Glastonbury 2025: The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands to play solo DJ set
Producer and DJ, Tom Rowlands, of The Chemical Brothers, is set to play a DJ set at this year’s Glastonbury festival.
Rowlands forms one half of the electronic duo alongside Ed Simons, but at this year’s festival, he will take to the decks alone. As part of Bugged Out’s 30th anniversary celebrations, Rowlands will appear at Stonebridge Bar in The Park on Friday, June 27th.
“We are thrilled to announce Tom Rowlands will be joining our 30 Years of Bugged Out session in the Stonebridge, The Park at Glastonbury on the Friday night,” reads an announcement post.
Rowlands also released two new songs on June 12th. According to an Instagram post announcing the new music, “‘All Night’ delivers a different, unexpected rhythm, finding Rowlands deviating to a searing tempo, embracing the analogue experimentation at the heart of his work.” In contrast, the second offering “‘We Are Nothing’ trips through a decades-long obsession and subversion of house music and psychedelia alike.”
Other artists headlining The Park will be Anohni and the Johnsons, Caribou and The Maccabees. Self Esteem, who recently released her third album, Compliments Please, will also take to the stage, as well as Gary Numan, who is making his first-ever appearance at Glastonbury this summer, and Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons.
Rowlands is likely to take the TBA slot that still exists at 01:30am to 02:45am following Erol Alkan B2B Fall Forward (Bugged Out Classics). Elsewhere on the “big disco” line-up is a reggae set from Modeselektor, an indie sleaze offering from Perel, a DJ set from Fcukers, and more.
Other Glastonbury slots are yet to be announced. The festival announced the full lineup and stage times last week. Notably, a handful of high-profile gaps in the set times still need to be filled, including a mysterious band called Patchwork performing on the Pyramid Stage on June 28th in an incredibly prominent slot.
Indie-rockers HAIM have also seemingly confirmed a surprise set at The Park. “We love The Park Stage,” Alana said during a recent interview on BBC Radio 2 when probed about the festival. “The Park Stage is our favourite, ’cause that was like the first time we came to Glastonbury, we got to play The Park Stage. It felt like a movie.”
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