Block9 reveals its Glastonbury Festival 2025 plans

Block9, Glas­ton­bury Festival’s nightlife cen­tre­point, has revealed its 2025 line-up and plans.

Its usu­al slate of stages and night­clubs return, with LGBTQ+ venues The NYC Down­low and The Meat Rack fea­tur­ing along with audio­vi­su­al are­na IICON and the free rave spir­it chan­nelling stage Genosys.

The NYC Down­low will see debuts from the likes of Blitz Club’s BASHK­KA, Lon­don DJ & broad­cast­er Helé­na Star, who will play along­side sets from Down­low res­i­dents Grace Sands and Pro­sumer, and oth­er returnees includ­ing Gerd Jan­son and Horse Meat Disco’s Luke Howard. Stage per­for­mances will be led once again by Jon­ny Woo’s drag crew Maude Adams & All Those Children.

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The venue’s back room The Meat Rack, which was enlarged to dou­ble its pre­vi­ous size last year, will host sets from the likes of Seth Trox­ler, NIKS, Nabi­hah Iqbal, Ado­nis’ Shay Malt and more.

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of 2024’s NYC Down­low day par­ty, there will be an enlarged block par­ty dur­ing the day­time on Sat­ur­day kick­ing off at 2pm, which will take place across The NYC Down­low and Genosys. Top­ping the bill is Chica­go house music orig­i­na­tor Der­rick Carter, who will make his Down­low debut as part of a Clas­sic Music Com­pa­ny 30^th birth­day par­ty, while at Genosys Barcelona-based LGBTQ+ crew MAR­I­C­AS’ co-head ISAbel­la will play with Han­nah Hol­land, Leonce and others.

Dystopi­an audio­vi­su­al are­na IICON, which fea­tures a giant head sculp­ture that ref­er­ences our hyper-con­nect­ed post-truth age, will host a live set from Detroit elec­tro and tech­no pio­neer­ing group Cybotron on the Fri­day – head­ed up by Juan Atkins – as well as Para­noid Lon­don. DJ sets will include Hessle Audio boss Pear­son Sound and the elu­sive Two Shell, while Sunday’s clos­ing par­ty will be led by jun­gle and drum & bass roy­al­ty DJ Storm and Nia Archives.

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Genosys will see a three-way b2b set from Peach x Saoirse x Mox­ie, with the final night pay­ing trib­ute to the ori­gins of acid house, with sets from Justin Strauss, Craig Richards and Felix Dickinson.

This year will also fea­ture an instal­la­tion from art and activism crew Led By Don­keys, in line with Block9’s protest, par­ty and coun­ter­cul­ture ethos. As with each year, it will also be rais­ing mon­ey for char­i­ta­ble caus­es through the NYC Downlow’s mous­tache scheme and more. This year’s part­ners will be HIV pre­ven­tion activists PrEP­ster, Med­ical Aid for Pales­tini­ans (MAP), Cri­sis, Human Dig­ni­ty Trust and Free­dom from Tor­ture.

See the full line-up below.

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