Glastonbury festival tickets sale pushed back by two weeks – live updates

NEWS JUST IN! A note from Glastonbury organisers:

Glastonbury to move 2024 ticket sale back by two weeks

This year’s Glastonbury ticket sale has been moved back by two weeks. This is to ensure that everyone who would like to buy a ticket is registered and therefore eligible to purchase one. The new dates for Glastonbury ticket sale are as follows:

TICKETS PLUS COACH TRAVEL ON SALE AT 6PM GMT, THURSDAY, 16TH NOVEMBER

GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS ON SALE AT 9AM GMT, SUNDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER

Following this year’s Festival, we alerted everyone with a registration which pre-dated 2020 of a scheduled review of the details held by See Tickets in the Glastonbury Festival registration database. This was in order to ensure that the details we hold are current and that we do not store individuals’ information for any longer than is necessary. These registrants were asked to take action to confirm their registration if they wished to keep it.

As always, registration was then closed on Monday (30th October) ahead of the ticket sale.

Unfortunately, it has come to light that some individuals hoping to buy tickets for 2024 have discovered after Monday’s registration deadline that they are no longer registered, despite believing they were.

Out of fairness to those individuals, we will be re-opening the window for registration at 12 noon on Monday, 6th November. It will remain open until 5pm on Monday, 13th November.

We urge everyone hoping to buy a ticket to Glastonbury 2024 to either check their existing registration https://glas.to/lookup now or submit new registration, which remains free of charge, at https://glastonburyregistration.co.uk/, from 12 noon on Monday. We apologise for the late change to the ticket sale dates, but we want to ensure that everyone who would like to buy a ticket for next year’s Festival is able to confirm their registration ahead of the sale.

Glastonbury’s last-minute announcement that it will be delaying ticket sales by two weeks has caused an uproar among fans.

Several have pointed out that this four hours notice impacts so many people who “will have made arrangements to make sure they’re available and ready for these sales”.

“Bit mad it’s at such short notice, had taken time off work to be able to try tonight and Sunday,” one tweeted. “Understand it’s out of fairness but we all had the same notice and it’s not like there was multiple notifications sent to everyone.”

“Some people work weekends and nights, I changed all my shifts around to fit the dates and will not be bow to change any more shifts for the new dates. How is that fair people had enough warning. Now many will miss out due to last minute changes after being organised,” another wrote.

The full festival lineup typically isn’t unveiled until May – just one month before it takes place at Worthy Farm, Somerset – but that won’t stop music fans from speculating over who could top the Pyramid Stage.

Eavis has hinted that next year’s festival could be headlined by two women, with another in the Legend Slot, following fierce criticism at 2023’s all-male headliners.

Read more to take a look at some of the other rumours doing the rounds:

Tickets to Glastonbury Festival are going on sale in two weeks, but who’s going to be on the lineup?

OK, so we’re nearing that time, 6pm, when Glastonbury coach tickets will go on sale and the frenzy will ensue. Yes, it’s stressful, but there are several ways to minimise that stress and make sure you’re nice and organised ahead of time. So here’s what to check for:

• A good internet connection. The last thing you need is your broadband failing at the precise moment the transaction is going through.

• The time. You need to be on the tickets page on the Glastonbury website at precisely 6pm on 2 November, or 9am on 5 November for general sale. So set your alarms!

• Money at the ready. Make sure your correct bank details, including the right billing address, and know the answers to any additional security questions you might be asked by your card issuer (this is likely if you’re buying multiple tickets). Accept the terms and conditions and make sure you complete the check out within the allocated time slot.

• It’s not over until the SOLD OUT sign appears on the Glastonbury website. So don’t freak out if you see a message notifying fans that “all available tickets have now been allocated”. That means the orders are being processed, but at least a few people end up running out of time… meaning the tickets are up for grabs again.

• Avoid multiple tabs. As stated on the Glastonbury website, trying to buy tickets on multiple tabs could actually put you at risk of confusing the ticket sales process and result in a failed transaction. “We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, in order to avoid possible problems with your transaction,” Glastonbury says.

Tickets will cost £355 and a £5 booking fee. Those lucky enough to secure tickets, however, will only need to pay a £75 deposit (plus coach fare if successful on the Thursday sale) when booking in November. The remaining balance will be paid in the first week of April 2024.

Glastonbury hopefuls must be registered in order to pay a deposit and secure tickets for the festival each year. Registration may not guarantee you a ticket, as it’s estimated that 2.5 million people try for just over 200,000 tickets – but it does mean you’re in with a chance.

The full Glastonbury lineup probably won’t be revealed until May next year, with headliners and other artists teased in the run-up to the event after tickets have gone on sale. But that won’t stop everyone (including us) speculating over who could headline the Pyramid Stage in 2024. This year’s lineup was criticised after all three headliners turned out to be blokes: Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, and Elton John, plus Cat Stevens in the Legend Slot.

Next year is still anybody’s guess, but co-organiser Emily Eavis has been teasing the fact that she’s in talks with some big names.

“2024 is still a little up in the air,” she told Annie Macmanus and Nick Grimshaw on Thursday’s episode of their podcast, Sidetracked with Annie and Nick.

“And I thought it was kind of taking shape and then last week I just got a call, and this is what happens if you wait a little longer, because quite often we’ll be booked up from July. This year we’re holding out for a little bit longer and last week I got a call from a really big American artist saying this person’s around next year, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is incredible.’ Thank God we held the slot.”