Noel Gallagher will carry out on the Glastonbury Competition when it returns in June, 18 years after his final reside look on the occasion with Oasis.
The musician, 54, is predicted to play the Pyramid Stage beneath his Excessive Flying Birds solo moniker on Saturday, June 25 because the annual summer time spectacle returns following a two-year delay attributable to the coronavirus pandemic.
He’ll share the invoice with American band Haim for what is predicted to be a memorable return to Somerset’s Worthy Farm, along with his final look coming in 2004 with Brit Pop architects Oasis.
On the invoice: Noel Gallagher will carry out on the Glastonbury Competition when it returns in June, 18 years after his final reside look on the occasion with Oasis
The set will even comply with Gallagher’s hjgh-profile criticism of the occasion’s more and more sanitized playbill following subsequent reside appearances from the likes of mainstream artists Adele, Robbie Williams and Jay-Z.
A supply instructed The Solar: ‘Noel has by no means performed a music gig at Glastonbury outdoors of Oasis who carried out twice there. This will likely be a monumental second for him and will probably be an unbelievable second for the competition.
‘He’s at the moment pencilled on the listing for the line-up for the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday of Glastonbury and can carry out simply earlier than the headliner.
Previous instances: Gallagher final carried out on the occasion along with his former band Oasis in 2004 (pictured)
‘Haim, who’re finest friends with Taylor Swift, are additionally scheduled to be on simply earlier than him. They performed a reside streamed set from Worthy Farm final 12 months and had been an enormous hit.’
Gallagher carried out at Glastonbury thrice – the primary coming in June 1994, when the then little recognized Oasis carried out a brief eight monitor set on the NME Stage.
They’d return because the Pyramid Stage headline act for Glastonbury’s twenty fifth anniversary the next 12 months, as Brit Pop took the UK by storm and the band’s second album, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, grew to become the quickest promoting LP of the last decade.
The band made a 3rd look in 2004 when present organiser Michael Eavis invited them to formally shut that 12 months’s occasion from the Pyramid Stage.
Iconic: Oasis headlined Glastonbury’s twenty fifth anniversary in 1995, as Brit Pop took the UK by storm (pictured that 12 months on the Pyramid Stage)
Reflecting on the annual competition in a current fiftieth anniversary guide, Gallagher wrote: ‘There are actually a whole lot of festivals on the planet and I ought to know as a result of I’ve performed most if not all of them.
‘The humorous factor is although, there’s actually solely ONE competition on the planet – within the truest sense of the phrase anyway.
‘Glastonbury is extra essential than Christmas. Glastonbury is extra enjoyable than New Yr. Glastonbury might be brutal. Glastonbury might be magical.
Talking out: Gallagher has been brazenly essential of its resolution to characteristic mainstream artists on the playbill after a long time of specializing in much less business guitar pushed artists (pictured attending Glastonbury with wife Sara McDonald in 2003)
‘Glastonbury is no matter you need it to be. Glastonbury will change your life… and if it doesn’t then I counsel you get a f**king life!’
Nevertheless the musician has been brazenly essential of its resolution to characteristic mainstream artists on the playbill after a long time of specializing in much less business guitar pushed artists.
‘If it ain’t broke don’t repair it,’ he instructed The Solar in 2008. If you happen to begin to break it then folks aren’t going to go. I’m sorry, however Jay-Z? No likelihood.
‘Glastonbury has a practice of guitar music and even after they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday evening you go “Kylie Minogue?” I don’t find out about it. However I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s improper.’
