Glastonbury 2023: See the full line-up and stage times (2023)

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Who is head lining Glastonbury 2023? ›

Arctic Monkeys, Guns N' Roses and Elton John have all been announced as Pyramid Stage headliners. Lana Del Rey, Lizzo, Carly Rae Jepsen, Central Cee and Thundercat have also been confirmed, as well as Lil Nas X and Loyle Carner.

1971. Now called Glastonbury Fayre, Andrew Kerr and Arabella Churchill helped plan a free event at Pilton encompassing Midsummer's Day. 12,000 people saw David Bowie, Hawkwind and Traffic play on a pyramid-shaped stage made from scaffolding, expanded metal and plastic sheeting.

All the details for Glastonbury Festival 2023 ticket sales

The previous sale saw 2.4 million people try for tickets - but the event has a capacity of 210,000 which includes its staff and volunteers.

The Pyramid is Glastonbury's iconic main stage. Founded in 1971 as a temporary structure, the Pyramid Stage was rebuilt in 1981 and again in 2000, and hosts spectacular headline acts each Festival year.

Glastonbury announces mystery act for prime Pyramid Stage slot - as full-line up revealed. Rick Astley, Queens Of The Stone Age, Skepta and Sophie Ellis-Bextor are among the new names added to the Glastonbury 2023 bill, with headliners Elton John, Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses already announced.

Pulp strongly rumoured for secret Glastonbury set after mysteriously-titled band 'The Churnups' appear on line-up. The full line-up for Glastonbury 2023 has officially been announced, with a number of artists added to the bill, including Queens Of The Stone Age, Rick Astley and plenty more.

The Levellers – Pyramid Stage, 1994

Sometimes quantity really does matter as much as quality. Without a steel fence to keep the gatecrashers away, Glasto was officially free and The Levellers played to what is reported to have been the festival's largest-ever crowd to date, estimated at 300,000.

"They cap their budget and even the headliners don't get paid more than 500 grand," he said: "I think, which is cheap for some of the headliners and they've had a lot of them. So, that's proof of it's huge, huge influence.” Want the latest news delivered straight to your inbox?

Glasto has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1970, a time when the festival was only one day and £1 a ticket. Today, it's the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world.

“Tickets for Glastonbury 2023 are now SOLD OUT,” wrote Seetickets. “Congratulations to everyone who got tickets for this morning. Sorry to those who missed out.” A minute later, Glasto confirmed the sell out.

How much does it cost to go to Glastonbury? ›

How much do Glastonbury Festival 2023 tickets cost? Tickets to Glastonbury Festival 2023 will cost £335 + £5 booking fee. Coach tickets packages incured an additional fee.

This year however, due to the two cancellations in 2020 and 2021, the festival has recorded losses of £3.1 million after tax, with a turnover of just less than £1 million. Emily Eavis has previously stated that they “have to sell out to break even…” as the festival itself costs around £40 million to put on.

Glastonbury is set to rename its John Peel stage after 19 years following controversies over the late DJ's relationships with underage girls.

In an interview with BBC Radio 6 in 2017 she stated that Glastonbury performers receive “less than 10%” of fees that they would normally get from other festivals. Eavis explained: "We're not in the same bracket as everyone else when it comes to paying artists massive fees.

The Bandstand

One of the smallest stages at Glastonbury but the one that often surprises. We have had many a boogie here to brilliant acts on our way back to The Pyramid Stage. There it is. The Ultimate Guide to Glastonbury Stages and Areas.

Lana Del Rey has clarified she is playing Glastonbury Festival and admitted she turned it down for the "last three years". The singer-songwriter previously hinted she wasn't impressed by the way the festival announced her slot on The Other Stage, but has since confirmed she will be performing.

Fears have been raised for the Sunday legend slot at Glastonbury Festival 2022 as fans claim Diana Ross "mimed" at the Platinum Jubilee concert last weekend. The 78-year-old is set to perform on the Pyramid Stage in Somerset later this month.

Billie Eilish will be the youngest solo artist ever to headline Glastonbury festival when she tops the bill on Friday night next year. The 19-year-old pop icon teased the news on her Instagram, posting a photograph of herself grinning in a Glastonbury hoodie, captioned “2022”.

Elton John isn't the only well-known artist yet to play Glastonbury.

The annual music-and-mud-a-thon welcomed the Rolling Stones as heroes onto the famous pyramid stage. There, with Mick Jagger characteristically stalking back and forth like a peacock on Viagra, they performed a two-and-a-half hour set to over 100,000 people.

Is Harry Styles at glasto? ›

Glastonbury Festival 2023 takes place between June 21 and June 25, and Harry Styles is playing six shows in the UK between June 13 and June 21.

Evan Dando – 1995

The Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando faced the full wrath of peeved off revellers when he rocked up two hours late and then launched into an impromptu acoustic set in front of a crowd, who were now waiting for Portishead to come on. The musician had to be led off stage for his own safety.

Diana Ross, who performed in the 'Legends' slot on Sunday, had the biggest viewership, with the Motown icon drawing in an average of 3.1 million viewers and peaking at 3.8 million.

The official capacity of the event is a huge 210,000 people - equating to more than two Wembley Stadium's worth of music fans.

Through The Glastonbury Festival Gates

More than 3, 000 performers attended Glastonbury Festival and performed across 100 stages with an audience of 200, 000.

The average age of the headliners this year is 45 years and two months, a slight drop from 49 years and one month when the festival last went ahead in 2019.

However, in terms of size, Glastonbury is considered the bigger festival. The music festival held in Pilton, Somerset, England, covers a massive 900 acres of land, making it one of the largest music festivals in the world. On the other hand, Coachella is held in Indio, California, and covers around 600 acres of land.

Overall, the best festival in the world is Tomorrowland. The Belgian festival has by far the biggest social media presence of any festival with 7.5 million followers and takes place over three different weekends in July, with 16 incredibly designed stages.

In fact, the festival in the middle of Nevada, Black Rock City, is roughly FIVE TIMES the size of Glastonbury, sitting at an astonishing 5.5 square miles. That is also roughly the size of downtown San Francisco.

The vast majority of Festival-goers spend their weekend under canvas, taking advantage of the camping fields which are included in your ticket price (from Wednesday night until Monday morning). But others choose to bring their campervan/caravan or to stay in one of the Festival's legendary Tipis.

Is there a train station at Glastonbury? ›

Since there is no Glastonbury train station nor any direct trains to the festival ground itself at Worthy Farm, the closest train station to Glastonbury can be found at Castle Cary.

Sir Paul won't be the only Beatle with a presence at the famous festival, with Sir Ringo Starr joining a host of musicians as part of a campaign to send postcards to the prime minister urging action on climate change.

Due to the enormous demands on our water supply, Glastonbury is not able to offer large numbers of public showers. For those desperate for a shower, there are a small number of showers available at the bottom of the Kidzfield and in the Greenpeace field, but you should expect to queue for a while to use them.

Diamond Trailers has crowned Glastonbury Festival as the undisputed leader in a comprehensive study examining toilet access at UK festivals. With 5,000 toilets and urinals, Glastonbury surpasses all other festivals.

The standard bar prices at Glastonbury Festival are revealed, with pints costing revellers £6 and glasses of wine £8. Revellers at this year's Glastonbury Festival will pay £6 a pint for beer - roughly the same as the cost of a pint in a London pub.

You might have thought spending just over £200 on a Glastonbury ticket was a big commitment - but a new study into the revenue generated by music festivals has found that the average total spend for a Glastonbury goer is £565.

Lavell admits it can be tough to get into bigger festivals as a small trader – to win a pitch at Glastonbury they were competing with 3000 other enterprises. Selling at festivals isn't cheap, either. It cost £10,000 for their pitch at Latitude, which had to be paid several months in advance.

The festival actually becomes the fourth largest city in the south west of England, with only Bournemouth (514,000), Bristol (467,099) and Plymouth (264,000) being home to more people. The area of the festival site is around 1,100 acres (that's the equivalent of more than 500 football pitches).

Guitar legend Brian May has once again confirmed that Queen + Adam Lambert will never perform at Glastonbury. Queen have never stepped foot on Worthy Farm in Somerset as Brian May is strongly opposed to badger culling, and in 2018 he called Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis “a danger to farming.”

Did the Beatles ever do Glastonbury? ›

2004's festival saw the Beatle play the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, while Oasis took on Friday and Muse closed the show on Sunday.

Michael is thought to have a net worth of around £1.2million. While the festival makes tens of millions each year, he reportedly pays himself an annual salary of £60,000 and donates around £2million per year to charity after paying his staff and event costs.

A singer usually earns between $50 and $300 per gig as part of a standard bar gig, cover gig, or musician gig. For a $50 fee, an artist can perform a quick gig or a gig that they can't afford. For singers to perform, they typically are compensated in the range of $100 to $200 per show.

The answer is yes, but some things have to be done first. You as the person making the cover will end up PAYING a mechanical royalty to the artist or songwriter for your cover. There are a number of services you can do this through. The most popular ones being CD Baby and Distrokid.

Walking between the two furthest corners of the site can easily take the best part of an hour, and if the ground is muddy and it's a peak time of the day, you can add an extra 30 minutes onto that.

But even Sir Bruce admitted afterwards: "I've never experienced anything like that." At 85 years old, Sir Bruce remains the the oldest person to ever perform at the event.

The Pyramid is Glastonbury's iconic main stage. Founded in 1971 as a temporary structure, the Pyramid Stage was rebuilt in 1981 and again in 2000, and hosts spectacular headline acts each Festival year.

Elton John is the first confirmed Glastonbury headliner for 2023. The Rocket Man has chosen Worthy Farm for his last ever UK performance and his final stop for his triumphant Yellow Brick Road tour, Emily Eavis announced on Friday 2 December.

Guns N' Roses were recruited to replace the unnamed headliner. Both Lizzo and Lana Del Rey, who have headlined festivals in the past, have prominent but not main stage headlining slots; Lizzo will perform before GNR's set, while Del Rey will headline the festival's Other Stage.

It has also been pointed out that Guns N' Roses does have a female member - Melissa Reese - along with two non-white bandmates in Slash and Frank Ferrer. In an interview with The Guardian, Eavis said the original female headliner pulled out because she "changed her touring plans".

Why didn't Taylor Swift do Glastonbury? ›

It is still on her bucket list but performing isn't her priority right now. "She has old albums which she is still working on re-recording and getting those finished is her priority." Taylor's been working on re-recording all of her first five albums, which has taken up most of her time in the last few years.

Elton John is the only confirmed act for Glastonbury Festival but Arctic Monkeys, Harry Styles and the Spice Girls are among other the heavily rumoured acts. Other names such as Taylor Swift and Eminem have also been mentioned - here's the latest list...

Although Glastonbury has some acts left to announce for its 2023 festival, it's widely assumed that Taylor will not be joining the line-up this year.

In the General Admission resale on Sunday 23rd April, you may purchase up to 4 tickets per transaction – but remember that you can only book one ticket per registration. If you plan to book for a group, you will need all their registration numbers and registered postcodes, too – get them ready now.

Today, though, it was in thrall to Michael Jackson, a singer who had never played Glastonbury, and would almost certainly never have done so. People congregated in crowds, drowning out the sound-systems with their own renditions of his greatest hits.

Emily Rose Eavis (born July 1979) is co-organiser of the annual Glastonbury Festival, and the youngest daughter of the festival's founder and organiser Michael Eavis and his second wife Jean.

Thanks to latest record 'Daddy's Home', we got '70s, funkified St. Vincent, dressed in a hot-pink playsuit and channeling Sly and the Family Stone and 'Young Americans'-era David Bowie.

"They cap their budget and even the headliners don't get paid more than 500 grand," he said: "I think, which is cheap for some of the headliners and they've had a lot of them. So, that's proof of it's huge, huge influence.”