DJ Carl Cox has today shared what claims to be the Arcadia line-up for this year’s Glastonbury Festival ahead of its official release – though without any official announcement from Glastonbury or Arcadia we don’t know if it’s genuine.
Social media is ablaze with excitement as the unverified poster claims acts including Amelie Lens, Calvin Harris, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins and Nina Kraviz will all feature on the area’s line-up, along with a Carl Cox B2B Chase & Status jungle set. Carl also said he’d be playing a Saturday set on the Glade stage.
Adding to fans’ confusion, the poster’s artwork heavily features the iconic Arcadia spider, which hasn’t been seen at Glastonbury since 2018 and was replaced with the Pangea Crane for 2019 – with the crane remaining at the centre of Arcadia’s field to this day.
The alleged leak happened on the official Carl Cox Facebook page when a fan asked if he’d be playing at Glastonbury this year.
The comment has since been deleted, as shown below, with the fan who originally asked the question telling Carl: “Hope you don’t get a slap on the wrist.”
Carl replied “It’s fine” with a smiley face emoji.
An established unofficial Twitter account, @Glastopia, suggested Carl Cox is currently in Australia and may have shared the line-up early owing to the time difference.
Glastonbury Festival have been approached for comment.
Meanwhile, just yesterday, the line-up poster for Glasto Latino was officially released, making it the third area line-up to be revealed after Silver Hayes and Field of Avalon. We expect there are still at least a dozen area announcements to come, but just those first three announcements have bolstered the main Glastonbury line-up poster revealed in March with hundreds of news artists including McFly, Sugababes and Gorgon City.
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.
Recently, 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 last week, 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. Your last chance at getting in might be to win tickets, so check out our frequently updated list of Glastonbury competitions.
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.
Image credits:
Carl Cox: Exit Festival / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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