Gracie Abrams delighted her fans with a breezy, confident set on the Other Stage at Glastonbury 2025 – see footage below.
Making her debut at Worthy Farm on Friday evening (June 27), the singer-songwriter took to the festival’s second stage at 18:45 and walked out to a bustling, youthful crowd bathing in an early-evening glow.
Abrams launched into ‘Risk’, the rousing single from her second album ‘The Secret Of Us’ last year. Her red shawl and bandana blowing in Worthy Farm’s light breeze and strumming her acoustic guitar, Abrams led an enthusiastic crowd with ease.
“Glastonbury, you are unbelievable, thank you so much for being here today,” she said after ‘21’. “I was thinking before coming out how the world is so wild and upsetting right now, but i think being together like this is the whole point and this is the antidote.”
Fresh off a UK and European tour earlier this year and with blockbuster support tours with Taylor Swift and Sunday headliner Olivia Rodrigo under her belt, Abrams cut a confident figure on the Other Stage, with Charli XCX and Paul McCartney watching on from the side of stage.
Gracie performing 'Risk' at Glastonbury tonight in Pilton, UK ❤️ pic.twitter.com/9VKrYP7Gak
— Gracie Abrams Nation Media (@gnationmedia) June 27, 2025
The crowd during “I Love You, I’m Sorry” today at Glastonbury 💛 (via andrewbunton) pic.twitter.com/CXN046xtBl
— Gracie Abrams Nation Media (@gnationmedia) June 27, 2025
Paul and Stella McCartney at Gracie’s Glastonbury set pic.twitter.com/PSqU00heuD
— grace (@nicknamebolter) June 27, 2025
charli xcx is ready for gracie abrams xxx pic.twitter.com/3Pe0ZjIF8e
— Liv ☆ (@valentine_liv_) June 27, 2025
Striding barefoot across the stage, she also dug into her debut album ‘Good Riddance’ for tracks such as ‘Where Do We Go Now?’, and she also played a new song, thought to be titled ‘Out Of Nowhere’, that she explained she was “working through as we speak”.
Gracie Abrams – Out of Nowhere (#Glastonbury 2025) pic.twitter.com/39uwFEnRxZ
— Kevin Blue (@TheiKevin) June 27, 2025
Gracie performing an unreleased song at Glastonbury tonight in Pilton, UK 👀 pic.twitter.com/EcUukstsJE
— Gracie Abrams Nation Media (@gnationmedia) June 27, 2025
“You guys are gorgeous, the light is wild, this is top of the bucket list, the dream of all dreams, it’s more magical than i knew it could be,” she said, before taking to the piano for ‘Death Wish’.
Abrams also played into Glastonbury heritage with a cover of ‘Just Like Heaven’ by four-time headliners The Cure, a song she said she wished she had written.
Glastonbury today what the hell pic.twitter.com/Zd7pV7XfD3
— Gracie Abrams (@gracieabrams) June 27, 2025
Abrams’ excitement for the show was evident from the photo she had posted from her hotel room on the morning of the show. “Glastonbury today what the hell,” she wrote on X.
Gracie Abrams played:
‘Risk’
‘Blowing Smoke’
‘21’
‘I Love You, I’m Sorry’
‘Where Do We Go Now?’
‘I Told You Things’
‘Death Wish’
‘Normal Thing’
[new song]
‘Let It Happen’
‘Just Like Heaven’ (The Cure cover)
‘Free Now’
‘That’s So True’
‘Close To You’
‘The Secret Of Us’ scored a four-star review from NME upon its release last June: “It’s a moment of pure pop catharsis that leans into the good, bad and messy of infatuation. This is the joy of ‘The Secret of Us’: it doesn’t shy away from the complex or contradictory. Here Gracie Abrams embraces her growing pains and celebrates enduring the difficult moments. She’s never sounded better.”
Friday at Glastonbury has seen an emotional, redemptive set on the Pyramid from a returning Lewis Capaldi, a surprise set from Lorde where she played her new album ‘Virgin’ in full, and breakout sets from CMAT and Wet Leg, among others.
Check back at NME here for the latest news, reviews, interviews, photos and more from Glastonbury 2025.
English (US) · 