Tickets for music festival sell out in minutes, year after year, even before the performers are announced. And it's easy to see why. The impressive array of music acts aside, there really is something for everybody.
This year, London-born Albanian singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, American soul singer SZA and rock band Coldplay will headline the world-famous Pyramid stage at the festival, with the acts on some of the other big stages - the Other Stage, West Holts Stage and Woodsies - running from June 28-30. Their appearance this year makes Coldplay the first act to headline Glastonbury five times. Organiser Emily Eavis also recently revealed that Glastonbury is likely to take a fallow year in 2026.
The festival usually takes place four out of every five years, with the fifth reserved for rehabilitation of the land. The last official fallow year was 2018 but the festival was also cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic and had "enforced fallow" years. Her father, Sir Michael Eavis, founded the festival on his Somerset farm in 1970 and is still involved but Emily and her husband Nick Dewey take on the majority of the organisation.
This year the festival will also pay tribute to late DJ Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1, who died in January at the age of 83. Her life will be celebrated with a special event across two stages at the Somerset festival on June 27 including a daytime celebration at The Glade stage, featuring King Of The Be.
