27 h. ago Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury headliner was a killer show and therapy rolled into one

Pop star has the crowd so deeply in their feelings that it feels like any deadbeat ex in the vicinity would burst directly into flames

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28 h. ago Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury review – full of bile and brilliance, this is easily the weekend’s best big set

Pyramid stageWith a genuinely surprise appearance from the Cure’s Robert Smith and a magnificent theatricality to her lovelorn songs, Rodrigo totally steals the entire festivalOlivia Rodrigo’s first Glastonbury appearance in 2022 was the stuff of minor legend. Aged 19, already the author of an 18m selling debut album, but something of an unknown quantity in festival terms, she turned out to be rather more feral and off-message than you might have expected a former Disney Channel star turned teen-popper to be. At one juncture, she named each individual judge responsible for overturning Roe v Wade that weekend, shouting “We hate you! We hate you!” then performing Lily Allen’s Fuck You in duet with its author.Three years on, with another huge-selling album in the bag, and lifted to the status of headliner, nothing quite so likely to stir up controversy on Fox News happens. But the singer is still capable of springing surprises, when she announces the arrival of a special guest – “perha...

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29 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live: Olivia Rodrigo dazzles on Pyramid Stage in headline set

Final day of festival brings major sets from Nile Rogers, Wolf Alice, Snow Patrol, Joy Crookes and Turnstile, along with controversy over Bob Vylan and Kneecap sets

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30 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 reviews, Sunday: The Libertines, The Maccabees, Wolf Alice, Turnstile and Joy Crookes

From The Libertines’ anaemic outing on The Pyramid Stage to an electric Other Stage show by Wolf Alice

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30 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live: Olivia Rodrigo delivers phenomenal performance on the Pyramid Stage

Final day of festival brings major sets from Nile Rogers, Wolf Alice, Snow Patrol, Joy Crookes and Turnstile, along with controversy over Bob Vylan and Kneecap sets

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30 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 reviews, Sunday: The Libertines, Wolf Alice, Turnstile and Joy Crookes

From The Libertines’ anaemic outing on The Pyramid Stage to an electric Other Stage show by Wolf Alice

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31 h. ago Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury review – pop’s most reliable band bring the party to the Pyramid

Pyramid stageWhile you might quibble that Chic’s set has become more reliable than revolutionary, you can’t argue with the effects of the greatest pop music ever made on the crowdSunday at 6pm is a point in the Glastonbury experience what you really need is something dependable. You are sunburnt. The heat is still brutal. You are exhausted. The state of the toilets is unspeakable, and you crave a certain straightforward reliability. And, despite his attempts to reboot the Chic brand with a new album a few years back and a handful of fresh production gigs, Nile Rodgers seems largely content to see out his days in the business of straightforward reliability, simply touring the world playing his old songs. In fairness, if you’d written the catalogue of material he has, you might be inclined to ensure people don’t forget about it.The initial shock you may have felt at seeing a reconstituted version of the greatest disco band of all playing Glastonbury’s West Holts stage in 2013 has long...

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31 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live: Olivia Rodrigo to headline Sunday after Noah Kahan and Rod Stewart sets

Final day of festival brings major sets from Nile Rogers, Wolf Alice, Snow Patrol, Joy Crookes and Turnstile, along with controversy over Bob Vylan and Kneecap sets

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34 h. ago Rod Stewart’s Glastonbury legends slot feels like wringing out the dregs of a career

The first cut may be the deepest, but the first note isn’t even the flattest. It’s an earache, more like

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37 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 live: The Libertines reviewed ahead of Rod Stewart Legends slot and Olivia Rodrigo headliner

Final day of festival arrives after huge Saturday performances from Neil Young, Charli xcx, Doechii and Pulp, and controversy over Bob Vylan and Kneecap sets

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46 h. ago Doechii at Glastonbury review – an education in rap from the greatest teacher in the game

West Holts stageTheatrical, flirtatious and athletic, this debut UK festival performance from the US MC is unrelentingly brilliantWhen Doechii takes the stage at West Holts on Friday night, she is introduced to us as Doechii the don, the dean, the supreme. Before the hour is out, no one in the audience will be left in doubt as to the Grammy winner’s mastery of her craft, or how much work she has put in to achieve it. But at the same time as flaunting her natural ability, Doechii is also eager to show her working and the paths she used – and her debut UK festival appearance is all the more mesmerising for it. The 26-year-old performer’s schoolgirlish styling – giant lockers, rows of desks, Doechii’s long braids and exceedingly brief kilt – is immediately obvious as a feint: she may be a relative newcomer to the scene, but she is no rookie.The videos playing either side of the stage bring the set’s concept into focus: Doechii (real name Jaylah Ji’mya Hickmon) is leading us, step by st...

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51 h. ago Pulp’s secret Glastonbury set review – still the magnificently misshapen oddballs of British pop

Pyramid stageReturning to headline the Pyramid for the first time in 30 years, Jarvis Cocker and co are as dark, grubby and joyous as ever, instantly turning the audience to misty-eyed displays of devotion“Sorry for people who were expecting Patchwork,” says Jarvis Cocker, in reference to the mysterious name that appeared on the Glastonbury bill in lieu of Pulp’s. “How did you know we were going to play?”In fairness, Pulp did their best to conceal their appearance at the festival (as Cocker says, it’s 30 years and four days since they were parachuted into the Glastonbury headlining slot, a now-legendary performance that sealed their ascendancy). Keyboard player Candida Doyle even gave an interview to a local Somerset newspaper insisting that while they wanted to play, Glastonbury “weren’t interested”. But clearly no one was convinced – the Pyramid stage is headlining-set heaving. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Charli xcx at Glastonbury review – a thrilling hostile takeover by a pop star at the peak of her powers

Other stagePlaying to a dizzyingly huge crowd, for many this is Saturday’s true headlining set: a bawdy and uncompromising icon playing alone with no frillsFor my money, one of the best pop tours of the 21st century was Kanye West’s Yeezus tour. Like the album it was supporting, the Yeezus tour was abrasive and minimal and totally spectacular: West stood in front of gigantic bright-red screens and blasted arenas with some of the harshest, most acidic sounds ever considered mainstream. That tour was unrelenting and uncompromising and, as a result, totally compelling.Charli xcx’s Brat tour may be the only clear successor. It is a show whose main components are a curtain, a few stadium strobe light rigs, and one star whose vision is so specific and so well realised that the “necessities” of an A-list pop show – dancers, set pieces, etc – suddenly seem like crutches for anyone less in tune with themselves. This makes sense, given that Charli is also our clearest successor to West himsel...

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52 h. ago If Charli XCX is over Brat summer, she doesn’t let it show during her full

The glaring lack of cameos aside, tonight’s set is a gyrating, floor-spitting party

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52 h. ago Doechii’s Glastonbury performance sees her triumph over a biblical set clash

Choosing to spend your Saturday headline slot with her doesn't feel like a consolation prize. In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking Doechii had been playing to festival crowds for decades

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52 h. ago Neil Young thunders through a mighty Glastonbury setlist in front of a surprisingly sparse crowd

Young’s idea of a special guest is Hank Williams’s guitar, while his pyrotechnics are strictly of the fretboard variety and generally aimed into a circle of bandmates

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52 h. ago Skepta’s surprise Glastonbury set review – British rap’s MVP has matchless mic technique

Other stage Filling in last minute after Deftones pulled out, the Londoner shows he’s still top of his game with a kinetic performance that jumps from garage to grime to Fred Again bangersThe Glastonbury “surprise set” has proved futile this year – anonymous billings for Lorde, Haim and Lewis Capaldi were leaked long before the gates opened. Yet there manages to be a genuine twist in the lineup: grime legend Skepta, as a last-minute replacement for alt-metal band Deftones, who have been forced to cancel due to illness. Skepta happens to be kicking around because last night, at Glade, he performed a DJ set alongside Mochakk from São Paulo and Carlita from Istanbul – an advertisement of his house-techno project Más Tiempo, launched with Jammer in 2023, with regular slots in Ibiza.But he’d not required the full force of his production for Glade, so stepping in for a billing just shy of the headline slot on Glastonbury’s second largest stage, Other, is certainly a challenge. On that, of...

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55 h. ago Glastonbury 2025 reviews, Saturday: Pulp, Haim, Raye, Brandi Carlile, and Bob Dylan tribute band

Highlights from Jarvis Cocker’s not-so surprise performance to Haim on the Pyramid Stage

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57 h. ago Kneecap’s contested Glastonbury performance was forceful, urgent – and impossible to suppress

They’re good technical rappers – switching dextrously between English and Irish-language lyrics – but their performance excels most in its pure kinetic energy

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58 h. ago Kneecap at Glastonbury review – sunkissed good vibes are banished by rap trio’s feral, furious flows

West Holts stageFrom Rod Stewart to Keir Starmer, no one is safe from the Irish group’s ire, as the weekend’s most talked-about set became a mosh-heavy, provocation-filled meleeMosh pits and mayhem: Kneecap play Glastonbury – in picturesIt is perhaps worth recalling Kneecap’s appearance at last year’s Glastonbury, a lunchtime set in the Woodsies tent that saw the band widely acclaimed as bringers of boozy, edgy hilarity, complete with songs called Get Your Brits Out and Rhino Ket. Twelve months and some provocative onstage comments about Palestine and Conservative MPs later, they’re both folk devil and cause celebre, whose appearance at the festival is the most hotly debated of 2025 – both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition have had strong opinions about it.It’s a perfect example of how quickly stories can become overheated in the 21st century: vastly more people now have a opinion about Kneecap than have ever heard their music, which is, traditionally, a tricky and...

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