Glastonbury Festival is now calling itself a 5-day festival, with the dates for the 2009 Festival confirmed as Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June.
No acts are confirmed. We already have some extremely well-sourced rumours of who might be the headliners next year, although we're aware that as yet the Festival has no firm agreement with any act ... Glastonbury 2009 rumours >>.
Tickets are not yet on sale. The Festival will be offering registered ticket buyers a chance to buy up to six tickets six months earlier than normal for a £50 deposit or buy them outright. The ticket will cost a full price of £175. See here for the full details.
The ticket price includes includes a FREE programme, with car parking costing around £10 per vehicle, and campervans costing around an extra £50 per van.
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.
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.
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