Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis would reportedly love to book Girls Aloud for next year’s festival.
The girl group have just finished up their 20th anniversary reunion tour, which ended with an exclusive O2 Priority gig in London.
Festival organiser Emily has revealed that she has her sights firmly set on the girl band for a slot on the bill at next year’s festivities at Worthy Farm.
And she is now even more enthusiastic to sign them up after pop princesses Sugababes and Avril Lavigne drew in huge crowds last week.
Speaking to The Mirror, a source said: ‘There is no doubt that the girls would be a great act for the festival, and would really pull in the crowds.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis would reportedly love to book Girls Aloud for next year’s festival, it was said on Saturday
Festival organiser Emily has revealed that she has her sights firmly set on the girl band for a slot on the bill at next year’s festivities at Worthy Farm
‘And Emily is even more enthusiastic about booking them after seeing how fans reacted to the Sugababes and Avril Lavigne this year.
‘Girls Aloud can tap into that same female pop nostalgia, while also having a massively loyal fanbase of their own.’
Emily was apparently keen to have the band appear at the 2024 festival, but as it landed on the weekend of their Liverpool dates it was not possible.
MailOnline contacted representatives for Glastonbury and Girls Aloud for comment.
The enthusiasm to sign Girls Aloud comes after the Sugababes were the surprise of the festival as they drew in a ginormous crowd, all belting out their favourite tracks.
But the Sugababes admitted they were worried no one would turn up to their Glastonbury performance – despite it being so popular that security had to shut down entry to their stage amid huge fan demand.
Appearing on This Morning on Monday, the About You Now hitmakers spoke about how nervous they were ahead of their performance.
Keisha Buchanan said: ‘We are always super nervous especially when we are going out to perform because we think like is anyone going to show up?
‘But it was really nice. We had the best time. It doesn’t get old for us. We are so grateful.
The girl group have just finished up their 20th anniversary reunion tour, which finished with an exclusive O2 Priority gig in London
The enthusiasm to sign Girls Aloud comes after the Sugababes were the surprise of the festival as they drew in a ginormous crowd, all belting out their favourite tracks
The Sugababes admitted on This Morning on Monday they were ‘worried no one would turn up to their Glasto gig’ on Friday – after security were forced to shut down entry to their stage
Their appearance comes after it was reported that in fact, the jam-packed crowd all hoping to see the band forced security to shut down entry to a stage at Glastonbury.
The West Holts stage, which has capacity for 35,000 people, had to operate a ‘one in one out’ system to avoid a crush as fans arrived to watch the group.
The English girl group performed at Glastonbury in 2022 on the smaller Avalon Stage which has a capacity of 3,000 – but police restricted entry to the gig to stop more people arriving due to safety concerns.
Sensibly this year the original 1998 Sugababes line-up of Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy were upgraded to the festival’s West Holts stage but once again, they proved to be more popular than Glastonbury organisers imagined.
Whatever the case, next time Glastonbury bosses might allow the pop group to grace the iconic Pyramid Stage – which can hold a staggering 120,000 people.
One music fan tweeted: ‘Never seen a crowd like Sugababe at West Holts today. Was there in 2022 when they closed Avalon and same thing happened today.
‘Not sure I’ll see a better show this weekend. Pyramid stage surely next…’
Around 20 minutes before the Sugababes arrived onstage at 5pm on Friday, stewards had stopped fans entering from certain directions to prevent the field from becoming too full.
A jam-packed crowd at Glastonbury’s West Holt stage ahead of the Sugababes proved they had nothing to worry about
The Sugababes perform on West Holts stage as fans hold up their phones to film
Crowds gather for the five-day festival – making Worthy Farm in Somerset one of the most densely populated place on earth
‘To get the response we have had has been incredible we don’t take it for granted. We got on a plane as soon as we got off the stage and went to Marrakech.’
Glastonbury Festival has come under fire after a slew of artists were hit with technical problems that left them sounding ‘awful’.
Roughly 210,000 revellers descended on Somerset’s Worthy Farm for the weekend, while millions were expected to tune in from home thanks to the BBC’s rolling coverage.
However, music-lovers were left disappointed this year as several artists struggled with technical issues that left the sound seeming distorted.
On top of this, artists including Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa and Coldplay have been called out for allegedly miming.
Now there’s been frenzied guessing game as to who is to blame for the issues, with questions raised as to whether Glastonbury Festival’s technical team is at fault or the BBC for the broadcast.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, fans penned: ‘Why is the sound so awful on every single bit of Glastonbury that I’ve watched (apart from the Sugababes). Is it bad there? Or is it the TV/BBC mics/sound?’;
Glastonbury Festival has come under fire after a slew of artists were hit with technical problems that left them sounding ‘awful’ (Dua Lipa pictured on Friday night)
Dua Lipa was the first to be accused of lip-syncing by those watching coverage of the festival on the BBC on Friday night
The same issue occurred with Coldplay ‘s record breaking set on Saturday night, which saw frontman Chris Martin wow crowds after he brought on an old friend to perform with them
