Fans brand Glastonbury queue 'boring' as thousands scramble online for tickets

Fans hoping to grab tickets for the Glastonbury festival have branded the new online queuing system as 'boring' amid a major change.

Earlier this month, festival bosses announced that those looking for tickets to next year’s event will be placed in online virtual queues - sparking similarity to how tickets for Oasis’ big reunion tour were first made available.

This will mark a difference in how tickets have previously been made available where fans were able to refresh a landing page for availability. Instead, hopeful attendees were greeted with a queue page asking them not to refresh the site and instead found themselves staring at a slow-moving loading bar with green tabs.

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Fans were also warned against using multiple devices at one time - with one registration number and postal code to be used for a ‘lead booker’ and five others via the SeeTickets website. Tickets plus coach travel went on sale on Thursday, November 14 at 6pm. Regular tickets will be made available from Sunday, November 17 at 9am.

X, formerly Twitter, became flooded with complaints about the new booking queue page, which read: "Please do not refresh this page or use multiple devices or tabs as you may lose your place in the queue. When it is your turn, you will be have 10 minutes to enter the ticket booking site."

But it seemed fans missed the 'manic refreshing' of the booking page - before all coach travel tickets sold out within just 33 minutes.

@seanstardust_ said: "I didn’t think I would miss manically refreshing but looking at these two green bars for 10 mins is BORING," as @IraBanerjee2 posted: "Wow this Glastonbury queuing experience is so boring