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  • The Pyramid stage on Friday.

    Glastonbury live
    Saturday’s action begins ahead of Coldplay, Little Simz and more

  • Revellers watch as the Sugababes perform to a packed West Holts stage during the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset.

    Glastonbury
    Festivalgoers frustrated by overcrowding at smaller stages

    Fans angry after being turned away from Sugababes show while Bicep set halted over safety concerns
  • Sergio Pizzorno in 1983 and 2024

    Flashback
    Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno: ‘I’m not an extrovert; I’m a songwriter. Now I’m the frontman of this huge band’

    The Leicester-raised musician on avoiding ‘nasty lads’, the power of putting on costumes and his anguish at having to sack the band’s frontman
  • The Banksy-created boat at Idles’ Other stage set.

    Glastonbury 2024
    Banksy launches inflatable migrant boat artwork during Idles’ Glastonbury set

  • A couple embrace during the seven-minute silence held by performance artist Marina Abramovich at Pyramid stage.

    Peace, love and K-pop
    Glastonbury kicks off for 2024 – photo essay

  • Dua Lipa

    Review
    Dua Lipa at Glastonbury – headliners are rarely this hook-laden and hedonistic

  • Marina Abramović on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival.

    ‘Give unconditional love to each other’
    Artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

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  • Revellers watch as the Sugababes perform to a packed West Holts stage during the Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset.

    News
    Festivalgoers frustrated by overcrowding at smaller stages

  • The Banksy-created boat at Idles’ Other stage set.

    News
    Banksy launches inflatable migrant boat artwork during Idles’ Glastonbury set

    Band say they were unaware of stunt by artist until after their set headlining the Other stage
  • ‘We live across the road from a Lidl and got these in the middle aisle!’ John Lee and Steph Leung.

    ‘Our shirts are from Lidl!’
    32 of Glastonbury’s greatest looks for 2024 – in pictures

    There is sparkle, spandex, a shot belt filled with gin – and a man dressed as a fly. As the UK’s biggest music event gets underway, we seek out the best, most surprising fashion of the festival
  • Jamilla Walters, AKA Jamz Supernova.

    Interview
    DJ Jamz Supernova: ‘I’d always seen Glastonbury as a kind of debaucherous party’

  • Marina Abramović on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival.

    ‘Give unconditional love to each other’
    Artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes

  • Florence Pugh in flowery headdress and black halter- neck holds a mic

    ‘There’s a special sparkle’
    A-listers add to film tent’s allure at Glastonbury

  • K-pop band Seventeen performing on Glastonbury Pyramid stage

    News
    Seventeen make history as first K-pop band to perform at Glastonbury

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  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The reader interview
    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

  • Stevie Van Zandt attends the "Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple" premiere during the Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 8, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

    Stevie Van Zandt
    My religion switched right over to rock’n’roll

  • Cyndi Lauper

    ‘Want to be a real artist? Keep going!’
    Cyndi Lauper at 71 on self-doubt, success – and surviving sexual assault

  • Rachel Stevens, photographed in London for G2, June 2024

    ‘I was nervous. Worried. Insecure. I just didn’t feel safe’
    Rachel Stevens on her life in S Club 7

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  • Disappearing act … Camila Cabello.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Camila Cabello: C,XOXO – Havana star​’s bad​-girl reboot​ is totally unconvincing

  • Stefflon Don

    Stefflon Don
    Island 54 – seamless summer playlist

    • Johnny Cash
      Songwriter – posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise

    • Dirty Three
      Love Changes Everything – aggressive and transcendent

    • Linda Thompson
      Proxy Music – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

    • Contemporary album of the month
      QOA: Sauco – electro-acoustic jewels incorporate the sounds of nature

    • Kate Nash
      9 Sad Symphonies – from first dates to crying in a car park

    • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
      Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes – rich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original

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  • Patti Smith, with a long braid over her right shoulder and wearing a suit jacket, closes her eyes and points her thumb and first two fingers as she sings into a microphone

    Patti Smith – utterly transformed by the power of music

  • Eddie Vedder, with a long thin moustache and wearing a T-shirt labelled "34" and baseball cap, closes his eyes as he points in the air while singing

    Pearl Jam – Manchester audience rescues a stricken Eddie Vedder

    • Doja Cat, in a yellow body suit and leggings, crouching next to a mic stand wrapped in blond hair extensions

      Kitty Empire's artist of the week
      Doja Cat – hair-raising US rapper puts on a fiery display

    • A rare bright moment … Creeper.

      Download festival – the rock fest’s most cursed year ever

    • ‘We came here to electrify!’ … the Killers.

      The Killers review – anthemic XL rock goes from epic to even more epic

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Obituaries

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  • Mitski

    Mitski, the US’s best young songwriter
    I’m a black hole where people dump their feelings

    With songs about heartbreak and capitalism, the cult pop singer is on the brink of the mainstream – but the intensity of her fandom has her fearing for her safety
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