The Glastonbury Festival has been running for thirty-five years and the headliners are still unknown. Slade’s Noddy Holder is hoping to reunite the original band, billed as one of the most important British bands ever, in order to headline this year’s event. With a new album released last month, he’ll be looking forward to performing their best songs with his old friends once again on stage at Worthy Farm.
Slade’s Noddy Holder wants to reunite original band for Glastonbury. The band has been performing since the 60s and looks forward to playing together again.
Is it possible that Slade will perform at Glastonbury? (Photos courtesy of Getty)
Slade vocalist Noddy Holder has shown interest in reuniting the band’s original line-up for a performance at Glastonbury Festival.
Since their number one hit Merry Xmas Everybody in 1973, the band has become seasonal icons, but lead vocalist Noddy, 75, has his sights set on the coveted legends spot at Glastonbury.
The Walsall-born singer and actor said that he is eager to rejoin with original band members Jim Lea, Don Powell, and Dave Hill to perform the event after their break in 1992, but he is also realistic about the hurdles his proposal brings.
‘It would be fantastic if we could iron out our disagreements,’ Noddy said to The Sun. I believe we’d all have to take a separate coach. Alternatively, we’d have to each have our own changing room or trailer.
‘And maybe we’d have to put glass barriers on stage between us so there wouldn’t be any fisticuffs.’
Following their founding in Wolverhampton in 1966, the band had six number one singles and three number one albums.
In December 1973, Noddy Holder performs with Slade on Top Of The Pops (Picture: Getty)
(Photo: Brian Rasic/WireImage) Noddy noted that the reunion could be easier said than done.
According to The Mirror, the most current incarnation of Slade lost Dave when he claimed he was fired through ‘cold email’ from Don, which the band’s lone original surviving member challenged as ‘not factual.’
Bassist John Berry, who joined in 2003, singer and keyboardist Russell Keefe, who joined in 2019, and drummer Alex Bines, who joined in 2020, are the current members of Slade.
‘I believe it’ll be a long time before they start communicating again,’ Noddy said of Dave and Don’s present relationship. But that’s how rock ‘n’ roll bands work. If there isn’t one catastrophe, there will be another.’
Noddy Holder, Don Powell, Dave Hill, and Jim Lea, the original Slade line-up, perform on TV (photo: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns).
After a live-streamed event earlier this year during the epidemic and the postponement of what would have been its 50th anniversary event in 2020, the Glastonbury Festival is poised to return completely in 2022.
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Billie Eilish, the youngest solo artist ever to win the award, and Diana Ross, who is already scheduled to play in the coveted legends slot on Sunday, are among the headliners already booked for next year.
So maybe the Glastonbury Festival in 2023 for Slade?
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Slade’s Noddy Holder wants to reunite original band for Glastonbury. The original line-up of the band, which consisted of vocalist Dave Hill, guitarist/songwriter Gary “Noddy” Holder and drummer Don Powell, have not performed together since 1983. Reference: dave hill slade.
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