Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '09

A unique feast of music set on a huge site offering a grand scale of entertainment unlike any other festival in the world. For five days the Pilton farm plays host to a tented city in Somerset. As well as music from nearly every genre imaginable on over 50 stages, there's performing arts with cabaret, theatre, circus, children's entertainment, poetry, healing, green crafts and information and much more. Vibrant, spontaneous, colourful, and hugely entertaining. The dates for the 2009 Festival confirmed as Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June.

No acts are confirmed. To see who might be playing, take a look at the eFestivals' Glastonbury 2009 rumours >>.



Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Each ticket sold will feature a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. So if you plan to buy tickets for friends or family you must make sure they all register! When buying tickets you will need the registration number, name and postcode of EACH person for whom you are buying a ticket.

All registered festival-goers wanting to buy tickets have two options. They can either buy a full weekend ticket at a price of £175 (plus a booking fee of £5). Alternatively, tickets can be reserved at a cost of £50 per ticket. The balance must be paid by Sunday 1st February 2009.


To buy tickets, click here or phone 0844 412 4635. For international ticket buyers the international ticket sales line is 0044 1159 934 183.

Online registration can be carried out by clicking here. If you do not have internet access you can apply for a registration form (enclosing an SAE) to: Glastonbury, PO Box 2445, Glasgow G40 9AG.

Registration involves:
1. Providing contact details: name, address, postcode and a valid e-mail address.
2. Sending a passport standard photo: you will be required to upload your passport standard photo in jpeg form for online registration. If a ticket is successfully purchased this picture will be printed on it to make it unique and must therefore be an acceptable facial image. The image must meet passport photo requirements.
3. Receiving a registration number: to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2009 this number must be quoted, it will be a unique registration number. So write it down somewhere safe and do not lose it! As last year, there is a webpage provided where you can recover your registration number, here. Note that there will be no editing facility for registrations, so please ensure all your details are correct, and that your photo is of a suitable size and standard before submitting your details.

Successful postal registrants will be notified of their registration number by post within two weeks.

The ticket price includes includes a FREE programme, a useful cloth bag, and small around the neck guide. Car parking tickets can be bought at the same time, or when you complete the full payment and are priced at £10 per vehicle, and campervan tickets are priced at £65 per van. Car parking and campervan tickets can only be bought when paying the balance of your tickets.

Payment made for tickets by card for UK sales (both online and by telephone) will be by the following debit cards only - Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro Domestic and Solo. Credit cards will not be accepted for UK sales. For the purpose of ticket sales the UK includes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

Postal orders and cheques raised by either a building society or a bank (as a Bankers Draft) will also be accepted as payment on the telephone ticket line. Please note personal cheques cannot be accepted. Orders will not be accepted by fax, email or personal callers. When you confirm your order you will be given a booking reference number. Cheques or postal orders, together with that reference number, must be received by the ticket agency within five working days of the sale.

Coach tickets
When purchasing a ticket there will be the option to indicate interest in Festival coach tickets. Once ticket purchasers have indicated interest in booking coach travel; they will be contacted with information on how to book. Coach travellers will be able to choose a specific coach for arrival and for departure.

National Express will have dedicated services from around the country which travel directly to the Festival site on Wednesday 24th, Thursday 25th or Friday 26th June. The buses will then be making the return journeys on Sunday 28th or Monday 29th June.

To book tickets at 2008 prices, and automatically be entered into the draw to win back the cost of your Festival ticket if booked before Wednesday 5th November, click here.

Train tickets
Train tickets will be available for purchase from Seetickets in the New Year. Ticket bookers wishing to make use of the train ticket offer should indicate an interest in train tickets when booking their Festival tickets; and you will be contacted with booking information. When booking there will be a choice of day, time and destination. Customers must retain their reservation & tickets to board the shuttle bus from the station to the Festival site at no extra charge.

Tipi hire
Tipi hire bookings will be taken in the New Year for existing ticket holders at a supplementary charge. If ticket purchasers would like more information on tipis, they should indicate their interest when booking tickets or paying the deposit.

The gates are likely to open at 8am on Wednesday 24th June 2009.

What's On?
Expect something like 2,000 performances at 50 or so venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

Music on the main stages runs from around 11am each morning until 00:30 on the Friday and Saturday and midnight on the Sunday (longer stage running times than just about every other festival), with entertainment on some of the smaller stages running later (until 6am in Shangri-La).

For detailed information on all aspects of the festival, click here.