Is Glastonbury 2025 line-up the best in years? Charli xcx, Neil Young and everyone else you need to see
Pop headliners flood Glastonbury — with a bit of dad rock thrown in too
The line-up for Glastonbury 2025 has been announced, and just like every year, it will no doubt spark debate with a few surprises along the way.
At first look, it's clear the headliners are leaning towards a younger audience, most notably with The 1975 on Friday and Olivia Rodrigo on Sunday. However, Neil Young will keep the average age of the headliners up when he headlines on Saturday.
Charli xcx will also be performing on Saturday, but she will instead be found on the second stage — despite being arguably the must-see artist on Saturday, given the past 12 months she's had. It's gonna be a bit of a shock to the system going from Charli xcx to Neil Young, and we’d imagine the crowd overlap here will be minimal.
The iconic legends slot that occurs on Sunday afternoon will be filled by Rod Stewart this year -- in a line-up so eclectic that a fair few legends are knocking about throughout the weekend, and I'm sure there will be a few self-proclaimed legends come 2am Sunday morning.
An abundance of artists
Alongside the announcement of the headliners, plenty of other artists have been announced too, and diving into this, it becomes apparent how varied the line-up is this year, with a bit of something for everyone.
If you peer down the list into the smaller print, it's where the strength of Glastonbury begins to shine with artists like Kneecap, Wet Leg, Deftones, The Maccabees, Doechii, Amyl and the Sniffers and many more making an appearance.
The strongest Glastonbury line-up in years? Quite possibly.
The festival will take place from 25th June to 29th June, but tickets had all already sold out by November of last year. Considering next year will be a fallow year for the festival, taking some time off to let the ground recover, we won't get another one until 2027.
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The 1975 (Headliner) Loyle Carner Biffy Clyro Alanis Morissette Busta Rhymes Maribou State Gracie Abrams Four Tet Wet Leg Anohni & The Johnsons Badbadnotgood Blossoms Burning Spear Cmat Denzel Curry En Vogue English Teacher Fatboy Slim Faye Webster Floating Points Franz Ferdinand Glass Beams Inhaler Lola Young Myles Smith Osees Pinkpantheress Self Esteem Supergrass Vieux Farka Touré Wunderhorse | Neil Young (Headliner) Charli XCX Raye Doechii Deftones Ezra Collective John Fogerty Amyl & The Sniffers Amaarae Beabadoobee Beth Gibbons Bob Vylan Brandi Carlile Caribou Father John Misty Gary Numan Greentea Peng Jade Japanese Breakfast Kaiser Chiefs Kneecap Leftfield Lucy Dacus Nick Lowe Nova Twins Pa Salieu Scissor Sisters Tom Odell The Script TV On The Radio Weezer Yussef Dayes | Olivia Rodrigo (Headliner) Rod Stewart (Legend slot) The Prodigy Noah Kahan Nile Rodgers & Chic Wolf Alice Jorja Smith Overmono The Libertines AJ Tracey Black Uhuru Celeste Cymande Future Islands Girl In Red Goat Joy Crookes Kae Tempest Katy J Pearson Parcels Pawsa Royel Otis Shaboozey Snow Patrol Sprints St Vincent The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Maccabees The Selecter Turnstile |
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