Glastonbury Festival 2023: Lineup, tickets, dates, venues, and more

The Glastonbury Festival is back for another year, with the 2023 edition of the festival scheduled to be held from June 20, 2023, to June 25, 2023. The festival celebrates its 53rd anniversary this year, with the festival having been first held in 1970.

The organizers announced the festival, which will feature performers such as Lana Del Rey and Fever Ray, among others, via a post on their official Instagram page.

Ticket registration for the festival is currently closed, with the last registration having been in April via the crowdfunder site, crowdfunder.co.uk.

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Fever Ray to headline Glastonbury Festival at The Park

The Swedish project Fever Ray will headline the festival at its stage, The Park, this year. The project is best known for their eponymously titled debut studio album, Fever Ray, which was released on January 12, 2009. The album peaked at number 9 on the Norwegian album chart, and its title track, If I Had A Heart, was also featured as the theme song on the History Channel drama Vikings.

The other headliners for The Park include Fatboy Slim and alt-J.

The current lineup for Glastonbury 2023 is given below:

• Arctic Monkeys
• Guns N’ Roses
• Elton John
• Lizzo
• Aitch
• Alison Goldfrapp
• Alt-J
• Amadou & Mariam
• Becky Hill
• Blondie
• Candi Staton
• Carly Rae Jepsen
• Cat Burns
• Central Cee
• Christine And The Queens
• Chvrches
• Ezra Collective
• Fatboy Slim
• Fever Ray
• Flo
• Fred Again.
• Hot Chip
• Joey Bada$$
• Kelis
• Lana Del Rey
• Leftfield
• Lewis Capaldi
• Lil Nas X
• Loyle Carner
• Maggie Rogers
• Mahalia
• Måneskin
• Manic Street Preachers
• Nova Twins
• Phoenix
• Raye
• Rina Sawayama
• Royal Blood
• Rudimental
• Shygirl
• Slowthai
• Sparks
• Stefflon Don
• Sudan Archives
• Texas
• The Chicks
• The War On Drugs
• Thundercat
• Tinariwen
• Warpaint
• Weyes Blood
• Wizkid
• Young Fathers
• Yusuf / Cat Stevens

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The Glastonbury Festival began in 1970

The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day performing arts festival that was founded by English dairy farmer Michael Evis and called the Pop, Blues & Folk Festival. The festival was held at Worthy Farm on September 19, 1970, and attended by a crowd of 1500 people.

The festival first took the name Glastonbury Fair in 1971 under the auspices of Andrew Kerr, who organized it with the help of Arabella Churchill, Jean Bradbery, Kikan Eriksdotter, John Massara, Jeff Dexter, Thomas Crimble, Bill Harkin, Gilberto Gil, Mark Irons, John Coleman, and Jytte Klamer. 1971 saw the inception of the Pyramid stage.

The festival became an annual event in the 1980s, with Michael Evis becoming the sole organizer of the festival and holding the 1981 festival in conjunction with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) movement. The festival made its first profit the same year, and Eavis donated £20,000 to the CND from said profit.

The festival outgrew its first venue in 1985, and the neighboring farm, Cockmill Farm, was purchased to increase the size of the festival. The festival grew in notoriety in the early 1990s with the infamous Battle of Yeoman's Bridge between the New Age traveler community and security forces, which is considered to be the last nail in the Free Festivals era in the UK.

The Glastonbury Festival returned in 1992 as a paid festival, with the festival recording the largest crowd ever in 1994, when festival headliners The Levellers played to a crowd of more than 300,000 people.

The festival never recovered from its original popularity, with the paid festival model continuing to operate at a loss as demand for tickets far outpaced availability, with the festival maintaining a crowd of about 100,000 to 150,000 most years.