Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 sold out yesterday (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 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 organisers 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.”
For the first time, the organisers 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. The new approach received a mixed response from punters. Inevitably, those who were lucky enough to get tickets declared it a huge success and those who didn't, were insisting the old system be re-instated with all the excitement of hitting the F5 button every 20 seconds. Either way the simple fact is demand for tickets is always going to outstrip supply.
So if you haven't secured a golden ticket, what are the (legal) alternatives? Firstly there are lots of ways in which you can volunteer at the festival and you'll find details of all the organisations and charities asking across all the social media platforms. Or you could go on a summer break and leave the country (and disappointment) behind, or hide away for the week in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere, without any contact with the outside world or social media so you don't have to endure the constant posts and selfies of everyone else having the time of their lives!
Of course there is also the opportunity to attend an alternative festival, some of the bigger ones being Latitude, Isle of Wight, Reading & Leeds and Download. But there are also lots of smaller, boutique like festivals that are just as much fun to attend and without all the 'challenges' the bigger festivals bring. Some of our favourites include, Bestival, Beautiful Days, Black Deer, Strawberries & Creem and Wilderness festival.
Our final recommendation? Hold your own festival of course! You could get together with your friends and family, find a venue and let Fest4You do all the rest. So please don't hesitate to get in touch to organise your own, Glasthomebury!
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