Glastonbury 2024 day four has now officially begun – and there’s a mega day of music ahead for revellers at Worthy Farm.
Coldplay will follow Dua Lipa, who headlined the festival on Friday on the Pyramid Stage with a string of hits, impressive choreography, and several outfit changes.
Artists including Jessie Ware, Keane, Little Simz and Cyndi Lauper are also performing at Glastonbury today and a mysterious surprise guest is taking to the Woodsies this evening. Who do you think it is?
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Coldplay to break Glastonbury record
Coldplay are set to become the first act to headline Glastonbury Festival five times.
The Saturday performance marks the British band’s first Pyramid Stage appearance since 2016, and it will see them overtake The Cure, who have headlined the slot four times.
However, frontman Chris Martin revealed that they nearly missed their very first headline set in 1999.
The 47-year-old said in BBC documentary Coldplay: Our Glastonbury, according to NME, their tour manager dropped them off at the wrong entrance minutes before they were due to perform.
Chris recalled: ‘The hunger to go there was so huge. Our first introduction, I think, was probably carrying a not-very-good amplifier with a drunken tour manager who, you know, obviously didn’t know what he was doing either.
‘So we sort of had a very quick intake of the whole place, and then started where you should start, which is in the New Bands Tent, first on. I don’t think I thought about the wider, how wild it was. It was just like we were here and we’re late and it’s huge.’
WELCOME TO SATURDAY’S GLASTONBURY BLOG
Good morning everyone and welcome to our Glastonbury live blog!
Everyone is still on a high from last night after Dua Lipa took to the Pyramid Stage for this year’s festival’s first headline set.
Our Dula Peeps obviously smashed it and just played hit after hit. She also brought out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker as her surprise guest.
Fellow celebs including Lewis Capaldi were also spotted bopping along to the One Kiss hitmaker’s performance.
But there’s still so much more to come. Tonight, Coldplay are the headline act, while SZA is doing the honours on Sunday.