US band Haim, formed of three sisters Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, have hinted they could be performing at Glastonbury Festival in a secret set.
When the Worthy Farm festival dropped its full line-up last week, the presence of some ‘TBA’ slots and a mysterious made-up band called Patchwork caused rumours to fly.
While Pulp, Lewis Capaldi and even Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan have all been rumoured to be the acts behind these line-up gaps, Haim have just heavily suggested they will be at the festival filling one of them.
The trio are scheduled to perform a one-off show at Dreamland Margate on Friday, June 26, meaning they are within touching distance from Glastonbury for the Saturday and Sunday evenings of the festival.
While fans suspected the UK was quite far to travel for a single show in Margate, the band has now spoken out about their rumoured Glastonbury secret set.
When asked by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 whether they were free on the Glastonbury weekend, the Falling hitmakers said: ‘Well we are playing Margate a couple of days before, so we will be in the area..’
Their coy answer was followed by the sisters raving about the festival, which kicks off in a fortnight, while talking about their favourite stage.
‘We love the Park Stage. We played there the first time we came to Glastonbury, it felt like a movie. We were like, how did we get here?’ they said.
‘You’ll never forget the first time you step onto the farm. It’s the most insane feeling we will ever have.’
This fits with one of the secret set gaps, as The Park stage at 7.30 on the Saturday is currently a mysterious TBA.
Haim also suggested that they would love to see Doechii during her West Holts Stage performance on Saturday evening at 10.15pm.
Glastonbury’s timing also aligns with the release of their new album, called I Quit, which is dropping on June 20.
The sisters revealed in their BBC chat I Quit was written when all three of them were single, which was the first time this had happened since high school.
This comes after Glastonbury tipster X account SecretGlasto appeared to ‘confirm’ Pulp will be playing in the primetime Pyramid Stage slot currently mysteriously billed as Patchwork.
SecretGlasto shared a video of a patchwork quilt and someone using a sewing machine before cutting to clips of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp.
Pulp’s Candida Doyle has also recently hinted at the Patchwork clue in a recent interview, also with Jo Whiley.
The 61-year-old musician shared: ‘I used to do patchwork when I was on tour and I made a really nice bit of patchwork, that’s all I can think of right now.’
This comes after reports of overcrowding in the festival grounds last year, with huge numbers flocking to see Kasabian’s secret set, and the Sugababes, as well as Avril Lavigne.
Fears are growing that Brat queen Charli XCX is going to cause chaos, as she is billed to perform on The Other Stage, rather than the main Pyramid Stage, where Neil Young will be instead.
Emily Eavis revealed on a recent episode of Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw’s Sidetracked podcast that they had sold a few thousand less tickets this year to reduce crowds.
However, Emily – daughter of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis – also said she called a meeting with 250 staff members and asked if anyone felt it was overcrowded last year, but apparently nobody put their hand up.
‘I was like, [that’s] interesting because there’s a lot of talk, some people think that it was,’ she said.
Emily’s comments come after an insider told Mail on Sunday: ‘How has it [Glastonbury] survived this long without a major disaster?
‘It’s got to be a mixture of luck and a mixture of good will, the jewel in the UK’s crown is actually something of a ticking time bomb.’
In response, Glastonbury told Metro: ‘As always, Glastonbury 2025 will have a robust, dynamic crowd management plan in place, with crowd safety paramount at the Festival.
‘Our team works year-round on crowd management, which is at the forefront of all decisions and planning for the site and artist bookings. Our proactive crowd management team monitors data (including from the official Glastonbury app line-up planner) for information on potential act popularity for weeks in advance of the Festival and develops a comprehensive crowd management plan accordingly.
‘At the Festival, our dedicated, 500-strong crowd management team is overseen by a team of world-leading experts and works closely with all relevant agencies and authorities, establishing plans and procedures against all possible outcomes, with detailed plans developed for certain areas and scenarios, even if the likelihood of them being used is very low.’
They added that their team ‘utilises state-of-the-art crowd monitoring systems to ensure that at all times of day and night crowd safety is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, with a far greater capacity to respond to issues than might be found in the rest of the sector.’
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