After the primary batches of tickets to Glastonbury 2025 bought out final November and with the primary line-up now revealed, right here’s every little thing it’s essential learn about this 12 months’s competition.
Final 12 months noticed Dua Lipa make her bombastic Pyramid Stage debut, Coldplay warming hearts alongside a handful of particular company, and SZA shut the competition in a mesmerising, shape-shifting spectacle.
Elsewhere, Avril Lavigne delivered a dose of pop-punk nostalgia to one of many weekend’s largest crowds, Kasabian popped up for an, finally, not-so-secret set, and Shania Twain graced the coveted legends slot with a setlist of county-pop bangers.
With 2026 set to be a fallow 12 months, this 12 months’s version must be an enormous one. Right here’s all the data you want in your quest to safe tickets for 2025, and every little thing else we learn about Glasto 2025.
When and the place do Glastonbury 2025 tickets go on sale? When is the re-sale?
Coach and ticket packages for Glastonbury 2025 bought out in simply 32 minutes after they went on sale on Thursday, November 14. Customary tickets then went on sale on Sunday November 17 earlier than being snapped in simply 35 minutes.
The Somerset competition is notoriously exhausting to get tickets for. For 2024’s version, coach and ticket packages bought out in 25 minutes, after which the normal ticket sale bought out in just below an hour.
Should you don’t handle to safe tickets within the first spherical, re-sale tickets – these which can be undesirable by followers or for any balances that had not been paid – normally grow to be out there within the spring as soon as the line-up has been revealed. Final 12 months, coach and ticket re-sale choices bought out in simply 18 minutes, whereas normal admission re-sale bought out in 22 minutes.
It adopted the information that Glastonbury 2024 had the “highest proportion of ticket balances paid ever” – that means that “very restricted” tickets have been out there within the re-sale, in accordance with competition boss Emily Eavis.
How a lot do tickets to Glastonbury 2025 value?
As revealed earlier this month, normal admission tickets can be £373.50 plus a £5 reserving charge, which is a rise of £18.50 from 2024. Extra fare can be added on for the coach fare relying on the vacation spot if you buy a coach ticket.
You’ll must pay a £75 deposit on the time of buy, in addition to coach fare if you happen to’re reserving a coach and ticket package deal. The remaining steadiness can be payable on the primary week of April 2025.
How do I register for tickets for Glastonbury 2025?
As all the time, you’ll have to register with primary contact particulars and a passport-style picture earlier than shopping for tickets. Registration for 2025 is now open right here, earlier than the deadline of 5pm GMT on Monday November 11.
Should you registered previous to 2020 and need to try to get tickets once more this 12 months, you could have to verify if you happen to nonetheless have a sound registration. You are able to do that right here.
How straightforward will or not it’s to Glastonbury tickets? Have any adjustments been made?
This 12 months, the festival have launched a queuing system for tickets.
Which means that as an alternative of getting to refresh to aim to entry the reserving web page as soon as tickets go stay, everybody who’s already on the web page will randomly be assigned a spot in a queue as soon as ticket gross sales start.
Glastonbury bosses confirmed on the competition’s web site: “Anybody who logs on as soon as the sale has began will robotically be added to the again of the queue, so it’s necessary to be sure to are on-line prepared no less than a couple of minutes earlier than the sale opens.”
Response to the brand new queuing system for the primary batch of tickets was combined, with one hopeful attendee describing it as “my new enemy,” and one other saying, “Being in a queue for Glastonbury tickets is so boring what occurred to manically refreshing the web page each 5 seconds.”
Relatively than being proven a quantity indicating their place within the queue, it appeared that folks may maintain observe of their progress by means of a gray bar on their display – the additional alongside the queue, the extra inexperienced blocks seem over the bar.
Elsewhere, they’ve launched Google and Apple Pay funds for the primary time, too.
When will Glastonbury 2025 happen?
Conserving with Glasto custom, the 2025 competition will happen on the ultimate weekend of June, operating from Wednesday June 25 to Sunday June 29 at at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.
Who can be acting at Glastonbury 2025?
In early March, organisers shared the primary line-up poster for Glastonbury 2025 (see under). It revealed that the previously-confirmed Neil Younger can be gracing the Pyramid Stage along with his stay band The Chrome Hearts on Saturday evening. He’ll headline alongside The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo on Friday and Sunday, respectively.
Topping the invoice over on the Different Stage can be Loyle Carner (Friday), Charli XCX (Saturday) and The Prodigy (Sunday).
Different huge names throughout the weekend embody Biffy Clyro, The Maccabees, Lucy Dacus, Father John Misty, RAYE, Wolf Alice, The Prodigy, Doechii, St. Vincent, Deftones, Scissor Sisters, The Libertines and Moist Leg.
There’s a bunch of Glasto first-timers, too. These embody Alanis Morissette, Noah Kahan, Lola Younger, Myles Smith (winner of this 12 months’s BRITs Rising Star award), Busta Rhymes, Brandi Carlile and Gary Numan.
Additionally among the many first acts have been Weezer, AJ Tracey, Future Islands, JADE, TV On The Radio, Self Esteem, CMAT, Blossoms, Jorja Smith and Turnstile. Organisers promised that “many extra acts and sights [were] nonetheless to be introduced” within the coming months.
Glastonbury historically begins revealing its separate space line-ups one-by-one later within the 12 months, earlier than unveiling the complete stage occasions and day splits. Within the meantime, you may see the primary poster right here:
When will the Glastonbury fallow 12 months happen?
Other than the festivals cancelled because of COVID, the final time Glasto had an official fallow 12 months was in 2018. Nonetheless, Emily Eavis lately confirmed a fallow 12 months for the occasion at Worthy Farm set to happen in 2026 to “give the land a relaxation”.
Meaning, there can be a one-year break earlier than Glastonbury returns in 2027.
How can I get into Glastonbury 2024 free of charge?
Should you don’t handle to get a ticket or just can’t afford one, then there are alternative routes to get into the competition – so long as you’re ready to place in a bit of labor. Quite a few charities have a presence on the competition and require volunteers to assist out throughout the weekend.
In return on your ticket, you’ll be requested to finish shifts throughout the competition – the size and variety of these differ, relying on which charity you attend with. Be warned: you could have to pay a deposit on your ticket, which might be the identical worth because the entry to the competition. For extra data, go to Glastonbury’s jobs web page.
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