MUSIC fans snapped up tickets for next year’s Glastonbury festival in an early morning buying frenzy after the website crashed prior to sale.
When the site did go up, tickets were sold out within the hour.
Would-be festival goers had took to social media to express their frustration at being unable to purchase the all important £243 briefs from SeeTickets.com.
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All they could do was stare at a message saying the site was unavailable after the 9.00am sale time passed.
The official Glastonbury website was also down, sending fans onto Twitter to vent their anger.
One user going by the name Life In Recovery captured the angst amongst music lovers with frantic tweet.
Me right now (but in a darkened bedroom) #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/4aNAgGN3Mc
— Life In Recovery (@Recovering_Life) October 9, 2016
One music lover had a novel idea.
Probably be easier to start a band get signed then asked to play #Glastonbury than get tickets via see tickets
— Jordan (@jordan_fancey) October 9, 2016
While Andy Malden, predicted gloom…
Who else is waiting for “This site can’t be reached” to turn into “Glastonbury 2017 has now sold out”? #Glastonbury
— Andy Malden (@AndyMalden) October 9, 2016
When the site did go up, tickets were like gold dust, just as Andy predicted.
The dream has died @tbone1590 #Glastonbury https://t.co/m0BGyIkco0
— James Haigh (@TheJimmyMethod) October 9, 2016
On Thursday the coach package batch of tickets sold out in just 23 minutes with a number of fans experiencing website difficulties, and last year 120,000 passes were snapped up in just over half an hour.
The historic festival will take its traditional fallow year after 2017 meaning those who miss out on tickets will have to wait until at least 2019 for the next event.