Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar are headlining Glastonbury Festival 2022 alongside Billie Eilish and Diana Ross, it's been confirmed. The festival, which will return to Worthy Farm in June after a two year hiatus, shared its first line-up poster earlier this month. (Friday, March 4.)
Also confirmed for this year are Doja Cat, Haim, Lorde, Olivia Rodrigo, Foals and Noel Gallagher, who is performing at the festival for the first time in 18 years. Bristol band Idles have also been booked. Resale tickets were made available online on March 27 and were snapped up in a matter of minutes.
The lineup comes as it's been confirmed that proceeds from this year's festival will go towards the Red Cross Ukraine appeal, as well as the festival's regular charities, WaterAid, Oxfam and Greenpeace.
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Paul McCartney will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday, June 25, exactly one week after he turns 80. He last played in 2004, and was due to headline the 2020 festival before Covid forced organisers to cancel.
Friday night's star attraction, Billie Eilish, will be the youngest. The 20-year-old will also be Glastonbury's first female headliner since 2016 - although Taylor Swift was booked to play in 2020.
Meanwhile Kendrick Lamar will close the festival on Sunday night. He is thought to be working on the long-awaited follow-up to his 2017 album Damn.
Out of the 89 names announced so far, 48 are women or acts that include female artists, meeting festival co-organiser Emily Eavis’s previously stated intention for Glastonbury to achieve gender parity. They include Celeste, Haim, Beabadoobee, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, First Aid Kit and Phoebe Bridgers - to name a few.
Line-up announcement
Hundreds more artists will be revealed over the coming weeks, with the full-line up confirmed in May.
This year's Glastonbury will be the first since 2019, when Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure were the headliners. The following year would have been the festival's 50th anniversary, but organisers called off the celebration because of the Covid pandemic.
Announcing the 2022 line-up, Eavis said she was "so excited to be back after such a long break".
"We've never had two years without a Glastonbury festival before - and it really feels like we all need it, to be honest," she said. "Everywhere I go, people come up and they tell me the stories of how they've been waiting. This is the biggest build-up ever."
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