London based acid house duo, Paranoid London, have announced that they will perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
The announcement came as Block9, a collection of stages within Glastonbury’s infamous South East Corner, took to instagram to release their lineup for this years festival.
The Block9 section of the festival is home to 5 stages: Block9, The Meat Rack, NYC Downlow, IICON and GENOSYS. Paranoid London are set to play a live performance on the IICON stage on Friday Night. Making it’s debut in 2019, IICON’s identity has quickly earned it’s place as one of the many great spectacles of the Glastonbury landscape.
In the festival’s own words, “Taking the form of a colossal, anonymised head, IICON is a pseudo-religious monument to the terrifying new realities emerging in our digital, post-truth age.” (Glastonbury)
2025 will mark the 3rd consecutive year that the duo have graced the stage at Worthy Farm, after a performance at Shangri-La 2023, and The Lonely Hearts Club in 2024.
Since their formation in the early 2010s, Paranoid London have always had a cult following within the acid house scene, especially in South London. But despite remaining relatively underground, the duo have undoubtedly earned their place on this year’s IICON stage, having worked their up the Glastonbury ranks.
Their slot at Glastonbury will come after what has been a relatively quiet start to 2025 for the band. Besides a number of sporadic London shows and an exclusive Record Store Day live show at Phonica Records, have taken a steady start to the year, perhaps in anticipation for their flagship set on the IICON stage. Alternatively, this could just a well deserved rest for the band, after a busy tour schedule in the later months of 2024.
Member, Quinn Whalley, is also one sixth of the renowned London ‘Disco-Punk’ group, Warmduscher, and has also recently embarked on a new project, 3 piece electronic outfit, Hackney Electronica, who have recently released their debut EP on Dark Entries Records.
The duo are currently in the US, moving onto a date in Mexico, before returning for Glastonbury at the end of June.
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