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Trying To Get Tickets For Glastonbury 2027? An Expert Shares 5 Genius Browser Hacks

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After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury is returning next year, with tickets for the event finally set to go on sale on Sunday 4 October.

Famously, the Glasto ticket run is no mean feat. Tickets usually sell out within an hour, as thousands of music fans from around the world battle to secure their spots at Worthy Farm.

Any gig-goer will tell you that the gig-buying trenches are real, and far from getting you hyped for the event, trying to nab a ticket for a highly sought-after show is nothing short of a nightmare.

However, the experts at open-source web broswer Firefox have shared their five expert tips for preparing your browser for the ticket wars ahead of time, giving you the best possible chance of getting Glastonbury tickets.

Glastobury’s iconic Pyramid Stage in 2023
Glastobury’s iconic Pyramid Stage in 2023

via Associated Press

Top browser tips for securing Glastonbury tickets

Update your browser before ticket day – not five minutes before

Is there anything more frustrating than feeling like you are just about to sort tickets and then your browser needs an update?!

An out-of-date browser is the last thing you want to be dealing with when tickets go live. Check for any browser or system updates well in advance, and restart your device beforehand if needed. This reduces the chance of an unexpected update, restart or compatibility issue interrupting you at the worst possible moment.

Get your autofill in order

When you’re under pressure, even typing out an address can feel like it takes forever. Check the information saved in your browser’s autofill ahead of time and make sure names, addresses and other relevant details are accurate. It can save you from frantic typing – or spotting an old address just as you’re trying to complete your purchase.

Don’t assume more tabs mean more chances

It’s tempting to open tab after tab in the hope that one will magically get through first, but more isn’t necessarily better. Multiple tabs can quickly become confusing, particularly if the ticketing system uses a queue or session-based process.

Additionally, some websites detect this behaviour and ban you all together which is, needless to say, a nightmare.

Follow the ticket seller’s official guidance and avoid turning your browser into a sea of identical tabs you can’t keep track of.

Give your browser some breathing room

Before the sale starts, close as many unused tabs as possible. Keeping lots of tabs open can use up system memory, particularly if you’re also running other applications in the background – the last thing you want when you’re trying to secure a ticket.

Sort your logins before the countdown begins

Don’t wait until tickets are live to discover you’ve forgotten an important password. Check ahead of time that you can access any accounts you’ll need and have the necessary details to hand.

When is Glastonbury 2027, and when do tickets actually go on sale?

Worthy Farm will be reopening its doors on Wednesday 23 June 2027, with the main events lasting until Sunday 27.

General admission tickets will go on sale at 9am on Sunday 4 October.

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‘What Is There To Regret?’: Bob Vylan Frontman Reflects On Glastonbury Chant Backlash

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The frontman of the punk rap duo Bob Vylan has insisted he stands by the chant he performed at this year’s Glastonbury that landed the group at the centre of backlash.

Over the summer, the band provided Glastonbury with one of the year’s most talked-about sets, where they made headlines after leading the crowd in chants of “free Palestine” and “death to the IDF”, referring to Israel’s army.

At the time, the pair faced condemnation from Glastonbury’s organisers, the BBC – who broadcast the set live on its iPlayer service – and even the prime minister Keir Starmer.

Local police also said shortly afterwards that they were opening a criminal investigation based on both Bob Vylan and Kneecap’s Glastonbury sets, though this has since been confirmed to have been dropped.

During his first in-depth interview since the controversy arose, Bobby Vylan maintained on The Louis Theroux Podcast that he has no regrets about anything that transpired.

“If I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again,” Bobby insisted. “I’d do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays. I’m not regretful of it at all.”

He continued: “The subsequent backlash that I’ve faced – it’s minimal compared to what people in Palestine are going through.

“If that can be my contribution and if I can have my Palestinian friends and people that I meet from Palestine, that have had to flee, that have lost members in double digits of their family and they can say, ‘yo, your chant, I love it. Or it gave me a breath of fresh air or whatever’ – and I don’t want to overstate the importance of the chant. That’s not what I’m trying to do – but if I have their support, they’re the people that I’m doing it for. They’re the people that I’m being vocal for.

“[In that case], what is there to regret? Because I’ve upset some right-wing politician, or some right-wing media?”

The vocalist and guitarist went on to say he didn’t anticipate the backlash Bob Vylan’s set would go on to receive, particularly as in the moment, even members of the BBC team said it had gone well.

“It wasn’t like we came off stage, and everybody was [appalled],” he claimed. “It [was] just normal. We [came] off stage, [it was] normal. Nobody thought anything. Nobody.

“Even staff at the BBC were like ‘That was fantastic! We loved that!’.”

Bobby also had choice words for Damon Albarn of Blur, who previously called Bob Vylan’s chant “one of the most spectacular misfires I’ve seen in my life”, alleging the frontman was “goose-stepping in tennis gear”.

“There’s no space to be hyperbolic in that. Especially given what we were accused of,” Bobby responded. “Being accused of being anti-Semitic, it was disappointing. Because it lacked self-awareness, I think, his response.

“I just want to say that categorising it as a ‘spectacular misfire’ implies that somehow the politics of the band or our stance on Palestinian liberation is not thought out. And as a more senior, experienced, veteran artist – he’s been in this industry for a long time – I think that there were other ways that he could have handled that question being fielded to him.”

He added: “I take great issue with the phrase ‘goose-stepping’ being used because it’s only used around Nazi Germany. That’s it. And for him to use that language, I think is disgusting. I think his response was disgusting.”

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Shortly after Glastonbury, the members of Bob Vylan said in a joint statement: “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use ‘unnecessary lethal force’ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.”

“The government doesn’t want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity. To ask why they aren’t doing more to stop the killing. To feed the starving. The more they talk about Bob Vylan, the less they spend answering for their criminal inaction.”

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