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Glastonbury 2023 - updates: Festival fans rage as tickets sell out amid ‘technical issue’

As predicted, it’s been the most stressful morning of the year

Jacob Stolworthy
Monday 07 November 2022 01:14 EST
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Glastonbury 2023: Five tips to better your chances of securing tickets

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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.

Tickets are not sold out yet

Keep trying! There has been no word on whether it’s sold out just yet, so keep that Glasto positivity going

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:27

Advice from Seetickets - it looks like the last tickets are being snapped up but failed transations might open up more tickets. Keep going.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:28

The latest advice is taken from this tweet here:

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:30

As of nine minutes ago, more than half of the tickets had sold out – so there can’t be a lot remaining.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:35

A lot of reports of people getting through to the tickets purchase ‘processing’ page – and then being booted out.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:36

Still no sold out message though, so go go go!

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:39

This about sums it up, really, doesn’t it?

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:40

Still no new update from Seetickets or the official Glastonbury page.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:42

As per the Glasto Twitter page, stick to one device.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:45

More and more reports of the holding page and, even worse, the ticket processing page repeatedly crashing.

Jacob Stolworthy6 November 2022 09:50

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