Heather Small has made it known she wants to return to Glastonbury in 2025.
The 59-year-old soul star and M People bandleader would like to celebrate her 60th birthday and three decades since she last performed at the world-famous music festival by returning to Worthy Farm and doing a duet.
She told The Mirror: “I’m going to be 60 next year, so I’ve got this kind of bucket list.
“I’m going to be supporting, Wet Wet Wet, I’ll be supporting Take That, I’ll be supporting Marti Pellow. But there’s some things that I want to do. Next year it will be like 30 years since I played Glastonbury, so I’d like to play Glastonbury again. And I think the whole thing where they’ve got the women coming and doing their thing, I think that I would slot quite easily into that kind of mould. Maybe do a duet.”
Heather insists it was extremely hard to “keep up the momentum” in her day, because there was no such thing as TikTok, and insists M People wasn’t the “hit machine” people think.
After speaking about the blow her old band Hot House were dealt of being “paid off” instead of releasing their album, she explained: “I got the opportunity again with M People and we just gave it our all.
“People think that it’s a hit machine and that you count on it. There’s no such thing, not for us. We just wrote and sung songs that we enjoyed and believed in and put them out there. Sometimes you’re on a roll, and you try just to keep up the momentum.
“And that’s what it is, because nobody can guarantee a hit, you know, there was nothing like this whole thing about followers and TikTok, you know. I joined the band in an old fashioned way. I answered an ad in a music paper.”
Heather was awarded an MBE on the King’s Birthday Honours list for her philanthropy.
She said: “It has been a humbling and slightly surreal experience to be recognised for my charity work.
“I am truly grateful that this honour will help me to continue to highlight those causes that are of immense importance to me.”