Secret Glastonbury: The mystery of the festival's surprise stars
After the full Glastonbury timetable was published this week, one band's name was on everybody's lips. Except no-one knows who they actually are.
Patchwork have a prime place on the festival's line-up - third from the top of the bill on the main Pyramid Stage on the Saturday night. The only thing is, there's no band called Patchwork.
It's a fake name for a mystery guest - just as an unknown band called The ChurnUps were on the Pyramid bill in 2023, and turned out to be the Foo Fighters.
Fans immediately went into overdrive to try to work out Patchwork's identity - part of the frenzied guessing game surrounding the festival's "surprise" sets.
The main theories include:
In conclusion: I don't know.
"Radiohead also are in the mix of rumours because they've been teasing some tour action," suggests music journalist and broadcaster Georgie Rogers, who was a judge for Glastonbury's emerging talent competition this year and is DJing at the festival.
"Or could Elton John be returning to do something with Brandi Carlile?"
Sir Elton headlined in 2023, and Carlile, his collaborator on his last album, is on the Pyramid Stage bill on the same day as Patchwork.
The Patchwork slot is just one of several tantalising gaps in this year's schedule.
Another mystery Pyramid performer is listed as "TBA" for Friday afternoon, while the smaller Park and Woodsies stages - which have hosted secret sets by big names in the past - each have an empty space on the line-up.
"They're quite prominent sets, and they do tend to put in massive artists," says Rogers.
One group of fans think they know who will fill those gaps.
"Of the four main slots, I think we've got three of them, maybe four, nailed down," says Ad, one of the people behind the Secretglasto social media........
