Glastonbury resale

You’ll probably have heard of Glastonbury Festival – it’s one of the biggest musical events in the world, with a history going back more than 50 years, now held on a 900-acre dairy farm in Somerset, in south west England.
Anyway, it’s fair to say that Glastonbury is pretty popular. In 2022, half a million people applied for tickets, hoping to be among the 200,000 or so lucky people who get to go. As you can imagine, this makes getting a ticket very difficult.
So what can you do? You can join the long queue to try and get a ticket on the day of general release, but you’ve not got much chance. The vast majority of tickets are sold in advance, leaving a very small number to be sold on the day. So most people either don’t get a ticket, or they pay through the nose to get one from one of the unscrupulous online ticket touts.
I say unscrupulous because Glastonbury is actually very strict about who can sell tickets, and of course, they’d far rather you buy a ticket directly from them than from a tout. That’s why Glastonbury’s resale policy is so strict. In order to re-sell your ticket, you have to register for a ticket resale with Glastonbury themselves, and whoever buys the ticket has to have their details checked before they’re admitted to the festival. In other words, the days of buying a ticket from a tout for hundreds more than face value are over.
So, that’s the good news. Glastonbury’s resale policy actually works really well. Hopefully, this will mean that getting a ticket to the festival will become easier for everyone. As someone who’s been to Glastonbury a few times, I can vouch that it really is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Admittedly, I’ve been lucky to get a ticket in the past, but next year, I’ll be joining the quarter of a million people hoping to get one of the 200,000 tickets. If I don’t get one, I’ll be waiting until next time to try and get a Glastonbury ticket, because there’s no way I’m paying some tout an inflated price.