Glastonbury Festival's Patchwork secret act unveiled by expert tipster
SecretGlasto has confirmed the mysterious Pyramid Stage act, 'Patchwork', to be Pulp in a new social media video. If true, this performance would mark thirty years since their first Glastonbury headline set, and their seminal album 'Different Class'.
Glastonbury Festival's mysterious Pyramid Stage act, 'Patchwork,' is Pulp, according to the expert social media account SecretGlasto, which has built up a reputation for confirming secret Worthy Farm acts for the past ten years.
The dedicated X account for Secret Glasto had been building up to a reveal at 10 AM on Monday, June 9. This resulted in a video compilation set to the soundtrack of the Britpop hero's 1995 hit, 'Common People'.
Posting the 35-second clip to X and Instagram, the video included the quote from keyboardist Candida Doyle, who spoke to BBC Radio 2 about her patchwork hobby, followed by lead singer Jarvis Cocker saying it's the "best music festival I've ever been to, easy, Glastonbury."
Further into the clip, former BBC Radio 1 host Scott Mills asks Jarvis, "Would you step up?" before replying, "If it was a life-or-death situation."
pic.twitter.com/vPku0SJzXG — Secretglasto (@secretglasto) June 9, 2025
Pulp first headlined Glastonbury in 1995 after stepping in to cover The Stone Roses and went on to headline again in 1998. This year marks thirty years since their breakthrough performance, as well as their album 'Different Class', which helped cement them as BritPop legends.
Speaking to the BBC about the numerous TBC acts still to be revealed at Glastonbury, Ad, who helps to run the SecretGlasto social media accounts, explained: "Of the four main slots, I think we've got three of them, maybe four, nailed down.
"I think it's definitely people who have got relationships with the festival who will be doing the big slots. An emotional return for one or two, I think. Some unfinished business."
This led many fans to think Lewis Capaldi, who had to end his 2023 set early after suffering an emotional breakdown, or even Lana Del Rey, who had to delay the start of her set in 2024, could be likely candidates to fill the empty slots.
Ad from SecretGlasto continued: "We've got loads of contacts at different stages and record labels and whatever else. And people trust us to be sensible with the information. And the bands themselves don't want empty secret sets do they? So we have had occasions where they have come to us." Interestingly, the six people behind the popular social media account with 87.5K followers on X don't work in the music industry at all. Another account manager, JB, told the BBC: "Now that we've been around for 10 years and have a decent bit of clout, we will contact some of the artists via their inboxes, and quite often, they're happy to confirm.
"Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they block us. But generally we're able to piece all that together fairly quickly."
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