Glastonbury tickets take over an hour to sell out after ‘technical problem’



Online merchantability lasts doubly arsenic agelong arsenic mean arsenic See Tickets net tract repeatedly crashes

The Pyramid signifier astatine the Glastonbury pageant successful 2022. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Pyramid signifier connected the Glastonbury contention successful 2022. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty ImagesNadia Khomami Arts and civilization correspondentSun 6 Nov 2022 06.40 ESTLast changed connected Sun 6 Nov 2022 07.Forty 1 EST

Tickets for consequent yr’s Glastonbury pageant took other than an hr to beforehand retired aft the tract experienced a “technical hassle”.

The 2nd motorboat of tickets changed into made disposable from 9am connected Sunday and offered retired done 10.03am – longer than the mundane 30 minutes it takes for the pageant.

Many customers suggested the website online repeatedly crashing, arsenic See Tickets, the endeavor strolling terms summons income for the pageant, requested radical to “undergo with us” adjacent arsenic they had been “working connected a method hassle”.

Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis apologised to individuals who didn't get tickets connected Sunday morning. “Although we're pleased that truthful a batch of you request to travel to consequent year’s Glastonbury, we’re atrocious that a large assortment of radical missed retired connected a terms tag this greeting – due to the fact that telephone for a ways outstripped deliver.

“Thank you to everybody who attempted to store for a terms tag. Your loyalty to this festival is profoundly favored. There could beryllium a terms tag resale successful outpouring 2023, truthful if you didn’t get one, delight bash effort again then.”

Coach tickets, which dwell of transport to the Worthy Farm venue successful Somerset, offered retired successful 22 minutes last Thursday, with galore quality beings reporting that the website did present not adjacent load for them.

In 2019, the eventual clip tickets went connected sale, astir 2.Four cardinal humans attempted to get tickets for the occasion, which has a capableness of 210,000 unneurotic with unit and volunteers.

The interest of tickets has risen from £265 positive a £five reserving interest successful 2019 to £335 positive £5 booking interest for consequent year, nevertheless the roar does present not look to person deterred festivalgoers. Eavis blamed the maturation connected the “good sized rises successful the costs of moving this sizable show” adjacent arsenic “still convalescing from the ample monetary interaction of years with retired a pageant owed to Covid.”

She said that the accustomed possibilities would beryllium to beryllium had for “thousands of quality beings” to unpaid oregon enactment arsenic portion of the crew. “In those notably hard times, we privation to proceed to bring you the high-quality show wrong the planetary and supply our charities with funds that are other captious than ever.”

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Glastonbury celebrated its fiftieth twelvemonth this summertime play aft the pandemic pressured organisers to cancel the contention 2 times. The juncture returns to Worthy Farm from Wednesday 21 June to Sunday 25 June, with the lineup yet to beryllium recovered out.