Glastonbury Festival 2025: Australian Acts Will Play on Every Day
Flag-flapping Australian music fans at Glastonbury Festival 2025 will have at least one homegrown act to scream at for each day of the music program.
The grandaddy of European music festivals, Glastonbury is a handy measuring stick of the world’s biggest contemporary music acts, from across all genres. The first wave of announcements, posted overnight, includes a steady diet of acts from Down Under.
The day one bill features Glass Beams, the Melbourne act led by the enigmatic, masked Melbourne musician Rajan Silva, which has just signed a global deal with Concord Music Publishing ANZ.
On day two, the lineup includes Amyl and the Sniffers, the punk rock cover stars of the March issue of Rolling Stone AU/NZ.
Amy Taylor and Co. were shortlisted for best international group at the 2025 Brit Awards, off the back of their third studio album Cartoon Darkness, which cracked the top 10 on the Official UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 9.
Also, Royel Otis will figure on day three.
Led by Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, the Sydney alternative rock outfit is coming off a banner year, which included multiple ARIA Awards, a top 10 album in Australia, and a Billboard Hot 100 hit.
The lads recently knuckled down for writing sessions, the results from which could form the followup to 2024’s Pratts & Pain.
Glastonbury Festival’s live music program, as usual, has something for most tastes. Set for June 25-29 on the Eavis’ Worth Farm, in Pilton, its headliners include The 1975, Neil Young, Olivia Rodrigo, plus scores more, from The Prodigy to Four Tet, Charli XCX, Deftones, Rod Stewart, The Libertines and more.
While festivals in Australia struggle to stay afloat, Glasto operates on its own plain. Established on Michael Eavis’ dairy farm in 1970, the mid-summer festival is a rite of passage for Brits and any young music fan with a passport.
Tickets for this year’s event sold out in 35 minutes last November, well before the bill was announced. More than 200,000 campers will descend on the Somerset site, a pop-up village roughly the population of Leicester. Terrible weather, a cost of living crisis; nothing keeps the punters from coming to Glastonbury.