Matty Healy’s mum Denise Welch now appears to be the owner of a Glastonbury ‘Brat’ flag with her name on it
Matty Healy‘s mum, Denise Welch, now owns a Glastonbury ‘Brat’ flag that has her name on it. Check it out below.
The flag was spotted around the site of the 2025 festival throughout the weekend, and seemed to celebrate both Charli XCX, who was headlining the Other Stage on Saturday (June 28) and The 1975, who were headlining the Pyramid Stage on Friday (27).
Showing the same luminous green background as Charli’s hit 2024 album, the same black font over the top reads ‘Denise Welch’ – referencing the actor and television personality, who is also the mother of The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. It then got even more attention when Charli XCX posted a photo of it on her Instagram page.
Now, it appears that the flag has found its way to Welch, and is now in her possession.
Welch shared the update on Instagram Stories yesterday (June 30), showing a photo she took of the flag, which has a bra attached to it. “I am proud to say that at 8.59 this morning, via Uber, I became the proud owner of the Denise Welch BRAT@glastofest [flag]!!” she wrote.
“It has a name-dropping journey: I was informed of its existence by Charli XCX. Then
Judi Love [fellow Loose Women panellist] asked if [comedian] Josh Widdicombe could get in touch!!”
From there, she shared another update, posting a letter from a person called Chris Scull, which explained how he made the flag and had wanted to gift it to her.
“With The 1975 headlining the world-famous Pyramid stage on Friday night and Charli XCX effectively headlining on the Saturday night, my friends and I felt it only right to celebrate the British cultural icon that links these two acts biologically and in friendship: you,” Scull wrote. “Welcome to Denise Welch’s Brat summer.”
“Now Denise, it cannot have escaped your attention that there is a bra attached to this flag. Let me explain how it got there. Minutes before The 1975 took to the stage, two exhausted girls pushed their way to the now-famous flag with a look of extreme disappointment on their faces,” he added. “They then explained that they had seen the flag from the back of the field and convinced each other that only Denise Welch herself could be holding a Brat-themed Denise Welch flag.
“Recovering from their dismay, they hatched a brilliant Plan B: one of them had in their possession an ‘old bra’ that they wished to throw at Matty, but given that getting within throwing distance was now impossible – would we instead like to attach the bra to the flag? Denise, of course we would.”
He then said that he hoped Welch would “enjoy the flag” and thanked her for “giving birth to the most enigmatic and charismatic pop star of his generation”.
Check out the letter in full in the picture below.
NME gave The 1975’s set a four-star review, with Andrew Trendell writing: “It was said that the band spent four times their Glasto fee on the production. It wasn’t as ambitious as The Talking Heads meets West End fever dream theatrics of the house they built for the ‘At Their Very Best’ tour, but it came with a car for Healy to sit in and largely lent itself to letting the songs hit with impact and without distraction. It’s about the music, but almost to a fault.”
As for Charli, during her headline set she celebrated ‘Brat’ by performing hits off the album like ‘365’, ‘Apple’, ‘Von Dutch’, ‘Girl, So Confusing’ and more. At the end of the set, she declared that ‘Brat Summer‘ may not be over after all, declaring that “it’s a forever thing”.
The show also saw Gracie Abrams present and on-screen to deliver the viral ‘Apple Dance‘.
After the set, she followed up her high octane Other Stage set with a surprise and intimate DJ set with her fiancé, The 1975 drummer George Daniel.
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