Hopeful Glastonbury fans have gone to war for tickets tonight as the first round of tickets went on sale at 6pm.
Millions of festival lovers around the world have entered the Glastonbury 2025 ticket bloodbath in the hopes of making it to Worthy Farm next summer.
Primed with multiple devices and spreadsheets at the ready, Glastonbury fans are battling it out in what is one of the most competitive tickets sales to date, after organisers announced a dramatic shake up to how the process will run.
The first mad dash to secure a spot on Worthy Farm between June 25 and 29 is taking place tonight as coach tickets for the festival went up on sale at 6pm, before a wider general admission sale at 9am on Sunday.
The unlikely odds have not dampened the spirits of some punters looking to get their hands on a ticket, which this year will cost up to £378.50, with a £75 deposit (plus coach fare) payable today. The rest is due in April 2025.
Last year, all coach tickets sold out in just 25 minutes as organisers said demand majorly outsripped supply.
Hopeful Glastonbury fans have gone to war for tickets tonight as coach packages went on sale at 6pm. Pictured: Revellers dance at the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in 2022
Glastonbury hopefuls have fumed at the new queuing system that has come in for this year’s tickets
Sir Elton John performs on the Pyramid stage during day five of Glastonbury Festival 2023
The staggering cost for 2025 marks a 68 per cent rise in the price of a ticket in the last 10 years
In total, about two-and-a-half million people battled it out for tickets, with just 210,000 available.
MailOnline revealed last week that the cost of a Glastonbury 2025 ticket marks a 68 per cent rise in cost since 10 years ago.
This week’s ticket sale is set to be more competitive this year after organisers announced a huge shake-up for buying tickets the festival in a move that left some fans furious.
The organisers have created an online queue for this year’s ticket sale.
This will mean that anyone who logs onto the Seetickets website before the sale starts at 6pm or 9am respectively will be randomly assorted a place in a queue along with thousands of others.
They will then be met with a progress bar indicating how close they are to reaching the booking page.
Once this runs outs, fans will be given 10 minutes to enter the website and purchase up to six tickets for the festival.
While the move is supposedly meant to make the process much fairer for Glastonbury hopefuls, some have claimed they will ‘no longer be rewarded for their persistence’ and could see huge numbers of less devoted fans taking part.
In yet another shake-up, the statement also revealed that using multiple devices may ‘harm your chances’ at getting tickets.
‘Whilst we understand that everyone wants to have the best possible chance of booking a ticket, running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket,’ the statement added.
After being randomly assorted a place in a queue along punters will then be met with a progress bar indicating how close they are to reaching the booking page (pictured)
Many fans pointed to the chaotic sales of Oasis’ reunion tickets earlier this year as a prime example of how a queueing system could backfire (File image)
Thousands were left devastated after they failed to grab tickets in August’s general sale – with the band confirming all 17 of their shows had been sold out within hours of them going on sale
Many fans have criticised the move, pointing to the chaotic sales of Oasis’ reunion tickets earlier this year as a prime example of how a queueing system could backfire.
Niki Sorabjee said: ‘Awful decision, the previous ticket sale rewarded the determined. Look what happened with Oasis with a queue. Really hope this doesn’t dilute the crowd. Pls rethink this.’
Another devastated fan wrote: ‘Screams problems, got through for Oasis then kicked out after trying to pay, cannot bare that this is possibility for Glastonbury now.’
Thousands were left devastated after they failed to grab tickets in August’s general sale – with the band confirming all 17 of their shows had been sold out within hours of them going on sale.
Many blamed technical issues on Ticketmaster for their failures as they were forced into a queue just to join the waiting room.
Others reported getting kicked out of the website as they got to the front having waited in the virtual line for several hours.
Some hopefuls also reported being ‘suspended’ by the ticket seller after it accused them of being ‘bots’.
