Sit in any UK pub for long enough and eventually you’ll come across an old rocker reminiscing about sneaking into Glastonbury by climbing over a wooden stile, or whatever, back in the 90s, to catch an addled glimpse of Pulp or Sinéad O’Connor. But while that sounds like a genuinely great time, gone are the days when getting into the legendary festival was anything less than a military operation: the antithesis of rough and ready rock’n’roll.
While Glastonbury has been stratospherically divorced from its hippy roots for decades, today’s announcement about 2027’s tickets could hardly be less groovy, baby. On sale from 4 October (but only if you’ve pre-registered by 25 September), nine full months before the festival itself, just getting in requires a level of forward planning (not to mention cut-throat admin, spreadsheets and frantic WhatsApps to manage the ticket-buying process) surely at stark odds with what’s supposed to be a party.
But it’s the price that’s really outrageous – because with the headliners not even announced yet, 2027’s tickets cost more than £400. Sure, everything’s relative – the price is only a few quid more than the last batch in 2025 – but in the middle of a cost of living crisis, when people arguably need to blow off steam more than ever, charging them the cost of a month’s groceries for the privilege is frankly insulting.
