Coldplay at Glastonbury – Chris Martin takes tens of thousands on the adventure of a lifetime
Fireworks! Lasers! Confetti! More fireworks! Coldplay pull out every last stop for their record fifth headline performance, and you’d be churlish not to love it
News
Coldplay’s record return lights up Pyramid at a Glastonbury of melodrama
Festival opens its arms with more diversity but rock royalty gets the crowd bouncing
Liveblog
Glastonbury live: Saturday with Coldplay, Little Simz, Orbital and more – as it happened
Glastonbury 2024
Little Simz – triumphant coronation of a true UK rap great
Review
Russell Crowe at Glastonbury – droll delivery from an A-list everybloke
‘We were the bridge between indie and dance’
Glastonbury icons Orbital on 30 years of breaking barriers
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Cyndi Lauper at Glastonbury – nostalgic Pyramid stage crowd just wants to have fun
Picture essay
Backstage at Glastonbury with K-pop sensation Seventeen
Guardian photographer David Levene was granted exclusive access to the 13-strong band, and captured all of the buildup and preparations, as well as the performance, when they debuted on the festival’s Pyramid stage on Friday
Peace, love and K-pop
Glastonbury kicks off for 2024 – photo essay
It’s the first big day at Glastonbury 2024 – we take you on a visual tour from Thursday evening to Friday night, including Seventeen, Marina Abramović’s silence for CND and Dua Lipa’s headline performance on the Pyramid
Review
Dua Lipa at Glastonbury – headliners are rarely this hook-laden and hedonistic
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
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Every genre, every era, every week
- music news and views
Music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras emailed direct to you
‘In one scene, Celine Dion’s dancing. Next, she’s on a gurney’: making the film about the singer’s tragic condition
Exclusive
Jesus and Mary Chain, Robert Fripp and more sue PRS for Music over concert royalties
Exclusive: Organisation that collects and distributes royalties in UK says it will ‘vigorously defend’ lawsuit which alleges preferential treatment for major songwriters
Why are UK radio stations ignoring Black British music to play recycled American rap?