Glastonbury's Emily Eavis shuts down major change to ticket system after this year's chaos

Glastonbury Festival's Emily Eavis has addressed the clamour for a ticketed ballot system. The final tranche of tickets for this year's eagerly anticipated event, featuring stars such as Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Little Simz, Sza, Burna Boy, Disclosure, Avril Lavigne, and Shania Twain, was snapped up in just 20 minutes in April, leaving many fans glued to their screens in the hope of securing a spot.

Just three days prior, a limited number of ticket packages had been exhausted within 18 minutes. The initial release back in November saw countless enthusiasts miss out, prompting calls for a fairer ticket allocation method.

In a candid chat with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw on their Sidetracked podcast, co-organiser Emily revealed that there's been talk of overhauling the current system. Discussing the possibility of a ballot, she remarked: "It's been a discussion, actually. I think there are so many people on our database that are registered for tickets. And I think a lot of them don't try as hard as [others]."

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"Half of them try really, really, really hard [to buy tickets] and half of them maybe try and then don't they're not as bothered about coming. So I'm not saying... it's hard to say the percentage exactly. And I think if we did a ballot, we'd end up with some people [getting tickets] who weren't necessarily as bothered about coming.", as reports the Mirror.

Emily chimed in: "It's really hard to say this year cause I know a lot of people didn't get tickets, and they wanted them. But a lot of the time, people who really, really want them do get them through volunteering or through competitions. I know it's hard, it is hard. It's one of the worst sides to the job... there aren't enough tickets for everybody."

Emily expressed that the organisers can't 'do anything about it' and dismissed any suggestions of extending the festival over two weekends. She remarked: "We just couldn't can you imagine? " The festival was founded on his Somerset farm in 1970 by Emily's father, Sir Michael Eavis, who remains involved, however, most of the organising work is now undertaken by Emily and her husband Nick Dewey.

Emily also revealed that this year's festival will include a call for peace to be led by performance artist Marina Abramovic, set to happen on the festival's main stage. She mentioned: "It's just a few minutes of silence, with her on the stage, and that's going to be a beautiful moment."