It’s been very quiet from Glastonbury HQ, the team who organise the world famous music festival are being tight lipped and not even a hint has been released about this years event. Festival goers are having to endure the longest wait for a Glastonbury line-up in 20yrs.

Liam Gallagher has been up to his usual tricks on social media, in February the former Oasis member confirmed he and John Squire were set to join the 2024 festival line-up, but this was confirmed soon after as Liam just playing to his usual antics to tease fans.

So unfortunately, festival goers continue to wait for confirmed news, so here at Entertainment Swindon, we have taken upon ourselves to make predictions for when the festival line-up will be announced and who will be in the line up as well as predict who could headline this year.

Among artists rumoured to headline Glastonbury this year, we have bookies backing Stevie Wonder, Adele and Eminem. Other rumoured artists predicted to headline are Madonna, Dua Lipa & Coldplay.

Heres everything you need to know:

Going by previous lineup announcements by the Glastonbury organisers, the only thing we can be certain of is that announcements will be given on a Friday. The first 2023 line-up for last year was announced on Friday 3rd March and the 2022 announcement for the first wave of acts was given on Friday 4th March.

The 2019 line-up announcement was released on Friday 15th March, the 2017 Glastonbury event announced its first wave of acts on the last Friday of March and in 2016 the first announcement of the festival came on the first Friday of April.

The last time Glastonbury organisers announced both headliners and line-up poster at the same time was back in 2013 when on Friday 27th March, when Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones and Mumford & Sons were confirmed less than three months before they were set to take to The Pyramid Stage. 

This year March is set for five Friday’s in the month, so we predict announcements will arrive on either 8th, 15th, 22nd or 28th March at around 8am. Glastonbury tend to make announcements early in the day.

Predictions on who could headline at this years Glastonbury:

Dua Lipa

This is a bit speculative, but the three-time Grammy Award winner is expected to hit the road this summer, ahead of the release of a new album later in the year. Single, Training Season, is released this month and the promotional bandwagon will get rolling. Could it include a headline-grabbing headline set at Glastonbury? It’s possible.

Shania Twain

In the UK, it may come as something of a surprise to find out Shania Twain is one of the biggest-selling artists of all time. Here, she is best known for nineties single, Man! I Feel Like a Woman! – a favourite on any Saturday night on the dance-floor, but she has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and is the biggest-selling female artist in country music history – yes, even bigger than the queen of country, Dolly Parton.

Set to start a residency in Las Vegas in May, Shania may feel like dropping in to Glastonbury when she heads across the Atlantic in June, with a show in Dublin scheduled for 28th June, before a Glasto-shaped break until 4th July.

Madonna

The Queen of Pop has long been a rumoured performer at the hallowed farm, either in a headline slot or as the Sunday afternoon legend (which Emily Eavis previously confirmed was a female performer). However, hopefuls took a bit of a knock earlier this month when the star announced the “last and final show” of her Celebration Tour – on 9th April in Miami. That’s not to say she won’t be in Somerset though, perhaps performing a different set to tour.

Coldplay

With headline sets on the Pyramid Stage in 2002, 2005, 2011, and 2016, Coldplay are fast becoming the house band at Worthy Farm. So, could 2024 see them top the bill once again?

Well, it looks like a possibility after the band, famed for hits including Yellow, Fix You, and Higher Power, announced tour dates for this summer, with a show in France on 23rd June marking a break until 23rd July. What might the band do between those dates, we wonder?

Bruce Springsteen

The Boss, who topped the bill with an epic set in 2009, is touring this year. In June he is in Europe, making a Glasto appearance possible. However, this one seems less likely as over Glastonbury weekend – June 28-30 – he is playing two nights in Holland. While an entire set is unlikely, it doesn’t rule out dropping in for a guest appearance.

Foo Fighters

Dave Grohl’s rock and roll troubadours are back in Europe this summer after playing a cracking ‘secret set’ at last year’s festival. They are set to play the London Stadium on 20th and 22nd June and, Cardiff on 25th June, and Villa Park in Birmingham on 27th June.

Could that pave the way to Somerset for one final UK show before heading to the continent? With Mr Grohl’s new-found passion for all things Glastonbury, I wouldn’t bet against it.

Pearl Jam

Fronted by Eddie Vedder, the Seattle stadium rockers have announced a huge world tour for 2024 and yes, they are heading to England. Set to play Dublin on 22nd June, they will then head across the water to the UK including shows in Manchester and London on 25th & 29th June respectively.

Could there be time for a stop-off in Somerset on one of those off days? It would be the first time the grunge icons had graced a stage at Glastonbury, having headlined Reading in 2006 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 2012. This would make up a triple crown of UK festivals.

Sting

Another one that’s a bit out on a limb, but the legendary Police frontman will be an Englishman on a new tour this summer. The titan of all things tantric will be in Lithuania on 9th June, with a show at Thetford Forest scheduled for 22nd June. He then has a break until July. We’ll be watching him to see if one of those free days is taken up with a trip west…