrigo – who’s in the UK on June 27 for a BST Hyde Park headline show – The Rolling Stones, Green Day – announced to be headlining Download earlier in June – and AC/DC.

Others mooted include Harry Styles, Sam Fender, Raye, Taylor Swift – who was set to headline in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the festival’s cancellation – and Eminem.

Oasis had been rumoured following their announcement of a reunion tour for next year, but they confirmed that they won’t be playing festivals next year with with frontman Liam Gallagher calling Glastonbury “full of drips” in a tweet last month.

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