The best 90s boyband Five would (and absolutely should) play Glastonbury 2025
Five have thrown their hat in the ring for Glastonbury 2025.
Scott Robinson, Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville, Abz Love, and Jason ‘J’ Brown are back together for the first time in 25 years and about to embark on a nationwide arena tour later this year.
A lot has changed in music over the last quarter of a century – CDs have become relics, boybands have grown into manbands and Glastonbury has finally embraced pop music.
Emily Eavis finally announced the first batch of acts heading to Worthy Farm today, with Olivia Rodrigo, The 1975 and Neil Young confirmed as Glastonbury 2025 headliners, while Charli XCX, Jade, and Scissor Sisters will be flying the flag for pop royalty.
Sugababes have shut down the West Holts and Avalon stages with their last two Glastonbury appearances, while the likes of McFly and Will Young have drawn in huge crowds.
Pop nostalgia has never been cooler and Five are about to ride that wave and then some. If anything, they make perfect sense to play Glastonbury 2025.
Ritchie told Metro: ‘If the stars aligned, yes [we’d love to play].’
J – who has returned to the band for the first time in 21 years – insisted: ‘We’d rock the living blah blah out of that.’
‘We’d absolutely kill it,’ said Scott. ‘They just need to catch up.’
Five famously performed with rock god Queen at the 2000 Brit Awards, joined on stage by Brian May and Roger Taylor to sing their cover of We Will Rock You.
Sean quipped: ‘Let’s get Brian involved as well.’
Emily Eavis, we’re looking at you…
Regardless, Five will be embarking on their 12-date nationwide tour around the UK this November, playing back-to-back bangers and all of their 11 top 10 singles.
As it stands, they can’t reveal too much other than ‘we are having it’ and ‘we’ll be singing Keep on Moving – you heard it hear first’.
Five UK Tour Dates
Tickets for Five’s reunion tour go on sale Friday, March 7, with pre-sale sign up open now.
The tour dates are:
November 11 – London The O2
October 31 – Brighton
November 1 – Bournemouth BIc
November 2 – Cardiff Utilita Arena
November 4 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
November 5 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
November 7 – Manchester AO Arena
November 8 – Leeds Arena
November 9 – Birmingham Utilita Arena
And, it sounds as though Jack Whitehall will get his wish after pleading with the band during Saturday night’s Brit Awards not to release any new music.
‘We have no big plans [for new music],’ says Ritchie. But he does have an idea.
‘If Calvin Harris picked up and said, “do you want to make a summer banger?” I’d love that.’
