Glastonbury Festival 2023: Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses to headline

Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses volition apical the measure astatine this year's Glastonbury Festival, organisers person announced.

Other acts connected the line-up see Lizzo, Lana Del Rey, Lil Nas X, Manic Street Preachers, Wizkid and Blondie.

Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens volition play the coveted "legend slot", antecedently occupied by Kylie and Dolly Parton.

The Sunday day acceptable traditionally draws 1 of the festival's biggest audiences, with Diana Ross attracting an estimated 80,000 radical past year.

Blondie volition instrumentality to the Pyramid signifier instantly aft Stevens - efficaciously creating a "double legend" slot.

But Sir Elton is apt to beryllium this year's biggest attraction, arsenic helium draws the curtain connected six decades of unrecorded performance.

"It's a massive, monolithic coup for america to beryllium capable to get him present for the extremity of his tour," festival organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC.

"And he's truly up for it. He's been connected the telephone with loads of superb ideas and he's conscionable fired up astir it."

The prima has ne'er been a regular festival performer, and Eavis revealed she took peculiar measures to person him to play.

"We've wanted Elton for years. It's been thing that we've talked astir connected fig of occasions and I was like, what's the champion mode to get done to Elton?

"And successful the end, I wrote him a missive and I said, 'If this ne'er happens, it would beryllium specified a nonaccomplishment connected each of our parts. I cognize you've done everything other successful the world. I cognize you've fulfilled each everything you request to fulfil, but please, tin you travel and play Glastonbury?

"And helium conscionable called up and said yes."

More than 50 acts were announced for the 2023 line-up connected Friday, with hundreds much inactive to travel earlier the festival opens its gates connected Wednesday, 21 June.

The archetypal question includes Nigeran superstar Wizkid, who volition header the Other Stage connected Friday night; and US torch vocalist Lana Del Rey, who volition play other Guns N' Roses connected Saturday.

Christine and the Queens returns to header the Woodsies Stage - a caller sanction for what was formerly the John Peel stage.

Eavis says the alteration isn't a effect to a petition that circulated past year, protesting that the Radio 1 DJ had joined a 15-year-old miss erstwhile helium was 25 (the matrimony was ineligible astatine the clip successful Texas, wherever they wed).

Eurovision winners Måneskin volition marque their festival debut, arsenic volition popular maverick Rina Sawayama, US state stars The Chicks and BBC Sound of 2023 winners Flo.

In keeping with Glastonbury's pledge to marque festival line-ups sex balanced, determination is astir a 50:50 divided betwixt antheral and pistillate acts.

However, each of this year's main signifier headliners are male.

"We effort our champion and we evidently purpose for 50:50," explained Eavis. "Some years, it's more, immoderate years, it's less.

"This year, we did person a pistillate headliner, and she unluckily had to propulsion out... It changes each the time.

"But adjacent twelvemonth it's looking similar we've got 2 pistillate headliners, truthful fingers crossed."

Tickets for the festival sold retired conscionable 61 minutes aft going connected merchantability past November, contempt the terms rising to £340.

However, returned and cancelled tickets volition beryllium enactment backmost connected merchantability person to the lawsuit - typically successful precocious March oregon aboriginal April.

Organisers are besides raffling 10 pairs of tickets to rise wealth to for the DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake appeal, with entries unfastened until 8 March.

"We've got 5 days near and we're astir astatine £800,000, which is incredible," said Eavis. "Hopefully we're going to marque immoderate large leaps successful the adjacent fewer days".

In the meantime, she is inactive successful the process of confirming much acts for the line-up. And she said she can't hold to propulsion unfastened the gates to her household workplace again successful June.

"When we came backmost aft 2 years of pandemic lockdowns [last year] determination was an astonishing energy," she said.

"People behaved differently. They were truthful up for it. They didn't stop. They wanted to beryllium astatine everything. You could consciousness the emotion and the joyousness and it restored my faith.

"I deliberation [Glastonbury] is inactive a beacon of anticipation and emotion and each those affirmative things. And that's the mode it's got to stay."