Glastonbury organisers have issued a warning to anyone attempting to buy tickets for this year's festival.
The first tickets for the 2025 festival, which takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 25 to 29, will go on sale on Thursday evening. Millions of people are expected to log on to try and bag themselves a ticket, but only a few thousand will be successful.
Coach packages will be the first tickets available from 6pm on Thursday, while general admission tickets will follow on Sunday at 9am. Anyone hoping to get themselves a ticket will have had to register their details in advance.
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This year, Glastonbury has made a significant change to the way tickets are bought, introducing a queue system. Usually people have to refresh a holding page to try and get through to the booking page, but this year they will be placed in a queue which will show their progress before eventually taking them to the booking page automatically.
Anyone who is on the ticket website before the sale starts will be randomly allocated a place in the queue, according to Glastonbury's website. Anyone who attempts to get on the page after the sale starts will join at the back of the queue.
Glastonbury tickets are notoriously difficult to get hold of as demand hugely outweighs the number of tickets on sale. The challenge of securing tickets has led some to try and come up with ways of increasing their chances - such as having several people try and get on the website for them, or logging on with a number of different laptops or phones.
However, this year, Glastonbury has warned that doing so could in fact harm your chances of getting tickets. Organisers have warned that using multiple devices, or having multiple tabs open on one device, could result in you losing your place in the queue.
Organisers explained that anti-bot software could pick up on multiple devices or tabs as 'suspicious activity' and boot you out of the queue for being a robot. On a ticket FAQ on its website, Glastonbury explained whether using multiple devices could increase someone's chances of getting tickets. It warned: "No, in fact it may harm your chances."
The FAQ explained: "Whilst we understand that everyone wants to have the best possible chance of booking a ticket, running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked, preventing you from buying a ticket. The same applies to sharing cookies and QueueIDs.
"Refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or many devices can look like suspicious behaviour and can harm your chances of getting through by triggering anti-bot software; therefore you must stick to one tab/device per IP address and please do not refresh your page once you are in the queue."
This marks a change from previous years when ticket-buyers were encouraged to refresh the holding page to increase their chances of getting through to the booking stage.
Queue systems are becoming more popular for high-demand events as ticket sellers attempt to crack down on touts reselling tickets for hugely inflated prices. Back in August, people attempting to buy tickets for the Oasis reunion faced a queue system that left some waiting several hours before getting through to the booking page. Some fans, however, reported getting kicked out of the queue and sent to the back, getting an error message that read: "Something about your browsing behaviour or network connection made us think you were a bot."
Glastonbury has its own unique ticket buying process that sees all attendees register their details in advance to get the registration number needed to buy a ticket. Attendees have to register a photo which is printed on their ticket to ensure they are the only person able to use it to enter the event.
This year, tickets for Glastonbury will cost £373.50 plus a £5 booking fee. A £75 deposit (plus coach fare if booking a coach package) must be paid during the November sale, with the rest of the balance payable in the first week of April next year.
