Glastonbury organisers have this afternoon revealed a series of line-up posters for the Silver Hayes area. Brand new stages and an arts pavilion have also been announced for the area formerly known as the Dance Village.
This year marks the area’s 10th anniversary and is billed as: “A new evolution for Silver Hayes. Future Facing electronic artists, debate, technology, spatial design and club culture fuse together to explore the future of tomorrow.”
The Levels, an open-air nightclub “inspired by the crossover of architecture, lighting and experimental musical art forms”, will be a new introduction to the area. The Information stage is another addition which will host electronic music alongside “urgent debate” and “forward-thinking conversation”.
The Wow stage will return to the area and has also had its own poster released today, shown below, along with a “creative reimagining” of The Lonely Hearts Club and The Firmly Rooted Soundsystem. The Lonely Hearts Club was a new addition for 2022 and replaced the Blues Stage. It’s a 40-foot high art deco cinema previously seen at Bristol’s Love Saves The Day festival.
The main line-up poster, revealed in the first week of March, is just the tip of the iceberg for Glastonbury. Since 2015, individual areas have released their own dedicated line-up posters in the weeks following this first poster. This time, they started with the West Holts area line-up poster, which was revealed on March 14th.
There have been no further announcements in almost a month since then, making Silver Hayes the second area to be revealed. With over 40 different line-up posters released for Glasto 2022 and just 69 days until the festival gets underway, we’re expecting the posters to start coming out thick and fast.
Silver Hayes history and heritage
In 1995, Glasto founder Michael Eavis gave Malcolm Haynes the job of launching the festival’s first-ever Dance Tent, which was erected in the Silver Hayes meadow. Headlined by Massive Attack, Eat Static and Carl Cox, it became Glasto’s first permanent electronic music stage.
In 2005, the rise of dance music across the globe and the success of Glasto’s Dance Tent led to the area growing into the Dance Village. The offering was expanded to five stages to reflect the full spectrum of dance and electronic music.
In 2013, the Dance Village was renamed Silver Hayes with the aim of further opening up the area to more music, creativity and ideas.
And now in 2023, a new evolution for Silver Hayes will include “Future Facing electronic artists, debate, technology, spatial design and club culture fuse together to explore the future of tomorrow”.
Tickets for Glastonbury 2023 were sold on the 3rd and 6th November, around a month later than usual, and quickly sold out on both occasions. Resales of cancelled tickets will take place later this month, so along with volunteering, there are still plenty of chances to get yourself to Worthy Farm next summer if you missed out on tickets.
Back in early March, the first main line-up poster was revealed confirming 53 major artists in addition to already announced Elton John, who will headline the iconic Pyramid Stage on the Sunday night of the festival. It will be his last-ever gig in the UK. Lil Nas X will appear on the stage immediately before Elton’s set.
Arctic Monkeys will headline the Friday night while Guns N’ Roses will headline on Saturday, preceded by Lizzo‘s first appearance on the Pyramid. Cat Stevens will play the Sunday afternoon ‘Legends Slot’.
Guns N’ Roses were booked after a previously arranged female headline act dropped out, which many think could have been Taylor Swift or Rihanna.
Queens of the Stone Age featured in the list upon publication but were removed shortly afterwards – and they’re also missing from the line-up poster. Lana Del Rey complained about her position on the poster and was today moved up to the second line, along with Lil Nas X, Wizkit and Cat Stevens, when the poster was refreshed with the West Holts announcement. Many of the artists announced for the West Holts have been added to the main poster, shown below. All lines below the second remain alphabetical.
Glastonbury have also confirmed that The John Peel Stage will be renamed Woodsies ahead of this summer’s festival. It’s part of a push to name stages after the fields they’re in, as is already the case with the West Holts and Silver Hayes stages – which could make it slightly easier for first-timers to navigate the enormous festival.
Organiser Emily Eavis told the Guardian the renaming has nothing to do with a petition which called for the stage to be renamed following a series of allegations about the former BBC Radio 1 presenter, who was also part of the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage in the years before his death. She said: “I haven’t got involved in that because it’s not our area. We’ve had 20 years of John Peel and it’s been an honour to use his name. We’ve had a really good relationship with the Peel family and everyone’s on board.”
Emily Eavis has also confirmed the often-rumoured Spice Girls appearance will not be happening, at least this year, saying it’s “not a conversation we are having”. She revealed there could be two female headliners next year with one of them already being booked.
Glastonbury Festival 2023 will take place from Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th June at Worthy Farm, Pilton.
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Anna Barclay
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