Tango creates edible nail varnish to help Glastonbury fans through nail-biting ticket scramble

Feeling stressed about getting tickets? Better lather this stuff on!

After taking a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury Festival will return to Worthy Farm from June 23rd to 27th, 2027, with thousands of hopeful festivalgoers preparing to battle it out for tickets.

Tickets packaged with coach travel will be the first to go on sale at 6pm on Thursday, October 1st, before general admission tickets are released at 9am on Sunday, October 4th.

General admission will set you back £408, including a £5 booking fee, plus postage and packing. Fans can secure up to six tickets in a transaction with a £100 deposit per person, with the remaining £308 balance due in April 2027.

Anyone hoping to be at Worthy Farm also needed to be registered in advance, with registration for the October sales having closed at 5pm on Friday, September 25.

With ticket day now looming, Tango has come up with a slightly bizarre way of helping fans deal with the stress: edible nail varnish.

The drinks brand has created a limited-edition orange nail varnish which it says tastes like Tango, giving nervous ticket hunters something to literally sink their teeth into while they wait to discover their Glastonbury fate.

The stunt comes after research commissioned by Tango found four in 10 Brits describe trying to secure an in-demand ticket as nerve-racking.

More than a quarter of 18 to 24-year-olds admitted to biting their nails while trying to get tickets, while nearly a third of Brits said they have shouted or sworn at their laptop during a ticket sale.

Some take their ticket-buying strategy considerably further.

According to the research, 42 per cent have used multiple devices or browsers while trying to secure tickets, one in 10 have avoided going to the toilet and more than a quarter have been too scared to leave their screen.

Nearly one in five said they would never refresh a page once they had made it into an online queue for fear of losing their place.

That last point could prove particularly useful for Glastonbury hopefuls, with festival organisers themselves advising fans not to refresh once they are in the queue. They have also warned against using multiple browser tabs, saying this can cause problems with a transaction.

Holly Dunnett, of Carlsberg Britvic, said: “With some of the biggest tickets up for grabs over the next couple of weeks, we’re expecting fingernails across the country to take a serious battering.

“We thought, if everyone’s going to be biting them anyway, we might as well make them taste good.

“Our edible nail varnish is our way of making one of the most nail-biting moments of the year a little more Tango. We can’t promise you’ll get tickets – but at least you won’t be left with a sour taste in your mouth.”

The limited-edition varnish will be given away through Tango’s Instagram account, @drinktango.

For those more concerned about getting through the gates than what their fingernails taste like, Glastonbury tickets are being sold exclusively through See Tickets.

And given the lengths people are apparently prepared to go to for the biggest tickets in music, Sunday morning could be a tense one.