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Arctic Monkeys 'gearing up to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage next year'

Arctic Monkeys will be headlining Glastonbury 2023, according to reports.

The band are said to be making a return to the world-famous festival - a decade after their last appearance.

The boys have reportedly "already started preparations for the epic gig" and their set is "going to be bigger and better".

“The lads have signed on the dotted line and will return to the Pyramid Stage next June," a source The Sun.

If the band take to the stage, it will be the third time that the boys have played the festival.

“The band are in the process of putting together their team and are working on making their performance one of Glastonbury’s most memorable,” the source added.

Alex Turner, Nick O'Malley, Jamie Cook and Matt Helders are set to be performing at the festival (Getty Images)

On Friday last week, the group shared their new tour dates - noticeably leaving the dates that Glastonbury takes place empty.

Ten years after they made their debut, they played on the Friday night in 2013.

After the release of their seventh studio album, The Car, which is due out on October 21, Alex Turner and the gang will play dates in Manchester, Dublin, Glasgow and London.

The album will include Mirrorball and I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am and Sculptures Of Anything Goes.

It will be the band's third time of playing at Glastonbury (Getty Images)

Alex serenaded a couple during their first dance at their wedding last weekend.

The frontman belted out ballads for The Last Shadow Puppets bassist Zach Dawes and his partner Molly as they took to the dance floor.

The band recently played in New York for an intimate "phone-free" concert in Brooklyn.

Gig goers were asked to pop their mobile phones in specially designed pouches, which can only be opened at the end of the concert.

The band's seventh studio album will be released in October (Getty Images)

In his first interview about their new album, Alex told Big Issue that the band had come "back to earth" after their divisive "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

“I think we’ve got closer to a better version of a more dynamic overall sound with this record,” he told The Big Issue.

“The strings on this record come in and out of focus and that was a deliberate move and hopefully everything has its own space. There’s time the band comes to the front and then the strings come to the front.

The band are planning on making this performance the best yet - according to sources (Getty Images)

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The release of the album comes 20 years after they first formed the band as teenagers in 2002.

“You have to follow your instincts in the same way you did in the first place,” he said. “In that way, it does all feel like it’s connected to us 20 years ago in the garage when it was pure instinct,” he said.

The Mirror has approached Glastonbury Festival for comment.

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