Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Sza will headline Glastonbury 2024, it has been announced.
The hotly-anticipated festival will be taking place from Wednesday June 26 to Sunday June 30, 2024.
And on Thursday, it was revealed Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline the iconic event, held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with Shania Twain playing the legendary slot.
It marks the first time in the event’s history that female acts have taken two of the three headline slots.
Glastonbury bosses have been accused of choosing too many male acts to headline. Last year the line-up was all male, with Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Sir Elton John taking the top slots.
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline this year’s Glastonbury Festival, organisers have announced
Other acts on this year’s line-up include Brit Award-winning rapper Little Simz and Afrobeats star Burna Boy, making his Pyramid Stage debut.
Addressing the lack of women headliners, Emily previously said: ‘I’ve always been really passionate about gender split [on festival line-ups] and I think, actually, our problem was that I’d been so outspoken about it that having a year when there wasn’t a female sent people a bit mad – or some people.
‘And we did have a female – she pulled out and we replaced them with Guns N’ Roses. But everyone knows that it’s top of my list.
‘It is difficult with female artists because there aren’t enough headliners. But we’re also creating them. We’re putting the bands and female artists on smaller stages and bringing them through all the time. And who knows? Next year we might get two. And certainly, I can say that the Legend is female.’
Last year, revellers enjoyed the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John, who played his last ever UK gig on the Pyramid stag to close the 2023 edition of the festival.
Rick Astley, Lil Nas X, Blondie, Lizzo and Aitch were joined by hundreds more performers across the weekend, proving to be an enviable line-up and giving many of those who didn’t attend FOMO.
On Thursday, it was revealed Dua Lipa , Coldplay and SZA will headline the iconic event, held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with Shania Twain playing the legendary slot
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