Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 to headline Glastonbury

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Mark Savage

Music Correspondent

Getty Images Olivia Rodrigo holds aloft a megaphone portion performing connected her Guts satellite tour

US popular prima Olivia Rodrigo and British set The 1975 volition header the Glastonbury festival this summer, organisers person announced.

They volition beryllium joined by five-time Brit Award victor Charli XCX - who volition apical the measure connected the festival's 2nd signifier connected Saturday 28 June.

There volition besides beryllium debut Glastonbury performances by Alanis Morisette, Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Lola Young and US rap improvement Doechii, who volition header the West Holts stage. Returning favourites see Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, Fatboy Slim, Loyle Carner and Scissor Sisters.

Rock fable Neil Young has already been announced arsenic the Saturday nighttime headliner, with Rod Stewart playing the Sunday day "legend slot".

The 1975 scope apical of the bill

PA Media The 1975's Matty Healy, dressed successful a achromatic suit, pulls a look portion playing guitar connected signifier astatine a festival successful Scotland, 2024

Manchester set The 1975 are festival veterans, who person headlined the Reading and Leeds festival 3 times since 2016 - but this volition beryllium their archetypal clip astatine the apical of Glastonbury's line-up.

Balancing hooky dance-rock with much experimental forays into electronica and adjacent ambient music, they capsicum their lyrics with references to online relationships, chemic dependency and wry, self-aware humour.

Frontman Matty Healy is known for his provocative, and often divisive, actions. On their caller tour, helium has been spotted chewing earthy steak, berating information guards via Auto-Tune, and passionately kissing fans successful the beforehand row.

More seriously, the set are being sued by organisers of a Malaysian festival, which was unopen down aft Healy kissed 1 of his bandmates connected stage.

The vocalist said helium was protesting astatine the country's anti-LGBT laws, nether which homosexual acts tin beryllium punished by 20 years successful prison.

Olivia's accelerated rise

Olivia Rodrigo poses with her microphone stand, portion playing astatine the Glastonbury Festival successful 2022

Rodrigo is the archetypal Glastonbury headliner to person breached done successful the 2020s - and the second-youngest headliner of each time, aft Billie Eilish, who was 20 erstwhile she topped the measure successful 2022.

Like Eilish, the 22-year-old volition play the Pyramid Stage with conscionable 2 albums to her name, but she has a coagulated armoury of fist-pumping pop-punk singalongs (Good 4 U, Brutal, Get Him Back), alongside lighters-aloft ballads similar Driver's License and Vampire.

An accomplished unrecorded performer, her 2024 Guts circuit banked $186m (£144m) successful summons sales; and she volition besides header the BST festival successful London's Hyde Park 2 days earlier Glastonbury.

Rodrigo past played the festival successful 2022, drafting a immense - and noticeably young - assemblage to the Other Stage.

During that performance, she brought retired Lily Allen to execute the expletive-laden way F You, dedicating it to the US Supreme Court justices who had, a time earlier, ended the law close to termination successful America.

Charli's adjacent Brat summer

Reuters Charli XCX successful a denim overgarment and bra-top, sings into a microphone during the 2025 Grammy Awards

Rumours that Rihanna would play the Pyramid Stage turned retired to beryllium wishful reasoning for the 2nd twelvemonth running.

But Charli XCX volition cement her presumption arsenic 1 of the UK's biggest popular stars with her acceptable connected the Other Stage.

She returns to the festival aft winning 5 Brit Awards for her deliberately trashy seventh album, Brat.

Playing the Other Stage volition merchandise her from the request to code down her acceptable for audiences connected BBC One, and indulge successful the frenetic, hedonistic nine sounds that made her name.

It volition besides people the latest measurement successful a agelong travel done the festival's smaller stages, starting astatine the Silver Hayes creation arena successful 2014.

"I was truly sick and I forgot to deterioration a bra connected stage, which was good!" she aboriginal told the BBC.

"[Radio 1 DJ] Huw Stephens came connected during the past opus and told maine I was singing unrecorded connected the radio. I mislaid my dependable and it was each a spot crazy, but it was fun."

Hopefully she'll debar the lurgy this summer.

More acts added

Getty Images Busta Rhymes connected stage

Other acts announced for Glastonbury 2025 see Ezra Collective, Jorja Smith, The Libertines, The Maccabees, Franz Ferdinand, Kae Tempest, Beabadoobee, Kneecap and The Prodigy.

Pop prima Raye volition besides play conscionable earlier Neil Young connected the Saturday night, pursuing her breakthrough acceptable astatine lunchtime connected the Pyramid Stage conscionable 2 years ago.