Glastonbury has announced its first swath of artists for this year’s festival at Worthy Farm from 21-25 June, with 83 acts confirmed in addition to the three headliners, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran.

Joining the headliners are a selection of pop and indie royalty – Katy Perry makes her Glastonbury debut, and Barry Gibb is taking the Sunday teatime “legend” slot that drew huge crowds for Dolly Parton in 2014 and Lionel Richie in 2015.

He is not the only legend on this year’s bill. The Jacksons make their Glastonbury debut, Chic return, country star Kris Kristofferson will appear, and the Can Project – featuring original Can members Irmin Schmidt and Malcolm Mooney – will be joined by special guests including Thurston Moore.

Lorde, whose second album is due this spring, had teased an appearance during a Radio 1 interview, saying she did “love a farm”, and she will indeed be down at Worthy Farm. On a bill featuring plenty of notable female artists, she is joined by Solange, Laura Marling and Haim, among many others.

Glastonbury 2017 poster Photograph: Glastonbury festival

For those seeking brooding darkness, the National and the xx lead the indie legions, with Warpaint, Sleaford Mods, Ride, Mark Lanegan and Alt-J also appearing. Rock fans – at a festival that traditionally does not embrace the heavy – get the chance to see Biffy Clyro and Royal Blood.

Grime day on the Silver Hayes stage was one of the highlights of last year’s festival, and that genre is strongly represented again this year, with appearances by Stormzy, Kano, Boy Better Know and grime godfathers Wiley and Dizzee Rascal.

Though there are no plans for Glastonbury to end, its future form has been clouded by uncertainty. The event is due one of its regular fallow years in 2018, and Worthy Farm’s owner, Michael Eavis, has spoken of the possibility of an alternative event at a different site, called Variety Bazaar, possibly in 2019 or 2021.

Emily Eavis, the festival’s organiser, remains confident that Glastonbury will return to Worthy Farm in 2019. “I think we’re most likely going to come back here in 2019 after the fallow year in 2018,” she told the Guardian in January. “Then 2020 is our 50th anniversary. And 2021, we may then do a show somewhere else, which we’re calling the Variety Bazaar. But none of this is set in stone.”

Michael Eavis has said the long-term plan is to put on Variety Bazaar every fifth year, in Glastonbury’s fallow year.

Both Eavises – as well as the 135,000 ticketholders, and the tens of thousands who work at the festival – will be hoping for more clement weather than last year, when heavy rain in the run-up to the event caused problems in the car parks, with a spillover effect in the form of massive traffic queues on the approaches to the site, as well as fields of mud on the event itself. Many stages kicked off late on the opening day, as woodchips were dispersed to make the area at the front of the stage safe for fans. Eavis said of the conditions: “I’ve never seen mud like it in my whole life.”

Full list of confirmed acts

Radiohead

Foo Fighters

Ed Sheeran

The xx

The National

Biffy Clyro

Katy Perry

Barry Gibb

Royal Blood

Stormzy

Chic

Major Lazer

Alt-J

Boy Better Know

Lorde

Solange

Run the Jewels

Laura Marling

Kris Kristofferson

The Jacksons

Emeli Sandé

Phoenix

First Aid Kit

Justice

Aanderson .Paak and the Free Nationals

Haim

Toots and the Maytals

Father John Misty

The Flaming Lips

Dizzee Rascal

Warpaint

BadBadNotGood

Metronomy

Annie Mac

Kano

Goldfrapp

Sleaford Mods

Kate Tempest

Wiley

Dynamo

The Can Project

Thundercat

The Avalanches

Clean Bandit

George Ezra

Glass Animals

The Courteeners

Sampha

DJ Shadow

London Grammar

Ride

Songhoy Blues

Little Dragon

Kaiser Chiefs

Wild Beasts

Angel Olsen

The Lemon Twigs

Nines

Moderat

Rag’n’Bone Man

Craig David

Circa Waves

Future Islands

Ani DiFranco

Nadia Rose

Shaggy

British Sea Power

Mark Lanegan

The Moonlandingz

Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes

Temples

Halsey

The Cinematic Orchestra

Tove Lo

Sasha and John Digweed

Joe Goddard

Boys Noize

Kurupt FM

Noisia

Declan McKenna

Loyle Carner

Lisa Hannigan

Birdy

Martha Wainwright

All We Are

Girl Ray

Busted

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Kiefer Sutherland

