Glastonbury festival has announced full details of its lineup, allowing ticketholders to studiously plan their gig-going across the vast site, and those at home to plan their evenings watching and listening to BBC coverage.
New additions to the lineup include AJ Tracey, Jamie T, Ziggy Marley, Kae Tempest, Yungblud, Little Dragon, Pa Salieu, Sea Girls and the Libertines.
Until today, the only timed positions on the lineup were Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar headlining the Pyramid stage, with Diana Ross on Sunday teatime.
Supporting Billie Eilish’s Friday slot will be Sam Fender, whose second album Seventeen Going Under was widely regarded as one of 2021’s best, with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and Wolf Alice before him. Before Paul McCartney will be Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, making his solo debut at the festival though no doubt including a few Oasis numbers, with Haim and AJ Tracey beforehand. Lorde will warm up for Kendrick Lamar on Sunday, with a stage show that has drawn admiring reviews, with Elbow playing between her and Diana Ross earlier in the afternoon.
Playing before Ross – and representing octogenarians on the Pyramid stage alongside Paul McCartney, who turns 80 shortly before the festival – is another musical legend, 82-year-old jazz artist Herbie Hancock, whose career began as a child prodigy in the early 1950s.
The Other stage headliners are Foals on Friday, trailed by St Vincent, Idles and Supergrass; Megan Thee Stallion on a pop-facing Saturday, with Burna Boy, Olivia Rodrigo and Glass Animals in support; and Pet Shop Boys on Sunday, fresh from a rapturously received arena tour, awarded five stars in the Guardian. Leading up to them will be Fontaines DC, Kacey Musgraves and then Years & Years, sparking hopes of a team-up for Pet Shop Boys classic It’s a Sin, which Years & Years recently covered with Elton John.
Little Simz, Róisín Murphy and Bicep will all play rousing sets to headline the West Holts stage, while Primal Scream, Jamie T and Charli XCX are to headline the John Peel tent.
There are two names to be confirmed on the lineup, on Sunday afternoon in the John Peel tent and Sunday evening on the scenic Park stage. Rumours abound, with Harry Styles fans pointing to a gap in his tour schedule over Glastonbury weekend, and others have mooted whether Taylor Swift will put in an appearance, having been booked to headline the festival in 2020 before it was cancelled by Covid-19.
Elton John is playing tantalisingly close to the festival site in Bristol on Sunday 26 June, with a show-free day on Saturday, leading to hopes of an appearance somewhere, perhaps during Paul McCartney’s performance.
Curios on the lineup include the original lineup of Sugababes, the 00s pop trio who continue a 2019 reunion held back by Covid; Go-A, the Ukrainian group who placed fifth at the 2021 Eurovision song context with the high-intensity techno-folk song Shum; and actor Riz Ahmed, also known for his socially conscious hip-hop, who plays on Sunday evening at Lonely Hearts Club and introduces his Oscar-winning short film The Long Goodbye at the Cineramageddon stage. TV presenters Dermot O’Leary and Gok Wan each appear for small-scale DJ sets.
Dance music A-listers include Calvin Harris, playing at Arcadia whose fire-breathing arachnid stage set returns for 2022; Fatboy Slim playing two sets at Sonic and the Gas Tower; and Carl Cox, Andy C, CamelPhat and Annie Mac all playing the relatively intimate surrounds of the Glade. There’s four sets for Four Tet, one of the hardest-working artists at this year’s festival, while Grammy-winning Daft Punk collaborator and garage innovator Todd Edwards is one of the numerous names playing in the Block9 area late into the night.
At the quieter end of the spectrum, stars including Suzanne Vega, Richard Thompson, the Waterboys, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott and a 79-year-old Tony Christie are among those performing on the Acoustic stage.
The Guardian will open the William’s Green stage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with live conversations, featuring Sleaford Mods, Self Esteem and Angélique Kidjo respectively.
Emma Graham-Harrison, who has reported for the Guardian from Ukraine in recent months, will appear on Billy Bragg’s Left Field stage. Another Guardian journalist, John Harris, will also appear there, and in conversation with Ed Miliband at the Speaker’s Forum stage on Saturday.
Further details on the lineup can be found at Glastonbury’s website.
