Metallica to release 27 live albums including their sets at Glastonbury and Sonisphere

Glastonbury Festival 2015

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2015
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£220 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 198,000

This year's Glastonbury Festival headliners Metallica have announced (here) that they will release 27 live albums featuring every show they've played in 2014 including their sets at Glastonbury in June and Sonisphere UK in July.

The CD box set of all 27 discs will go on sale at the end of the year, priced at $417, and four of the 27 live sets chosen by a fan vote will be made available on limited-edition 180g vinyl early next year.

Fans have been asked to vote (here) on which four sets should be converted to vinyl by 26th September.

Metallica say, "To celebrate ten years of Live Metallica we're going "old school" by now offering shows on compact disc! Remember those? Starting now, each week we will be releasing three shows from the 2014 By Request dates on Mondays. To keep it simple, the first three shows of 2014 from Bogata, Colombia, Quito, Ecuador and Lima, Peru are now available. Next Monday the next three shows from the South American run will be available and so on.

"For you vinyl junkies, we will be releasing select shows on limited edition 180 gram vinyl. Head over here to vote for your favs and the top four shows that receive the most votes will be pressed up for you to order in early 2015."

Tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival priced at £220 can be reserved using the deposit scheme at a price of £50 per ticket payable from 9am on Sunday 5th October 2014, and eFestivals will have links for you to buy them then. Balance payments will be taken in the Spring on the Seetickets website and booking line. Please note that there is no option to pay your ticket balance prior to the date.

As part of the Festival's continued commitment to green travel, 15,000 coach + ticket packages will, as this year be sold in advance of the general sale and will go on sale at 7pm BST on Wednesday, 1st October, via glastonbury.seetickets.com, rewarding green travellers with the chance to be the first to secure their Glastonbury 2015 tickets.

Registration to be able to buy tickets for Glastonbury 2015 which will take place at a farm in Pilton, Somerset over five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2015 is now open until 23:59 on Tuesday 30th September (when registration will close until after October 6th). Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. 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 2015.

Online registration for 2015 can be carried out by clicking here.

You can also check your existing registration by clicking here, and edit the details here.

There are no acts confirmed yet for 2015. Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

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 2015 rumours, updated as we receive information.

Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

Tickets for this year's event sold out in under an hour and a half.

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