Glastonbury Festival 2025

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Glastonbury Festival 2025
Date(s)25 June 2025 (2025-06-25) –29 June 2025 (2025-06-29)
Location(s)Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England
Previous event Glastonbury Festival 2024
Next eventGlastonbury Festival 2026
Attendance210,000
Website glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

The 2025 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts will happen between 25 and 29 June at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, and follows the 2024 edition of the festival. The three headlining acts will be The 1975, Neil Young, and Olivia Rodrigo, with Rod Stewart performing in the traditional Sunday Legends slot.

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Background

Rod Stewart was announced at Glastonbury's 2025 teatime Legend's Slot performer on 26 November 2024. Stewart made his only previous appearance at the festival in 2002 when he headlined alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics. In a statement following the news, Stewart said “I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that I'll be playing Glastonbury Festival 2025! After all these years, I'm proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June. I'll see you there!” Festival organizer Emily Eavis also shared “Bringing Sir Rod Stewart back for the Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage is everything we could wish for. What a way to bow out with the final legends slot before we take a fallow year. We cannot wait”. [1] A few days later on 29 November, Nile Rogers accidentally confirmed that he and Chic would be performing at the festival immediately following Stewart's set during his acceptance speech at an awards show held at the Roundhouse in London. When informed that this had not been officially announced, Rodgers joked “Am I not supposed to give that away? I always say too much.” Chic previously performed at Glastonbury in 2017, coincidentally also following from that year's Legend's slot performer Barry Gibb. [2]

On 1 January 2024, Neil Young announced that he would not be performing at Glastonbury 2025 in a statement expressing his belief that the festival was "now under corporate control", referencing their partnership with the BBC. [3] The artist, who had been rumoured to perform but had not been confirmed or revealed by the organizers, released a subsequent statement on his blog two days later that he would indeed be headlining the festival alongside his new band, the Chrome Hearts, remarking that his initial comments had been due to a communication error. Confirming the news later that day on her Instagram, Eavis stated “Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury. He does things his own way and that’s why we love him. We can’t wait to welcome him back here to headline the Pyramid in June.” Young's headline set follows his previous headlining performance at the 2009 edition of the festival. [4]

An initial wave of performers, including both remaining headliners, was announced on 6 March 2025. The 1975 headline for the first time after previous appearances at the festival in 2014 and 2016, while Olivia Rodrigo returns to the festival following a headline-making set on the Other Stage in 2022. Doechii makes her Glastonbury debut headlining the West Holts Stage, while Charli XCX headlines the Other Stage on Saturday. Sunday's Other Stage headliners, The Prodigy, perform at the festival for the first time since the death of their frontman Keith Flint in 2019. [5] [6]

The lineup for the Acoustic Stage was announced on 22 March, headlined by Ani DiFranco, Nick Lowe, and Roy Harper. [7] The stage will also feature a set by The Searchers, in what they have confirmed will be their final performance together. Having formed in 1957, they are considered one of the longest-running bands in history. Discussing the show, singer Frank Allen stated “The Searchers are finally performing at the greatest music festival of them all. What a way to round off a tour and a career.” [8]

Tickets

General admission tickets for the festival went on sale on 17 November 2024. They cost £373.50 for the full weekend sold out in thirty five minutes. [9]

Resale tickets went on sale on 18 April (for coach packages), and 21 April (for general admission). [10]

Line-up

Friday 27 June

Saturday 28 June

Sunday 29 June

Acoustic stage

FridaySaturdaySunday

Ani DiFranco
The Searchers
Dhani Harrison
Billie Marten
Skerryvore
Hugh Cornwell
Gabrielle Aplin
Tift Merritt
Nadia Reid
Our Man in the Field

Nick Lowe
Hothouse Flowers
Jeremy Loops
The Coronas
The Bluebells
Not Completely Unknown
Sophie B. Hawkins
Oisin Leech
Lorraine Nash
Henry Grace

Roy Harper
Rhiannon Giddens [A]
London Community Gospel Choir
P. P. Arnold
The Riptide Movement
Michele Stodart
The Henry Girls
Dawn Landes

^ A. Rhiannon Giddens' set featured Dirk Powell.

References

  1. ↑ Minelle, Bethany. "Rod Stewart to play legend slot as he makes Glastonbury 2025 line-up". Sky News . Retrieved 2024-11-21.
  2. ↑ Dunworth, Liberty (29 November 2024). "Nile Rodgers & Chic confirm Glastonbury Festival 2025 performance". NME . Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  3. ↑ Cain, Sian (January 2025). "Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury 2025, claiming festival is 'under corporate control' of BBC". The Guardian . Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  4. ↑ Snapes, Laura (3 January 2025). "Neil Young confirms he will headline Glastonbury after 'error in information' prompted him to pull out". The Guardian . Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  5. ↑ "Glastonbury 2025 line-up so far". Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  6. ↑ Snapes, Laura. "Glastonbury 2025: the 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo to headline". The Guardians . Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  7. ↑ Scott, Danni. "Glastonbury announces 29 new acts including 'Britain's oldest band's' last ever show". Metro . Retrieved 2025-03-22.
  8. ↑ O'Connor, Roisin. "Britain's oldest pop band to split after farewell show at Glastonbury". MSN News . Retrieved 2025-03-23.
  9. ↑ "Glastonbury 2025 tickets sell out in 35 minutes". BBC News . 17 November 2024.
  10. ↑ O'Connor, Roisin (6 March 2025). "Glastonbury 2025 ticket resale: When is it and other ways to get festival tickets". The Independent .
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