Emily Eavis has already booked Glastonbury headliner for 2028

Posted On June 25, 2025June 25, 2025

Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed she has already booked one headliner for the event in 2028.

The Somerset festival has today opened its doors for the 2025 edition ahead of the main stages opening on June 27th for a three-day extravaganza which will be headlined by The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo and Neil Young. Other notable acts include Charli XCX, Raye, Rod Stewart and Biffy Clyro.

Notably, next year, Glastonbury will take a fallow year for the first time since 2021. However, the planning hasn’t stopped with Eavis already looking ahead to 2027, and even securing her first headliner for the festival in 2028.

In a new interview with Cosmopolitan, Eavis shared: “I’ve just booked my first headliner for 2028. 2028! That’s how far ahead we are at the moment.”

Eavis also confirmed that Glastonbury were “nearly there” in terms of their line-up for 2027, despite the event being two years away.

Elsewhere in the interview, Eavis shared her excitement for Neil Young’s headline set due to her family’s love of his music, sharing, “Neil Young is one of my dad’s favourite artists of all time, and mine. We’ve sort of grown up with him. He played in 2009, and it was an incredible set, so getting him back has been a really important thing for us – and especially in my dad’s 90th year to have him back singing all his beautiful songs will be something very special.”

While Eavis is looking forward to watching Young make his return to Worthy Farm, it appears that only those in attendance at Glastonbury will have the pleasure of seeing his performance. Earlier this week, the BBC omitted his name from their coverage guide for the festival, and it seems unlikely his set will be broadcast.

The BBC’s entertainment correspondent, Colin Patterson, said in an update on Breakfast on June 25th regarding speculation surrounding coverage of Young’s set:  “I asked Emily Eavis, ‘What was going on?’, and she says she does not believe that Neil Young’s set will be broadcast by the BBC. There’s been all kinds of backstage wrangling and negotiations, but as things currently stand, Neil Young’s headline set on Saturday night will not be broadcast by the BBC.”

Young previously only allowed the BBC to show a small portion of his headline performance in 2009, and earlier this year, announced he would not perform at Glastonbury due to its relationship with the broadcaster.

“We were told the BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot for things we were not interested in,” he wrote on his website on January 1st. Young then accused Glastonbury of being “under corporate control” and described the event as a “corporate turn-off” before he backtracked and confirmed he would play Worthy Farm two days later.

In a statement provided to Far Out, the BBC said of its plan to broadcast Young’s set: “We aim to bring audiences as many performances as possible from the Pyramid Stage, and our schedules and plans continue to be finalised, right up to and during the festival.”

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