Fans brand Glastonbury queue ‘boring’ as thousands rush online to get tickets

Fans hoping to secure Glastonbury festival tickets have branded the new online queuing system “annoying” amid a major change.

Earlier this month, festival officials announced that those seeking tickets to next year’s event would be placed in virtual queues online, reminiscent of how tickets for the Oasis’ big reunion tour were initially made available.

This will mark a difference to how tickets were previously made available, where fans could refresh a landing page to see availability. Instead, hopeful participants were greeted by a queue page asking them not to refresh the site and found themselves staring at a slow loading bar with green tabs.

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Fans have also been warned against using multiple devices at once – with a registration number and postcode to be used for one “booking manager” and five others via the SeeTickets website. Tickets and coach travel went on sale on Thursday, November 14 at 6 p.m. Regular tickets will be available from Sunday, November 17 at 9 a.m.

X, formerly Twitter, was flooded with complaints concerning the new page of reservation queues, which said: “Please do not update this page or use several devices or tabs because you could lose your place in the queue When it is your turn, you will have 10 minutes to access the ticket reservation site.

But it appears fans missed the ‘manic refresh’ of the booking page – before all coach travel tickets were sold out in just 33 minutes.

@seanstardust_ said: “I didn’t think I’d miss the manic refreshment, but looking at those two green bars for 10 minutes is BORING,” as @IraBanerjee2 posted: “Wow, that queuing experience at Glastonbury is so boring that I miss the manic refreshment now. “.

@bonaldmcdonald added: “Being in a queue for Glastonbury tickets is so boring what happened to frantically refreshing the page every five seconds”, as @HannahAlOthman wrote: “This system “Buying Glastonbury tickets is a lot fairer but a lot more boring.”

Tickets will cost £13.50 more than this year’s event and will be priced at £373.50 each, with an additional booking fee of £5. Over the past six years, ticket prices have increased by £100 since 2019.