RUSSIAN punk band Pussy Riot will appear at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, according to the event’s full 2015 lineup.
The anti-Putin activists will appear twice during the festival, on the Park Stage on June 17 and the Left Field on June 28.
Burt Bacharach, The Proclaimers, The Cribs and Wilko Johnson have also been added to the bill.
They join Pyramid Stage headliners Foo Fighters, Kanye West and The Who.
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were released from a Russian prison last year after 21 months, having been convicted of hooliganism over protests in Moscow.
They were among five members of the radical group to stage an obscenity-laced “punk prayer” in the city’s biggest cathedral.
Singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg, who hosts Glastonbury’s Left Field, tweeted, “Pleased to announce that Nadya and Masha from Pussy Riot will be speaking at Left Field @GlastoFest 1.30pm Friday.”
The pair recently appeared as themselves on the hit Netflix political series “House of Cards,” where they staged a protest against a fictional Russian president, the Putin-esque Viktor Petrov, at a dinner party. (SD-Agencies)
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