ticket date announced for 40th anniversary Glastonbury Festival 2010

Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival will go on sale at 9am on Sunday 4th October priced at £185 + £5 booking fee (plus £4.95 postage).

Next year's event will mark the 40th anniversary of music and arts festivals at Worthy Farm, Somerset, where Michael Eavis first opened his gates for business in September 1970.

"The Festival's long awaited 40th anniversary celebrations start here," says Festival founder and organiser Michael Eavis. "Back then we'd had a few cancellations and were struggling a bit. We needed to pull someone in to save the day. Luckily Marc Bolan, a huge star at the time, was driving along the A361 on his way to play Butlins in Minehead and we managed to get to him... The rest, of course, is history! Now I'm fully confident that the anniversary line-up will be just that little bit special when it is revealed next year. We want as many people as possible to be part of the celebrations and to enjoy what we do here."

Tickets will be available via www.seetickets.com and through the dedicated phone line, 0844 412 4635. All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets have two options. They can either buy a full weekend ticket at a price of £185 + £5 booking fee (plus £4.95 postage). Alternatively, tickets can be reserved using the deposit scheme introduced last year at a cost of £50 per ticket. Alternatively the balance can be paid in full anytime from Sunday 4th October.

With both these options, the number of tickets available per transaction for registered customers is six (although this under review) - as long as each purchase (or deposit) is matched with valid registration numbers. For details about registering see below.

If you want to check what your registration number is, or when your registration is valid until, click here.

Please note, ticket purchasers may be asked for additional Visa or Mastercard security information when they buy their tickets online, so it's best for these ticket purchasers to be signed up to their card's security service before they buy. Please click here if for Visa, or here for Mastercard/Maestro.

Car Parking and campervan/caravan tickets will be priced at £15 and £75 respectively. Car Park or Campervan Tickets can not be booked until the balance is paid for at least one of the tickets on a booking.

Adds farmer Michael Eavis, "We have the fairest ticketing operation available anywhere. With this scheme, backed by the all-important registration process, everyone has an equal chance of getting a ticket. And most importantly, every ticket will ONLY be going to a genuine festival-goer direct."

Next year's Glastonbury runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset. 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!

Everyone who plans to the come the Festival next year must register by Friday 2nd October 2009, at least 48 hours before you intend to buy a ticket. Each 40th Anniversary Souvenir festival ticket sold will have a registered photo printed on 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!

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2010. If you opt to save this information you will be able to use your registration number again in future years. Make sure the e-mail address you provide is one to which you will have long term access.

Online registration can be carried out by clicking here.

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 2010 this number must be quoted, it will be a unique registration number. So write it down somewhere safe and do not lose it!
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.

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

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

There is no limit to the total number of people who will be allowed to register. Registering more than once will not increase your likelihood of getting a ticket. Every registration will have an equal chance of buying tickets irrespective of how or when it was made during the registration period. Registration can be made on behalf of other people as long as all their contact details and photos can be provided. If you live outside the UK, the only option is to register online.

If you have not received a confirmation email within a day of having made an online application, please check your spam folder. If your registration is rejected you can re-apply.

If you send in a postal application and do not receive notification of your registration number within two weeks of sending it in, it is best to re-register in case your registration has been rejected, or did not reach them in the first place.


If you have any questions it is worth looking at the Glastonbury FAQ page here.

Ticket purchasing will require each buyer to input their name and their unique valid registration number for each ticket they purchase. Tickets will be sent out by courier to the addresses specified when making the sale, and if ordering more than one ticket, all tickets will be dispatched to the address provided during registration for the first name on the ticket booking.

Data collected during registration will be destroyed one month after the 2010 Festival unless you opt to have it retained by Glastonbury Festivals for future registrations. Retained information will also be used to inform you of events run by Glastonbury Festival. No information collected through registration will be offered for sale or made available to any third party.

Those who registered in 2008, and in 2009 were offered the chance to save their details - if you did so, your existing registration number is still valid. If you did not opt to have your details saved, then you will need to register again this year.
Checks will be made at the gates and if you are clearly not the person whose face is printed on the ticket you will be denied entry.

Only one act is confirmed so far, but as usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2010 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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