The lineup for this year’s BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury has been announced.
BBC Introducing revealed the thirty three artists set to take the stage at this year’s festival in an Instagram post earlier today.
Artists such as Lambrini Girls, Divorce and Fiona Lee are amongst the names travelling to Worthy Farm in a few weeks time. Lambrini Girls, a self-professed ‘serious and political band…but also absolutely ridiculous and very silly’ (The Line Of Best Fit), are also performing the Leftfield stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival. Fitting, as the stage’s curator, Billy Bragg, has been one of the most prominent advocates for politics within music in the last century.
The BBC Introducing initiative, since its formation in 2006, has been an epicentre of new, exciting, independent music, and the Introducing stage at Glastonbury is no different.
The stage has hosted names such as Idles, English Teacher and Paul Heaton in recent years, and has a reputation for being one of the great milestones in any upcoming artist’s career. English Teacher played the Introducing stage in 2022, just 2 years before winning the Mercury Prize, one of the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious music accolades.
The stage will open earlier than usual this year, 12pm on Thursday, as Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac record a live episode of their podcast Sidetracked.
This year will also see the return of the ‘Open Decks’ slot, Thursday, 5.45-7pm, on the BBC Introducing stage – a slot that encourage any aspiring DJs in attendance to get up and perform on the stage in front of a live audience. This slot, alongside the BBC’s readily available submission portals, goes to show the lengths that the Introducing scheme goes to promote upcoming artists, who otherwise may not get such opportunities.
The BBC also teased in a statement on their website, “There will also be TBA guests on the stage throughout the weekend, which will be announced via @bbcintroducing on Instagram and X and on the BBC Introducing chalkboard at the stage.”
