Glastonbury Festival 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes

Dave in London was in several groups all trying to get tickets through their laptops and phones on Sunday morning, and was successful.

He said: “Actually it seems like it’s fairer this year than it’s ever been.

“All the hacks that people used to use don’t seem to have the same impact, and about a quarter of the people on the groups we are on managed to get tickets.”

Sarah in Dorset was surprised she also managed to get hold of some.

She said: “A mobile phone on 5G in Shaftesbury seemed to be the optimal way to get tickets. We didn’t even know Shaftesbury had 5G until this morning.”

Among those who were not successful were Mat Chapman and his daughter Amy.

Mat told the BBC that he used to watch the festival on TV with Amy when she was little, promising to take her when she was five years old as “she always wanted to have her own flag that you could see on the telly”.

Mat had hoped that after 20 years of trying, he would be able to beat the queue this year, on Amy’s 26th birthday. Unfortunately he only ever moved from “two bar hell to three bar purgatory”.

“There’s always next year. We’ll fly the flag there one day.”