TAYLOR-MADE for Glastonbury: Swift tipped to headline next summer’s festival – and she’s kept the date clear in her British tour
Pop superstar Taylor Swift is being tipped to headline next year’s Glastonbury as organisers try to shake off criticism that the festival’s top acts are ‘male, pale and stale’.
Sources close to the Bad Blood singer have said she would ‘love’ to appear at the festival, after her planned 2020 appearance was axed due to Covid.
And eagle-eyed fans have spotted the 33-year-old has kept a date free after the UK leg of her tour next year which will coincide with the last night of Glastonbury.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis has already said that she hoped the 2024 festival would have two female headliners, and revealed that one of them had already been booked.
Ms Eavis had been criticised this year as the closing act on the Pyramid Stage every night was male: Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses – who critics singled out for having a particularly lacklustre set – and Sir Elton John.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift (pictured in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 30) is being tipped to headline next year’s Glastonbury
Emily Eavis had been criticised this year as the closing act on the Pyramid Stage every night was male. Pictured: Arctic Monkeys perform at Glastonbury on June 23
One source close to the festival said: ‘Taylor would be such a coup, she is exactly the progressive woman that they want on the roster.’
The UK leg of her Eras world tour kicks off in Edinburgh on June 7 next year. She plays two dates in Dublin on June 28 and 29 – but nothing has been announced for June 30, the last day of Glastonbury.
She then picks up the tour in Europe a few days later, and returns to London in August.
Bookmakers have her as the favourite to be a headliner at Worthy Farm, offering odds of just 1/3.
Dua Lipa is tipped to be the second female headliner.
She played the event’s New Bands Tent in 2017, but Covid robbed her of a more high-profile set in both 2020 and 2021.
Dua Lipa (pictured), who fans were hoping would join Sir Elton John this year, is tipped to be the second female headliner next June
Fans had hoped she would join Sir Elton for his barnstorming set last Sunday, as the pair had previously recorded the No 1 hit Cold Heart together, but it was not to be. But she will have a new album to promote next year.
Ms Eavis had also faced criticism for not booking any black headliners, and for promoting old rockers Guns N’ Roses over contemporary stars such as Lizzo, who technically ‘co-headlined’ Saturday night, but did not top the bill.
Other big names suggested for next year’s event, which starts on June 26, include Madonna, who was hit by a bacterial infection last week, Harry Styles, Coldplay and Foo Fighters.
