Glastonbury 2024 live: Shania Twain to take on Legends Slot ahead of SZA headline performance

30/06/2024

Coldplay open with Yellow in record-breaking headline set on Pyramid Stage

Shania Twain will take on the coveted Legends Slot on the final day of Glastonbury, as R&B artist SZA prepares to close this year’s festival.

Football fans will likely be trying to work out how they can tune into England’s game against Slovakia in the Euro 2024 championships, which will kick off just as the country-pop superstar ends her set.

On Saturday night, rock band Coldplay headlined the Pyramid Stage for a record-breaking fifth time, after pop star Dua Lipa dazzled the crowds on Friday (28 June).

In a career-spanning set, the band performed a number of their biggest hits including “Yellow”, “Paradise”, “The Scientist”, “Fix You” and “Clocks”, while also bringing out a number of surprise guests including rapper Little Simz, singer Laura Mvula, plus Back to the Future star Michael J Fox.

Across the weekend, an eclectic lineup will perform on the sprawling festival’s various stages.

Here is the full Glastonbury 2024 lineup and set times.

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When is SZA performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and how to watch

This will mark SZA’s debut performance at Glastonbury. The 34-year-old R&B artist, whose real name is Solána Imani Rowe, began her music career in 2011, after co-writing hits including “Consideration” for Rihanna’s 2016 album Anti. SZA will close the festival on Sunday with her performance from 9:30pm-11:15pm. Her set on the Pyramid Stage will follow Janelle Monae from 5:45-6:45om and Burna Boy from 7:30-8:30pm. Country-pop legend Shania Twain will perform that afternoon in this year’s Legends Slot from 3:45-5pm.

When is SZA performing at Glastonbury and how to watch

Everything you need to know about the ‘Kill Bill’ star’s performance

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How to watch the BBC’s live Glastonbury Festival 2024 coverage

Glastonbury 2024: How to watch the BBC’s live coverage

Broadcaster has unveiled its coverage plan for this year’s festival at Worthy Farm

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Coldplay review, Glastonbury 2024: Chris Martin and co deliver the spectacle of a lifetime

If archaeologists ever excavate the leyline reputed to flow beneath the Pyramid Stage field, it will likely look like this. A shimmering ocean of 200,000 luminous neon specks, undulating across the vale to the sound of twinkling synth rock.

Tonight’s spectacular preview comes courtesy of the vast array of LED wristbands handed out across the site and waved aloft for 2024’s reluctant record-breakers. As much as Chris Martin copiously thanks “the greatest city on earth” for the chance to play, Glastonbury is lucky to have him.

Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour hits Glastonbury almost three years in, having been through the UK twice already. The band reportedly had to be talked into a record-breaking fifth Glasto headline show that might reasonably be considered overkill. The Elton-rivalling crowd who make the utterly glorious “Viva La Vida” one of the most unifying and celebratory moments ever to emanate from this hallowed stage, though, are very much up for being overkilled.

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Band offer up one of the most unifying and celebratory moments ever to emanate from this hallowed stage

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Glastonbury Festival 2024 lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage

Glastonbury 2024 lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage

Fans can now work out any tricky clashes between sets, and which stages their favourite artists are playing

Lydia Spencer-Elliott30 June 2024 13:30

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The touching reason Coldplay played with Michael J Fox at Glastonbury

Coldplay have revealed the sweet reason they brought Michael J Fox on stage at Glastonbury. Martin had teased Fox’s appearance earlier on in the show, referencing the song “Johnny B Goode”, which Fox’s Back to the Future character, Marty McFly, performs in the first film, released in 1985.

Addressing Fox’s involvement in Coldplay’s headline set, Martin said: “The main reason why we’re in a band is because of watching Back to the Future.”

He thanked Fox, calling him “our hero forever and one of the most amazing people on Earth”.

The touching reason Coldplay played with Michael J Fox at Glastonbury

Poignant moment brought things full circle for British band

Lydia Spencer-Elliott30 June 2024 13:00

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Dua Lipa addresses incorrect claims she mimed her headline set

As Dua Lipa performed her songs, including “Training Season”, “New Rules” and “Levitating”, on Friday night many viewers watching her set from their sofas at home accused the singer of miming her vocals. Dua Lipa was asked about this backstage at Glastonbury while enjoying downtime with her boyfriend, the actor Callum Turner. After a MailOnline reporter asked her about the claims, the singer replied: “I don’t mime.”

It seems the reason that people believe Dua Lipa wasn’t singing live is due to a lip-sync delay, which occurred during BBC’s broadcast of the performance on some services.

Dua Lipa addresses claims she mimed her Glastonbury 2024 headline set

Pop star bluntly replied to false accusations while backstage

Lydia Spencer-Elliott30 June 2024 12:30

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Chris Martin asks Glastonbury crowd to send love to Israel and Palestine

Chris Martin asked the Glastonbury crowd to send love to Israel and Palestine during Coldplay’s headline set. After asking the 100,000-strong crowd to put their phones away for “A Sky Full of Stars”, Martin said: “Just raise your hands like this and turn towards the main stage like this. Now, we’re gonna send a big Glastonbury love thing. OK, for five seconds, we’re gonna send it out.” Martin, advocating for world peace, then said: “You can send it to anyone: you can send it to your grandmother, you can send it to Israel, you can send it to Palestine, you can send it to Myanmar. You can send it to Ukraine, you can send it to beautiful Russia. You can send it anywhere – you can send it all over the world from Glastonbury.”

Chris Martin asks Glastonbury crowd to send love to Israel and Palestine

‘We’re sending this out as a beacon of togetherness in a time when it might seem like that’s impossible,’ frontman said

Lydia Spencer-Elliott30 June 2024 11:53

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‘Are you not entertained?’ Russell Crowe’s shockingly good set epitomises the spirit of Glastonbury

The ‘Gladiator’ star and former busker charged enthusastically through covers of Dire Straits and Johnny Cash, along with some original songs, on Glastonbury’s Acoustic Stage. Louis Chilton was charmed

Russell Crowe’s shockingly entertaining set epitomises the spirit of Glastonbury

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Dua Lipa performs 'Levitating' during Glastonbury headline set

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Dua Lipa review, Glastonbury 2024: More than mere pop spectacle

Dua Lipa saw it coming. The fireworks and flags and pulsing purple lights, the teenagers on tiptoes scowling at strange adults as they fling their arms in the air like money. When she was a girl, the 28-year-old born to Albanian-Kosovan parents, tells us midway into her debut Glastonbury headline show, she wrote it down – “I will headline Glastonbury” – manifesting the sleeper hits and critical acclaim and now routine awards and No 1s that made this moment inevitable.

“I was really specific,” she adds after a shy laugh. “I said I wanted to headline the Pyramid Stage on a Friday night, because then I knew I could party for the next two days.” Her voice cracks as she describes the magic – “the power” – of commanding this seemingly infinite crowd. “Little me would just be beside herself right now.”

The growing Dua Lipa empire – now encompassing an acting career, a book club, a burgeoning media platform and a podcast featuring giants of high and low culture – shows no signs of slowing, particularly now she has bought back the rights to her music catalogue. Yet behind the cultural dominance, Dua Lipa is as enigmatic as she is ubiquitous. Her arrestingly vague persona (along, perhaps, with her admirable support for geopolitical causes) has stopped her transcending bankable fame to become a true nation’s sweetheart.