A WELL-KNOWN British performer accidentally let slip he would be performing at this year’s Glastonbury festival.
Example, whose given name is Elliot Gleave, is a singer and rapper, who has turned his hand to DJing, shared a list of his upcoming gigs to his Instagram account.
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There was one date on Friday, June 27 where had pixelated the name performance to keep it a secret.
Example had shared a group of photos to his Instagram where he shared his achievements and plans for 2025.
Some of those photos included him performing, a poster showing he was supporting boy band JLS on their national tour and a list of personal milestones.
Those milestones included how many children he had, whether he was in love — to this he wrote “very” — and included some of the festivals he was playing this year.
“Reading & Leeds for the 1st time,” he wrote.
Under that was the return of the pixelated square over the name of a festival, with Example adding, “for the 9th time.”
But some eagle-eyed music fans worked out that Friday, June 27 was during Glastonbury.
“Pretty sure that says Shangri La Friday 27th Glastonbury 🕺,” the fan wrote on Reddit.
Shangri-La Glastonbury, is known as “a radical area of the legendary Festival, with a deep history of celebrating underrepresented art and culture,” according to Glastonbury’s website.
The Sun contacted festival organizers by email for comment on Monday morning.
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“Seen him in the glade around 5 years ago and he was brilliant. Played his main set though. Haven’t seen him do his obscure DJ set so can’t comment on that,” replied one person on the Reddit thread.
Example was not the only artist to let slip they were playing the famous festival this year.
Infinity Song uploaded a post to Instagram in March titled World Tour II and revealed they will taking to the stage at Glastonbury “for the first time”.
The US soft rock group said: “We’re happy to announce WORLD TOUR II.
“It’ll be our first time in Asia, first time at Glastonbury in the UK.
“We’ll tour Canada, Europe, and the entire USA. Most importantly, we’ll play our favourite songs, in some of our favourite places, for some of the best fans on earth.”
The official Glastonbury 2025 line-up was officially confirmed earlier in March with the names of the three acts that will be headlining.
The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo, and Neil Young will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage this summer.
Glastonbury will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset between June 25 and 29.
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Glastonbury 2025 – confirmed acts so far
TICKETS to the 2025 festival sold out in just minutes before some of the acts were even confirmed. Here is who has been confirmed so far.
Confirmed headliners:
- The 1975 will take to the Pyramid Stage on Friday.
- Neil Young will headline the festival for the second time after his last set in 2009 on Saturday after RAYE makes her return.
- Charli xcx will headline the Other Stage on Saturday night.
- On Sunday, Olivia Rodrigo is due to belt out her hits for her first appearance while Rod Stewart will perform in the legends slot.
- More acts to appear on the Other Stage include Loyle Carner and The Prodigy.
- Doechii will make her Glastonbury debut on the West Holts Stage on Saturday night.
- Other names confirmed include Noah Kahan, Alanis Morissette, Gracie Abrams, Busta Rhymes, Lola Young, Brandi Carlile, Myles Smith, En Vogue, Amaarae, Cymande, Shaboozey, Osees and Gary Numan.
