This year’s Glastonbury set will feature two first-time headliners in the British pop-rock group the 1975 and the US pop-punk songwriter Olivia Rodrigo.
The band, led by Matty Healy, will top the Friday night billing on the Pyramid stage. Rodrigo will perform on Sunday. In 2022, the Drivers License singer performed on the Other stage, a set that boasted a guest spot from Lily Allen and an excoriation of the US supreme court following the overturning of Roe v Wade a day earlier.
In between on Saturday comes a previously – accidentally – announced headline set from Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts. On 1 January, Young declared, out of the blue, that he was withdrawing from this year’s festival owing to his perception that it was under broadcast partner the BBC’s “corporate control”. Two days later, he said he had received “an error in information” and that the festival was “back on our itinerary”. He previously headlined in 2009.
The soul-pop star Raye will play on the Pyramid stage before Young. The 27-year-old Londoner is already something of a national treasure after walking away from her major label to find critical and commercial success with her debut album, My 21st Century Blues.
The festival previously revealed that Rod Stewart would take this year’s “legends” slot. Stewart, who turned 80 in January, said he was “more than able to pleasure and titillate” at his age.
The Other stage headliners have also been revealed. After turning the world lime green with her culture-dominating album Brat last summer – and rivalling Dua Lipa’s headline extravaganza with merely a DJ set at Glastonbury 2024 – Charli xcx will headline the festival’s second stage on Saturday. The London rapper Loyle Carner headlines it on Friday, and the Prodigy will close the stage on Sunday – the dance group’s first Glastonbury performance since the death of their frontman, Keith Flint, in 2019, just before that year’s festival.
A raft of talents old and new are among this year’s first-time performers. At the breakout end of the scale, there is the Stick Season troubadour Noah Kahan, the That’s So True songwriter Gracie Abrams, the Messy singer Lola Young, the euphoric Brits-minted star Myles Smith, the cheeky American-Ghanaian rapper Amaarae and the A Bar Song (Tipsy) star and Beyoncé collaborator Shaboozey.
There are more surprising debuts from Alanis Morissette, Busta Rhymes, Brandi Carlile – who will be fresh off the back of a duets album with Elton John – the US girl group En Vogue, Anohni and the Johnsons, the cult British funk act Cymande, the hard-touring Osees and everyone’s friend electric, Gary Numan.
Worthy farm stalwarts scheduled to perform include Ezra Collective – riding high off winning best group at this year’s Brit awards – the Australian punk tykes Amyl and the Sniffers, Jorja Smith, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty and the roots reggae stars Burning Spear and Black Uhuru.
Friday also sees the return of the Isle of Wight indie duo Wet Leg, presumed to be back this year with their second album. The Irish pop star CMAT is another returning talent, along with the Bath dance iconoclast PinkPantheress and Sheffield’s Self Esteem, who returns with her new album, A Complicated Woman, in April.
After winning best rap album for her mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal at this year’s Grammy awards – which also featured a performance hinting at the magic she will bring to Worthy Farm – the Florida rapper Doechii will headline the West Holts stage on Saturday.
That day also sees the Glastonbury debut of Jade, formerly of the UK girl group Little Mix. She joins a well-rounded day that features the London rock duo Nova Twins and the capital-born rapper Pa Salieu, the returning Scissor Sisters and New York indie stalwarts TV On The Radio, who have received rave reviews for the 20th anniversary tour of their 2004 album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.
On Sunday, the British indie quartet Wolf Alice mark their return, four years after their critically acclaimed third album, Blue Weekend. The Libertines – now a venerable indie institution far from their chaotic 00s heyday – lead an indie-heavy lineup that also features the resurgent Maccabees. From varying sides of the US rock firmament, St Vincent will perform songs from her 2024 album All Born Screaming, and the presence of Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile indicates that they may finally release the much clamoured-over followup to 2021’s Glow On.
More acts are yet to be announced in the coming months, with performances rumoured from Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and – take it with a pinch of salt – Rihanna, which seems incredibly unlikely given that the three Pyramid headliners have already been revealed.
This year’s festival takes place from 25 to 29 June. It will take a fallow year in 2026 to allow the farm land to rest; the last intentional one was in 2018. The festival did not take place in 2020 or 2021 owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Glastonbury 2025 lineup in full
Friday
The 1975
Loyle Carner
Biffy Clyro
Alanis Morissette
Busta Rhymes
Maribou State
Gracie Abrams
Four Tet
Wet Leg
Anohni and the Johnsons
BADBADNOTGOOD
Blossoms
Burning Spear
CMAT
Denzel Curry
En Vogue
English Teacher
Fatboy Slim
Floating Points
Franz Ferdinand
Glass Beams
Inhaler
Osees
PinkPantheress
Self Esteem
Myles Smith
Supergrass
Vieux Farka Touré
Faye Webster
Wunderhorse
Lola Young
Saturday
Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts
Charli xcx
Raye
Doechii
Deftones
Ezra Collective
John Fogerty
Amyl and the Sniffers
Amaarae
Beabadobee
Bob Vylan
Caribou
Brandi Carlile
Father John Misty
Beth Gibbons
Lucy Dacus
Yussef Dayes
Greentea Peng
Jade
Japanese Breakfast
Kaiser Chiefs
Kneecap
Leftfield
Nick Lowe
Nova Twins
Gary Numan
Tom Odell
Pa Salieu
Scissor Sisters
The Script
TV on the Radio
Weezer
Sunday
Olivia Rodrigo
Rod Stewart
The Prodigy
Noah Kahan
Nile Rodgers and Chic
Wolf Alice
Jorja Smith
Overmono
The Libertines
AJ Tracey
Black Uhuru
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Celeste
Joy Crookes
Cymande
Future Islands
Girl in Red
Goat
The Maccabees
Parcels
Pawsa
Katy J Pearson
Royel Otis
The Selecter
Shaboozey
Snow Patrol
Sprints
St Vincent
Kae Tempest
Turnstile
