Glastonbury Festival moves ticket sale back 'out of fairness'
The coach tickets were set to go live at 6pm tonight - ahead of a general sale on Sunday morning
Last updated 2nd Nov 2023
Excited fans of Glastonbury Festival are going to have to wait just a little longer to secure their tickets - as the first sale for the 2024 edition at Worthy Farm has been pushed back by a fortnight.
The issue revolves around the registration process, which wannabe ticket-holders need to have gone through before they can even get to purchasing a ticket on the official website.
The news of the sale delay has been made this afternoon (November 2) - just four hours ahead of when the first coach tickets were due to be put online.
However, they say that it's come to light that some people who were hoping to buy a ticket for next year's festival were no longer registered to get one, despite believing they were.
The original deadline was the end of October - but now, that window is opening again.
Registration opens at 12 noon on Monday, November 6 - and you have until 5pm on Monday, November 13 to make sure you're able to enter the queue to buy a ticket for the iconic event in Somerset.
In a statement on X, formally known as Twitter, festival organisers said: "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.
"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."
When they go on sale, the first set of tickets to the iconic Glastonbury Festival will see 135,000 spots up for grabs.
Everyone hoping to buy a ticket is urged to either check their existing registration or submit a new registration, which remains free of charge, from 12 noon on Monday.
Organisers have apologised for the late change to the ticket sale dates, but they say they 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.
The new sale dates are as follows:
- Tickets plus coach travel on sale at 6pm GMT - Thursday, November 16
- General admission tickets on sale at 9am GMT - Sunday, November 19
According to the social media account 'The Glasto thingy', the coach sales have all gone within half an hour.
On X - formally known as Twitter - they have broken down the stats from every year since coach tickets were introduced, and found it took:
- 28 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2014 festival
- 15 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2015 festival
- 23 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2016 festival
- 22 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2017 festival
- 29 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2019 festival
- 27 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2020 festival
- 23 minutes to sell out coach tickets for the 2023 festival
We don't yet know who's on the line-up for the 2024 edition at Worthy Farm - however, co-organiser Emily Eavis did drop a hint last week, saying she hopes a 'really big' female artist from America could be headlining the legends slot.
Those on the bill aren't expected to be announced until the New Year.
In 2023, to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS, a poem was performed on the Pyramid Stage, made to represent all 1.26 million NHS staff in England who've spent at least some of their working lives with the institution.
You can find out how Glasto marked NHS75 here.
When the registration closes again, and you didn't register to be able to apply for the latest batch of tickets, there'll be more chances for re-sale tickets in the months leading-up to the event.
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