Glastonbury 2025 tickets sell out instantly but here’s how unlucky fans can still attend-Lillie Rohan and Danni Scott-Entertainment – Metro

Don’t panic, there’s still plenty of ways you can get to Glastonbury (Picture: Harry Durrant/Getty Images)

Glastonbury 2025 is officially sold out after a frantic 36-minute sale and if you’ve already got FOMO after missing out on tickets this year, last year, or maybe even every year, then listen up.

Hope is not entirely lost as there are a variety of ways you can still bag a place at the festival from resale tickets to volunteering for the likes of Oxfam.

That’s right, you could even get in for free (ahem, legitimately) if you’re willing to work for it, saving you over £370.

This year’s event, which boasted a stellar line-up including Shania Twain, Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper, SZA, Avril Lavigne, Janelle Monáe and many more – saw over 2.5million of us try and get tickets.

After the shake-up to the queuing system, a reported glitch meant fans were left staring at two loading bars rather than celebrating a ticket win.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. It turns out there are some not-so-secret ways you can attend the festival and soak up all that musical goodness.

2025 has marked the most expensive tickets ever for the music event (Picture: Getty)

How to buy tickets in the Glastonbury resale

If you missed out on tickets in the short and bittersweet rush of general sale, there is always the resale to pin your hopes on.

The lucky few who secured tickets will have paid a £75 deposit — assuming they didn’t pay the whole lot in one go.

They now have until a few months before the festival starts (on June 25, 2025) to pay off the remaining balance.

If any ticketholders are not able to pay this off, the ticket is released and put into the resale pot.

That means in ‘early spring’, according to organisers, fans will be able to try their luck once more for the final batch of tickets.

So far there is no official date for this but usually resale happens in April, weeks after the final balance is due.

How much are ticket prices for Glastonbury?

The yearly increase has become a sore spot for fans, with 2025’s festival rolling in as the most expensive yet – an eyewatering £373.50.

Organiser Emily Eavis, pictured with her founder father Michael Eavis, defended the price increase (Picture: Getty)

Glastonbury Festival’s iconic Pyramid Stage will return next year (Picture: SWNS/Avalon/Getty Images)

It was revealed last year that ticket prices for the beloved music festival were increasing to £360 plus a £5 booking fee for standard tickets, thus making June 2024’s Glastonbury the most expensive popular music festival on the market at the time.

The move was yet another blow to fans who had only just come to terms with the hefty increase in 2023 which saw tickets priced at £335 plus a £5 booking fee. They were up from £265 plus a £5 booking fee during the previous general sale in 2019 for what (eventually) became the 2020 festival. 

Addressing the backlash to the huge increase in 2023, festival organiser Emily Eavis said, ‘We have tried very hard to minimise the increase in price on the ticket but we’re facing enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show, whilst still recovering from the huge financial impact of two years without a festival because of COVID.’

She continued, ‘as always, there will be opportunities for many thousands of people to come as volunteers or part of the crew.’

How to go to Glastonbury for free

Exactly what everyone has been wondering in light of the expense, and there are various ways to attend the iconic Somerset music event without shelling out for a ticket.

SZA made her Glastonbury debut this year (Picture: Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage)

Work for Glastonbury Festival directly

Obviously, if you are hired directly by Glastonbury Festival, you will be able to enjoy the perk of free admission, although the roles on offer are pretty limited.

These are largely administrative roles such as finance, licensing and customer services, as well as infrastructure, procurement, site design, sanitation, environmental and ground works. You will also have to do your job over the festival weekend too!

The festival site details that temporary roles in these departments generally begin recruiting in January to start in the Spring, so bear that in mind.

Onsite traffic services are also required, such as vehicle chaperones, tractor drivers, crossing staff and drivers, who are the one job in the list who work for their ticket rather than being paid.

Work for your ticket by volunteering

Litter-picking is a tried and tested classic, with the Recycling Team recruited directly by the festival.

For this duty and others in this section, volunteers tend to pay for their ticket in advance before receiving a refund once they have completed the required hours, which is usually four six-hour shifts (but can vary).

Litter-picking is a very popular volunteer role (Picture: Getty)

Glastonbury has stated that if you wish to join the Recycling team, you must have a personal recommendation from a previous recycling volunteer. 

Litter-picker Amanda Ayers previously told Metro: ‘After we finish our shift at about midday, we’re completely free to do whatever we want. We don’t miss any of the music at all and we can still see all the headliners, as most of the stages open between 11.30am and midday. We can stay up as late as we like and enjoy what’s around – as long as we can get up on time for our 6am shift start.’      

You can also volunteer as a tent steward or campsite warden, who are all recruited from organisations looking to raise funds and act as friendly, helpful faces around the festival.

Stewards receive training online if they’re not from Somerset or in person if they’re local, however, shifts are a bit of a lottery as nights have to be covered as well as during the day.

You too could wear one of these vests… (Picture: Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage)

Steward Rachel Williams told Metro.co.uk in June 2023 that the role was certainly not ‘a doss job’ adding: ‘We’re given these lovely bright pink high-vis jackets and we have to point people in the right direction, like show them where the toilets are or point them where certain parts of the festival are. We’re also taught what to do if there’s an emergency – from people collapsing, to even lightning strikes: some of us are given walkie talkies so we can call over security or medics.’

Paramedics, first aiders, and those with medical qualifications can also apply to join the festival’s volunteer team on site.

Some charities, such as Oxfam, WaterAid, and the Samaritans, which has a Festival Branch, also offer the chance to work at Glastonbury.

Don’t forget about market traders and performers…

Do you think Coldplay paid for their tickets? (Picture: Matt Jelonek/WireImage)

Of course, during the festival, you will want to eat and drink and buy things, with Worthy Farm opening up to market traders for the long weekend, too.

If you know traders who head to Glastonbury, now is the time to get in with them so you’re a known face when Glasto rolls around next year.

There are a limited number of festival passes allocated to each stall.

Also, let’s not forget – performers! True, you may not be the next Beyonce just yet, but as a festival of contemporary and performing arts, there are plenty of non-celebrity artists attending, from street performers and masked actors to comics and more.

What dates are Glastonbury 2025 and who has been announced in the line-up?

Glastonbury 2025 will officially run from June 25 to 29 with no acts announced so far, but heavy rumours about headliners.

Headliner speculation has included Olivia Rodrigo, Green Day, The 1975, Madonna — you name it, there’s probably a Glastonbury performance rumoured.

It’s thought next year organisers want to continue platforming more modern stars but balancing this with some absolute icons, especially ahead of the supposed fallow year.

Who will take the coveted Legends slot? (Picture: Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)

After huge backlash in 2023 over the male-dominated headline bill, Glastonbury made moves to bring female acts to the forefront with SZA and Dua Lipa making history at this year’s festival.

It marked the first time in Glastonbury’s 54-year history that female acts have taken two of the three headline slots.

Elsewhere, Coldplay returned as a headliner for a fifth time, while Shania Twain took the coveted Sunday teatime Legends slot.

Pressure is on for Glastonbury to put on an epic show next year, especially after such a quick ticket sell-out.

This article was originally published on June 22, 2024.

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