All the changes happening to Glastonbury 2025 following last year’s extremely busy event

We can expect to see redesigned stages, along with new methods to tackle overcrowding

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Since the Glastonbury 2025 lineup was announced on 4th June, the excitement has truly been mounting.

A-list artists from Olivia Rodrigo to Rod Stewart will be taking on the Pyramid Stage with Charli xcx, Doechii and more on the Other Stage.

As usual, the festival is running during the last week of June, from Wednesday 25th to Sunday 29th. However, recently there have been several changes announced suggesting that Glastonbury 2025 will differ from previous years.

Let’s see what these are.

‘A few thousand’ less tickets were sold to curb overcrowding

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This year, the festival’s organisers deliberately undersold thousands of tickets to tackle last year’s issue with crowds.

The festival’s co-organiser Emily Eavis shared the news in an interview with BBC podcast Sidetracked, saying: “It’ll be interesting just to see how it affects the dynamics on site”.

The festival’s app, by Vodafone, will also be used to ensure appropriate safety measures.

Usually each year 138,000 public tickets are sold to regular punters, with 5,000 extra local tickets also sold. 67,000 complimentary tickets are then given to staff and performers. This brings the total attendees to 210,000.

However, last year’s festival attendance exceeded 210,000 making it the highest densely populated place on earth. This also led to complaints of busy stages, the blocking of entry to certain areas, and organisers underestimating the audiences of artists such as Avril Lavigne on smaller stages.

The policy has sparked new complaints from people unable to get tickets due to tickets selling out in under 40 minutes. However, if you can’t make it, the festival will also be streamed on the BBC.

Mystery band Patchwork is performing on the Pyramid Stage

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Since this year’s lineup was announced, questions and rumours have been circulating around the inclusion of unknown band Patchwork to the listing.

Patchwork is expected to perform between RAYE and John Fogerty on the Pyramid Stage from 18:15 to 19:15 on Saturday 26th June.

But, this isn’t the first time the festival has pulled a stunt like this with Foo Fighters in 2023 giving a surprise performance under the name TheChurnUps, suggesting Patchwork is codename for someone similarly iconic.

Glastonbury has not released any statements about Patchwork, but Emily Eavis did hint on the Sidetracked podcast: “I’ve been working on Patchwork for a long time, I tell you what, pretty much since I saw you this time last year I’ve been working on Patchwork.” Whoever it is, it better be someone huge.

New site map revealed

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One of the biggest changes at Glastonbury 2025, is the revamped map, which was revealed for the first time on Saturday 17th May.

The biggest transformation is the Shangri-La Field which has undergone a complete redesign. Other major changes to the site map include expanding dance areas such as Arcadia and The Glade.

Meanwhile, Silver Hayes’ location has changed to the left of the Pyramid Stage so that the Firmly Rooted Soundsystem Stage can take its spot. Despite its public space expansion, the Assembly Stage, an indoor dance music space that opened last year, has shrunk in size for 2025.

Not everywhere has shrunk though. Other stages such as The Levels and Lonely Hearts Club have been expanded. Larger crowd areas have also been added to The Glade and Arcadia, which could be part of the festival’s commitment to curbing overcrowding.

Another change at Glastonbury 2025 is that the Other Stage, where Charli xcx and Gracie Abrams are performing, will also feature a much bigger audience area.

New toilets have also been added in certain areas across the site, from the camping area to between stages.

Shangri-La announces redesign

Down in South East Corner, performers such as Kneecap and Katy B will be taking to the stage in the Shangri-La section of Worthy Farm.

The theem this year for the area will be The Wilding, which revolves around being offline, and encourages attendees to “reset” and be technology-free.

As a part of its redesign, the field will also have four brand new stages: Shangri-La Main Stage, Lore, Luna, and Azaadi, the latter of which focusing on South Asian programming.

No Glastonbury festival in 2026

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Arguably the biggest change to the festival will be next year as there will be no Glastonbury at all. This is for a fallow year, which Emily Eavis explained “is important because it gives the land a rest, and it gives the cows a chance to stay out for longer and reclaim their land”.

Fallow years usually happen every five or six years with the exception of when the festival was forced to cancel in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. Fear not though as it is promised the festival will return in 2027, most likely in the last week of June as usual.

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