Glastonbury 2025 ticket holders have slammed the first confirmed act, insisting the booking is the ‘final nail’ in the coffin for the festival.

Rod Stewart is the first act confirmed for Glastonbury 2025, with the festival announcing on Tuesday that the rock star will play the Sunday teamtime Legends slot on the Pyramid Stage.

The appearance will mark 23 years after his last performance at the Somerset festival. 

But some fans are raging at the booking, with one posting on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘Rod Stewart needs to retire. The legends slot will be painful to watch/listen to #Glastonbury.’

Another declared it was ‘the final nail in Glastonbury’s coffin’. 

Other outraged reactions included: ‘Rod Stewart headlining Glastonbury. Will anyone under 50 even know any of his songs’; ‘Rod Stewart headlining Glastonbury legends stage. Another reason not to go. 380 quid a ticket is the other reason’; ‘Imagine spending nearly £400 on a ticket only to discover that Rod Stewart is the main act. You’re going to want to jhope there’s a decent act on elsewhere.’ 

Glastonbury 2025 ticket holders have slammed the festival’s first confirmed act, insisting the booking is the ‘final nail’ in the coffin

Rod Stewart was the first act confirmed for Glastonbury 2025, with the festival announcing on Tuesday that the rock star will play the Sunday teamtime Legends slot on the Pyramid Stage

But others were delighted at the prospect of seeing Rod perform at Glastonbury again.

‘Sunday afternoon, sun shining and a couple of beers listening to the songs your dad played in the car… what’s not to like!’ exclaimed one ticket holder.

‘He was a great headliner in 2002 can’t wait to see him again’ agreed another. 

Rod told the BBC that he was ‘proud and ready’ to play at the sold out festival, adding that – at the age of 79 – he was ‘more than able to pleasure and тιтillate’ the crowd.

He previously headlined the festival in 2002, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics. 

His 2025 appearance was announced by co-organiser Emily Eavis in a post on Instagram on Tuesday, which read: ‘Bringing Sir Rod Stewart back for the Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid Stage is everything we could wish for.’ 

‘What a way to bow out with the final legends slot before we take a fallow year. We cannot wait.’

The singer, who will turn 80 in January, will become one of the oldest artists to perform a major set at Glastonbury. 

Some fans are raging at the booking, with one posting on X, formerly known as Twitter : ‘Rod Stewart needs to retire. The legends slot will be painful to watch/listen to #Glastonbury.’

Burt Bacharach played the Pyramid stage in 2015 at the age of 87, while Paul McCartney headlined the week after his 80th birthday nack in 2022. 

The five-day festival takes place in June at Somerset’s Worth Farm and draws in around around 200,000 music fans each year to watch some of the world’s biggest musicians perform.

The official Glastonbury tickets went on sale on November 14 and November 17.

The stakes were even higher than usual, as 2026 will be a fallow year, meaning the festival will not go ahead.

He previously headlined the festival in 2002, alongside Coldplay and Stereophonics

Others were delighted at the prospect of seeing Rod perform at Glastonbury again