Glastonbury 2023 - updates: Festival fans rage as tickets sell out amid ‘technical issue’
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Your support makes all the difference.Glastonbury fans battled to buy tickets for the 2023 festival on Sunday morning (6 November).
The music festival returns to Worthy Farm next summer from Wednesday 21 June to Sunday 25 June.
The first round of tickets, which included coach travel, went on sale at 6pm on Thursday (3 November). They sold out in 22 minutes, with many prospective punters reporting that the website didn’t load for them at all.
The remaining Glastonbury tickets were snapped up by those who had previously registered for tickets.
Only tickets bought via SeeTickets will be valid at the festival.
Glastonbury is known for being one of the toughest festivals to get tickets for, and tickets sold out inless than an hour despite Seetickets reporting a “technical problem”.
Follow along with all the live updates as they happened below.
An update! From Seetickets!
75 per cent of tickets have now been sold.
If you’re feeling sad, look out the window and find some consolation in the fact that those who did get tickets will probably be camping in that weather.
Report from a friend that they just got six tickets... so, keep trying, we guess?
For those who didn’t get tickets, resale occurs at the end of March.
As we mentioned before, though, there are reports of people still being able to buy tickets despite the official “sold out” message.
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