{"id":764308,"date":"2026-09-08T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764308\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:40:11","slug":"glastonbury-tickets-break-400-for-first-time-as-on-sale-date-is-announced-glastonbury-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764308\/","title":{"rendered":"Glastonbury tickets break \u00a3400 for first time as on-sale date is announced | Glastonbury festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury festival<\/a> fans can start to get excited \u2013 and nervous \u2013 about tickets for 2027\u2019s event going on sale.<\/p>\n

The price breaks \u00a3400 for the first time, at \u00a3408 including a \u00a35 booking fee, a rise from the 2025 cost of \u00a3378.50. The usual scramble to acquire them \u2013 with all the attendant frantic spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups \u2013 will begin at 9am on Sunday 4 October.<\/p>\n

To encourage festival-goers to take more environmentally sound coaches rather than cars, tickets bundled with coach travel go on sale earlier, at 6pm on Thursday 1 October.<\/p>\n

Harry Styles is already much rumoured to be headlining, with the likes of Taylor Swift, Fontaines DC, Sabrina Carpenter and Fred Again among others mooted by the bookies.<\/p>\n

Organiser Emily Eavis scotched rumours that Madonna would play, saying: \u201cNo, it\u2019s definitely not Madonna, I\u2019ll tell you that. But we have got three [other] headliners and we\u2019re very excited about it \u2013 it\u2019s all coming together really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2025, the festival was headlined by the 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo, with the latter described as \u201cthe weekend\u2019s best big set\u201d in a five-star Guardian review.
There were also secret sets from Pulp, Skepta, Haim and more, and acclaimed turns from Doechii, Alanis Morissette and others. But there was controversy around Kneecap\u2019s appearance at the festival, as well as the act that preceded them: Bob Vylan, who led a chant<\/a> of \u201cdeath to the IDF\u201d. Then-BBC director general, Tim Davie, said \u201cI deeply regret that such offensive and deplorable behaviour appeared on the BBC,\u201d and the furore led to an internal investigation.<\/p>\n

Since that previous edition, Eavis\u2019s father, Michael, who founded the festival in 1970, has turned 90. Speaking to the BBC in October, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s all been a long story of excitement. That\u2019s probably what\u2019s keeping me going.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI was always at war with the council and the village and the local magistrates and the police\u201d, as he turned the festival from a gathering on his Somerset dairy farm into arguably the world\u2019s greatest music festival. \u201cAnd it came good. Which is extraordinary, really. The fight was really what made it work, there\u2019s no doubt about that. It was certainly worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2027 festival takes place between June 23-27. Anyone wanting to buy a ticket must register with the festival by 5pm BST on Friday 25 September. Tickets can be paid for in full or with a \u00a3100 deposit, with the rest paid off in the first week of April. Under-13s attend for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury festival fans can start to get excited \u2013 and nervous \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}