The line-up poster for Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes area has been revealed this morning, with Fatboy Slim, Kojey Radical, Groove Armada, Girls Don’t Sync and Hybrid Minds featuring among hundreds of artists announced to perform over the area’s four stages.
Formerly known as the Dance Village, Silver Hayes is billed as bridging “all manner of UK club & festival sounds” with “the best names in electronic, R&B, bass, rap, drum & bass and dub music”.
Organisers confirmed the return of the Sonic & Wow stage along with two new additions. Firmly Rooted, billed as “a space celebrating all things sound-system culture”, and taking the place of the Blues Stage is The Lonely Hearts Club (shown above), a stage within a 40-foot high art deco cinema previously seen at Bristol’s Love Saves The Day festival. The team behind Love Saves The Day are said to be heavily involved in Glasto’s Silver Hayes area.
Glastonbury organisers said: “Silver Hayes makes a long-anticipated return to Glastonbury for 2022, with a heavy-weight line-up two years in the making.”
Silver Hayes is the second area line-up to be revealed ahead of this summer’s Glastonbury Festival. The announcement comes ten days after the Field of Avalon line-up poster, which was shared last Tuesday, 14th April. It bolstered the confirmed Glastonbury line-up with 24 further artists, including McFly, Sugababes, Tanita Tikaram, Grace Petrie, Oh My God! It’s The Church and The Hoosiers.
The main line-up poster, shown below, was revealed in early March and was only the tip of the iceberg. Since 2015, Glastonbury have revealed posters for individual areas in the weeks following the first poster, and with only Silver Hayes and Field of Avalon being announced as of yet, we’ve got at least a dozen areas still to come.
Also this month, the finalists of Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition were revealed along with an official Soundcloud playlist. The eight up-and-coming artists will go head-to-head in live finals on Saturday 30th April, with the winner claiming a slot on one of Glasto’s main stages.
And last week, Glastonbury organisers revealed a limited edition poster print, from which all proceeds will go to War Child‘s Ukraine Emergency Fund. It features the festival’s 2022 artwork by Stanley Donwood reworked with the colours of the Ukrainian flag and will be produced on-site using the festival’s Heidelberg Cylinder printing press.
They’re now available to purchase from the online Glastonbury store for £25 with the sale limited to 2,022 prints, each of which will be numbered. They’re expected to be dispatched by the end of April, and yesterday, organisers shared the video below showing the printing process.
All tickets for Glastonbury 2022 have now been sold. Resales of returned tickets were held towards the end of March which both sold out in a matter of minutes.
Long-rumoured headliners Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar have had their slots confirmed. Also included in around 90 artists revealed on the main poster were Supergrass and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who were both strongly rumoured, while Lorde and Sigrid are among the recent Glasto acts returning for 2022.
Paul McCartney will be 80 by the time Glastonbury comes around, which would make him the oldest ever Pyramid Stage headliner. He’s expected to perform the day after Billie Eilish headlines. Aged 20 at the time, she’ll be the youngest ever Pyramid headliner.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis previously confirmed on Twitter that the initial line-up poster will be published in March, with area line-ups to follow – before the complete line-up with timings is released in June, just before the festival.
Glastonbury 2022 will take place from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June at Worthy Farm near Pilton, Somerset.
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The Lonely Hearts Club: Matt Eachus / The Manc Photographer
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