Foo Fighters revealed that they will be headlining Glastonbury Festival’s Friday night slot.
The band announced the news during a video message after scooping the award for best international band at the NME Awards at Brixton Academy, south London on Wednesday night .
Front man Dave Grohl said: "Thank you Chrissie for presenting this award to us. This is amazing, we love you very much, but we also love all of the fans for voting for our band for this award.
“We're very thankful and very happy - sorry we couldn't make it tonight, but we will be seeing you over the summer at some big outdoor festival that nobody knows we're playing. It's Glastonbury!
“So we'll see you at Glastonbury - thanks a lot everybody!"
The US rockers are the first big act to be announced. The news followers rumours that Skyfall singer Adele is in talks to headline on Saturday.
A source reportedly told the Daily Mirror: “Most of the acts have been booked for Glasto but Michael and daughter Emily Eavis are still trying to get Adele for Saturday night.
“She has been on their wishlist for a few years now. Negotiations are ongoing but this is the closest they have got to signing her.”
The official line-up is set to be announced on April 1, with the festival taking place from June 24-28 at Worthy Farm, Somerset.
