Who Is Headlining Glastonbury Tonight?

Who headlined Glastonbury on Sunday night

Glastonbury revellers will be a part of history on Sunday when they watch Elton John headline the festival at his last-ever UK show. The 76-year-old music icon will headline the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm on June 25, marking the first time he has ever performed at the festival despite a career spanning seven decades.

• The performance is part of the final leg of Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour and lucky festival-goers will be able to see the star take to the stage at 9pm on Sunday for a two-hour set.
• READ MORE: Join ChronicleLive’s Whatsapp community for breaking news and top stories But before the icon even takes to the stage, music fans will be able to enjoy an action-packed day of performances from the likes of Lil Nas X, Blondie, Dermot Kennedy and Editors.

Here is the full schedule and stage times for Sunday, June 25, at Glastonbury 2023:

How much will paul McCartney get paid for Glastonbury?

Elton John closed Glastonbury 2023 on Sunday night in what was billed as his last ever UK show. And while you might think that he and the other big names to perform would have pulled in the big bucks, that’s not necessarily the case. Preceding Elton as the headliners on Friday and Saturday were Arctic Monkeys and Gun N’ Roses respectively.

• Meanwhile, hundreds of other acts played across the festival, including Lana Del Ray, Queens of the Stone Age, Manic Street Preachers, Foo Fighters – who were billed at The Churnups for their not-so-secret appearance – and many more.
• The festival routinely attracts the world’s biggest artists, both legendary and up-and-coming.

Crowds are treated to mammoth sets by the Pyramid Stage’s headliners, with Elton John completing two hours on Sunday night. In previous years, headliners have included the likes of David Bowie, Beyoncé and Adele, reports the Mirror, You might assume playing such a huge gig would mean the musicians are being compensated with a pretty hefty sum, so you might be surprised to learn that it’s not as much as you’d think.

Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis, youngest daughter of the festival’s founder Michael Eavis, confirmed that artists get paid 10% less than what they typically get from other festivals. That is because Glastonbury prefers to donate £2million to charities every year, which dispels the myth that some headliners are paid £1million, as the number is likely much lower.

In 2017 interview with BBC Radio 6, she explained: “We’re not in a situation where we’re able to just give people enormous amounts of money. So we’re really grateful for the bands that we get, because they’re basically doing it for the love of it.” Founder Michael once revealed that Coldplay and Paul McCartney were both paid around £200,000 for past headline sets.

He said at the time: “I paid £200,000 for Paul McCartney and for Coldplay, and although it sounds a lot, they could have charged me far more.” The exact number each 2023 headliner gets paid will be kept under wraps, but in an interview with Metro, music consultant specialising in live music venues and festivals, Lyle Bignon, said: “The likes of Elton John and Guns N’ Roses, who have decades of global fame behind them, can likely command higher prices running into the £250,000+ range.” In an interview with Somerset Live, Bestival organiser Rob Da Bank revealed that Glastonbury’s budget is under £500,000 per headliner.

He said: “They cap their budget and even the headliners don’t get paid more than 500 grand, I think, which is cheap for some of the headliners – and they’ve had a lot of them.” Although there’s no bigger UK festival than Glastonbury, it doesn’t pay its headliners more than others.

For other UK festivals, headliners can earn upwards of £1million, according to Billboard. The reason is that Glastonbury aims to raise money for charity, which means headliners are paid significantly less. Each year the festival raises funds for charities including Oxfam and Greenpeace, which means that they have a smaller budget, no doubt made even smaller by the cost of living crisis.

But it’s not the money that draws huge performers to Glastonbury, it’s the festival’s reputation and acts can rake in huge amounts of money after performing. Emily told George Ezra’s podcast: “Because of the TV and because of the exposure that they get, they do go on to do really well afterwards, so they’ll sell records afterwards.

Do pop stars get paid at Glastonbury

Elton John closed Glastonbury 2023 on Sunday night in what was billed as his last ever UK show. And while you might think that he and the other big names to perform would have pulled in the big bucks, that’s not necessarily the case. Preceding Elton as the headliners on Friday and Saturday were Arctic Monkeys and Gun N’ Roses respectively.

Meanwhile, hundreds of other acts played across the festival, including Lana Del Ray, Queens of the Stone Age, Manic Street Preachers, Foo Fighters – who were billed at The Churnups for their not-so-secret appearance – and many more. The festival routinely attracts the world’s biggest artists, both legendary and up-and-coming.

Crowds are treated to mammoth sets by the Pyramid Stage’s headliners, with Elton John completing two hours on Sunday night. In previous years, headliners have included the likes of David Bowie, Beyoncé and Adele, reports the Mirror, You might assume playing such a huge gig would mean the musicians are being compensated with a pretty hefty sum, so you might be surprised to learn that it’s not as much as you’d think.

• Festival co-organiser Emily Eavis, youngest daughter of the festival’s founder Michael Eavis, confirmed that artists get paid 10% less than what they typically get from other festivals.
• That is because Glastonbury prefers to donate £2million to charities every year, which dispels the myth that some headliners are paid £1million, as the number is likely much lower.

In 2017 interview with BBC Radio 6, she explained: “We’re not in a situation where we’re able to just give people enormous amounts of money. So we’re really grateful for the bands that we get, because they’re basically doing it for the love of it.” Founder Michael once revealed that Coldplay and Paul McCartney were both paid around £200,000 for past headline sets.

He said at the time: “I paid £200,000 for Paul McCartney and for Coldplay, and although it sounds a lot, they could have charged me far more.” Subscribe here for the latest news where you live The exact number each 2023 headliner gets paid will be kept under wraps, but in an interview with Metro, music consultant specialising in live music venues and festivals, Lyle Bignon, said: “The likes of Elton John and Guns N’ Roses, who have decades of global fame behind them, can likely command higher prices running into the £250,000+ range.” In an interview with Somerset Live, Bestival organiser Rob Da Bank revealed that Glastonbury’s budget is under £500,000 per headliner.

He said: “They cap their budget and even the headliners don’t get paid more than 500 grand, I think, which is cheap for some of the headliners – and they’ve had a lot of them.” Although there’s no bigger UK festival than Glastonbury, it doesn’t pay its headliners more than others.

For other UK festivals, headliners can earn upwards of £1million, according to Billboard. The reason is that Glastonbury aims to raise money for charity, which means headliners are paid significantly less. Each year the festival raises funds for charities including Oxfam and Greenpeace, which means that they have a smaller budget, no doubt made even smaller by the cost of living crisis.

But it’s not the money that draws huge performers to Glastonbury, it’s the festival’s reputation and acts can rake in huge amounts of money after performing. Emily told George Ezra’s podcast: “Because of the TV and because of the exposure that they get, they do go on to do really well afterwards, so they’ll sell records afterwards.

Can you get VIP tickets to Glastonbury

5 DAY VIP and HOSPITALITY TICKETS TO GLASTONBURY 2024 – VIP Hospitality Tickets are not usually available to the public and are reserved for the performers, the music industry, press and VIP guests. Your VIP Tickets give you access to the festival as a whole (you do not need to register or buy normal festival tickets) plus extra benefits including: Access to the VIP areas including the Inner Circle, Interstage areas, the performers’ and managers’ area Access ot the hospitality area behind the Woodsie stage (previouslyu John Peel stage) Private bars and food stalls VIP toilets (very important!) Extended late night bar license with world-class DJ’s and entertainment VIP Glastonbury tickets allow you to mingle with celebs, media and other VIP’s backstage VIP tickets also include access to the VIP campsite with shower blocks. Situated behind the Woodsie stage, it is the only campsite within the perimeter and dedicated to just VIP ticket holders.

Who played with Blondie at Glastonbury?

Former Sex Pistols guitarist Glen Matlock caught up with NME backstage at Glastonbury 2023 to tell us about returning to the festival to play with Blondie and his successful solo career.

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After being announced last year to appear on Blondie’s new album – the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Pollinator ‘ – the punk veteran has also been playing with the art-pop icons for recent world tour commitments, performing to a huge Pyramid Stage on the closing day of Glastonbury on Sunday (June 24).

• Before he took to the stage, NME asked the bass legend if he could recall the first time he met the band.
• I can’t remember exactly because I was probably really drunk and out of it, but I think I met them first when I did a for-one-night-only gig with Sid Vicious at the Electric Ballroom in ‘78 or ‘79,” he replied.

“Blondie turned up as a band, and I think that’s when I met Clem and Debbie for the first time. “What I thought was quite sweet about them was that when bands go on tour and have a night off, everyone tends to filter off somewhere – but they always seemed to be out and about as a band.

I thought that was good.” Matlock also revealed how their collaboration came about “just over a year ago”, when he received a phone call from drummer Clem Burke while in the middle of cooking his dinner. “I was in the middle of doing my risotto, it was nearly ready, then the phone rang, I had a mate round so stirred it for me,” said Matlock.

“I told Clem, ‘My risotto is nearly ready and you’re spoiling it, so get on with it’. “He said, ‘We need a bass player’, I said, ‘I thought you got one’, he said, ‘It’s not working out, can you come over?’ I thought he meant in a couple of months but he said, ‘No, next week’.

I said, ‘Ah, let me think’. I did overnight and I knew I should. I’ve worked with Clem on loads of things over the years – some alright, some a bit hair-brained – but we play well together and I love Blondie’s material. They’ve got a great body of work and they always seem to push the envelope somehow, slightly.

They also have good basslines.” Asked what he could tell us about the new Blondie album, Matlock replied: “I can’t, because I’ve done the backing tracks but haven’t heard the finished thing yet. I stuck a few ideas in, but how they come out, I don’t know.” Glen Matlock. Credit: Tina Korhonen. Despite being “only ever a phone call away from going to do a session or this or that”, Matlock recently released his acclaimed seventh solo ‘ Consequences Coming ‘. “I’m quite pleased about it, because I think that consequences have come for quite a few of our more self-centred nitwit politicians,” he said of the album’s themes.

“I wrote the songs a few years back.” He continued: “It’s not only Brexit, per se. It’s what it has led to and the enablement of it all. I can believe that so many people in this country are willing to have the wool pulled over their eyes by a right bunch of wrongun’s. I always thought that as an Englishman, one of the major pluses is that you can spot a wrongun’ from a mile off – but now I think I’m wrong.

People can’t. “The problem is that I think the Tories will rescind before the Labour Party get round to it and we’ll be stuck with the Tories again. I think it’s untenable.” Speaking of the devastating impact that Brexit has been having on touring acts from the UK, Matlock said: “New bands are suffering, as are more established artists like me who are high up the bill with Blondie.

1. We’re not Guns N’ Roses, although I saw them on the telly last night” After he exhaled heavily, NME asked Matlock what he meant – is that good or bad? “You can just write ‘He pulled a face’,” he replied.
2. Nice blokes, though.” While the past five years seeing the UK enjoy somewhat of a punk revival led by the likes of IDLES and Shame, Matlock said that he hadn’t been particularly in tune with it – nor had he noticed too much of the Sex Pistols’ influence on modern guitar music.

“Well, everybody wears straight trousers these days,” he joked. “Before us, everyone wore flares. That’s a major plus, although flares hang on your shoes a little bit better. If you’re going to wear tight trousers you need to wear Chelsea boots really. “I’m just being daft, but there is a truth in that.

1. I like a bit of Arctic Monkeys,
2. I saw a bit of them and I like his haircut.
3. Who’s the guy on after us who did ‘Old Town Road’? Lil Nas X ? “Yeah, I like him.
4. My son showed me a video of him.
5. I was telling Debbie last night that I quite fancy seeing him.” Matlock didn’t want to speak again of his “disappointment” in recent Sex Pistol Disney biopic series Pistol, but instead look to the future with his solo work and other various projects.

In that spirit, is there anyone that he has never worked with but would love to? “I’d like to have done something with Bryan Ferry in his prime,” he said. “I wouldn’t mind doing something with Iggy again, actually. I saw him in the States and it was great.

I’m looking forward to seeing him on Saturday.” Matlock as part of Blondie will play with Iggy Pop at Dog Day Afternoon in London’s Crystal Palace Park this Saturday (July 1). Visit here for tickets and more information. They’ll also be playing shows at the Lytham Festival and Malahide Castle in Dublin this week, which you can find tickets for here,

He also has solo shows coming up in Belfast and Dublin in August, which you can find tickets for here, See NME ‘s most magical moments from Glastonbury 2023 here, with all our news, reviews, interviews, photos and more here, You can also relive all the action as it happened from our Glastonbury’s liveblogs for Friday, Saturday and Sunday,

Who is playing on the other stage at Glastonbury?

Here’s the full list of set times for Glastonbury’s Other Stage, the second biggest stage at the festival. This year, Wizkid, Lana Del Ray and Queens of the Stone Age will headline the stage with loads of other massive names featuring on the full schedule below.

There are no secret sets planned for the Other Stage (unless they really are very secret!) and the stage will get underway half an hour before the Pyramid Stage starts on Friday, with Ben Howard opening the stage at 11:30. Over on the Pyramid, The Master Musicians of Joujouk get Glasto started with The Master Musicians of Joujouka at 12 noon.

Not lucky enough to be there at Worthy Farm? No problem, most of these sets will be streamed live on BBC iPlayer where they’ll remain available to watch again for 30 days.

Who is playing with Paul at Glastonbury?

26 June 2022, 11:47 | Updated: 1 July 2022, 16:26 Paul McCartney performs with Dave Grohl as he headlines the Pyramid Stage. Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty The Beatle legend was joined by Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen during his headline set on the Pyramid Stage – and here’s what he played.

Sir Paul McCartney made history this weekend (Saturday 25th June) when he became the oldest performer to headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage. The crowd sang happy birthday to the star, who turned 80 years old last week. The former Beatle was scheduled to headline the festival in 2020, but the event was cancelled that year and again in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

McCartney was joined by special guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl for a set that featured a number of solo classics, plus tracks made famous by his project Wings, The show was of course, loaded with legendary song from his career with The Beatles.

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Paul McCartney performs with Bruce Springsteen as he headlines the Pyramid Stage. Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty McCartney told the crowd that Dave Grohl had flown in from the West Coast of America, but the Foo Fighters man admitted that he’d been trying to get to the UK from LA since Wednesday, but flight cancellations and delays had caused problems. Paul McCartney performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2022. Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images Grohl performed with McCartney on the early Beatles classic I Saw Her Standing There and the Wings anthem Band On The Run. McCartney was joined by Bruce Springsteen for a rousing take on The Boss’s hit Glory Days and the old Fab Four tune I Wanna Be Your Man, Paul McCartney performs with Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl as he headlines the Pyramid Stage. Picture: Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty The set saw McCartney go back as far as the first ever Beatles single, 1962’s Love Me Do, right through to Come On To Me and Fuh You from 2018’s Egypt Station.

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