Hi All
Was thinking of buying a ticket or two as gifts for my daughter and maybe a friend for Glastonbury 2027. It looks like the pre-registration allows only the person(s) intending to go to the concerts to register for pre-sale – submitting photos and post code, etc. Is it possible to buy tickets as gifts for another person? Has anybody done that?
ATM – How to buy gift tickets for Glastonbury
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From what I’ve just read, you can buy for another person but not as a surprise. As you suggest above, whoever’s going has to pre-register on the Glasto page with their details and photo. Then to buy, you as the purchaser have to know their reg no and postcode. They would get the email confirmation, should they be lucky enough to get the tickets.
Thanks @Black-Type. That’s what I understood from the site but just wanted to see if maybe there was something I missed…
Hate to say it, but other Festivals are available, some of which might be a better choice these days, considering what Glastonbury has become.
The big G gets the BBC coverage, has the international rep, gets on the peer-group-pressure bucket lists and so on, but it has become a little like tattoos and piercings – there’s only so much room (for improvement) available before you reach a point of saturation and discerning punters look elsewhere for originality and vibe.
I speak as someone who’s been been to Glastonbury over a dozen times since the 80s, only to fall away from it over the last decade as it has, to my mind anyway, eaten itself.
You can still go there and spend the long weekend seeking out the spaces within the site that have the atmosphere you look for at a festival, but ultimately, whenever you leave that little internal oasis you emerge once more into the wider festival global TV event, wading back into a sea of conspicuous consumption and collective hysteria again. It’s not what I want from a festival anymore.
Maybe you’d do better to look for one of the smaller, less over-exposed festival experiences? Folks on here will be happy to advise you on the alternatives, of which there are many nowadays.
To be fair, I wouldn’t have thought that Max’s daughter would share your sense of ennui about Glastonbury if she hasn’t been before.
Yes. I think for a lot of people of AW’s demographic, myself included, Glasto is not something they’d want to experience.
Back in the ’80s our gang used to go every year. There were some bad things starting to creep in back then, the rival drug gangs from London and Bristol for example, but it was still an enjoyable weekend away with added musical entertainment.
For younger people than I am, say half a lifetime, I think going to Glastonbury is still a memorable rite-of-passage experience, for those who can afford it and have the energy to endure it. It’s no more commercialised and tacky than the rest of 2020s young people’s entertainment, after all.
I’ve never been to Glastonbury, though I did go to the Bath Festival in 1970 (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Byrds, Zappa, Santana, Jefferson Airplane etc etc). Put me off festivals down narrow country lanes for life (as did the bogs). Michael Eavis was there too, apparently, and the rest is history.
It rained.
Have you seen this @mikethep
Recently uploaded to You Tube all the surviving footage of Zep at Bath 70.
First 30 mins is silent and mainly crowd shots but then it goes backstage and follows Zeppelin as they make their way to the stage.
Well worth a watch
Thanks! You never know, I might even spot myself.
I was trying to gently suggest to @Max-the-Dog that he ought to be sure that the Glastonbury experience really was what the daughter and friend would want.
I surmised that it’s possible they might be much more interested in a gentler, less commercialised, more left-of-centre, alternative-type festival, of which there are several, and all of which are much easier (and cheaper) to attend.
Maybe Max’s offspring have already been dropping unsubtle hints that the big G really is what they absolutely crave, I don’t know.
But anyway, Max hasn’t told us, and most of the replies below are just sarky inconsequential nonsense about crumpets, when everyone knows that great glistening garlic-infested half-baguettes, dripping molten butter up your arms and all over your strides, are where it’s at if you’re festing.
Ooh, yeah, and sweetcorn cobs with hot garlic butter applied with a paintbrush from a steel drum. Washed down with a pint of hot spicy cider from the bus.
Oi! There is nothing inconsequential about crumpets.
Hey there daughter. You know you wanted to go to Glastonbury after watching it on telly last year? Here’s two tickets to Hop Farm Hay Fiddle Crumpet Fest
If there’s going to be crumpets sign me up.
Surely there’d be a (vegan, artisanal) crumpet stall somewhere on site?
Perhaps even a Crumpet Field.
We have sourdough crumpets in our neck of the woods. Not recommended.
The Crumpet Field with mein host Sid James.
Thanks everybody. That crumpet fest sounds just right. Best to let her decide if she wants to try for tix and we will step in if she’s successful…
Crumpets and Crumhorns.
A winner if ever I saw (dreamed up) one.
‘Crumpets and Crumhorns’, isn’t that the unreleased experimental album from Amazing Blondel?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0klzvdn8epo