Glastonbury Festival’s ticket sale has been delayed by two weeks to be fair to customers whose registration has expired. A month ago, some older profiles were deleted, and several fans claimed they were unaware of the issue. In advance, customers must register their identities to purchase tickets as part of an anti-scalping system. The festival’s announcement came four hours before the scheduled sale of coach travel tickets. These tickets will now be released on November 16 at 6 p.m. GMT, and general admission tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. on November 19.
Registration to buy tickets will reopen on November 6 at 12 p.m. and close the following Monday at 5 p.m. Customers were alerted by email that registrations created before 2020 would be deleted on October 2, with the chance to re-register before the 30 October deadline. Organizers said sales were being delayed to be fair to those individuals who only discovered they were no longer registered after the October 30 deadline had passed.
Tickets for the 2024 festival will cost £355 plus a £5 booking fee, up from £335 for this year’s event. The 2023 festival saw a bigger price increase of £55, resulting from the pandemic and considerable rises in costs. Next year will be the third Glastonbury Festival to take place following the pandemic when the 2020 and 2021 events were pushed back.
From June 26 to 30 in 2024, the world-famous music festival will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with the lineup still to be confirmed. On the Pyramid Stage, Elton John headlined last year’s festival as the final performance on his farewell tour. Other performers included Guns N’ Roses and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as Lizzo. Emily Eavis, the event’s organizer, recently revealed during a podcast that a “really big American artist” had been offered one of the headline slots
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