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Let the panic begin! Glastonbury reveals new process for online ticket purchases

Hopeful ticket-buyers will be assigned random places in an online queue, during two phases of sales that begin on 14 November

Then, “when you reach the front of the queue, you will be asked to enter the registration number and registered postcode for the lead booker and up to five other people for whom you are attempting to book tickets. In August, millions of people attempted to buy tickets to Oasis’s reunion gigs in the UK and Ireland, with fans put into a queueing system similar to the one planned by Glastonbury. Fans were outraged, and the culture secretary Lisa Nandy, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, and the European Commission all promised examinations of the practice.

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