Glastonbury live updates: Dua Lipa stage time, lineup, BBC ...

A few lead critics including the BBC’s Mark Savage and Pete Paphides tweeting that they couldn’t get into Sugababes earlier due to those huge crowds.

“They’ve closed the entire area around the West Holts stage because of the amount of people who want to see Sugababes,” Pete writes.

“Same happened for their Avalon stage set in 2022. It really needs to be more widely acknowledged that they’re one of the toppermost adored groups of their era.”

Mark says: “Once again, my ambitions to see Sugababes at Glastonbury have been thwarted. It’s one-in and one-out at West Holts right now, and the queue is huge. They should do the legend slot next year.”

Again, you’d think Glasto organisers would have learnt by now...

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 18:29

Patrick Smith is at the Pyramid Stage watching PJ Harvey and says it’s like “night and day” in comparison to the huge crowds drawn to Sugababes on West Holts earlier. “So much space, basically empty,” he says. “Everything else totally rammed. Feels very significant in terms of who’s attending now.”

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 18:26

The Vaccines have always, to their credit, been a band with an immediately identifiable sound. The English indie rockers have put out five full albums since their zeitgeisty young-millennial classic, 2011’s What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?, but that sound has, for better and worse, never really changed.

“Post Break-up Sex”, “Wetsuit”, “If You Wanna”; the Vaccines’ Woodsies performance was a set that really came alive when they played the oldies (such as they are), and the group still sound generally crisp and energetic. When they dipped into more recent fare, you could feel the energy in the crowd start to fray. Overall: pretty good!

Louis Chilton28 June 2024 18:21

Extreme overcrowding was easily avoidable, but at least on stage, the band are able to have a blast, writes Adam White

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 18:16

You join us in pursuit of Friday’s Glasto grafters. Some acts copter in and out inside the hour to avoid sight or scent of a long drop. Others set out to play to every punter here, no matter which stage they’re trying to sleep at.

Stornoway crushing their formidable and fantastic folk catalogue into a truncated half hour on the running-late acoustic stage makes for a major Glastonbury moment, ranging from the devastating (Fuel Up) to the delightful (Dig The Mountain, Zorbing).

Then they’re off to the Wishing Well for the first of two more sets today, where they will no doubt further (ahem) storn it. Meanwhile, having shut down all roads to Strummerville yesterday and (we hear) played Greenpeace as Mr T, Frank Turner hits the Avalon stage declaring himself “among my people”.

Solo and acoustic, he nonetheless rocks tracks from new album Undefeated and rousing rebel folk hits with the sort of punk conviction that once shook Yeoman’s Bridge. All those TBAs? Don’t rule this guy out.

Mark Beaumont28 June 2024 18:00

Glasto, sort it out! The same thing as last time: Sugababes are on too small a stage, so West Holts has apparently been closed off (according to my source on the ground) due to overcrowding. What a mare.

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 17:51

You have to admire Dua Lipa’s steely sense of purpose. Back in 2017, when she was working on her self-titled debut album, she told her A&R Joe Kentish that she planned to work with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on her third album. Kentish laughed and told the emerging star to hold her horses. But seven years later, here she is with her third album, Radical Optimism, and here’s Parker, playing and producing on seven of the 11 tracks.

This artistic conviction has been one of the Albanian-British artist’s driving traits from day one. We heard it in the uncompromising regime of her 2017 single “New Rules”, in the brisk edicts of “Don’t Start Now” (2019) and again on “Houdini”, the advance single for this record, on which she throws down the gauntlet to a potential lover with the line: “Prove you’ve got the right to please me.” Urgent, upbeat, demanding and funky, Lipa is a finger-snap personified throughout Radical Optimism.

She takes control from the off. A flurry of Seventies synth-flutes open “End of an Era”; that trademarked rubber-band-bass sends her striding onto a dancefloor to take the initiative. “Hey/ What’s your name?/ Come with me,” she demands. Parker’s dropped in some live percussion – the shimmer of a hi-hat, some bells and a chime – into the mix, contributing a more organic vibe to Lipa’s muscular brand of disco pop.

Helen Brown28 June 2024 17:15

Dua Lipa is headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury at 10pm tonight, and is set to perform a number of her biggest hits.

While these aren’t confirmed, we’re likely to hear songs such as “Training Season” and “Houdini”, from her latest album Radical Optimism, as well as earlier singles like “Levitating”, “Dance the Night”, “Don’t Start Now”, “New Rules”, and her Calvin Harris collaboration, “One Kiss”.

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 17:08

“This might be news to you but I’m a socialist,” US performance poet and rapper Noname giggles at the top of her West Holts set. “I don’t fuck with billionaires.”

This is a funny, lovely time, lyrical urgency floating over sweet, jazzy grooves. There are shades of Q-Tip and Andre 3000 to her flow, but a ruthless, unapologetic political vision that feels distinctly her own — establishment figures like Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar are called out for their participation in the capitalist rat race; there is acknowledgement of the charged, complex specificities of a Black woman performing here to a majority white-liberal audience.

“Why are you [cheering] just because I mentioned my race — I could be a horrible person,” she jokes. Sort of.

The sun finally breaks through the clouds towards the end of her set. She yelps with joy. “England is cold! Gloomy gloomy gloom. I wore my yellow shoes so the sun would come out.” It’s infectious.

Adam White28 June 2024 16:50

Roisin O'Connor28 June 2024 16:40