How to get All Points East tickets with your group

All Points East turns Victoria Park into a 50,000-a-day headline series across two August weekends. Each day is its own show with its own bill and its own tickets, and between the weekends In The Neighbourhood opens the site to everyone for free - cinema, DJs and workshops on the same lawns, no ticket needed. The 2027 series hasn't been announced: no dates, no acts, no prices, no on-sale. AXS is the current ticket partner, and the shape of the thing has been consistent enough that you can prepare for it without knowing who's playing.

Being a city festival changes the shape of the day. Gates open early afternoon, the headliner is done by eleven, Mile End and Bethnal Green are a ten-minute walk, and you're in your own bed by midnight. What makes it worth a guide is that every day is a separate show with separate tickets.

APE difficulty is day-shaped, and that's the thing to internalise before 2027 goes on sale. Each headline day sells at its own speed, so one day can be gone within the hour while the day beside it is still open months later. In 2026 the hottest Saturday sold out completely while another act's two nights stayed fully available at £89.95 a day. Prices also step upward by release, and APE says so openly - a later release costs more for the same ticket - so a day that lingers gets dearer rather than cheaper.

The seller stack is AXS-first, with Ticketmaster and DICE as the other authorised agents. Each headliner announcement historically runs an Amex presale, then an APE signup presale, then general sale within days. So the single most useful thing you can do before the 2027 announcements is get everyone signed up for the APE mailing list and work out who in the group holds an Amex.

• Every day is a separate sale with separate stock: the group must decide day-by-day, not once.
• Once a day sells out there is exactly one honest route back, the official waitlist. Unofficial listings risk refusal at an app-gated door.
• Prices step upward by release on the days still selling, so hesitation has a real cost.
• Premium and accessible tiers vanish first everywhere - pit, viewing platforms and Primary Entry go before GA.

Most festivals never offer anything like this. Team Tickets are discounted GA for groups who buy together in one order, and in 2026 they took the opening Friday from £74.95 a head down to £44.95 - roughly forty percent off. Allocations and minimum group sizes varied by day, and whether they return for 2027 is up to APE. What matters is that APE has turned the group buy into an actual product, and a crew that sorts itself out before checkout pays materially less than six friends buying alone.

The app rules shape the rest. Tickets are digital-only in the APE app with QR codes that refresh every 59 seconds - screenshots don't scan - and transfers to other AXS accounts only open 30 days before the event and cannot be undone. Practically: the buyer holds everyone's tickets until late July, then transfers deliberately, once, to the right people.

There's no queue to survive here, just a grid to fill in. One row per announced day, each one recording who wants it, at what ceiling, in which tier. One buyer then takes the group through each day in a single order, grabbing Team Tickets where that day offers them, while anyone chasing a day that has sold out joins the waitlist on their own account rather than watching someone else's.

Once the days are announced, the group picks its days and buys, and everything after that is logistics. Recent editions have opened gates at 14:00 for GA and an hour earlier on Primary Entry, with a hard 20:30 last entry and no re-admission, an A4 bag limit, and the Tube surge when fifty thousand people leave at once. None of that has moved in years, so you can plan the evening long before you know the bill.

The whole appeal of a per-day festival is picking your day and owning it. The right mates, the right headliner, golden hour in an East London park. The only thing between you and that is a grid nobody wants to carry around in their head.

TicketSquad gives an APE crew somewhere to put it. Who is in for which days. Ceilings per day and tier. AXS account emails and buyer assignments. Which days offer Team Tickets once the lineup lands. Waitlist status on anything that sells out. And the transfer plan for when the thirty-day window opens.

Fill it in before the days go on sale and you pay the Team price. Leave it and you pay the ladder.