Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in under an hour

Gone by 9.45am

Glastonbury Festival 2027 sold out on the morning of Sunday 4 October, less than an hour after general admission tickets went on sale at 9am. By 9.45am every ticket had gone, the PA news agency reported, as published by The Irish News. Tickets bundled with coach travel had already sold out in under half an hour when they went on sale at 6pm on the Thursday before.

The festival posted on Instagram that tickets had sold out, thanked everyone who bought one and said it was sorry to those who missed out on a morning when demand "greatly exceeded supply". It said any cancelled or returned tickets would be resold in spring 2027. The festival's ticket agent, See Tickets, said confirmation emails were going out to buyers that morning.

It was not quite a record. The fastest Glastonbury sell-out came in 2014, when 15,000 presale tickets for the 2015 festival went in 15 minutes and the remaining 120,000 or so in 26 minutes, PA reported.

The Irish News (PA) reported this first. Checked against Glastonbury Festival: Glastonbury 2027 ticket information confirmed.

The 2027 festival

The festival returns to Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June 2027. It took 2026 off as one of its occasional fallow years, which give the dairy farmland a chance to recover and the organisers time to plan. The last fallow year was 2018, and the festival also missed 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid pandemic, Gwilym Mumford noted for The Guardian.

A general admission ticket costs £408, including a £5 booking fee, plus £11.25 postage and packing per order, or £3 for coach tickets. That is the first time the price has gone above £400, up £29.50 from £378.50 in 2025, as Ben Beaumont-Thomas reported for The Guardian. Children under 13 go free.

Buyers could book up to six tickets per transaction, paying either in full or with a £100 deposit per person. The balance of £308 plus postage is due in the first week of April 2027, between 9am on Thursday 1 April and 11.59pm on Wednesday 7 April, when car parking passes and cancellation protection can also be added.

The festival says a ticket includes entry to more than 4,000 performances across more than 100 stages, five nights of camping with no early entry fee, a free programme and app, phone charging and free Kidzfield activities for children. It also says recent festivals have given more than £3 million a year to Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and hundreds of other causes.

Why the festival takes a year off

Fallow years are part of how Glastonbury works. The festival sits on a working dairy farm, and a year without a festival gives the land time to recover from five years of camping and trampling, while the organisers get a rare chance to rest and plan, Gwilym Mumford wrote for The Guardian in June. He argued that the festival tends to come back re-energised the year after, with new stages and stronger line-ups.

Few events could do the same. Mumford pointed out that Glastonbury is an outlier: it is run on a not-for-profit basis, its founders have a separate income from the farm's cattle, and many of the people who work on it have other jobs. Most festivals, with tight margins, need ticket sales every year to survive. The 2026 break also meant the festival avoided the summer's heatwave, which would have landed in the middle of festival week.

Fans who missed it this summer had one consolation. Glastonbury the Movie, a documentary shot at the 1993 festival, was remastered in 4K and returned to UK cinemas on 26 June for its 30th anniversary, with performances from the Stereo MCs and a pre-fame Verve, as Phil Hoad reported in his review for The Guardian.

Who is playing

No line-up has been announced. The organiser, Emily Eavis, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme in August that all three headliners had been booked, and that it was all coming together really well, as Nadeem Badshah reported for The Guardian. She ruled out one name that had been heavily rumoured: Madonna, who has never played the festival. Speculation had grown after Madonna told the BBC talk show host Graham Norton in June that she was planning something bigger in the UK the following summer.

Eavis also said that the vast majority of stories about Glastonbury are not true and that rumours are nearly always wrong. Both Eavis and Oasis have said the band are not lined up to play, PA reported. Harry Styles is widely rumoured to headline, and bookmakers have offered odds on names including Taylor Swift, Fontaines D.C., Sabrina Carpenter and Fred Again, but none of those has been confirmed. When she was asked about Taylor Swift, Eavis laughed and declined to discuss the line-up further. Her message to fans was simpler: the headliners were in place, the team was cracking on with the rest, and they could not wait to get back to the farm after the year off.

That means fans who bought in October paid a deposit without knowing who would play, which is normal for Glastonbury: the festival sells on its reputation rather than its bill.

How the sale worked this time

Everyone aged 13 or over on 23 June 2027 who wanted to go had to register with the festival before they could try for a ticket, with a photo. Registration closed at 5pm on Friday 25 September. Tickets were sold only through the festival's official agent, See Tickets.

This year the sale changed in one important way. Instead of refreshing a holding page, fans who were on the ticket page when the sale began were randomly given a place in a queue, PA reported. The Guardian's money desk reported that buyers had to enter their registration number before joining the queue and were given a unique queue ID linked to it, which appeared to mean one queue place per person and an end to using several devices or browsers to improve the odds.

Once through, a buyer had five minutes on the booking page and needed the registration numbers and postcodes of everyone in their group of up to six. The festival also warned that tickets found to have been bought through intermediaries would be cancelled.

Coach tickets went on sale three days before general admission, to encourage more people to travel by coach rather than by car. Tickets with coach travel cannot be swapped for general admission, and the festival asks people with a disability or health condition to consider whether a long coach journey would suit them before booking one.

Why you will not find Glastonbury on resale sites

Glastonbury tickets cannot be transferred. To prevent touting, each one carries the photo of its registered holder, and security checks make sure only that person gets in. Anyone offering a Glastonbury ticket for sale is offering something that will not get the buyer through the gate.

That is why NeedATicket does not track Glastonbury prices: there is no legitimate resale market to watch. The only second chance is the festival's own resale of cancelled and returned tickets in spring 2027, which is run by the festival itself.

There are no separate tickets for people with access requirements. Disabled fans book in the same sale as everyone else and then apply to the festival's accessibility team, whose online application form opens from the end of November. The festival says its access facilities can reach capacity and recommends applying early.

The last festival, in 2025

The last Glastonbury, in June 2025, was headlined by The 1975, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, and Olivia Rodrigo, with Rod Stewart in the Sunday legends slot. Stewart brought out his former Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood, Lulu and Mick Hucknall. Charli XCX headlined the Other Stage on the Saturday, and Doechii and Alanis Morissette drew strong reviews, and there were surprise sets from Pulp, Haim, Lorde, who played her album Virgin in full, and Lewis Capaldi, returning two years after a set in which he struggled with symptoms of Tourette syndrome.

It was also a festival that ended in controversy. During their set on the West Holts stage, the punk duo Bob Vylan led chants of "death to the IDF", the Israeli military. The BBC broadcast the set live; its then director general, Tim Davie, said he deeply regretted that such offensive behaviour had appeared on the BBC, and the corporation later said it would stop broadcasting live performances it judged high risk. Avon and Somerset Police assessed both Bob Vylan and the Irish rap trio Kneecap, and in December 2025 police said they had ended their investigation into the Bob Vylan chants, The Guardian reported.

What happens next

Anyone who has a ticket but later finds they cannot go cannot pass it to a friend or sell it on, because it carries their photo and only they will be admitted. Returned and cancelled tickets go back to the festival instead, and those are the tickets that will be offered in the spring resale. Children under 13, who go free, do not need to register.

The next dates for anyone with a ticket are the balance payment window from 1 to 7 April 2027 and the access application from the end of November. For anyone without one, the spring resale of returned tickets is the only official route, and the festival will announce its date nearer the time.

No date has been given for the line-up announcement. We will report the headliners when the festival confirms them, rather than repeating rumours.