Emily Eavis teases Glastonbury 2024 headliner and legends slot

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Glastonbury Festival, hinting once again that there could be two female headliners.The 2024 edition of the legendary Worthy Farm event will take place between June 26-30, with the first batches of tickets due to go on sale next week.

No acts have been announced as of yet.Speaking on the latest episode of Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw’s Sidetracked podcast, Glastonbury co-organiser Eavis spoke about the progress the team has made in putting the bill together.“2024 is still a little up in the air.

I thought it was kind of taking shape and then last week I just got a call, and this is what happens if you wait a little longer, because quite often we’ll be booked up from July,” she began.“This year we’re holding out for a little bit longer, and last week I got a call from a really big American artist saying this person’s around next year.

And I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is incredible’. Thank God we held the slot.”Eavis went on to reiterate that she is “really passionate about gender split” on the line-up, having faced some criticism in regards to last year’s all-male headliners (Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John).“Our problem was that I’d been so outspoken about it that having a year where there wasn’t a female [headliner] sent people a bit mad, or some people,” Eavis continued. “And actually, we did have a female [but] she pulled out and we replaced them with Guns [N’ Roses] on the Saturday.”She added: “I’m always trying to make it the most balanced, diverse bill.