After a fallow year in 2026, tickets for next year’s Glastonbury Festival flew out over the weekend in just 42 minutes from release. Entry to Worthy Farm for the 2027 edition reached its highest price yet at £408 per ticket, with fans yet to know any of the confirmed acts.
After Glastonbury 2025 made the news with mixed responses to headliners The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young and Rod Stewart’s legend set, plus the controversial political activism from Kneecap and Bob Vylan, there were questions to be asked ahead of 2027’s ticket sale. Glastonbury’s ticket releases are notorious for the speed in which they wrap up, with hundreds of thousands impatiently left looking at a queueing screen, before the majority of the disappointed prospective buyers are forced to wait another year to try again. Then there’s the cost – while all summer festivals have rocketed up in price, especially since the global COVID pandemic affected the live events market, Glastonbury weekend tickets have risen from £185 in 2010, to £318 in 2019, and now up to £408. For a festival where none of the musical acts are announced at the point of purchase, is it worth the inflated premium and the soul-destroying purchasing cycle?
For the 210,000 people lucky enough to get a ticket in Sunday morning’s release, the answer is undoubtedly a resounding “yes”. The sales opened at 9:00 AM on Sunday October 4, and the sold-out messages appeared on users’ screens at 9:42 AM. Glastonbury Festival made official posts on social media which read “Thank you to everyone who bought one and we’re sorry to those of you who missed out on a morning where demand greatly exceeded supply.”
According to some of the fans who braved the queues, this year’s ticketing process felt “fairer”, but no less intense and frustrating. New measures were introduced to clamp down on scalpers and attempts to cut in line, restricting each registered user to one place in the queue across any device they logged in on. The BBC heard from Dave in London, who said “actually it seems like it’s fairer this year than it’s ever been. All the hacks that people used to use don’t seem to have the same impact, and about a quarter of the people on the groups we are on managed to get tickets.” Likewise, Sarah in Dorset found that one phone and a dream was enough to beat the touts, saying “a mobile phone on 5G in Shaftesbury seemed to be the optimal way to get tickets. We didn’t even know Shaftesbury had 5G until this morning.”
Many others were left exasperated with the new queueing interface, where buyers were met with a loading bar filling up as they progressed, as opposed to the customary countdown of how many people were ahead of them in the queue. The BBC spoke to Mat Chapman, who has been trying to take his daughter Amy to Glastonbury for 20 years. Much to his chagrin, he claimed to have only moved from “two bar hell to three bar purgatory,” but he hasn’t given up – “There’s always next year. We’ll fly the flag there one day.”
Right now, nobody knows quite what to expect for Glastonbury 2027. NME reported in August that organiser Emily Eavis had confirmed all three headliners for the main Pyramid Stage, but as of yet there are only rumours. Eavis has shot down speculation around both Madonna and Oasis on the billing, while NME suggest current favourites include Sam Fender, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Muse and Harry Styles.
Glastonbury returns June 23 to 27 2027. The last chance for tickets will be the official resale of cancelled or refunded tickets, confirmed to be happening next spring – the BBC anticipates this may be late April.
