Lorde has appeared to teased a secret set at Glastonbury 2025 via her social media channels.
The Kiwi pop star will release her fourth album ‘Virgin’ tomorrow (June 27), with the arrival coinciding with the first full day of music at the Somerset festival.
A number of unannounced slots remain on the Glastonbury 2025 line-up, including two TBA slots on the Pyramid Stage and Woodsies tent tomorrow, and one on The Park stage on Saturday.
Already among the bookies’ favourites for a surprise slot and having said that she was “pretty keen” to make an appearance, Lorde seemingly confirmed that she would be performing at this year’s Worthy Farm bash earlier today (June 26) when she posted an aerial photo of the Woodsies tent on her Instagram Story.
At the time of writing, she has yet to say anything else about the apparent performance, but it appears to suggest she’ll be opening the festival at Woodsies at 11.30am tomorrow. Check out the full line-up and schedule here.
The star previously responded to rumours that she would appear at Glastonbury 2025 during a BBC Radio 2 interview. When presenter Jo Whiley asked her if she was planning to return to the festival this year, following her performances in 2022 and 2017, Lorde replied: “Wow! You know… I’m pretty keen, honestly. I feel like… ‘cause the album’s gonna be coming out right around that time…”
Whiley suggested the “timing would be good”, given ‘Virgin’’s release date, to which the singer replied: “I am quite tempted by what’s going on because I’ve got lots of friends playing as well. We’ll see, we’ll see if I can pull some strings and get there.”
When Lorde last performed at Glastonbury in 2022, she played the Pyramid Stage – an experience she told Whiley was “so cool and crazy”. “[It was] absolutely unbelievable – enormous,” she continued. “I was shooketh at the scale […] So beautiful, so amazing.”
Other acts rumoured to be doing secret sets include Lewis Capaldi and Haim. A set for a mysterious act called Patchwork is rumoured to be either Pulp or Chappell Roan.
Glastonbury 2025 will be headlined by The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo. The 1975 have reportedly “spent four times their actual fee” on the production of their set. According to The Telegraph, the staging for the band’s first Glastonbury headline appearance will include “a specially designed set” that has cost them quadruple their undisclosed fee.
The band’s stage production has been increasingly ambitious in recent years. Their last global tour saw the band construct a “larger-than-life two-tiered house” on the stage, per NME‘s five-star review of their Madison Square Garden show. Then, in 2023, a Finsbury Park gig also saw the band perform on a stage designed to look like a “sitcom-style living room”.
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