Neil Young Confirms He Will Play Glastonbury 2025
Neil Young has confirmed that he will be headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival, days after he ruled the appearance out.
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Commenting on his blog, Young wrote, “Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury festival, which I always have loved. Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing! Hope to see you there! LOVE Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts.”
Festival organiser Emily Eavis followed up Young’s message, posting on Instagram: “What a start to the year!” she wrote. “Neil Young is an artist who’s very close to our hearts at Glastonbury. He does things his own way and that’s why we love him. We can’t wait to welcome him back here to headline the Pyramid in June.”
Young joins Rod Stewart and Nile Rodgers – who accidentally confirmed that Chic will play – as the only acts slated so far for the 2025 event.
On Tuesday, Young posted on his site Neil Young Archives that he was pulling out of the festival – “one of my all-time favourite outdoor gigs” – because he believed that Glastonbury was “under corporate control” owing to its partnership with the BBC.
“We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in,” he wrote. “It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being.”
Young also confirmed that he and his current band, the Chrome Hearts, are working on a new album, potentially called Talking to the Trees, produced by Lou Adler. The record followed a two-year spell of being unable to write, he told podcast The Mentors Radio.
“You don’t have a plan,” he said. “I went for two years without writing anything, and I was wondering, ‘Well, is that it?’ Who knows? Who knows? I can’t tell.”