Glastonbury 2025 is formally right here, with the largest week in UK music kicking off at Worthy Farm.
The Somerset-based competition takes place between 25 and 29 June 2025, and as ever, the competition offered out in 40 minutes, earlier than any details about acts had even been introduced.
Headliners this 12 months embody Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Younger, and The 1975.
Nonetheless, Glastonbury is understood for being mischievous on the subject of secret units, and there is one addition to the Pyramid Stage that is acquired everybody satisfied it is an enormous artist in disguise: Patchwork.
Anybody conversant in Glastonbury is aware of the Pyramid Stage slots are reserved for the biggest-of-the-big stars, so why on earth would somebody nobody’s ever heard of be enjoying there on Saturday at 6:15pm – after John Fogerty and earlier than Raye and Neil Young?
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In case you solid your thoughts again to final 12 months, thriller band The Churnups turned out to be the Foo Fighters, and attendees have already got their theories about who Patchwork might actually be.
“Patchwork needs to be Pulp would not it?”, one individual wrote, referencing that there is been a long-standing hearsay of the 90s Britpop band making an look. What’s extra, they lately appeared at a gig in Glasgow with what regarded like some patchwork pyramids behind them.
One other believable concept prompt: “Patchwork is a German ebook written by Sylvia Haim…”
With female-led band Haim at the moment pumping out new music and heading on tour, might they be set for an look?
If not the thriller act behind Patchwork, then on the very least, we might be shocked in the event that they weren’t among the many TBAs.
Different recommendations included singer-songwriter Passenger, and even Timothee Chalamet, who has been rumoured to affix a Bob Dylan cowl band for a set on the competition.
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“Received to be Chalamet. He purchased one among Dylan’s outdated patchwork jackets at an public sale earlier within the 12 months – March I believe”, one other individual sussed.
However as ever, the competition is preserving tight-lipped on who’s behind the alias, and till the time comes, it is purely a guessing sport for attendees.
Different new additions to the lineup embody Jalen Ngonda, Ichiko Aoba, Horsegirl, John Glacier and Geordie Greep.
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