Glastonbury Festival 2025: Everything we know so far

The festival will take place between June 25 and 29, with musical performances starting on Thursday evening (June 26). Before then, festival goers can explore the site, secure a camping spot and enjoy the wealth of activities and arts facilities that Glastonbury has to offer.

Crucially, Glastonbury will take a year off in 2026 to allow the land at Worthy Farm to recover from the volume of attendees that descend on the grounds during the festival. The site covers approximately 1,500 acres of land and will host approximately 200,000 people for the week. Away from the event itself, it operates as a working dairy farm all year round. Glastonbury's last fallow was held in 2018.

The pre-sale of the tickets is scheduled to take place in two phases. Combo ticket and coach packages will go on sale at 6 p.m. (GMT) on November 14, while general admission tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. (GMT) on November 17. pre-registration form before November 11, for which they had to provide a passport-style photograph along with contact details.

For the 2025 edition of the festival, there will be changes to the booking process at Glastonbury. The introduction of an automatic queuing system means that instead of a waiting page being refreshed, prospective ticket buyers will be given a place in the queue as soon as tickets are available. Users who reach the front of the line will be able to purchase a maximum of six tickets at a time.

In the past, buyers have expressed negative experiences with Glastonbury's previous route for using a random ticket allocation process. Last year, the festival sold out in 58 minutes.

In this official ticket buying guideGlastonbury has stated that people using multiple devices to access the sale could adversely affect their chances of securing tickets. “Refreshing the page, using multiple tabs or using multiple devices may look like suspicious behavior and may hurt your chances of getting past anti-bot software activation,” the festival warned.

tickets for Glastonbury 2025 will cost £373.50 (approx. $481) for a General Admission Full Weekend ticket, plus an additional £5 (approx. $6) booking fee. This is an increase of around £18.50 ($23.55) on the price of 2024. In order to combat the hawking of tickets, Glastonbury tickets remain strictly non-transferable.

The minute the curtain fell on Glastonbury 2024, rumors started swirling around possible names for next year's edition. festival boss Emily Eavis confirmed this. Speaking to festival-emily-eavis-already-9378827″>Glastonbury Free Press in late June, he said the festival was “already in talks with acts” for 2025, hailing Glastonbury as a place where we can all “find our common ground” and adding that it “restores your faith in humanity. “

There are a number of acts vying to headline Glastonbury 2025. Among those names are Newcastle-born musician Sam Fender, who is currently preparing to release the follow-up to his second LP, Seventeen Going Underwhich reached No. 1 of the United Kingdom Official album Chart in October 2021.

There is also talk of that recent one Bulletin board Cover star Olivia Rodrigo may be making her big return to Worthy Farm. She recently confirmed a date at London's BST Hyde Park for June 27 and has also rescheduled her ill-fated gigs at Manchester's Co-op Live Arena for June 30 and July 1 – raising the prospect that she could also appear at Glastonbury last weekend. .

Also in the mix are global superstars like Harry Styles (who is expected to work on his fourth album, following the Billboard 200 Harry's house) and Madonna. The latter was rumored to take the Sunday title in 2024 until negotiations are completed reportedly canned against a performance fee. Similarly,album-21411552/”> Rihanna is also said to be in talks to headline – though fans likely won't see the full lineup until next spring.

Until then, there's only one major name we can be sure of. Despite their much-anticipated return to the stage next year via a world reunion tour, Oasis have rejected any idea of ​​performing at Worthy Farm. A recent statement on the Gallagher brothers' official social media channels read: “Despite media speculation, Oasis will not be playing Glastonbury 2025 or any other festivals next year. The only way to see the band will be on the Oasis Live '25 world tour.”

While the lineup is traditionally kept under wraps until a few months before the festival, music fans will continue to keep any and all speculations swirling ahead of its announcement.

After a successful UK tour over the summer, recent reports suggest so Glastonbury organizers want to book Girls Aloudfollowing a huge crowd for girl group Sugababes at the 2024 festival. Betting Site OddsChecker, meantime, has also noted that Eminem and Fred Again are in the running for Pyramid Stage appearances.

UK music fans can watch live coverage of Glastonbury via BBC iPlayer, which is available on TVs and smart devices (phones, tablets, laptops) and streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime and Chromecast. Audio coverage is also available via the BBC Sounds app.

For those who want to tune in from elsewhere around the world, the BBC Music YouTube channel has several playlists of key performances over the years.