Reading Festival's website has crashed as party-goers scrambled to buy tickets for the upcoming event this summer.

With the hope that all restrictions on social contact will be lifted by June 21, the excitiment for Reading Festival has led to the website crashing.

Dozens of people have tried to access the website to purchase festival tickets and have a look at the line-up.

Kate Priestman said: "looks like your site is down, can only get to the homepage." 

Organisers officially announced Reading Festival was going ahead this lunchtime.

And with the announcement, the website has gone down as people try to buy tickets for the major summer music event.

Here's what people have said: