As the countdown to Glastonbury Festival 2025 intensifies, Worthy Farm has revealed an explosive series of area line-ups, promising festivalgoers an unforgettable journey across some of its most beloved and iconic spaces. From fire-breathing sculptures and soul-shaking bass to political discourse and mind-bending performance art, each corner of the site is bursting with energy, identity, and creative vision.
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Arcadia: The Dragonfly Soars Once More
Back and bolder than ever, Arcadia unveils its jaw-dropping centrepiece: The Dragonfly — a radical reimagining of a Royal Navy helicopter transformed into a high-tech, flame-throwing symbol of peace and unity. With stronger laser wings and an enhanced ring of fire, the mechanical marvel will light up the night with ferocity and finesse.
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At the heart of Arcadia’s 2025 programme is Waraloo, a breathtaking ceremonial performance in collaboration with the Wadjuk Noongar nation of Perth, Australia. Staged at midnight on Friday and Saturday and 11:30pm on Sunday, Waraloo revives an ancient Noongar song, reimagined through dance, fire, and sound in a celebration of renewal and reconciliation.
In a powerful nod to the festival’s sustainability mission, Arcadia is once again teaming up with Grid Faeries to power the Dragonfly with a futuristic battery system—completely fossil-fuel-free.
Elsewhere in the field, Arcadia introduces The Bug, a mobile, amphibious art-car built from submarine moulds, which will roam both the Arcadia field and beyond with its own eclectic line-up. Families can head to The Alchemists’ Playground, where kids and teens can weld, design, and perform with upcycled materials, blending STEM and art in pure Arcadia fashion, an area Rockshot Magzine’s family feature from 2024 shared experiences of.
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The Common: Defiant Beats and Decolonised Rhythms
The Common continues to blaze its own trail as a fierce, genre-bending celebration of resistance, ritual, and rave. With a sound that knows no borders, Temple brings in heavyweights like Shy FX, Joy Orbison, Wilkinson, Clipz B2B DJ Die, and Barry Can’t Swim Presents: Earth’s Only Paradise, delivering everything from bass and jungle to techno and drum & bass.
Rum Shack offers an equally deep and diverse programme, welcoming boundary-pushers like Hak Baker, Beans On Toast, DJ Lag, Ellie Prohan, Mercedes Benson, and the euphoric energy of Queer House Party. Expect afrobeat, dub, hip-hop, spoken word and community-driven fire every night.
Over in Mez Yard and Kinetic, dig deeper with leftfield gems like Coco Maria, DJ Cheeba (AV), Kaisha B2B A-Star, and Dope Ammo B2B Jimbitch, alongside visual artists and immersive AV experiences from The Light Surgeons and Stuart Warren Hill.
The Common isn’t just a line-up—it’s a manifesto.
San Remo: One Last Dance in the Eternal Now
Marking the final chapter before a fallow year, San Remo invites seekers and dancers to one last spell beneath the neon glow. A fever dream of mysticism and movement, this corner of Glastonbury has always pulsed to its own rhythm, drawing kindred spirits from around the world to move, lose, and find themselves again in the music.
Described as “a final bacchanal” and “a dance in the moment of forever,” San Remo 2025 is the crescendo of a decade-long vision—a timeless space where poetry, sound, and spirit collide. Though the line-up remains shrouded in intentional mystery, the call is clear: one more time, meet us in the centre of the dancefloor.
Theatre & Circus: Where the Absurd Meets the Sublime
An unmissable fixture on the east side of the site, Theatre & Circus is Glastonbury’s live-action heartbeat. As always, the area will play host to a dazzling mix of circus spectacles, physical theatre, comedy, walkabout wonders and experimental performance art.
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Organiser Haggis McLeod promises returning favourites and a wave of new international acts making their Worthy Farm debut. From laugh-out-loud absurdity to jaw-dropping acrobatics and unexpected political satire, Theatre & Circus remains the place where spontaneity reigns and the extraordinary is just part of the daily schedule.
Glastonbury Festival 2023
Left Field: Recharge Your Radical Soul
Founded on protest, purpose, and performance, Left Field is once again ready to ignite minds and galvanise action. Curated by Billy Bragg, this year’s programme features politically charged music, urgent debate, and rallying cries for justice in an increasingly turbulent world.
Billy Bragg with Jamie Webster @ Glastonbury Festival 2024 (Kalpesh Patel)
From its CND roots to supporting striking workers and climate activists, Left Field has long been a space to connect music with meaning. Expect to be inspired, challenged, and energised as artists, speakers, and audiences come together in solidarity under the banner: La Lucha Continua – The Struggle Continues.
Whether it’s the bass drops of Arcadia’s Dragonfly, the radical anthems of Left Field, the hypnotic mysticism of San Remo, the theatre of rebellion at The Common, or the acrobatics of the east fields, Glastonbury Festival 2025 promises an experience that reaches far beyond music.
And with a fallow year ahead in 2026, this summer’s edition holds extra weight. It’s not just a festival—it’s a gathering of tribes, a dance in the face of chaos, and a chance to lose yourself… before finding something far greater.
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