They’ll be the first band to headline at Worthy Farm four times.
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This year’s performance will be their only festival appearance, but if you’re gasping for some Coldplay action, you’ll be glad to know they’ll be taking over Wembley Stadium over four nights this summer. They’ve booked the band to headline in 2002, 2005 and 2011.
In a statement on their website a Glastonbury Festival spokesman has said: “Coldplay today became the first headline act to be confirmed for Glastonbury Festival 2016”.
The “Paradise” hitmakers teased fans on Tuesday morning (16.02.16) by tweeting a photo of the music festival’s Pyramid Stage with a signpost with the date, Sunday June 26, on it and a hot air balloon in their album colours. Though this year’s slot marks the band’s only major festival appearance outside of Radio 1’s Big Weekend, the group will also be undertaking a worldwide stadium tour in promotion of their new album A Head Full of Dreams in the coming months.
Glastonbury Festival takes place from Thursday, June 23 to Sunday, June 26, 2016.
There is no news as yet on other headliners for Glastonbury, though Adele and Beyoncé have both been suggested as possible bill-toppers.
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Bee Gee’s singer Barry Gibb has also been tipped for the Sunday legend slot after Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton have played the previous two years.
