Glastonbury fans rage at ticket queue system after missing out on festival

Coach tickets sold out in just 31 minutes

Glastonbury fans have been left outraged over the queue for tickets for the 2027 festival after missing out on coach tickets in the pre-registered sale. Coach package tickets went on sale at 6pm on Thursday evening for the Somerset festival, which takes place from June 23 to 27 next summer.

It comes after the UK’s biggest festival took a fallow year in 2026, in order to give the ground space and time to recover. This year, tickets will cost £408 each, including a £5 booking fee. A postage and packing fee of £11.25 applies per order up to six tickets.

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Anyone buying coach travel tickets will also need to buy the fare plus a £3 coach administration fee. The coach fare from Manchester for example is £122.

Up to six tickets can be booked per transaction, with a £100 deposit per person required on the day of sale. The remaining balance (£308) will then be payable in the first week of April 2027.

Tickets will only be available at glastonbury.seetickets.com and anyone buying tickets must have already registered with the site by the September 25 deadline.

Headliners have not yet been named, but popular names like Harry Styles, Sam Fender and Sabrina Carpenter all doing the rounds as possible acts.

As thousands of fans waited in the dreaded queue and looked at the “green bar of doom”, many were left disappointed as they missed out on coach tickets.

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Seetickets confirmed that all coach tickets had sold out in 31 minutes. On X they wrote: “Coach tickets for @glastonbury are now SOLD OUT. The general admission ticket sale will take place Sunday at 9am (BST).”

However, fans keep labelling the queue as “rigged” noting that their bars dropped down whilst waiting patiently in line.

On X @alcoff97 wrote: “No way did my 3 bars just fall back down to 2…” as @bethrobinson_xx replied: “Same!”

@wfchaka echoed: “well turns out I didn’t get a glastonbury ticket. started on 2 bars and finished the queue on 1 bar. how that works I’ll never know but there must be a good reason that the site pushed me further away from being on a coach.”

They sold out just two minutes quicker than 2025’s coach tickets, but for fans who were unable to get tickets there will be a general sale on Sunday morning from 9am.