Glastonbury 2024 live updates: Dua Lipa to play on Pyramid stage ...

This is the first time that Glastonbury Festival will have two female headliners, as Dua Lipa will be joined by SZA.

“I feel so lucky to be a part of that shift,” she told the BBC. “it’s important to have more female headliners. We’ve just got to keep applying the pressure and making that change happen.”

She said trying to invite the audience onstage for an encore of “Blow Your Mind (Mwah)”, like she did during her last Glastonbury performance, might be tricky this time around: “It might be tight. But I’ve got to figure out a way to make 150,000 people feel like they’re in a small little nightclub.

“That’s the goal, and if there’s one place to do it, it’s gotta be Glasto.”

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has defended the festival’s line-up amid criticism of there being a lack of rock bands as pop star Dua Lipa prepares to headline Friday’s music.

This year’s event sees headline performances from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and American R&B singer SZA, while country star Shania Twain will play the coveted Legends slot.

“I think the line-up reflects what’s happening in the music world at the moment – there aren’t a lot of new rock acts to choose from if I’m honest,” Eavis said.

“Hopefully that will emerge again, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead… and that was great but music changes all the time and right now this is where we’re at.”

I know there’s been a load of grumbling about the Glastonbury lineup this year, and a lot of it is warranted (in my view), but I also think it’s still a big improvement on Guns’N’Roses or, dare I say, Arctic Monkeys (I love them but last year’s set was not the one).

Here’s something I made earlier on that very subject

The BBC’s coverage will be available across iPlayer, BBC Sounds, TV, radio and online, including its non-stop Classic Glastonbury channel streaming 24 hours a day from now until Sunday 30 June.

The channel will feature back-to-back footage of some of the most memorable Glastonbury performances of all time, including last year’s farewell set from Elton John.

The BBC will also have a dedicated Glastonbury Channel running on iPlayer from midday on Friday (28 June) through to Sunday evening, hosting a curated and continuous stream of live moments, interviews and behind-the-scenes clips.

Our on-site team have been fed and watered and are starting to make their way around the site. Head of culture/lifestyle Patrick Smith has offered his own weather report: “Really overcast morning, with some ominous-looking clouds hanging over Worthy Farm.”

“A few groggy heads too,” he adds, after sets by Daniel Avery, Joy Orbison and Shygirl got the party going last night, “even though they were seriously overcrowded”.

Patrick adds: “There’s a fantastic lineup today -- I’m particularly looking foeward to Olivia Dean on the Pyramid Stage, Billie Marten on the Avalon Stage and of course Dua Lipa’s headline set.”

Also today: Marina Abramovic is on the Pyramid Stage doing a silence, while the brilliant Kate Hutchinson is bringing Tate Modern Lates to Worthy Farm later today. Tate Modern Lates presents Yoko Ono’s Voice Piece for Soprano, performed by Bishi on the Park Stage at 12.25pm. Experience collective emotional release as Ono’s instructional artwork invites you to scream. Inspired by Tate’s exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind.

Then, at 3pm at Stonebridge, Kate will be doing a Club Ono set: an hour of Yoko Ono remixes. She’s a busy bee, so you’ll also be able to catch her at Glastonbury’s brand new queer space, Scissors, on Friday night! Along with many other brilliant acts.

This is the scheduled Glastonbury 2024 televised line-up for Friday (28 June): Olivia Dean, Headie One, Kenya Grace, Sugababes, Paul Heaton, Dua Lipa, Jungle, as well as an introduction show starting at 12pm and several hightlights reels throughout the day.

Glastonbury has become increasingly known for its rumoured surprises – and this year is no different.

Claims about possible surprise sets and guests circulate social media, not to mention the festival’s site, with many theorising about which unannounced acts could be showing up.

But, according to Emily Eavis, there’ll be “no big surprises” this year.

Speaking on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Friday (28 June), Eavis said: “There’s no big surprises as well I just want to say that, in case you’re expecting something else coming later that’s been rumoured, it’s probably not true, because we’ve got all these amazing things, who needs more?”

Videos posted to social media show a queue forming outside The Cheese and Grain, where Coldplay are rehearsing for their Glastonbury headline act. While reports on Somersetlive claim that Coldplay are simply rehearsing, fans are convinced the band is preparing to host a surprise set.

The Frome venue has become known amongst festivalgoers as a place where former headliners have hosted small and intimate gigs. In 2017, the Foo Fighters performed a surprise set there before they headlined Glastonbury.

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, 88, performed at the festival on Thursday (27 June).

Eavis, whose daughter Emily now co-runs the festival, performed songs, including “My Way” and “Suspicious Minds”, on the Park Stage.