The 1975 have reportedly “spent four times their actual fee” on production for their Glastonbury 2025 headline performance.
The Manchester group are due to headline the Worthy Farm festival tomorrow (June 27), with what will be their only live show of the year. They are topping the bill alongside Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo.
Now, it’s been reported by The Telegraph that “a specially designed set” for the performance has cost them “four times” their undisclosed fee.
In recent years, their stage production has been increasingly ambitious. Their last global tour saw the band construct a “larger-than-life two-tiered house” on the stage, per NME‘s five-star review of their Madison Square Garden show. Then, in 2023, a Finsbury Park gig also saw the band perform on a stage designed to look like a “sitcom-style living room”.
Following the run of shows being completed, the members went on an “indefinite hiatus” shortly afterwards, and Glasto is the only live show they’ve announced since then. The forthcoming performance will mark their debut headline set at Glastonbury, with their most recent slot at the festival being in 2016.
Earlier this year, it was confirmed by their manager, Jamie Oborne, that their Glastonbury performance will be the only chance to see them live in 2025. “It’s such a big gig, and it’s the only show that we’re playing this year,” he explained. “[Matty Healy] thought doing it in isolation would be a really powerful thing.”
Speculation about a potential new era for the band has been rife since The 1975 announced their Glastonbury slot, changed their logo and updated their official social media accounts.
Oborne also revealed that the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ was in the works, saying: “They’re making a record at the moment. I don’t know when it will come out, but they’re making one.”
Earlier this year, Polly Money – who plays live with The 1975 – looked ahead to the Glastonbury headline set during an interview with NME.
“It is honestly a dream come true,” she told us. “It’s very much a bucket list gig for me – I still feel like it’s not real. I think it’s going to be an incredible experience – best night of my life, I bet.”
However, the musician remained tight-lipped as to what fans could expect: “I have a few ideas of what’s gonna go down. Obviously, it’s nothing to do with me – that’s kind of all the boys. But yeah, preparations are definitely underway. We’re hearing little snippets of stuff. It’s very exciting.”
Healy spoke about the prospect of topping the bill at Worthy Farm in 2018. “If I ever am headlining Glastonbury, then everyone’s going to have to be on guard for a year, so that I don’t completely lose my mind,” the frontman explained at the time.
In May, the band asked fans to submit their “memories” of the band for a new “collaborative video” debuting during their set.
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