Whether your passion is the battle of the bands or the Battle of Hastings, what are probably Britain’s hottest cultural tickets are about to go on sale – and to be in with a shout of going, there are insider tips that will get you a good spot in the queue. General admission tickets to the Glastonbury festival next June go on sale online at 9am on Sunday, while the next tranche of tickets to view the Bayeux tapestry at the British Museum will be released to members on Tuesday 6 October before a public on-sale on 21 October. If you are planning to try your luck, get your fastest finger ready and check out our tips for how to increase your chances of bagging tickets for the most in-demand events.
Membership of an organisation or venue often includes priority booking, giving you early access to tickets. However, the cost will be beyond many people’s budgets. The next member priority booking window for the Bayeux tapestry – for slots from 1 January to 31 March 2027 – opens on Tuesday 6 October at noon.
That is for members who joined up to 16 September. If you join now, you can book before the public in January for April to July 2027 dates. However, standard individual membership starts at £82.
Sometimes you don’t have to pay to get priority booking for hot-ticket events. Some theatres (such as those run by the LW Theatres group) and gig promoters (such as Live Nation) offer presale access to people who . Planning to try for Glastonbury tickets?
One person can book up to six per transaction, and this year, when the sale begins, everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process. The six-ticket limit means that if there are a lot of you who want to go, the best way to maximise your chances is to split into one or more groups of six. They need to all be logged on before 9am.
The festival says you only get five minutes on the booking page, and there’s a lot of information to input. If and when one of the six people gets through, they will need the registration details, including postcodes, of everyone in their party in order to book tickets. (Registration for this year is now closed.) Everyone should check their registration details are still correct ahead of the sale. So, before things kick off, get a spreadsheet going with everyone’s details on it that everyone can access, and set up a group chat on WhatsApp or wherever so you can message each other instantly.
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