Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker is the latest act to be confirmed to be playing a secret set at Glastonbury festival this weekend. Tame Impala’s main man is set to play a set on the Frimly Rooted sound system in the Silver Hayes area of Worthy farm at 1AM tomorrow morning. It is going to be a DJ set as listed in the official festival programme, so fans can expect an hour or so of non-stop tunes from the Australian psychedelic star.
Parker announced this via his Instagram: “GLASTONBURY come see me tonight at the Firmly Rooted sound system in Silver Hayes at 1am. DJ set. Should be pretty funnnnn.” This 1AM to 2AM slot is still listed as TBA on the line-up for Firmly Rooted sound system however, according to the festival’s official programme this slot reads as “Kevin Parker (Tame Impala)” and if there was somehow any doubt on who this is it continues “The Antipodean psychedelic rock icon takes to the deck.”
Kevin Parker’s involvement in the festival has caused speculation that the Tame Impala frontman might feature as a guest during Dua Lipa’s headline set tonight as the pair have worked on her latest album, ‘Radical Optimism’. Parker’s DJ set is going to take place just a few hours after Dua Lipa’s headline performance so we will have to wait and see what unfolds with that one.
Parker has played the English festival multiple times throughout the years with Tame Impala, including headlining The Other Stage in 2019 as well as previously performing at Worthy farm in 2016 and 2013. Fans may well be hoping that the Australian psychedelic outfit may headline the festival one day but for now they will just have to settle for a rare 1-hour DJ set from Parker.
Glastonbury 2024: Looks like Kevin Parker of Tame Impala fame is playing a surprise DJ set this year
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The festival began today and will see headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA take to the Pyramid stage later on this weekend. the festival will run through to the 30th of June (this Sunday), and we will see a huge variety of acts across the huge number of stages including Fatboy Slim, Squeeze, Hedex, Little Simz, Nia Archives, King Krule, Fonatines D.C. plus many many more.
This year we will also see a tribute to the cult classic film ‘Human Traffic’ for the film’s 25-year anniversary. The film will be honoured on two separate occasions at eh festival, first at the Cornish Arms at The Park, which will take place in the early hours of Saturday morning and will see Loop Dee Loop play a DJ set. Then, on Saturday evening Arcadia’s The Bug stage will host Save Our Scene’s collaboration with the iconic film. This will see DJ Boring as well as Loop Dee Loop again and will be aiming to raise awareness for the campaign aiming to help the UK’s nightlife and live music scene with Grassroots music venues closing down at an alarming rate up and down the country.