Is Lorde playing a secret set at Glastonbury 2025 on Friday?
Glastonbury Festival is underway with tens of thousands of people set to enjoy three days of non-stop music.
This year, the stages at Worthy Farm will host sets from Neil Young, The 1975, Charki XCX, The Maccabees, Doechii, RAYE, Rod Stewart, Snow Patrol, and The Libertines, among many others.
Throughout the weekend, there are also a number of 'TBA' slots where the artist has not yet been confirmed.
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Among those are two on Friday - a 11.30am slot on Woodsies, and a 4.55pm on the Pyramid Stage. Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi is widely expected to be the artist who will perform the latter set - but who could be the first?
Rumours are circulating that it will be New Zealand singer Lorde, whose fourth-studio album, Virgin, has released today.
The pop star posted a picture of the Woodsies stage to her Instagram account on Thursday, fuelling speculation that she could be the act listed as 'TBA' who will be performing at 11.30am.
Earlier in the month, she told BBC Radio 2 that she is 'pretty keen' to see if she can 'pull some strings' and make an appearance at this year's festival.
Lorde told Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 2 show earlier this month: 'You know, I'm pretty keen, honestly.
'I feel like, because the album's going to be coming out, I am quite tempted by what's going on, because I've got lots of friends playing as well. We'll see if I can pull some strings and get there.'
The 28-year-old is friends with a number of singers including Brat star Charli XCX, who is playing the Other Stage on the Saturday night.
Earlier in the year, the British singer played at US festival Coachella where Lorde made an appearance to perform their collaborative version of Girl, So Confusing.
The singer, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, has played at Glastonbury before and performed on the Other Stage in 2017 and the Pyramid Stage in 2022.
Asked what it was like to walk onto the Pyramid Stage, she said: 'Absolutely unbelievable, enormous. I was shooketh at the scale. So many cameras … oh goodness. So beautiful, so amazing."
Lorde shot to fame with her chart-topping single Royals in 2013.
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