The countdown for the iconic Glastonbury Festival has begun. The beloved British festival is taking place from June 25-29 at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England.
US pop star Olivia Rodrigo and British band The 1975 will headline the Glastonbury festival this summer, organisers have announced. They will be joined by five-time Brit Award winner Charli XCX – who will top the bill on the festival’s second stage on Saturday 28 June. There will also be debut Glastonbury performances by Alanis Morisette, Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Lola Young, and US rap phenomenon Doechii, who will headline the West Holts stage. Returning favorites include Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, Fatboy Slim, Loyle Carner, and Scissor Sisters.
Rock legend Neil Young has already been announced as the Saturday night headliner, with Rod Stewart playing the Sunday afternoon ‘legend slot’. Cheshire’s The 1975 are festival veterans, who have headlined the Reading and Leeds festival three times since 2016 – but this will be their first time at the top of Glastonbury’s line-up. Balancing hooky dance-rock with more experimental forays into electronica and even ambient music, they pepper their lyrics with references to online relationships, chemical dependency, and wry, self-aware humor.
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Frontman Matty Healy is known for his provocative, and often divisive, actions. On their recent tour, he has been spotted chewing raw steak, berating security guards via Auto-Tune, and passionately kissing fans in the front row. More seriously, the band is being sued by organizers of a Malaysian festival, which was shut down after Healy kissed one of his bandmates on stage. The singer said he was protesting the country’s anti-LGBT laws, under which homosexual acts can be punished by 20 years in prison.
‘I feel like they’ll be great headliners,’ said BBC 6 Music’s Nick Grimshaw. ‘They have great taste and great vision – and they’re a band who will think about do a bespoke show.’ Rodrigo is the first Glastonbury headliner to have broken through in the 2020s – and the second-youngest solo headliner of all time, after Billie Eilish, who was 20 when she topped the bill in 2022.
Like Eilish, the 22-year-old will play the Pyramid Stage with just two albums to her name, but she has a solid armoury of fist-pumping pop-punk singalongs (Good 4 U, Brutal, Get Him Back), alongside lighters-aloft ballads like Driver’s License and Vampire. An accomplished live performer, her 2024 Guts tour banked $186m (£144m) in ticket sales; and she will also headline the BST festival in London’s Hyde Park two days before Glastonbury. Rodrigo last played the festival in 2022, drawing a huge – and noticeably young – crowd to the Other Stage.
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