After a decade away, one 00s pop legend is throwing his hat into the ring for a headlining spot at Glastonbury.
With two number one albums, 16 Top 10 hits, and 298 weeks spent in the UK charts, Craig David is ready to tackle that coveted Worthy Farm title.
Glastonbury is having a fallow year to allow the ground to recover, so the 7 Days icon will have to wait until 2027 – perfect timing for a special anniversary.
It will mark 10 years since the 44-year-old star last performed on the Pyramid Stage, a performance which he described as ‘iconic’.
Telling The Sun to ‘stay tuned’, he shared how he would ‘love to go back’, adding: ‘You know what Glastonbury means to any artist’.
‘When I performed on the Pyramid Stage, it was one of the most iconic moments for me. I could see that there were so many people from so many different walks of life who’d come to see a myriad of different artists.’
Over 100,000 people filled the field, and a further 7,600,000 watched on BBC iPlayer, with many at the time saying he deserved the Sunday Legend slot.
His set was sandwiched between Jools Holland and a speech from Jeremy Corbyn, with Katy Perry, The National, and Foo Fighters closing the day.
Craig shared: ‘I’d never seen so many people and I thought that is what it is normally like. People were like, “No, Craig, the crowd went over the bank at the back and that is huge.” It was just amazing.’
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For the past few years, he has posted a clip of the set on Instagram and called the experience a ‘core memory’.
‘Performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2017 holds a special place in my heart,’ the Re-Rewind hitmaker wrote. ‘Being able to sing to so many beautiful people at this iconic festival will always be a career highlight.’
He’s just released a new album, Commitment, after focusing on his TS5 DJ set recently with performances at festivals like Southampton’s Summer Sessions and Kew The Music.
This ninth album comes 25 years after 7 Days, the song which cemented him as one of the UK’s most iconic performers.
Craig previously told Metro how he wouldn’t re-release any of his older music as it’s too precious to his fans.
‘‘It’s so not about me,’ he said at the time. ‘There was a point when I was first writing music where it was about “I want to go out there, I want to play this for you, I want to know how it feels to experience this”.
‘Then it comes to another point where you recognise that the anecdotes and stories that people tell you over the years of being on holiday, meeting their partner, just a special memory for them with a song that’s one of mine.
‘It becomes not about me, it’s about what am I doing and what service can I bring. I love it.’
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