Glastonbury 2024 ticket updates: Sunday general sale looms after two-week delay

After the hiccup with registration earlier this month, things should hopefully run more smoothly as tickets go on general sale on Sunday (19 November).

Here’s our music correspondent Roisin O’Connor’s top tips to help ensure you get those Glastonbury 2024 tickets:

• A good internet connection. The last thing you need is your broadband failing at the precise moment the transaction is going through.

• The time. You need to be on the tickets page on the Glastonbury website at precisely 6pm on 16 November, or 9am on 19 November for general sale. So set your alarms!

• Money at the ready. Make sure your correct bank details, including the right billing address, and know the answers to any additional security questions you might be asked by your card issuer (this is likely if you’re buying multiple tickets). Accept the terms and conditions and make sure you complete the check out within the allocated time slot.

• It’s not over until the SOLD OUT sign appears on the Glastonbury website. So don’t freak out if you see a message notifying fans that “all available tickets have now been allocated”. That means the orders are being processed, but at least a few people end up running out of time… meaning the tickets are up for grabs again.

• Avoid multiple tabs. As stated on the Glastonbury website, trying to buy tickets on multiple tabs could actually put you at risk of confusing the ticket sales process and result in a failed transaction. “We strongly advise that you use just one browser tab when trying to book tickets, in order to avoid possible problems with your transaction,” Glastonbury says.

That’s all, folks. Coach tickets for Glastonbury 2024 have officially sold out – it took just 25 minutes.

Fear not, though. If you have other means of transport, general tickets will go on sale on Sunday, 19 November at 9am GMT.

See Tickets has warned hopefuls that “any departures for @Glastonbury 2024 showing as ‘tickets not available’ are now fully booked, please select an alternative departure day/time.”

Unsurprisingly, it took just 15 minutes for the Wednesday coach tickets to sell out. Thursday still available for now it seems…

Some brilliant reactions are already pouring in on Twitter/X as people sit on the holding site.

It’s important to laugh through the pain.

This is it folks! Glastonbury tickets including coach travel are online now. If you haven’t already, follow the link below.

This is probably the last thing you’ll want to hear, but I’m feeling mischievous. Last year, about 2.5 million people tried to get tickets to Glastonbury with capacity locked at 210,000.

Those odds may not look great, but fear not – we’re here to give you the best shot possible. Take a look at our top tips pinned to the top of this blog and make sure you’re as ready as can be when tickets drop at 6pm.

Last month, Glasto organiser Emily Eavis dropped some major hints about the 2024 headliners, revealing that the legend slot will be a female act.

“2024 is still a little up in the air,” she told Annie Macmanus and Nick Grimshaw on the 26 October episode of their podcast, Sidetracked with Annie and Nick.

“And I thought it was kind of taking shape and then last week I just got a call, and this is what happens if you wait a little longer, because quite often we’ll be booked up from July. This year we’re holding out for a little bit longer and last week I got a call from a really big American artist saying this person’s around next year, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is incredible.’ Thank God we held the slot.”

She continued: “It is difficult with female artists because there aren’t enough headliners. But we’re also creating them. We’re putting the bands and female artists on smaller stages and bringing them through all the time so I feel like the pool is going to be bigger soon. And who knows next year we might get two… And certainly I can say that the legend is female.”

On Saturday (4 November), MailOnline ran a report claiming that the three headliners had been confirmed as Madonna, Dua Lipa and Coldplay.

This lineup would have matched with Eavis’s hint that two female artists will headline next year, after Glastonbury was criticised for the all-male artists topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage this year.

While Arctic Monkeys and Elton John were originally signed up to perform, it was widely rumoured that Guns N’ Roses replaced US pop star Taylor Swift, who apparently pulled out due to commitments for her Eras tour.

Despite strong rumours that Madonna will headline next year, Eavis debunked the entire report as “untrue”, writing on Twitter the following day: “As always, there is much speculation and excitement about who is playing next year at Glastonbury.

Eavis said headline acts won’t be revealed until the new year as it’s ‘changing every day’