Glastonbury 2024 live: SZA closes festival after Coldplay and Dua Lipa headline performances
R&B artist SZA closed Glastonbury Festival 2024, after Shania Twain took on the coveted Legends Slot.
The Grammy-winning star appeared to have a much smaller audience than earlier headliners Coldplay and Dua Lipa, as revellers rushed home to beat traffic and amid four other major stage clashes.
Earlier, pop-punk singer Avril Lavigne tore up the Other Stage with a set comprising hits such as “Sk8r Boi” and “My Happy Ending”, while Shania Twain suffered with sound issues on the Legends Slot.
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” and “Clocks”, while also bringing out a number of surprise guests including rapper Little Simz, singer Laura Mvula, and Back to the Future star Michael J Fox.
Here is the full Glastonbury 2024 lineup and set times.
Glastonbury 2024 highlights
SZA opens Glastonbury headline set to sparse crowd amid major set clashes
Avril Lavigne review, Glastonbury 2024: Another artist plonked on far too small a stage
Shania Twain’s Legends Slot draws complaints over ‘sound issues’
Emily Eavis ‘already in talks’ with acts for Glastonbury Festival 2025
Shania Twain review, Glastonbury Festival 2024: Euphoric Legends set of relentless hits overcomes sound issues
SZA review, Glastonbury 2024: One of the sparsest sets in recent memory frequently leaves you breathless
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SZA’s Pyramid Stage headliner frequently leaves you breathless - review
‘Are you not entertained?’ Russell Crowe’s shockingly good set epitomises the spirit of Glastonbury
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The ‘Gladiator’ star and former busker charged enthusiastically 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
HEADLINER REVIEW: Coldplay review, Glastonbury 2024: Chris Martin and co deliver the spectacle of a lifetime
23:41 , Roisin O'Connor
Coldplay deliver the spectacle of a lifetime at Glastonbury 2024 - review
HEADLINER REVIEW: Dua Lipa review, Glastonbury 2024: More than mere pop spectacle
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Dua Lipa review, Glastonbury 2024: More than mere pop spectacle
SZA helps rescue fans while dressed as a fairy during Glastonbury headline set
23:16 , Roisin O'Connor
SZA helps rescue fans while dressed as a fairy during Glastonbury headline set
Little Simz performs at 2024 Glastonbury
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SZA rescues fans while dressed as an actual fairy
22:50 , Roisin O'Connor
That was lovely just now: SZA, dressed as a fairy, paused her set to make sure security made their way to some fans who needed help.
Talk about a fairy godmother.
Emily Eavis ‘already in talks’ with acts for Glastonbury Festival 2025
22:41 , Roisin O'Connor
Emily Eavis ‘already in talks’ with acts for Glastonbury Festival 2025
Readers, I am a bit mad at Glastonbury right now
22:38 , Roisin O'Connor
OK, so obviously I have absolutely zero clue about the logistics required to curate a festival. I can only imagine it’s a right pain in the arse. BUT, I just cannot get my head around the fact that organisers lumped three major artists (Janelle Monae, Burna Boy, SZA) on the Pyramid Stage on a Sunday with major shows happening on the other stages. The fact that all three artists are Black isn’t a good look, either, given Glastonbury’s history of booking overwhelming white headliners.
It also doesn’t help that SZA is currently blowing Dua Lipa’s set out of the water, regardless of crowd size. She’s got that star wattage that Dua lacks no matter how hard she tries. The R&B singer has charisma to spare, not to mention those sublime vocals.
Cyndi Lauper review, Glastonbury 2024: A celebratory reminder of a career well spent
22:21 , Roisin O'Connor
Cyndi Lauper’s Glasto set was a celebratory reminder of a career well spent - review
SZA opens Glastonbury headline set to sparse crowd amid major set clashes
22:15 , Roisin O'Connor
SZA opens Glastonbury headline set to sparse crowd amid major set clashes
Coldplay open with Yellow in record-breaking headline set on Pyramid Stage
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Here’s a (not great) screengrab of the BBC livestream showing those thinning crowds at the Pyramid Stage
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Our reporter/critic Louis Chilton says he’s seen a “surprising number” of people leaving the festival site.
‘We’ve got to keep fighting’: Simon Pegg, Sophie Duker and Greenpeace on Glastonbury’s climate activism
21:41 , Roisin O'Connor
As the general election looms, activists are campaigning harder than ever to get MPs to wake up to the climate crisis. Mark Beaumont reports from the Greenpeace field at Glastonbury
Simon Pegg, Sophie Duker and Greenpeace on Glastonbury’s climate activism
SZA is opening to a woefully thin crowd on the Pyramid Stage
21:39 , Roisin O'Connor
This is my... eighth? year of covering Glastonbury for The Independent and I don’t recall ever seeing such a small crowd for a Pyramid Stage headliner.
Despite selling out four O2 Arena shows last year, SZA was already expected to draw less of an audience for her Sunday spot, in part simply because people tend to head home on the Sunday night to avoid traffic.
But this is still somewhat embarassing (for Glastonbury -- SZA has absolutely no reason to be embarassed). They’ve put her up against four pretty sizeable clashes: The National on the Other Stage, Justice on West Holts, James Blake on Woodsies and London Grammar on the Park Stage, all either at the same time or within 30 minutes of SZA’s set.
I’m willing to bet a lot of people who skipped her show will come to regret it...
Coldplay bring Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna on stage for Glastonbury duet
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The Palestinian-Chilean singer who joined Coldplay on stage at Glastonbury
Don’t know Glastonbury headliner SZA? Here’s why you should
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Who is Glastonbury headliner SZA - and how do you pronounce her name?
SZA to close Glastonbury 2024
21:12 , Roisin O'Connor
Glastonbury 2024 drawsto a close on Sunday night, after a packed weekend of live performances and debates ahead of next week’s general election.
The annual festival at Worthy Farm will leave festival-goers with lingering questions about the fate of both the music industry and the UK, as organiser Emily Eavis defended what many deemed to be an underwhelming lineup.
Some argued that booking Coldplay, returning to headline for a record-breaking fifth time, was a cop-out. Others scratched their heads over SZA, arguably a much bigger star in her native US than here in the UK. Dua Lipa’s latest album, meanwhile, had failed to produce the kind of megawatt hit that promised to get the Pyramid Stage crowd energised.
The Independent’s critics disagreed with that consensus. Covering the 28-year-old Lipa’s set, Jazz Monroe praised the pop singer for her moments of “cheeky theatricality” and a celebration of alternative culture that saw her bring out a “comically low-key guest”, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, who produced her latest record Radical Optimism.
Mark Beaumont gave Coldplay’s Saturday night show five stars, moved by a surprise appearance by Back to the Future star Michael J Fox during a poignant rendition of “Fix You”, as well as guest performances from Laura Mvula and rapper Little Simz.
Some sets were blighted by sound issues. Glastonbury did a disservice to two of its veteran performers, Shania Twain and Cyndi Lauper, as both artists appeared to be affected by technical difficulties during their own performances on the Pyramid Stage.
In the Legends Slot on Sunday, country-pop star Twain was seen fiddling with her mic box and in-ears, as she gestured repeatedly to the sound crew. However, this was resolved when she was practically drowned out by the euphoric singalong to “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” as the closing song in her set.
Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg wave to crowd as Coldplay headline at Glastonbury
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The sweet reason Coldplay played with Michael J Fox at Glastonbury
20:41 , Jacob Stolworthy
Coldplay have revealed the sweet reason they brought Michael J Fox on stage at Glastonbury.
On Saturday (29 June), the British band became the first act to headline the festival for the fifth time, surpassing a record they previously set alongside The Cure.
During their performance, which The Independent hailed as a “spectacle of a lifetime”, frontman Chris Martin introduced several surprise stars, including Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna.
But it was the unexpected inclusion of Back to the Future star Fox that stole the show. The actor, who has Parkinson’s disease, received a rapturous response from the 100,000-strong crowd, and played guitar alongside the band for two tracks: “Humankind” and “Fix You”.
The touching reason Coldplay played with Michael J Fox at Glastonbury
Dua Lipa addresses accusations of lip-syncing after Glastonbury headline performance
20:21 , Roisin O'Connor
Dua Lipa has addressed false claims she mimed her Glastonbury 2024 headline set.
The British pop star was the first headliner of this year’s festival, impressing the crowd with her Pyramid Stage set on Friday night (Friday 28 June) at Worthy Farm, one day before Coldplay graced the stage for their record-breaking fifth headline set to a 100,000-strong crowd.
However, as Dua Lipa performed her songs, including “Training Season”, “New Rules” and “Levitating”, many viewers watching her set from their sofas at home accused the singer of miming her vocals.
Dua Lipa addresses accusations of lip-syncing after Glastonbury headline performance
‘Hero’ Louis Tomlinson brings TV to Glastonbury for England v Slovakia: ‘You are the god of this festival’
20:14 , Roisin O'Connor
Louis Tomlinson became the unexpected hero of many a Glastonbury attendee, after he brought a TV set to Worthy Farm to play the England v Slovakia Euro 2024 game.
Football fans with tickets to the Worthy Farm festival were gutted after organisers announced that they wouldn’t be showing the tense match on-site, due to fears that it would clash with Sunday’s performances.
But the former One Direction star and solo artist apparently took matters into his own hands, and was seen commanding the remote as England went onto win 2-1 and advance to the quarter-finals.
Tomlinson, a noted rock fan who was spotted enjoying live music performances across the weekend, was pictured sitting directly in front of the screen while surrounded by fellow England supporters.
He celebrated as Jude Bellingham took the match to extra time in the 95th minute, then again when Harry Kane scored England’s second goal that secured their victory.
‘Hero’ Louis Tomlinson brings TV to Glastonbury so fans can watch England v Slovakia
Sugababes review, Glastonbury 2024: Shoving them on West Holts was misguided at best, irresponsible at worst
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The Sugababes’ set at Glastonbury, an unexpected must-see for, anecdotally at least, absolutely every person with a ticket, quickly became its own kind of hell. Signs near the West Holts stage urged latecomers to stay away due to overcrowding. Unverified reports say there were people fainting in the crowd.
This was pointless, easily avoidable chaos. In terms of current chart success or creativity at this particular moment in time, Sugababes may not be Pyramid stage material, but for many punters here they tick numerous boxes: nostalgia, bangers, brand recognition. Shoving them over on West Holts is misguided at best, irresponsible at worst.
On stage at least, the band appear to be having a blast. There’s something incredibly affecting about seeing this trio smile.
Full review:
Sugababe’s Glastonbury stage was misguided at best, irresponsible at worst review
Avril Lavigne review, Glastonbury 2024: Another artist plonked on far too small a stage
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This is a brilliant show, but Glastonbury must learn lessons from a year that has vastly underestimated the appeal of pop nostalgia, writes Adam White
Shania Twain review, Glastonbury Festival 2024: Euphoric Legends set of relentless hits overcomes sound issues
19:21 , Roisin O'Connor
Shania Twain overcomes sound issues with a euphoric Glastonbury performance - review
Alvvays review, Woodsies, Sunday at Glastonbury
19:09 , Mark Beaumont
Shoegaze - that mystery wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum enveloped in a vast amount of hypnogogic drug noise - appears to have finally been solved.
With their last (third) album Blue Rev, Canada’s Alvvays struck the perfect balance between oceanic pedalboard alchemy and alt-pop hooks, and they bring several cathedrals’ worth to Woodsies on Sunday afternoon.
It’s a glorious noise they make, whether weaving vast pop dreamscapes on “Belinda Says”, punking out (vaporously) on “Pomeranian Spinster” or spying on your saddest teenage daydream on “Dreams Tonight”.
It’s still “Archie, Marry Me” - the ultimate indie first dance - that lifts the tent but Molly Rankin’s sublime troupe are fast becoming the finest alt-pop band in this or any other dimension.
VIDEO: Camila Cabello performs at Glastonbury
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Avril Lavigne is giving the crowd everything on the Other Stage!
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What a blast of pure nostalgia as rock queen Avril Lavigne tears up the Other Stage with a setlist of her biggest and best songs. I’m living for this furious rendition of “Sk8r Boi” and so are the crowd.
Glastonbury Festival 2024 lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage
18:41 , Roisin O'Connor
Hundreds of other artists have been performing across Glastonbury weekend, with the set times allowing fans to work out whether they’ll have time to dash from one stage to another in order to see their favourites.
There are also a few spots reserved for surprise acts, including the “TBA” marked at 6pm on Saturday at the Woodsies stage, who were later confirmed to be rock band Kasabian. Previous surprise artists at Glastonbury have included The Killers, Radiohead and the Foo Fighters.
Here are the set times for the main stages across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, per the Glastonbury website.
Glastonbury 2024 lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage
The Last Dinner Party review, Glastonbury 2024: Ambitious band deliver a thrilling set on the Other Stage
18:35 , Roisin O'Connor
Relentless touring has honed them into a fine live act, bound together by the considerable prowess, poise and star wattage of frontwoman Abigail Morris
The Last Dinner Party deliver a thrilling set on the Other Stage at Glastonbury
Emily Eavis ‘already in talks’ with acts for Glastonbury Festival 2025
18:32 , Roisin O'Connor
Eavis spoke to the Glastonbury Free Press as the final day of the 2024 edition got underway, with sets from Shania Twain, Janelle Monae and Paloma Faith, ahead of R&B singer SZA’s headline slot.
Emily Eavis ‘already in talks’ with acts for Glastonbury Festival 2025
From Palestine to Gail Platt - The flags of Glastonbury 2024
18:20 , Roisin O'Connor
Dua Lipa review, Glastonbury 2024: More than mere pop spectacle
18:05 , Jazz Monroe
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.
Full review:
Dua Lipa review, Glastonbury 2024: More than mere pop spectacle
Glastonbury revellers tune into England v Slovakia game
17:55 , Roisin O'Connor
Our Head of Culture and Lifestyle, Patrick Smith, just sent me this image from Worthy Farm of revellers gathered around a screen playing the England v Slovakia game.
Organisers announced last month that they wouldn’t be showing the match, to the despair of thousands of football fans who’d already bought their Glastonbury tickets.
Obviously, some intrepid folk have managed to get around that, either by bringing their own TV screens or managing to get some semblance of Wi-Fi or 4G on site.
Little Simz and Burna Boy join Coldplay for Glastonbury performance
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Shania Twain review, Glastonbury Festival 2024: Euphoric Legends set of relentless hits overcomes sound issues
17:14 , Roisin O'Connor
The Canadian country star brings a healthy splash of theatricality to soothe the Sunday hangovers, sunburn and physical exhaustion.
Read Louis Chilton’s four-star review:
Shania Twain overcomes sound issues with a euphoric Glastonbury performance - review
What BBC viewers are saying about Shania
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“I think it’s a technical / sound issue ... she’s constantly fiddling with her in ear and even the speaking sounds off and cutting out,” one fan suggested. “Poor Shania, maybe a wired microphone would be better. Surely they could swap it out.”
Other fans defended the “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” singer, pointing out that she still managed to entertain the thousands of people gathered at the Pyramid Stage.
“What a fantastic artist,” one fan wrote, while another praised her backing dancers and band.
Twain has sold over 100 million records, making her one of the biggest-selling artists of all time.
Shania Twain’s Legends Slot at Glastonbury draws complaints over ‘sound issues’
Shania Twain opens Glastonbury Legends Slot with classic hit as security guards dance along
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Shania Twain at Glastonbury: Country star’s Legends Slot draws complaints over ‘sound issues’
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Shania Twain’s Legends Slot at Glastonbury draws complaints over ‘sound issues’
Shania Twain having sound issues?
16:10 , Roisin O'Connor
Damn, Shania seems to be having similar issues to Cyndi Lauper on the Saturday... she’s about a beat out of time with the band for much of the time? She’s an absolute pro, so she’s not letting it show, but there’s been some fiddling with her in-ears and mic pack for the first bit of the set.
Little Simz performs at Glastonbury 2024
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Yeehaw! Shania Twain takes to the Pyramid Stage
15:51 , Roisin O'Connor
Shania Twain has attracted an absolutely enormous crowd for her anticipated Legends Slot, and this has to be the campest thing Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage has seen in a good while, I am LIVING for this.
Chris Martin reveals how Michael J Fox helped form band as he joins them at Glastonbury
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Shania Twain to take on the Pyramid Stage Legends Slot
15:27 , Roisin O'Connor
Hello, it’s the Number One Shania Twain fan here. Obviously I’m gutted not to be on site for the country-pop queen’s long-overdue Legends Slot, but I’m consoling myself with the thought of seeing her at British Summer Time festival in July, instead.
If you are down at Worthy Farm, though, you’re going to have one hell of a time. Twain is the consumate entertainer and has an unmatched catalogue of bangers, from “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” to “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and “Honey, I’m Home”.
My pal Nicole Vassell says there is a LOT of leopard print on site right now, along with plenty of cowboy boots, hats and fringed denim jackets.
Giddy’up!
When is SZA performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and how to watch
15:00 , Lydia Spencer-Elliott
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
How to watch the BBC’s live Glastonbury Festival 2024 coverage
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Glastonbury 2024: How to watch the BBC’s live coverage
Coldplay review, Glastonbury 2024: Chris Martin and co deliver the spectacle of a lifetime
14:00 , Lydia Spencer-Elliott
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.
Coldplay deliver the spectacle of a lifetime at Glastonbury 2024 - review
The Last Dinner Party review, Glastonbury 2024: Ambitious band deliver a thrilling set on the Other Stage
03:00 , James Hall
This is a pivotal set for The Last Dinner Party, on the Other Stage on Saturday afternoon at Glastonbury under a blazing sun. The London-based female five-piece’s rise has been meteoric – 15 months ago I saw them play in a windowless room above a pub in Camden, while last summer they performed in a far-flung tent at breakfast time on the Sunday. And here they are today, playing to a crowd of tens of thousands, with a No 1 album and a Brit Award under their collective belts.
I’d slightly expected their set to be this year’s Fred Again.. moment: a confluence of big crowd energy and beautiful weather during the DJ’s set on the same stage last year made it a fabled “Glastonbury moment” – a weird bit of Somerset alchemy that renders a performance bigger than the sum of its parts. Do The Last Dinner Party achieve this? No. It’s close at times and they brim with confidence. But too often, their set hovers where it could soar.
The Last Dinner Party deliver a thrilling set on the Other Stage at Glastonbury
Dua Lipa performs 'Levitating' during Glastonbury headline set
02:31 , Roisin O'Connor
PJ Harvey review, Glastonbury 2024: Casting herself as a provocative rockabilily re-inventor of old
02:01 , Roisin O'Connor
Performance artist Marina Abramovich, given a brief slot on the Pyramid Stage ahead of PJ Harvey, claims she wants the entire field to engage in seven minutes of silence while she stands onstage dressed as a giant peace symbol because “the world is a really s***** place”.
Bombay Bicycle Club, seeping over from the Other Stage, clearly didn’t get the memo, but the contemplative break also gives Glastonbury pause from Sugababes’ “Round Round” to recalibrate itself to Harvey’s enthralling modern-ancient aesthetic.
As Emily Eavis bangs a gong to mark the end of the silence, Polly Jean seems to rise from the leyline itself dressed as a haunted crow tree, and in these fittingly mystical environs, the latest stage in her career-long, Bowie-esque evolution reaches its immersive conclusion.
PJ Harvey casts herself as a provocative rockabilly re-inventor at Glastonbury
VIDEO: Sugababes perform Ugly at Glastonbury 2024
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