Glastonbury 2025 is six months away, but we might have to wait a little longer for the headliners (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
So you’ve aced the new Glastonbury Festival 2025 queueing ticketing system and bagged your spot – now you’re wondering who you’ve just forked out almost £400 to go and see.
The Pyramid Stage is one of the most iconic venues for any UK musician, and Glastonbury even has global status as one of the best music festivals on the planet. So it has just a little bit of power to bag the biggest names in pop and rock.
Rumours will whirl about who the 2025 headliners will be all the way up until the first big line up announcement, but when will that be?
According to Glastonbury sleuthing account TheGlastoThingy, there is no way to tell – and they are right – but they have compiled all the announcement dates over the years, so we can have a good guess at when acts will be confirmed.
In 2024 ticketholders didn’t get a whiff of an official announcement until March 14 when the full line up dropped – but that was also the longest wait for a single official announcement in 17 years of the festival’s history.
In 2023 the first line up poster came in early March, also without any announcements prior to this, so we’re beginning to sense a theme.
Olivia Rodrigo is rumoured to be a Pyramid Stage contender this year (Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Acrisure Arena)
Dua Lipa attracted a big crowd this year, but the festival could lean more towards its rock band roots for 2025 (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
In previous years, Glastonbury more often than not drip fed acts in the months before the first line up poster was announced. That meant big acts being announced pre-Christmas and in January, but it seems those days could be behind us.
In February 2022 organiser Emily Eavis announced Little Simz in a Radio 1 interview. Pre-Covid cancellations, 2019 saw a long wait until March bar the Janelle Monae announcement, and ahead of the 2018 fallow year, the Foo Fighters were announced in February 2017 for that year.
Zooming all the way back to 2011, the festival’s biggest acts were announced ahead of the lineup in February, with Beyoncé, Coldplay and U2 confirmed by March.
When could the Glastonbury 2025 line-up be announced?
The Glastonbury line up will likely be announced in March if the theme of the last two years is anything to go by.
This year there were no announcements until March, three months before the festival(Picture: Jim Dyson/Redferns)
While usually we’d hope for one or two headliners before then, it’s looking like Worthy Farm boss Emily Eavis wants to drop the names all at once.
In 2022 and 2023 the line-up was announced on the first Friday of March – and this is historically the most common day of the week for Glastonbury line-up announcements.
Speaking to Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw on Sidetracked podcast last year, organiser Emily Eavis hinted she wanted to do things differently in 2024, and potentially beyond.
‘Sometimes we’ll do something before Christmas, but what I’m really hoping for is to just announce the full line-up at the beginning of the year,’ she said.
We are none the wiser as to who will be taking to the Pyramid Stage in June (Picture: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)
Who is rumoured for the Glastonbury 2025 line-up?
While there’s been no strong leaks or even whiffs of confirmations yet, bookies reckon artists destined for the Pyramid Stage in 2025 include Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Fender, Harry Styles, Green Day, Eminem, Sabrina Carpenter, The Rolling Stones, Fred Again, Billy Joel and Madonna – after she was an almost-headliner this year.
However, time will tell. One thing is for sure, after criticism of this year’s line up while brilliant acts popped up at other festivals like Stevie Nicks at BST Hyde Park, Emily will be keen to make this one historic.
Also with a fallow year in 2026 – to give the Worthy Farm fields a break from all the stomping and raving – this year’s line up will have to be worth talking about for two years to come until the next Glastonbury in 2027.
When is Glastonbury 2025?
Glastonbury is taking place from Wednesday June 25 – 29, with most of the music on the last three days.
If you haven’t got a ticket, the festival will be broadcasted on the BBC.
Can you still get Glastonbury 2025 tickets?
Unfortunately, tickets are all sold out. But fear not – there is a resale in April of any cancelled or returned tickets, which will give hopefuls their last chance to attend. This year tickets cost £373.50, plus a £5 booking fee – an £18.50 increase from 2024.
If you don’t want to pay, there are numerous volunteering opportunities with charities like WaterAid, Oxfam, and Greenpeace.
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