The 1975 at Glastonbury 2025: 5 Best Moments From The Band’s Stunning Headline Set

In a callback to their history, during “The Sound,” they referenced their 2017 BRITs performance (and the song’s music video), which were interspersed with baby-pink visuals showing negative messages about the band. Critics’ quotes such as “out of tune”, “shallow” and “punch-your-TV obnoxious” lit up the screens – all lifted from reviews of their debut album – before Healy began reading them out himself. “Unconvincing emo lyrics,” he shouted gleefully, throwing his head back and laughing.

In 2013, with a public image little more developed than that of being a chaotic ‘internet boyfriend’, almost every review marvelled at Healy’s penchant for singing about drugs. Not least on early single “Chocolate” – a song about fleeing the police with a stash of marijuana – where the sprightly melody soars at the expense of his enunciation. They visually played into this joke early on, with misspelled lyrics running on loop across the screens.

“We don’t want our legacy to be one of politics, we want it to be that of love and friendship,” declared Healy as the show drew to a close. It was a curious statement to make, not least underneath the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo that adorns the top of the Pyramid Stage this year – and against a backdrop of geopolitical unrest, at a festival which is platforming artists (such as rap trio Kneecap) with strong positions on a range of global issues.

The 1975, meanwhile, have long been associated with speaking out on climate and gun violence issues, but on Saturday, Healy said that going forward, he and the band are making a “conscious decision” to step back from politics. Only time will tell.

Mere seconds after Healy made a speech about his changing the way he approached activism, the band charged forward into protest song “Love It If We Made It” – a curiosu choice, certainly, but one that unleashed four minutes of magnetic, righteous pop melodrama. Railing against social ills, the track remains a formidable cut, one that produces a towering wall of sound: chanting and intense, as maximalist a noise as The 1975 has ever produced.

Having not released any new material since 2022’s Being Funny In A Foreign Language, Glastonbury could have been a prime opportunity to preview the band’s next era. Instead, they drew largely from their first three records, mixing some of their biggest hits (“Chocolate,” “Sex”, “Love Me”) with lesser-performed fan favourites (“I Couldn’t Be More In Love”). Given the feast on offer, few cared about what they were not hearing.