Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets to the 2027 event will go on sale this October, with entry costing more than £400 for the first time. Tickets for the weekend will be priced at £408 including a £5 booking fee per ticket – an increase of £29.50 from 2025, when tickets cost £378.50. While tickets with coach travel are available from Thursday 1 October at 6pm, general tickets will go on sale at 9am on Sunday 4 October.As part of the festival’s campaign to stop touts, anyone who wishes to attend Glastonbury must be registered in advance. You can check your registration status on the official website.The 2027 festival will take place between 23 to 27 June. Fans will be bracing themselves for the usual frenzy, as tickets typically sell out in under an hour with thousands of hopefuls joining the online queues. Headliners for the 2027 festival have yet to be announced, but rumours have been swirling for months around acts such as Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Fontaines DC and Stevie Wonder. Fontaines DC are rumoured headliners for Glastonbury 2027 (Getty Images)While Madonna was strongly believed to be headlining – particularly after she seemed to allude to this in a BBC interview with Graham Norton – festival organiser Emily Eavis said the pop icon would not be performing on the Pyramid Stage next year.“No, it’s definitely not Madonna, I’ll tell you that,” she said during an interview on BBC Radio 4. “But we have got three [other] headliners and we’re very excited about it – it’s all coming together really well.”The 2025 festival was headlined by The 1975, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, and US pop star Olivia Rodrigo, with further sets from Charli XCX, RAYE, Busta Rhymes and Alanis Morissette, and secret sets from Pulp, Lorde, Lewis Capaldi and Haim. Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon MusicSign up now for a 30-day free trial. Terms apply.Try for freeADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.Olivia Rodrigo headlining Glastonbury in 2025 (PA)In a five-star review, The Independent called Rodrigo’s headline set – in which she brought out The Cure frontman Robert Smith for a singalong to “Friday I’m in Love” – “a killer show and therapy rolled into one”. Glastonbury said it would not be commenting on the new ticket announcement. However, in 2023, Eavis said it was a “challenging” time for festival organisers.“We have tried very hard to minimise the increase in price on the ticket but we’re facing enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show, whilst still recovering from the huge financial impact of two years without a festival because of Covid,” she said.Emily Eavis has previously explained how Glastonbury has to sell out in order to break even (Getty)The cost of tickets in the live music industry has become a hot topic in recent years, with artists, labels and promoters all facing backlash over rising prices. However, the cost of putting on tours or huge events like Glastonbury has risen sharply, too: in August, it was announced that energy prices for millions of households would rise to the highest level for three years under regulator Ofgem’s price cap, which is increasing by 4 per cent on 1 October. This has been driven by higher wholesale gas prices due to the Iran war. In 2019, before the Covid pandemic, Eavis told the BBC that Glastonbury cost around £40m to put on, meaning they had to sell out just to break even. UK festivals have also been dealing with supply chain issues after a number of technical and event security staff chose to retrain during the pandemic, while Brexit has created complications and additional hurdles when it comes to equipment transportation and visa issues.