Wolf Alice have been announced as the headliners for the 2019 edition of Glastonbury Festival’s Pilton Party. Known as the Glastonbury Festival ‘thank you’ show for locals, every September, sees a few bands return to Worthy Farm, where the well known festival takes place, for the annual bash. The four-piece follow in the footsteps of Liam Gallagher, who headlined the festival in 2018.
The event, Glastonbury Festival’s annual ‘thank you’ fundraising show for villagers, workers and local people, will return to Worthy Farm, on Friday the 6th of September 2019. It will be headlined by the 2018 Mercury Award winners Wolf Alice, with special guests to be announced. The four-piece will be joined by Sam Richardson & The Renegades and Pattern Pusher, who complete the bill.
Tickets are priced at £30 (£10 concessions) for the event and if you want to get your hands on one you will have to go in person, to Glastonbury’s ticket office, in Somerset. Tickets go on sale, on the 3rd of August 2019 from 10am-6pm.
However, festival goers will need to wait until next year for Glastonbury Festival return, which will see it return to Worthy Farm, between June 24-28 next year. Although, it’s a year off rumours have already started to fly as to who will be performing at the iconic festival, with festival organiser Michael Eavis recently responding to rumours that Fleetwood Mac could headline the event, after the band teased an appearance during their recent Wembley Stadium show. The band currently lead the bookies odds for Glastonbury 2020, with Elton John and Madonna also heavily rumoured to be playing.
The announcement of Wolf Alice’s headline slot a Glastonbury’s Pilton Party comes days after they graduated from playing to a handful of people, in the East Oxford Community Centre, six years ago, to now becoming festival headliners, topping the bill, at Truck Festival, in Oxfordshire.
Speaking to the crowd at Truck Festival 2019, Ellie Rowsell briefly greats the crowd: “Hello, how we all doing Truck? This is exciting! We’re headlining a motherfucking festival!”
“It’s a huge honour for us to headline this festival, we were really nervous. And you guys have been so lovely, and so kind, and fun…and it’s raining, and I don’t even mind,”Rowsell tells the crowd before their final song. Meanwhile, in the NME review of the set, Hannah Mylrea, said: “As [Ellie] Rowsell clambers into the crowd for the finale of ‘Giant Peach’ and confetti rains down on the army of fans enjoying the set, Wolf Alice leave the audience with no doubt that the headline spot is where they’re meant to be on the line-up.”
