Olivia Rodrigo and The 1975 to headline Glastonbury

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Mark Savage

Music Correspondent

Getty Images Olivia Rodrigo holds aloft a megaphone while performing on her Guts world tour

US pop star Olivia Rodrigo and British band The 1975 will headline the Glastonbury festival this summer, organisers have announced.

They will be joined by five-time Brit Award winner Charli XCX - who will top the bill on the festival's second stage on Saturday 28 June.

There will also be debut Glastonbury performances by Alanis Morisette, Noah Kahan, Gracie Abrams, Lola Young and US rap phenomenon Doechii, who will headline the West Holts stage. Returning favourites include Wolf Alice, Wet Leg, Fatboy Slim, Loyle Carner and Scissor Sisters.

Rock legend Neil Young has already been announced as the Saturday night headliner, with Rod Stewart playing the Sunday afternoon "legend slot".

The 1975 reach top of the bill

PA Media The 1975's Matty Healy, dressed in a white suit, pulls a face while playing guitar on stage at a festival in Scotland, 2024

Manchester band The 1975 are festival veterans, who have headlined the Reading and Leeds festival three times since 2016 - but this will be their first time at the top of Glastonbury's line-up.

Balancing hooky dance-rock with more experimental forays into electronica and even ambient music, they pepper their lyrics with references to online relationships, chemical dependency and wry, self-aware humour.

Frontman Matty Healy is known for his provocative, and often divisive, actions. On their recent tour, he has been spotted chewing raw steak, berating security guards via Auto-Tune, and passionately kissing fans in the front row.

More seriously, the band are being sued by organisers of a Malaysian festival, which was shut down after Healy kissed one of his bandmates on stage.

The singer said he was protesting at the country's anti-LGBT laws, under which homosexual acts can be punished by 20 years in prison.

Olivia's rapid rise

Olivia Rodrigo poses with her microphone stand, while playing at the Glastonbury Festival in 2022

Rodrigo is the first Glastonbury headliner to have broken through in the 2020s - and the second-youngest headliner of all time, after Billie Eilish, who was 20 when she topped the bill in 2022.

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

An accomplished live performer, her 2024 Guts tour banked $186m (£144m) in ticket sales; and she will also headline the BST festival in London's Hyde Park two days before Glastonbury.

Rodrigo last played the festival in 2022, drawing a huge - and noticeably young - crowd to the Other Stage.

During that performance, she brought out Lily Allen to perform the expletive-laden track F You, dedicating it to the US Supreme Court justices who had, a day earlier, ended the constitutional right to abortion in America.

Charli's next Brat summer

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

Rumours that Rihanna would play the Pyramid Stage turned out to be wishful thinking for the second year running.

But Charli XCX will cement her position as one of the UK's biggest pop stars with her set on the Other Stage.

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

Playing the Other Stage will release her from the requirement to tone down her set for audiences on BBC One, and indulge in the frenetic, hedonistic club sounds that made her name.

It will also mark the latest step in a long journey through the festival's smaller stages, starting at the Silver Hayes dance arena in 2014.

"I was really ill and I forgot to wear a bra on stage, which was good!" she later told the BBC.

"[Radio 1 DJ] Huw Stephens came on during the last song and told me I was singing live on the radio. I lost my voice and it was all a bit crazy, but it was fun."

Hopefully she'll avoid the lurgy this summer.

More acts added

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

Pop star Raye will also play just before Neil Young on the Saturday night, following her breakthrough set at lunchtime on the Pyramid Stage just two years ago.