Glastonbury Festival has warned fans they must register for 2027 tickets before 5pm today, as registration closes ahead of the ticket sale in October. The festival is set to return from Wednesday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 27th, 2027, after a fallow year in 2026.
Registration will close at 5pm today, after which fans will not be able to edit or re-submit until after the October ticket sales. Fans can register through the Glastonbury website by providing basic contact details and uploading a passport-style photo.
Non-transferable tickets
Tickets for the festival are non-transferable, as each ticket features the photograph of the registered ticket holder, with security checks carried out. Those planning to buy tickets for other people must ensure that they are all registered ahead of the ticket sale, and their registration numbers and corresponding postcodes are needed to purchase the tickets on their behalf.
Glastonbury has warned that fans should complete registration well in advance of attempting to purchase tickets, as registration is temporarily suspended before and during the main ticket sale. Time is also needed for photos to be reviewed, as well as time to re-submit registration if needed.
Registration process
Registration is completed online via www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk, where you need to add your email address in order to be given a unique code to start the registration process. It is recommended that each person is registered to their own email address. A suitable photograph in JPEG format, in portrait orientation and passport standard, is also required.
Fans of the outdoor event - which takes place at Worthy Farm, near Pilton, in Somerset - can brace themselves for "exciting" headliners when the festival returns in 2027. By the time the stages and tents are re-erected, it will have been two years since the likes of Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo entertained fans in the West Country fields.
Headliner speculation
Emily Eavis, the co-organiser of the event, teased in July who the headliners may be - or rather has confirmed who they won't be. After fans expressed hope that American music legend Madonna would lead the performers next summer, the 50-year-old said that the Material Girl won't be leading the show.
Opening up on BBC Radio 4's PM programme on Friday, Emily scoffed at the idea of Madge taking to the stage at the 2027 event, which will take place from Wednesday, June 23, until Sunday, June 27. She said: "No, it's definitely not Madonna, I'll tell you that."
However, she confirmed that the headline acts had already been secured a year in advance. She said: "But we have got three headliners and we're very excited about it – it's all coming together really well." She also rejected the idea that Taylor Swift could be a headline - and then refused to discuss performers any further. She quipped: "Pretty much 95 per cent of the stories [about Glastonbury] you read are not true, and rumours are pretty much always wrong."
Festival history
The 2027 Glastonbury Festival will be the fortieth event in the history of the festival, even though the first Glasto was way back in 1970. The reason for a discrepancy between the decades of festivals versus the number of shows is that it ran intermittently through the 1970s and early 1980s. Fallow years have also affected the number of completed festivals - as every few years the event is cancelled in order to give the ground a rest from being trampled by 210,000 people for a long weekend each year.
The Covid-19 pandemic also caused havoc with the festival, forcing it to be abandoned in both 2020 and 2021 as cases of the life-threatening disease surged throughout the UK and the wider world.
