Dua Lipa, Sza and Shania Twain to guide this 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant in June

LONDON — Regardless of the climate, the 200,000 or so music followers heading all the way down to this 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant are going to get one thing totally different.

For the primary time for the reason that pageant began out in 1970, two feminine acts might be performing the headline spots on the primary stage on two of the three nights. British singer Dua Lipa will play the headline spot on the Pyramid Stage on Friday evening, and American artist Sza will shut it out on Sunday.

Pageant organizers introduced Thursday the line-up to date for arguably the world’s most well-known music pageant, which takes place at Worthy Farm within the southwest of England from June 26 to June 30.

British rock ‘n’ roll band Coldplay will headline the primary stage on Saturday, their first look since 2016. Coldplay will grow to be the primary act to headline Glastonbury 5 instances, one forward of The Remedy.

Information of Dua Lipa’s first look on the Pyramid Stage comes a day after she revealed that her first album in 4 years, to be launched in Could, could be titled “Radical Optimism.”

She appears to be excited in regards to the prospect, if her submit on Instagram is something to go by.

“I’ve dreamt of this second all my life. One thing that lived solely in my wildest goals and highest manifestations!!! I’m so excited to see you all in my favorite place on earth and make it an evening to recollect!” she wrote.

One other main feminine performer might be Canadian singer Shania Twain, who will play the legends slot on Sunday afternoon. The five-time Grammy award-winner has offered greater than 100 million information.

“It’s going to be beautiful, at sundown time, it’s beautiful. I’ve watched a few of the different performances and I’m already planning what I’m going to put on. You recognize, all that thrilling stuff,” she advised the BBC.

It is fairly a comeback for Twain, who for 15 years didn’t launch new music following a bout of Lyme illness that prompted her to lose her voice. She returned in 2017 with the album “Now.” The next 12 months, she underwent open throat surgical procedure after her voice was broken by the results of the debilitating sickness. This 12 months may also kick off her third Las Vegas residency.

Different acts pencilled in are U.S. rock band LCD Soundsystem, British rapper Little Simz, Nigerian singer Burna Boy, Eighties chart-topper singer Cyndi Lauper, and British soul star Olivia Dean.

There are a lot extra to be named come over the approaching weeks. The pageant is already offered out, however cancelled or returned tickets — which value 365 kilos ($465) — will go on resale in April.

Everybody turning up might be hoping this 12 months’s Glastonbury might be one of many searingly sizzling ones somewhat than the mud baths which have dampened some prior to now.