Last week, Michael caught up with BBC Somerset about the history old railway line which runs through the Festival site – including how it helped him with “courting” in his youth. Listen to the interview below:
We’re pleased to confirm that the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza 2016 will be held on Saturday, August 6.
The 2016 spectacular complete with traditional firework display will be the 20th Extravaganza to be held in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey.
Last year Ray Davies, who was the lead vocalist and songwriter for The Kinks, rocked the abbey with support from The Shires and The Drystones. Previous headliners have included Robert Plant, Bryan Ferry, Status Quo, Madness, Van Morrison and Jools Holland.
Gift vouchers for the 2016 event can be bought now from the abbey shop or online at www.glastonburyabbey.com/extravaganza. Advance prices are staying the same as 2015 with adults £35 and £20 for a child aged six to 16. On the gate prices will be £40 adult and £25 for a child. Accompanied children aged five and under do not require a ticket. Booking and postage fees apply.
Says Michael Eavis: “We thought we’d make it slightly easier for you to choose a Christmas present for your friends this year by offering a voucher for next year’s Extravaganza. This is our 20th anniversary so expect something really special next year!”
Janet Bell, director of the abbey, says: “The Extravaganza is a highlight of the year for many people and we look forward to hearing who will be playing in 2016; the vouchers will make a great gift for Christmas.”
The acts and more details about the event itself will be announced in the New Year.
You can currently aave a 1/3 off all Glastonbury 2015 clothing and posters in the our online shop sale using the code GLASTOSALE at checkout (please note that limited quantities available). Click here to head to the shop now.
UPDATE: All caravan/campervan tickets, onsite tipis and the Worthy View pre-erected accommodation has now sold out. Any returns / cancellations will go back on sale at glastonbury.seetickets.com, so if you missed out, it’s worth keeping an eye out on there.
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Bookings for caravan/campervan tickets, onsite tipis and the Worthy View pre-erected campsite will open at 12 noon on Thursday, 29th October, at glastonbury.seetickets.com. For more information, please see below.
Anyone planning to bring a campervan or campervan in 2016 will need to book their own campervan/caravan tickets (£100 per ticket for either the East or West fields; or £200 for a double pitch for oversized vehicles, in the East fields only) and will need to present both their named campervan/caravan ticket and Festival ticket to be able to park in these fields. Campervan/caravan tickets will feature the name and address of the ticket booker. An FAQ about campervan/caravan tickets can be found here.
The Festival Tipi Village, on the southern slopes of the Festival site between the Green Fields and the Park continues to offer a unique camping experience within the Festival fence line. Each tipi costs £975 to hire, and can sleep up to 6 people. Tipis come complete with groundsheet and rain-catcher; however they are intended to be an elemental experience, without the trappings of ‘luxury’ campsites. You will need to bring your own bedding, and expect to be using basic camping facilities. For further information please click here.
Now in its fourth year, Worthy View offers unpretentious, custom-made and pre-erected Festival accommodation a short walk from the Festival site (up the hill above the Stone Circle field) – leaving you with nothing to carry home but your bags. The Worthy View car park is in a dedicated field, a short walk from the accommodation. A full list of the options available at Worthy View can be found here.
In order to make an accommodation booking you must already have a valid ticket booking for Glastonbury 2016. Prices do not include Festival tickets. Everyone who wishes to stay at Worthy View must have a valid Festival ticket. All prices are for five nights: Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June, inclusive.
You can, of course, also choose to camp within the Festival’s main camping areas, which is included within the price of your ticket.
In 2016, National Express will once again be running coaches direct to the Festival’s on site coach station for ticket holders. Coaches will pick up from over 70 locations around the UK, arriving from early Wednesday morning onwards.
Coach travel is one of the greenest ways to arrive at the Festival and it means you don’t have to worry about driving yourself when you’re tired after the event.
For a limited time, coach fares have been frozen at 2015 prices. Plus, if you’re travelling in a group of 4 or more you’ll receive a 25% discount. Click here to book your seat now.
UPDATE: We’re very pleased to report that our auction and raffle raised more than £105,000 for Oxfam’s refugee appeal. Enormous thanks to everyone who contributed, it really will make a big difference. (The winners have all now been contacted.)
To raise money for Oxfam’s Refugee Crisis Emergency Appeal, we are offering unique Glastonbury Festival and Worthy Farm experiences in a text-to-enter raffle and an online auction – including tickets for the sold out 2016 Festival.
See above for details on how to enter the raffle.
The auction, on the Oxfam Shop on eBay, ends on Tuesday 13th October. The lots on offer are as follows (with the times in BST that they’ll each start and finish).
All 10 auctions will have starting bids of £1 – but please be generous! Click here to bid now.
Says Emily Eavis: “The plight of refugees who have left their homes due to fear and aggression has moved everyone in the Glastonbury Festival team and we want to do something to help. We hope this auction will raise many thousands of pounds so that Oxfam, which has been a trusted partner of Glastonbury for many years, can deliver the support these people so desperately need.”
Oxfam is coming to the aid of refugees from many parts of the world. The charity’s Refugee Crisis Emergency Appeal is helping Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan providing life saving water and sanitation. It’s also giving essential support to refugee families in Europe handing out food, clothes, shoes and personal hygiene kits.
Says Oxfam’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer Penny Lawrence: “We are so grateful to Glastonbury Festival for donating the items for this amazing auction. All the money raised will help refugees far from their homes who are enduring heartbreaking situations. Once again we are touched by Glastonbury’s generosity, kindness and support.”
We’re also pleased to announce the winners of our Traders Awards at Glastonbury 2015.
Entries for the 2015 Awards were completed before our traders even got to site this year and we had an amazing number of applications. The competition was tough and our Gold Prize (which is a free pitch for next year) for the most sustainable food trader was awarded to The Green Brownie who sell the most amazing chocolate brownies in the B2 Market, opposite the Williams Green venue. The Green Brownie strives to be a sustainable and organic trader by growing and producing much of their own ingredients and compost most of their own waste on site taking it home to help in their food production. Some of the energy is provided by solar power and much of the stall is made out of reusable materials. Well done Lorna & Chunk.
Our Gold Prize for the most sustainable non-food trader was awarded to Sarah Turner who hand makes beautiful & unique lighting, sculptures, flowers & artworks by upcycling waste materials such as plastic bottles & cans. Sarah’s design ethos is that “just because a product is made from rubbish, it doesn’t mean it needs to look like it does!” There were some amazing items on display and for sale at the festival and we look forward to welcoming Sarah back next year.
With votes cast by Twitter for the People’s Choice Award, contenders were Tea & Toast, Ghandi’s Flip Flop, Goan Seafood Co, Barley Sugar Bake House & No Bones Jones. Tea & Toast were the outright winners serving up delicious snacks throughout the Festival. Ben’s motto is to ‘keep people well fed on small money and keep the party going’. Keep it up Ben, those Festival goers need something homely and comforting day and night.
The ‘best dressed’ stall was a very difficult competition to judge. A number of stalls were nominated by the Markets Team and were judged on the effort made to look amazing on site. We selected our winner after the festival to give us time to go through all the photographs and nominations and are delighted to announce that Indian Street Food (Zouk) were our winners. Well done you guys for your imagination, very impressive.
Standard tickets for Glastonbury 2016 sold out this morning, in just 30 minutes. All 135,000 tickets for next year’s event have now been sold – including the 16,800 coach + ticket packages sold on Thursday night.
If you bought a deposit this morning, you should receive your confirmation email within the next few hours (please contact See Tickets via this page if you don’t). And remember that you will need to pay your ticket balance in the first week of April 2016.
You can already book coach travel to next year’s Festival from more than 70 destinations, with National Express (currently at Glastonbury 2015 prices).
We have, once again, been staggered by the sheer number of people from around the world who hoped to come to the Festival, with demand significantly outstripping supply.
We’re sorry to all of those who missed out – we really wish we could fit you all in! – but there will be a resale of any returned tickets in the spring, and registration is open again now.
Thank you for your incredible support.
If you’re hoping to buy a Glastonbury ticket in the sales on 1st October (coach + ticket) and 4th October (standard tickets), we would very much recommend reading through the answers to our frequently asked questions, below.
Everyone aged 13 or over for whom you intend to buy a ticket needs their own registration.
If you’ve been to the Festival before, you can check your registration online here.
Have a good read of the full ticket information at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/tickets which will tell you everything you need to know in preparation for booking tickets.
Go to glastonbury.seetickets.com at at 9am on Sunday 4th October to book tickets only by paying a £50 deposit per person (plus the price of your coach if you’re booking one).
The coach + ticket packages were all sold on Thursday 1st October. However, National Express will, once again, be running coaches to the Festival from more than 70 destinations for standard ticket holders.
No. Registration closed at 9am on Tuesday 29th September and there will be no opportunity to resubmit a registration until after both ticket sales.
It’s fine to have multiple registrations (even linked to the same email account), however if you plan to book tickets for the Festival, please make sure that the registration you use is one with your name and photo and that the photo is of passport standard and a good recent likeness.
To delete any old or duplicate registrations that are no longer required, please request a list of all your registrations and click the delete option next to the registrations you would like to be removed.
It may well be: all registrations approved from 2010 onwards are still valid to buy tickets for Glastonbury 2016. However, in order to maintain the quality of registration photos on tickets, any registrations submitted prior to 2010 have been deleted. All registrants affected have already been contacted via the email they used to register. If you have not received this email, but think your registration was submitted prior to 2010, we recommend checking your registration now, in case you were registered to an old email account, or have otherwise missed this notification.
Tickets cost £228 + £5 booking fee per person, with deposits of £50 per person payable on October 4th (children aged 12 and under are admitted free of charge and do not need a ticket). If you are booking a coach package you will need to pay the £50 ticket deposit plus the full price of your coach booking. A full list of the coach departure points and prices is below.
Your ticket balance (£178 + £5 booking fee) will be due in the first week of April 2016. Postage will be charged per order (not per ticket) when paying your balance.
For both the coach package sale on 1st October and standard admission sale on 4th October you can book up to six tickets per transaction, providing you have the registration numbers for everyone for whom you are booking a ticket. If you are booking coach packages you will also be able to buy additional coach seats for children aged 12 and under, and for PAs who are allocated tickets by the Access Coordinator.
UK buyers must use a UK registered debit card. International buyers must use a credit card (with a non-UK billing address).
1. Make sure you have all your registration details (including postcodes) ready and checked in advance, that there are sufficient cleared funds on the card you intend to use to book, and that you know all the security information for that card.
2. Be aware that tickets are not held whilst you’re entering your details, so you need to be ready to enter all your details quickly and accurately once you reach the booking page.
3. Be persistent and patient – there are likely to be more people trying to buy tickets than there are tickets available, so inevitably not everyone will be able to book tickets, but the longer you try the more likely you are to get a ticket.
4. Stick to one tab, in one window, so you can focus on entering your details without confusing your browser. Access to the booking page is limited to 10 minutes from the point you enter your registration details (but tickets are not held during this time), so if you have lots of tabs refreshing the same page, the clock will start as soon as the first one of those tabs hits the site, which may have been a window you weren’t keeping an eye on.
6. If the page ‘hangs’ and you can’t get any further, try pressing back once and then continue your booking from that point. If that doesn’t help, close your browser and start again. Please don’t continue to refresh the page beyond 10 minutes after entering your details as your access to the page will have expired. You will need to close the browser and start again to gain fresh access to the booking page.
7. If an attempt to book is already held against your registration number, your number will be held for up to 10 minutes whilst the transaction is attempted, but will be released if the transaction fails, to give you the chance to try again.
Your coach travel e-tickets will be sent out to you in advance and your Festival tickets will be handed out on the coach on the way to the Festival, to ensure everyone travels on the coach they have booked.
Yes, as long as you still have access to your registered email address you can edit your address details online here. Alternatively, you can provide your new address for your tickets to be delivered to when submitting your payment (this won’t change the details on your registration though)
If you no longer have access to the email address linked to your registration we’d recommend you re-register, with the correct email address, to ensure you receive updates about your booking.
Yes, Worthy View pre-erected accommodation will go on sale to ticket holders a couple of weeks after the ticket sales. For the first time this year you will also be able to book campervan tickets and tipis in this sale. More information will be released soon about the range of accommodation on offer.
Full information about the Festival’s access facilities is available here.
No, not yet. The full line-up is usually announced in the Spring.
Photo: Anna Barclay
We’re very pleased to announce that tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2016 will go on sale at the beginning of October (dates and details below). Glastonbury 2016 will take place from Wednesday, 22nd June to Sunday, 26th June 2016.
As part of our ongoing efforts against ticket touting, anyone who would like to attend next year’s Festival will need to have registered in advance. Registration remains free of charge and only takes a few minutes at www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk. You can also check your existing registration here. Registration will close at 9am on Tuesday 29th September, after which there will be no opportunity to submit/re-submit a registration until after both ticket sales. We strongly advise that you submit your registration well in advance of that deadline.
We can confirm that the ticket price for Glastonbury 2016 will be £228 + £5 booking fee per ticket (children aged 12 and under are admitted free of charge and do not need a ticket). As always, the ticket price includes:
– Entry to the Festival, with over 3,000 acts across more than 100 stages
– Five nights camping (with no early entry fees)
– Free programme
– Free miniguide
– Free cotton bag
– Free mobile phone charging
– Free on-site newspaper
– Free mobile app
– Free firewood
– Kidzfield, where all entertainment, rides and activities are free of charge
– Support for Oxfam, Greenpeace, Wateraid and hundreds of other worthy causes (£2 million donated in 2014)
– Funds to improve the Festival’s infrastructure and environmental impact
Photo technology has improved significantly in recent years. In order to maintain the quality of registration photos on tickets, any registrations submitted prior to 2010 have been deleted. All registrants affected have already been contacted via the email they used to register. If you have not received this email, but think your registration was submitted prior to 2010, we recommend checking your registration now, in case you were registered to an old email account, or have otherwise missed this notification.
Anyone with a registration submitted prior to 2010 will need to re-register, for free, before they can purchase tickets for the 2016 Festival (unless they already have a valid registration from a later year).
If you registered prior to 2010 and intend to buy tickets for the 2016 Festival, please check to see if you have any valid registrations here or submit a fresh registration here.
Standard weekend tickets will go on sale at 9am BST on Sunday, 4th October. As in previous years, tickets will be sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com. You may book up to six tickets per transaction. Festival goers will be able to book a ticket by paying a deposit, with the balance due in spring 2016.
As part of the Festival’s continued commitment to green travel, 15,000 coach + ticket packages will – as in previous years – be sold in advance of the general sale. These coach + ticket packages will go on sale at 7pm BST on Thursday, 1st October, via glastonbury.seetickets.com, rewarding green travellers with the chance to be the first to secure their Glastonbury 2016 tickets.
As with the general release of tickets, Festival goers will be able to book up to six coach + ticket packages per transaction. A deposit will be paid for the Festival ticket, with the balance of the coach ticket paid in full. Departure points and prices are as follows:
If you are interested in buying a ticket for next year’s Festival, then we would recommend reading the full Glastonbury 2016 ticket information.
Thanks – and we look forward to welcoming you to Worthy Farm in June next year!