A Glastonbury 2027 ticket costs £408, and there are none left. What sets this sale apart isn't the price: it's that, to even try to buy one, you had to be on a register that closed before the box office opened.
Registration first, purchase second
The festival's official website puts it in writing: anyone aged 13 or over on 23 June 2027 who wants to attend must be individually registered before they can try to get a ticket. It isn't a step within the purchase process: it's the condition for accessing it at all. The registration window closed at 17:00 BST on Friday 25 September.
The order matters more than the calendar. The register closed before the box office opened, and roughly nine months before the date the festival uses as its age cut-off. Anyone not on the register by that time had no way into the sale: there was no last-minute registration, no signing up at the point of payment.
The price, in two instalments over six months
| Item | Amount | When it's paid |
|---|---|---|
| Deposit | £100 per person | At the time of sale |
| Balance | £308 plus postage and packing | 1 to 7 April 2027 |
| Total | £408, including a £5 booking fee, plus postage | In two payments |
The window for the second payment is narrow: from 9:00 BST on Thursday 1 April to 23:59 BST on Wednesday 7 April. Between deposit and balance, six months pass with three-quarters of the cost still unpaid.
A single resale, run by the festival
The festival has declared tickets sold out and announced a single resale, in spring 2027, covering tickets that are cancelled or returned. No other route is mentioned.
That's the model the UK government wants to impose on the rest of the market. In its response to the consultation on the resale of live events tickets, it states its intention to make reselling for profit illegal: the cap would allow no mark-up above the ticket's original cost, including unavoidable fees and postage. It also concludes that service fees charged by platforms on a resale transaction will need to be capped, and will introduce limits preventing anyone from reselling more tickets than they were entitled to buy through the original channel, reinforcing the organiser's own restrictions.
It's worth saying plainly: this is a stated intention from the government in its consultation response. It is not yet law.
What remains is a difference in sequencing. The festival isn't waiting for legislation: it settles the matter by contract, with a register closed months in advance and its own resale channel. That doesn't stem from the venue's licence, but from the terms of sale. It's the same debate Spain is having over its own resale cap, anchored to a different reference point. And it's happening in a market that isn't exactly thriving: Britain's nightclubs have lost 36.1% of their venues since 2020.