Smokey Robinson confirms that he is in talks for Glastonbury 2024
Smokey Robinson has confirmed that he’s in talks for acting at this 12 months’s version of Glastonbury competition.
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The Motown icon with a profession spanning over 70 years shared some particulars about his potential touring plans. After being requested when he’ll subsequent carry out within the UK by Weird’s Howell Davies at Elton John’s Oscars occasion in Los Angeles on Sunday (March 10), Robinson hinted at a enjoying there “quickly”.
“We’ve been speaking about that for the previous two weeks — most likely quickly,” he mentioned (per Metro). Davies additionally requested the 84-year-old music legend concerning the potential of enjoying at Glastonbury. “That’s one of many issues we’ve been speaking about,” Robinson shared, including that he would “completely” like to take the stage on the Worthy Farm competition. “I really like the UK, man. We’ve had a few of our biggest occasions within the UK,” he concluded (per The Sun).
Glastonbury is about to happen from Wednesday June 26 by Sunday June 30. The lineup has but to be revealed however many followers have been speculating which artists could also be enjoying and headlining this 12 months’s competition.
The most recent artist to be tipped as a speculated performer is SZA. Rumours across the American singer-songwriter come following her being introduced as one of many headline acts for this 12 months’s BST Hyde Park sequence. She’ll be a part of the previously-announced artists Shania Twain, Andrea Bocelli, Robbie Williams, Stray Children, Kylie Minogue and Kings Of Leon on the London occasion.
The ‘Snooze’ singer is about to be within the UK to headline the present on June 29, that means that she will even be within the nation when the Worthy Farm competition takes place between June 26 and June 30.
Different rumoured headliners embody Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and Stevie Surprise with Shania Twain tipped for the legends slot.
Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis not too long ago shared that the competition’s line-up can be revealed someday this week. She hinted on the forthcoming line-up on the Women in Music convention held at Oxford College on March 7.
She additionally beforehand mentioned a feminine headliner pulled out of final 12 months’s competition, however this 12 months there can be two feminine headliners and a feminine within the Sunday legend’s slot too.
Whereas showing on an episode of Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw’s Sidetracked podcast, Eavis mentioned: “I’m all the time making an attempt to make it essentially the most balanced, numerous invoice. It’s troublesome with feminine artists as a result of there aren’t sufficient headliners. However we’re additionally creating them. We’re placing the bands and feminine artists on smaller phases and bringing them by on a regular basis so I really feel just like the pool goes to be greater quickly.
“And who is aware of? Subsequent 12 months we would get two [female headliners]. And definitely, I can say that the legend [slot] is feminine.”