How to get Green Man tickets with your group

Green Man returns to Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell in Bannau Brycheiniog, and recent editions have run Thursday to Sunday in the third week of August - 2026 ran 20 to 23 August, with Settlement access from Monday 17 August for people taking the longer route in. The 2027 dates aren't announced. The useful mental picture isn't a giant corporate park-and-stage sprawl. It's a temporary village in the hills. Music, comedy, science, literature, family fields, late-night Far Out energy, Welsh beer, muddy boots if the weather turns, and the Green Man burn on Sunday.

No 2027 acts are announced yet. The 2026 bill ran Four Tet, Wolf Alice, Wilco, Mogwai, Cat Power, The Beta Band and Sparks, which is very Green Man indeed: serious taste, without losing the odd corners. The size is part of why people love it. Our capacity signal is around 25,000, small enough to feel intimate and yet quick enough to sell out that a loose group chat won't cut it.

Green Man hasn't announced a 2027 release, and says sale details will go to its mailing list. That makes joining it the only live action right now. The thing worth knowing while you wait is the pace: the 2026 edition sold out in well under two hours, before a single act had been announced. Whoever buys needs to know the exact category and the exact ceiling before the sale opens, not while it's running.

The categories aren't interchangeable either. In 2026, Weekend and Settlement tickets were different trips. Resident day tickets needed NP8 proof. Adult, student/under-25, teen, Little Folk and infant tickets each needed the right person attached. Under-18s needed a responsible adult as lead booker, and that adult had to enter with them. Live-in vehicles, parking, coaches, Park & Ride, accessibility. All of it sat around the ticket decision rather than after it, and none of it is the kind of thing a festival usually simplifies.

• Green Man used Tixel as its official 2026 fan-to-fan resale. Until it confirms the 2027 arrangement, treat any 2027 listing anywhere as unverified.
• Weekend and Settlement tickets change arrival date, budget, time off work, food planning and family energy. Decide which one your group wants before a sale date lands.
• Under-18 tickets needed the real lead booker in 2026, not whichever adult happened to be fastest on the day.
• Add-ons matter more than people expect. A live-in vehicle, a car park, Park & Ride, a coach or an access need can break a plan you thought was finished.

Green Man had a generous order cap in 2026: up to 10 tickets per order, six per ticket type, and one live-in vehicle per order or session. Treat those as prior-year mechanics until GM27 publishes its own limits. A cap that size is an invitation to send one prepared buyer rather than six hopeful ones, so the useful method here isn't "everyone buy anything". It's a shared brief.

A sale this quick punishes the same handful of mistakes every year. Someone buys the wrong age band. A Settlement ticket goes to a buyer who can only arrive Thursday. A teen ticket is bought under the wrong adult. A live-in vehicle friend gets a ticket but no vehicle route. The fix is unglamorous and it works. Write the answers down before the sale date is even announced.

Green Man isn't a festival you want to spend arguing about in the car park. You want the first drink, the first wander, the first accidental discovery and the relief of seeing that hillside open up around everyone. That's easier to find when the dull things are already done - real tickets, the right buyer accounts, children attached to the right adult, and a travel plan that matches the ticket.

TicketSquad gives a Green Man group one place for the ticket-agent account email, Weekend or Settlement preference, ticket mix, maximum GBP budget, lead booker, accessibility evidence, live-in or parking needs, coach or Park & Ride choices, and who is still unsorted.

That means the morning GM27 goes on sale isn't a scramble through old messages. It's a buyer looking at a clean answer sheet and making the right official move for the right person.