Glastonbury 2022 – live: Kendrick Lamar closes festival with jaw-dropping Sunday set

The final day at Glastonbury brings beautiful weather and fantastic live music.

Although Paul McCartney fans are likely still reeling from his jaw-dropping headline set on Saturday night, there’s been plenty for fans to get stuck into already today (Sunday 26 June).

George Ezra turned up at the John Peel stage in what was possibly the worst-kept secret set in Glastonbury history, while jazz-fusion legend Herbie Hencock delighted crowds relaxing at the Pyramid stage with a virtuosic performance.

At 4pm, it was time for Diana Ross on the Legends Slot, drawing what has to have been one of the biggest audiences this teatime show has ever seen. The Supremes icon wheeled out all the show-stoppers, from “I’m Coming Out” to “You Can’t Hurry Love”, “Chain Reaction” and “Upside Down”. Unfortunately, some people couldn’t help but grumble about her singing (seriously), prompting many to come out in her defence.

Then we had sets from Elbow, Megan Thee Stallion, McFly, US artist Lorde, the Pet Shop Boys, and Sunday’s jaw-dropping Pyramid Stage headliner, Kendrick Lamar.

Follow live updates below:

Glastonbury 2022 talking points

• Everything that went down at Glastonbury 2022

• Paul McCartney – the best Glastonbury has ever seen? The Independent’s review

• Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds review – Pyramid Stage

• Billie Eilish – Friday headliner review

• Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen say ‘F*** You’ to the Supreme Court in smashing Other Stage performance

09:30 , Louis Chilton

In the immortal words of Paul McCartney:

“We’re on our way home...”

(Shame he didn’t play that one, ay? Still, nice to see a few other Let it Be bangers make their way onto the setlist)

09:14 , Louis Chilton

The breathtaking climax to Kendrick Lamar’s Sunday night headline slot may have been the most powerful political statement of the whole weekend.

But he was far from the only act to take aim at the recent US Supreme Court ruling.

Here’s a look at some of the others, from Phoebe Bridgers, to Billie Eilish, to Olivia Rodrigo...

Glastonbury artists hit out at Roe vs Wade overturning by Supreme Court

08:50 , Louis Chilton

This article may be useful for anyone lucky enough to have attended the festival in person.

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08:30 , Louis Chilton

The grand clean-up has begun...

08:09 , Louis Chilton

Here’s our five-star review of Kendrick’s set last night.

“Billie Eilish had a wild light show. Paul McCartney had Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl. So how does Kendrick Lamar take to the stage? An understated setup, zero guest appearances, wearing a white shirt, black suit trousers and a crown of thorns. He’s half-dressed to his own wedding.

“But what a set. This is so heavy with bangers, it breathes life back into a crowd that’s straining to stay conscious.”

Read the full thing below...

Kendrick Lamar’s Glastonbury set had the hits, the heritage and the humility – review

Alreading missing Glastonbury?

07:53 , Ellie Harrison

For those who are already feeling the Glastonbury-shaped void in their lives, here’s our guide to how to get in on the action next year.

Festival organisers Michael Eavis has already booked the headlines for the 2023 event, and tickets are expected to go on sale around October...

Glastonbury 2023 registration, tickets and everything you need to know

What the revellers thought of Glastonbury 2022

07:30 , Ellie Harrison

Here’s a snippet from my colleague Megan Graye’s piece in which she talked to festivalgoers about what the weekend has been like for them.

Read the story in full below...We’re interrupted by ear-splitting screams signalling Billie Eilish’s arrival on the Pyramid Stage. On the edge of the huge crowd, bodies bump into one another as they make their way along the paths between stages, food stalls and campsites.

Taking a break from all the steps is David, 29, from Liverpool, sitting on the dusty grass. He’s been to the festival six times before, but believes this Glastonbury is the best yet.

“I’d like to thank Michael and Emily Eavis, because they’ve just done such a great job of making it so inclusive and amazing,” he says. Dressed in a spiked neon jacket (inspired by Billie Eilish), he says the festival feels like “home, family and love”.

‘It’s a fever dream’: Glastonbury revellers celebrate the return to Worthy Farm

Paul McCartney played Johnny Depp video during Glastonbury headline set

07:10 , Peony Hirwani

In case you missed it – Paul McCartney played a clip of Johnny Depp during his headline set at Glastonbury.

The Beatles legend took to the Pyramid Stage at 9.30pm on Saturday (25 June), where he played a video of Depp on the jumbo screen.

McCartney and Depp are reportedly close friends as well as longtime collaborators. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor has starred in several of McCartney’s music videos.

During McCartney’s performance of his 2012 track “My Valentine”, he played snippets from the song’s original music video, which also features Natalie Portman.

In the black-and-white clip, Depp is seen playing guitar and reciting the song’s lyrics in sign language.

Annabel Nugent reports:

Paul McCartney plays Johnny Depp video during Glastonbury headline set

Lorde says ‘f*** the Supreme Court’ from the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury

06:50 , Peony Hirwani

In case you missed it – Lorde performed on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday evening (26 June) where she delivered a speech that she concluded with: “F*** the Supreme Court.”

“Welcome to sadness,” said the singer on stage. “The temperature is unbearable until you face it. Wanna hear a secret girls? Your bodies were destined to be controlled and objectified since before you were born.

“That horror is your birthright. But here’s another secret. You possess ancient strength. Ancient widsom. Wisdom that has propelled every woman that came before you. That wisdom is also your birthright. I ask you today, make exercising that wisdom your life’s work because everything depends on it. F*** the Supreme Court.”

The musician’s speech was met with cheers from the crowd, before she launched into a performance of her 2021 track “Mood Ring”.

Annabel Nugent has the full story:

Lorde says ‘f*** the Supreme Court’ from the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury

Glastonbury co-organiser thanks attendees for turning up to the festival

06:30 , Peony Hirwani

Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has thanked everyone for attending the festival.

“Thank you [for] making this such a special @Glastonbury,” she tweeted on Sunday (26 June).

“If you’re starting to think about packing up, then PLEASE take everything home with you. Let’s leave this beautiful valley in the state that it deserves.”

All the celebrities that were spotted at Worthy Farm over the weekend

06:10 , Peony Hirwani

Many celebrities such as Jonathan Bailey, Kit Harington, and Dakota Johnson were spotted enjoying the Glastonbury festival over the weekend.

Other celebrities who were present with their friends and family are Christian Horner and Gerri Halliwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sienna Miller, Laura Whitmore, Bonnie Wright, Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss, and Stormzy.

The ex-Liverpool and England footballer Jamie Carragher was also spotted with his friends.

Zoe Ball, Martin Roberts, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Princess Eugenie, Cate Blanchett, and Lily James also attended.

Will Glastonbury be back in 2023?

05:50 , Peony Hirwani

The answer is yes!

The festival’s boss Michael Eavis has said that all three headliners have already been booked for next year. Names, however, are yet to be revealed.

While official dates have not yet been announced, the festival traditionally takes place in the last couple of weeks of June. We will update the readers when the dates are made official.

Below is everything you need to know about the 2023 festival.

Glastonbury 2023 registration, tickets and everything you need to know

Megan Thee Stallion calls out US Supreme Court at Glastonbury

05:30 , Peony Hirwani

In case you missed it – A few days after the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to outlaw abortion, Megan Thee Stallion spoke out against the decision while performing at the Glastonbury Festival.

The 27-year-old rapper called out her home state while onstage during her set on Saturday (25 June) night.

“Texas [is] really embarrassing me right now,” she said. “I wanna have it on the record, that the hot boys and hot girls do not support this bulls*** that y’all campaigning for.”

The rapper then urged the crowd to chant: “My body, my motherf***ing choice.”

Done and dusted (almost)!

04:30 , Annabel Nugent

And that’s that! There you have it people, Glastonbury 2022 is over... (officially at least; unofficially, the after-party is probably still raging at Worthy Farm).

As Roisin O’Connor writes: “The glorious and long-awaited return to Worthy Farm proved to be one of the most colourful, eclectic and apparently crime-free events we’d ever seen.”

See our round-up of unmissable moments frm this year’s festival below...

Glastonbury 2022 was the weekend we’d been waiting for

What an end to Glastonbury 2022

04:00 , Annabel Nugent

It’s hard to imagine a more powerful conclusion to Glastonbury 2022 than Kendrick Lamar’s statement in support of women’s rights in the wake of the Roe v Wade ruling.

It’s safe to say chills were felt across Worthy Farm.

Kendrick Lamar says ‘godspeed for women’s rights’ in wake of Roe v Wade overturning

Olivia Rodrigo – Saturday review

03:30 , Ben Bryant

She may not have been a headliner, but Olivia Rodrigo delivered one of the festival’s most iridescent and blistering performances on Saturday afternoon.

Anyone who tells you that this year’s Glastonbury is trapped in the 1970s clearly hasn’t been to Olivia Rodrigo’s show, where the highest concentration of screaming teenage girls outside of TikTok can be found.

Warm afternoon sunlight gleaming off her knee-high DMs, mirror-mosaic piano, and purple electro-acoustic guitar, this is one of the most iridescent – and sweetest – shows of Saturday at Worthy Farm.

Although she’s best known for her grungy hit “good 4 u”, Rodrigo has a back catalogue full of ballads about heartbreak. Today her performance includes “happier”, “hope ur ok”, and a song she says is from her childhood acting career, “all i want”, She breaks out her breakthrough, “drivers license”, early on.

A surprise cover of Avril Lavigne’s 2003 grunge hit “Complicated” comes next, during which Rodrigo kicks her heels up on the piano. This alone would have been enough to leave this doe-eyed crowd charmed. But then Rodrigo announces that she’s going to bring out a special guest. At first, it sounds like the words “Billie Eilish” have left her lips. And it would make sense – the Pyramid Stage headliner played the night before. But it turns out it’s just her accent – because it’s Lily Allen who takes the stage, and sets the scene for one big festival moment.

Olivia Rodrigo delivers one of Glastonbury weekend’s most iridescent sets – review

“Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided to overturn the law permitting safe abortion,” says Rodrigo. “I’m devastated and terrified and so many women and girls are going to die because of this.

“I’m going to dedicate this song to the Supreme Court justices. I hate you.”

And with that, Allen, Rodrigo and what feels like the whole of Glastonbury sing along to Lily Allen’s 2009 hit “F*** You”, from her second album It’s Not Me, It’s You.

Allen, dressed in monochrome with a Chanel hair clip, looks a little shy, a little deliriously happy, as she duets with an exuberant Rodrigo. “deja vu” follows, and for a moment it feels as though Rodrigo’s not going to drop her biggest hit. But she belts out “good 4 u” into her purple microphone, with plenty of backing from a crowd who sound louder than ever. Yes, it might be true that Paul McCartney’s playing later – but for now the zoomers are taking the wheel.

Paul McCartney Saturday headliner – review

03:00 , Mark Beaumont

Following on from Billie Eilish’s stellar set on Friday, Paul McCartney had big shoes to fill come Saturday.

The Beatles legend managed to do just that, though, with just a little help from his friends Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen.

Paul McCartney’s Glastonbury 2022 show was possibly the best we’ve ever seen – review

“Like any communal dig through a crate of unlimited treasures, the show takes turns into fond reminiscence. McCartney recalls making the debut Beatles demo – the country tumble “In Spite of All the Danger”, played beautifully – for a pound each then having to buy it back from their old bassist who made “a considerable profit”. The tale flows naturally into a reverent “Love Me Do”, then an emotion-wracked “Here Today”, his undelivered open letter to John Lennon.

Once the big showstoppers start coming, they don’t stop. “Lady Madonna” on a Pepperesque piano. “Something” expanding from his solo ukulele rendition into full majestic flow. “Get Back” accompanied by archive visuals specially compiled by Jackson. All of McCartney’s bits from the Abbey Road medley scattered across the set. You might query the inclusion of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, but for the Mike-wide skank the breadth of the field.”

Billie Eilish – five-star review

02:30 , Mark Beaumont

On Friday, Billie Eilish became the youngest ever solo headliner at Glastonbury. The 20-year-old certainly lived up to expectations – even though, the much-rumoured Harry Styles cameo never came to fruition...

Welcome to the red room. With flames bursting like panic attacks and lasers slashing across the sky, Billie Eilish bounces down a huge ramp lit blood-crimson, and sets about inhabiting a Pyramid-sized metaphor for her internal turmoil.

“Are you ready to have some fun?” she asks, between songs about suicide (muted, tribal opener “bury a friend”) and obsession (spook-disco track “my strange addiction”). Yet she’s soon asking us to scream at “whatever’s p***ing you off” during a compulsive rendition of “you should see me in a crown”. What we should really prepare for is 90 minutes of noir-pop catharsis.

Billie Eilish’s Glastonbury set was 90 minutes of noir-pop catharsis – review

In its way, Eilish’s headline set is just as significant as Jay-Z’s or Stormzy’s. Not because she’s the festival’s youngest ever bill-topper, although it certainly lifts the roof off every bedroom Tik-Tokker’s teenage dreams of glory. But because it marks the ascendence of alternative pop: a home-made, personalised imitation of the mainstream that speaks far closer to the actual teenage experience of 2022. Certainly more than any amount of ultraconfident, oversexualised break-up bird-flips written by long-in-the-tooth Swedish production teams. Alternative pop tones are dark and downbeat, its emotions raw and broken, its concerns doom-laden. Fame is wrought with insecurities, sex is regretful and drugs, when any are mentioned, are generally prescribed for anxiety.

True to form, there’s plenty of angst and insecurity running through Eilish’s set, from the crepuscular mambo of “GOLDWING” to superb nocturnal groover “Therefore I Am”. Midway through, she mourns the overturning of Roe vs Wade (“a dark day for women in the US”) ahead of an acoustic duet with her songwriting brother Finneas on “Your Power”. Ahead of “everything I wanted”, a track about the hassles of fame, she references climate anxiety, the subject of her new film Overheated and the theme of her recent six-night run at the O2.

But while stylistic forebears such as Frank Ocean and The xx have delivered subdued, glowering festival headline shows building to one dramatic crescendo, Eilish skilfully conducts a deeper and more dynamic experience. Blessed with a debut album of dank pop bangers and a richer, more introspective follow-up – last year’s Happier Than Ever – she skips easily between starting visceral pity parties with “bellyache” and a fantastic “bad guy”, charming us with her childhood home videos on “Getting Older”, and pausing the show for a self-help therapy session.

The much rumoured guest appearance from Harry Styles doesn’t happen, but it probably would have been overshadowed by the all-out rock’n’roll climax of “Happier Than Ever”. Alternative pop has arrived, with an almighty bang.

DakhaBrakha – review

02:00 , Serena Kutchinsky

Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha started life as a theatre project, rooted in an avant-garde scene that was burgeoning in Kyiv until Putin’s war put it on indefinite pause. For years, the band have served as representatives of their nation’s music and culture, typically ending shows chanting: “Stop Putin! No war!” Today, they’ve brought their anti-war message to the world’s biggest festival, in triumphant and defiant form.

Visually striking, they step out on to the Pyramid Stage, resplendent in towering black lamb’s wool hats, crimson beads and other finery. The crowd – themselves festooned in yellow and blue facepaint, floral headdresses and Ukrainian flags – cheer back at them.

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Herbie Hancock and DakhaBrakha

Despite their traditional folk heritage, DhakaBrakha are as contemporary as they come. The whole experience is a riotous explosion of colour; hypnotic harmonies blend seamlessly with African rhythms and heavy percussive bass lines. Never losing sight of their political message, the band show footage of the destruction Russia’s war has wreaked on their homeland during the performance. As they reach their exhilarating climax, the words “Arm Ukraine now” shine out behind them. A reminder for us all of the unifying power of this festival.

As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in his pre-recorded message broadcast on the Other Stage on Friday morning: “Glastonbury is the greatest concentration of freedom these days and I ask you to share this feeling with everyone whose freedom is under attack.”

Today, on the Pyramid stage DhakaBrakha did exactly that.

Sports Team – review

01:30 , Patrick Smith

Sports Team, playing the 12.15pm slot at the John Peel Stage, draw in a huge crowd, their post-punk giving CPR to those (the band included) who were down at Block9 and Shangri-la till the early hours. It’s a set full of energy, as is typically, with frontman Alex Rice a ball of charisma. Their new album is out in August. Expect big things.

Diana Ross review – Sunday Legends slot

01:00 , Mark Beaumont

Come back Paul McCartney’s voice, all is forgiven. In the weekend’s grand parade of Sixties hitmakers, Diana Ross’s pipes are most definitely the rustier. “There’s a great power in determination,” she wisely imparts, speaking of her struggles to make her Thank You tour and this Legends slot appearance happen, but also of her great epiglottal strain.

The Queen of Motown might appear from the wings in a flume of bubbles to a fanfare of “I’m Coming Out” – looking like she’s materialised direct from a dimension populated by glamorous snowflake people – but at times, over the coming 75 minutes, she sounds as though she’s doing disco karaoke after four heavy nights at Shangri-La. “Chain Reaction”, in particular, is flatter than a landslide hitting Ian Brown’s house.

The effect is a set that’s as much a 100,000-strong support group as celebratory sing-along. There’s still a magical frisson to being in the presence of such a supernaturally famous and universally beloved pop icon, and Glastonbury’s perm-wigged masses are not letting this one get away without a fight. They help carry her initial rush of Supremes hits – “Baby Love”, “Stop! In The Name of Love” and “You Can’t Hurry Love” – which are chucked away early like a Legends slot death-wish. They even will on Ross’s failed attempt to start a singalong coda to gentle soul ballad “I’m Still Waiting”. The star and her songs get all the love; the performance itself is of secondary concern.

Until, that is, Ross commits the cardinal Legends slot sin and plugs her new album Thank You too hard to the watching wallets at home. “Tomorrow” is lively disco fare and the title track a marvellous throwback to her Seventies disco soul period, but the last thing we’re here for is a sales pitch, no matter how sweet. The tropical modern pop of “If the World Just Danced” suggests that all of our problems might be solved with a vigorous conga. Presumably down Club ExxonMobile.

From there it takes a cry of “I feel 47!” midway through a fabulous “Upside Down”, with the front-row security doing their customary dance routine, and her Dolly Parton country pop moment “Ease on Down the Road” to claw the set back, despite a frankly awful “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”. It’s something of a shame that Ross feels that songs like “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “I Will Survive” are her go-to showstoppers, tracks she’s had hits with but doesn’t entirely own. “I Will Survive” even gets segued into “Billie Jean” and DJ Khaled’s “All I Do is Win”. But by now the crowd are singing for themselves, just happy to have such a ravishing ringleader.

Herbie Hancock – review

Monday 27 June 2022 00:30 , Annabel Nugent

Proving that not every 80-something at Glastonbury needs to look like they might dissolve in the rain, jazz-fusion legend Herbie Hancock takes the stage on Sunday afternoon, with a performance so joyful and effortless it’s as welcome as a burst of sunshine.

The largely reclining Pyramid stage crowd, fanned by a cool breeze, stretches up to the tent line for the veteran virtuoso. Today, Hancock and his band stay away from his electronic-leaning Eighties material, choosing instead to lean into jazz-funk numbers such as “Actual Proof”, from 1974 album Thrust.

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Herbie Hancock and DakhaBrakha

A glimpse of “Chameleon”, from classic album Headhunters is folded in early on, the distinctive popping bass collapsing into a series of extended solos. “Footprints” is dedicated to Hancock’s friend, 88-year-old saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who also co-founded the Seventies jazz-fusion band Weather Report.

“Cantaloupe Island”, with its rolling piano chords and sparky trumpet line, comes next, ahead of set closer “Chameleon” – the whole track this time – for which Hancock takes on a dazzling keytar solo that ripples right across the field. It’s going to be a great Sunday.

Kendrick Lamar review incoming...

Monday 27 June 2022 00:08 , Annabel Nugent

Plus, we’ve got our Kendrick Lamar review on the way so you’ll want to stick around...

Everything that happened at Glastonbury 2022

Monday 27 June 2022 00:07 , Annabel Nugent

And that’s that! There you have it people, Glastonbury 2022 is over... (officially at least; unofficially, the after-party is only just getting started over at Worthy Farm).

We’ll soon be heading off but we’ll keep the live blog ticking along with all the unmissable stories from this year’s Glasto.

As Roisin O’Connor writes: “The glorious and long-awaited return to Worthy Farm proved to be one of the most colourful, eclectic and apparently crime-free events we’d ever seen.”

See our round-up of unmissable moments frm this year’s festival below...

Glastonbury 2022 was the weekend we’d been waiting for

George Ezra secret set – review

Monday 27 June 2022 00:00 , Mark Beaumont

“I asked them, ‘can it not be completely secret? Can we tell them at some point?’,” George Ezra tells a crowd stretching several football-pitch lengths outside the John Peel tent.

Secret? Until the Avalon stage makes a big deal of having booked The Joshua Trees, there can’t be a more obvious secret set than Gold Rush Kid on the John Peel Stage. His official announcement a few hours ago was a bit like a governmental press release declaring Brexit rubbish – the Ezra-ites have been camping out all morning for a set of sun-kissed Sunday vibes that, considering the crush, is about as laid-back as the only sunny lockdown bank holiday on Bournemouth beach.

Ezra – an unpretentious and genuinely endearing purveyor of vaguely soulful and tropical Radio 2 pleasantness – nonetheless makes the entire field, inside and out, feel part of his beach-side barbecue of song. “Cassy O” is a hearty country pop jig, “Listen to the Man” the softest of soft reggae and “Hold My Girl” a stirring glower ballad. The shimmer of “Barcelona” sounds like Hertford flesh sizzling gently in the Catalonian sun, while “Green Green Grass” even comes with a story of stumbling across a funeral party in St Lucia, so close is Ezra to becoming the soft pop Judith Chalmers.

The much anticipated party really kicks off with “Paradise” and the crowd groove gently through the closing third, relishing the steel drum carnival that breaks out during “Blame it on Me” – otherwise a less corny Mumford & Sons – and probably breaking records for mass yodelling on “Budapest”.

“Shotgun”, dedicated to the people under rocks on Mars who “didn’t get the memo” about Ezra’s appearance, sends us drifting cheerily off towards Diana Ross feeling, a little smugly, like someones.

George Ezra gave beachside BBQ vibes at his not-so secret Glastonbury set – review

The Pet Shop Boys – review

Sunday 26 June 2022 23:58 , Annabel Nugent

No one brings the Eighties and 2022 together quite like the Pet Shop Boys. From the moment Neil Tennant walks on the stage, inviting us to “a world of memory” as the thumping drums of “Suburbia” begin, we know we’re about to straddle eras.

Chris Lowe, along with an excellent live band, join later. There are Eighties synths, an appearance from Years and Years (although not singing “It’s A Sin” as predicted) and nostalgic anecdotes about holidays in the Caribbean.

The big tracks get the Other Stage crowd jumping higher than half the late-night DJs at this festival. A “Losing My Mind”/”You Were Always On My Mind” remix soars – as does “Love Comes Quickly” and penultimate track “West End Girls”.

“Opportunities”, for all its high-camp joy, is a personal highlight. After the last five days, I’m not sure any of us have much of the brain, looks, brawn or lots of money they mention left… yet it still gets us singing.

Their closing track, “Being Boring”, is an empowering tribute to the victims of the attack on a gay bar in Oslo, Norway. The words “you can always rely on a friend” close out the set, a fitting finish to Glasto 2022.

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Pet Shop Boys, Fontaines DC and McFly

Wow!!!

Sunday 26 June 2022 23:35 , Annabel Nugent

An explosive end to a powerful performance, as Kendrick states: “They judge me; they judge Christ. Godspeed for women’s rights,” seemingly in response to the recent overturning of Roe v Wade.

Kendrick Lamar says ‘godspeed for women’s rights’ in wake of Roe v Wade overturning

“Glsatonbury I said, make some motherf***ing noise!”

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:59 , Annabel Nugent

It’s been a relatively un-chatty set from the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper who lets the music do the talking, with just a few interludes to hype the audience up.

Don’t forget about The Pet Shop Boys

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:50 , Annabel Nugent

If you can tear yourself away from Kendrick Lamar, The Pet Shop Boys are delivering an absolute cracker of a show on the Other Stage.

Viewers at home, I implore you, have a quick peep!

It’s just one of many brutal clashes to hit festival-goers this weekend...

The 7 most brutal Glastonbury 2022 set clashes (and possible workarounds)

Speaking of surprises...

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:46 , Annabel Nugent

George Ezra gave fans an unexpected(ish) set from the John Peel tent.

While it was packed to the rafters, Mark Beaumont managed to get within listening distance of the singer. Here’s what you missed if you didnt...

George Ezra gave beachside BBQ vibes at his not-so secret Glastonbury set – review

30 minutes left!

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:42 , Annabel Nugent

Just a little over half an hour to go – still plenty of time for a surprise guest...?

A future Legends Slot act?

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:37 , Annabel Nugent

With performances like this, it’s not too far a leap to think that Kendrick Lamar may find himself in the Legends slot at a future Glastonbury festival.

This year, that spot was filled by none other than soul legend Diana Ross. While some viewers had an issue with the singer’s “off-key” vocals, we’ll back her forever.

Diana Ross fans defend singer after viewers complain Glastonbury set is ‘off-key’

Kendrick Lamar concludes a brilliant last day at Worthy Farm

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:30 , Annabel Nugent

Kendrick Lamar is closing out a specatcular last day at Glastonbury, with stellar performances from a range of artists including McFly, Fontaines DC – and Diana Ross, of course.

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Fontaines DC and McFly

From Billie Eilish to Kendrick Lamar

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:26 , Annabel Nugent

And of course, we can’t forget Billie Eilish – our first headliner of the weekend, who gave us a history-making set on Friday.

Billie Eilish’s Glastonbury set was 90 minutes of noir-pop catharsis – review

Kendrick Lamar delivers a headline set to rival Paul McCartney’s

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:25 , Annabel Nugent

This is a headline set to rival yesterday’s from Paul McCartney. Now if only, there were some special guests on the agenda...

Paul McCartney’s Glastonbury 2022 show was possibly the best we’ve ever seen – review

‘Are we going to have a good time or not?!'

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:23 , Annabel Nugent

“I said, are we going to have a good time or not?!” Kendrick asks the crowd before delivering a joyous and energetic performance of 2015 “i” (aka “I Love Myself”).

“King Kunta"

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:17 , Annabel Nugent

His lively single “King Kunta” is an instant hit with this seemingly tireless crowd.

Surprise guests? Any guesses?

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:16 , Annabel Nugent

Fans are hopeful that a Jay-Z, Drake, or Kanye cameo may be in the cards... Only time will tell.

One of the most visually interesting sets of the weekend

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:15 , Annabel Nugent

Gone are the suit-clad dancers, and replacing them on stage is a sea of wafty red dresses for “Count Me Out”.

Enough said

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:12 , Annabel Nugent

After a heavy dose of nostalgia, here comes the new material

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:09 , Annabel Nugent

After a series of nostalgic throwbacks, Kendrick brings it forward with “N95” – a track off his critically acclaimed latest album Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, released in May.

B*** don’t kill my vibe

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:05 , Annabel Nugent

“Poetic Justice” is giving us one of the best singalong moments of the festival with the seminal lyrics: “B***, don’t kill my vibe.”

Swimming Pools

Sunday 26 June 2022 22:03 , Annabel Nugent

And we’re taking it way back with 2012’s “Swimming Pools”, one of the rapper’s first hits to put him on the map.

Incidentally, the song also makes for a brilliant call-and-response with an eager crowd.

The hits keep coming

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:54 , Annabel Nugent

Another undeniable crowd-pleaser comes in the form of “Money Trees”...

M.A.A.D. City brings out the old-school Kendrick fans

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:52 , Annabel Nugent

An incredible performance of “M.A.A.D. City” from his 2012 album is getting the crowd riled up!

He’s here!

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:48 , Annabel Nugent

From a sea of dancers emerges Kendrick wearing a crown of thorns...

Kendrick Lamar!!!

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:46 , Annabel Nugent

Right on time, here comes the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper...

Lorde – review

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:44 , Ben Bryant

“I’m the ultimate comedown shepherd,” beams Lorde, surveying a hill of worn and fretful festivalgoers in need of some soothing.

Her third album, 2021’s Solar Power, received a lukewarm response from some quarters. But at the golden hour, it’s a record that comes to life – especially when paired with Lorde’s warm, empathetic stage presence.

She leads with “The Path” – the slinky opener. Her new blonde locks complement the golden stage design, as the sun dips behind the Pyramid and bathes the crowd in a yellow glow. Dressed in a violet leotard and red leggings, the 26-year-old looks exactly like Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde – surely no mistake, although it goes unremarked upon.

She struts up and down a central staircase supported by a giant circular disk that glows like a star. “This is the ultimate comedown anthem!” she says with a laugh, before introducing Arlo Parks and Clairo for a rendition of “Stoned At The Nail Salon”.

A live performance of “California” – about leaving the west coast behind and returning home – confirms it as one of the best cuts from Solar Power.

Lorde’s newfound sincerity fits in perfectly at Glastonbury – review

Following Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen’s lead yesterday, Lorde is the latest performer to yell “f*** the Supreme Court” following its overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US. It’s a rare moment of aggression that follows a spoken-word address, which Lorde concludes with “Secrets From A Girl”. But the chilled vibe is quickly restored, thanks to “Mood Ring” and its talk of sun salutations, crystals and transcendental meditation.

“I’m going to need your help to sing this one,” she says, looking lonely as she takes a seat on her staircase to launch into the delicate yet lyrically brutal ballad, “Liability”.

“In the sun I become very powerful and I can get away with almost anything,” she says, introducing the title track from Solar Power.

Her newfound sincerity – a departure from the eye-rolling of her massive 2013 breakout single “Royals” – may be a tricky proposition for those beyond the borders of New Zealand’s utopian landscape. But Glastonbury is one place where it feels right at home.

“This place is Disneyland. This is the dream. Every artist looks forward to this weekend of the year,” she says. “So thank you for finding it in your hearts for a little freak from New Zealand.”

Comedown shepherd, sun worshipper, little freak: every version of Lorde shines like the sun this evening.

Remember Jay’Z's “Wonderwall” cover?!

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:39 , Annabel Nugent

Speaking of Jay-Z at Glastonbury, who could ever forget the rapper’s cover of “Wonderwall”?

An iconic Glastonbury moment if ever there was one.

Kendrick is the third US hip-hop artist to headline Glasto

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:37 , Annabel Nugent

Kendrick is the third US hip-hop artist to headline Glastonbury, following on from Jay-Z’s seminal 2008 performance and Kanye West in 2015.

10 minutes to Kendrick!

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:34 , Annabel Nugent

Crowds are ready and raring to go at the Pyramid Stage, awaiting Kendrick Lamar’s Glastonbury debut.

It’s set to be a suitably extraordinary performance to conclude what has been an extraordinary weekend.

What day and time will Kendrick Lamar perform at Glastonbury?

Who will Kendrick Lamar’s surprise guests be?

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:13 , Annabel Nugent

Ahead of Kendrick Lamar’s headline set tonight, the speculation surrounding special guests has gone into overdrive.

Potential names include the collaborators on his latest album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers.

Looking at next week’s Wireless line-up could help narrow the list down – with Summer Walker and Baby Keem both scheduled to play the London festival soon... Perhaps they’ve come to the UK early?

Fontaines DC and McFly – reviews

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:08 , Annabel Nugent

It’s a five-star for the Dublin-formed group, meanwhile the Noughties boy band have earned a three-star review.

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Fontaines DC and McFly

Little Dragon wrap up on the John Peel stage – soon to be followed by Charli XCX

Sunday 26 June 2022 21:00 , Annabel Nugent

Over on the John Peel stage, we’ve got Swedish band Little Dragon wrapping up a lively evening set.

Stick around for half an hour, though, and you’ll see pop star Charli XCX taking the stage.

If Charli’s recent shows on her world tour are anything to go by, it’ll be a riot.

Lorde out!

Sunday 26 June 2022 20:50 , Annabel Nugent

And that’s that from Lorde, whose set comprised a good mix of her new album and classic bangers.

London folk can catch her at Ally Pally next week, though!

‘It’s a fever dream’: Glastonbury revellers celebrate the return to Worthy Farm

Sunday 26 June 2022 20:30 , Roisin O'Connor

As the belated 50th anniversary celebrations of Glastonbury draws to a close, festival-goers, crew-members and artists share their verdict on the long-awaited weekend. Music correspondent Megan Graye reports from Worthy Farm

‘It’s a fever dream’: Glastonbury revellers celebrate the return to Worthy Farm

Charli XCX teases Lorde special guest apperance

Sunday 26 June 2022 20:21 , Annabel Nugent

Another special guest may be on the way for Lorde’s set, with Charli XCX teasing a potential duet of “Royals”.

“Shall we dance for our angsty 15-year-old selves tonight?!”

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:55 , Annabel Nugent

“Shall we dance for our angsty 15-year-old selves tonight?” Lorde asks the crowd before launching into her 2013 smash hit “Ribs”, which, yes, she wrote when she was 15!

Lorde brings out Arlo Parks and Clairo!

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:46 , Annabel Nugent

Lorde has brought out Clairo and Arlo Parks for a group performance of “Stoned at the Nail Salon”!

Lorde delivers the old-school bangers on the Pyramid Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:41 , Annabel Nugent

Donning a blonde dye-job and pink tights, Lorde is on the Pyramid Stage delivering the crowd-pleasers! Tune into BBC iPlayer now to catch “Buzzcut Season”...

McFly – three-star review

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:31 , Isobel Lewis

I know we’re living in an age of nostalgia, but even I (a former superfan) am shocked how big the crowd for McFly’s first Glastonbury set is.

You’ve got to give it to ‘em. Almost two decades since the sort-of-pop, sort-of-emo band burst into the scene with their debut single “Five Colours in Her Hair”, the four-piece have packed out the Avalon stage at Worthy Farm.

Things kick off, surprisingly, with “Red”, giving the band a chance to flex their live guitar skills. More rock-heavy deep cuts follow straight after: “Song for the Radio”, “Lies”. It’s some of their best material, but you can tell the audience is impatient for the hits. I think I might be the only person in a 10-metre radius singing along.

At least the band are self aware. “If you enjoyed that, we’re Mcfly. But if you didn’t enjoy that, we are Busted,” the crowd are told, before a rendition of “Obviously” that perks everyone up no end. A trio of crowd-pleasers follows: “All About You”, “Room on the Third Floor” and the band’s cover of “Don’t Stop Me Now”.

“Star Girl” gets the biggest reception for its eternally juvenile lyric: “There’s nothing on earth that could save us/ When I fell in love with Uranus.” Anything post-2008 falls a little flatter.

In short: a perfect McFly set for me, specifically. Others in the audience were left wanting more.

Feed your Glastonbury FOMO by checking out some photos from Worthy Farm...

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:30 , Annabel Nugent

For those of us not at Worthy Farm, here’s some photos from Glastonbury to really rub in the FOMO.

See all the best pictures from Glastonbury 2022

Diana Ross fans defend her against ‘off-key’ criticism

Sunday 26 June 2022 19:00 , Annabel Nugent

We’ll die defending our queen!

Diana Ross fans defend singer after viewers complain Glastonbury set is ‘off-key’

McFly’s set is packed to the rafters!

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:59 , Annabel Nugent

For a Noughties pop lover, there is simply nowhere else to be right now than at the Avalaon Stage for McFly...

Fontaines DC can’t help but grin as the mosh pit broils up in front of them – five-stars

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:55 , Megan Graye

“My childhood was small, but I’m gonna be big!” These were the words promised on Fontaines DC’s debut album. With a steady build in the last few years and then one gigantic swoop of success following their No 1 album, this year’s Skinty Fia, the band have become just that. And on a hot Sunday afternoon at Glastonbury, the swarm of twitching fans who buzz around the Other Stage only serve to reaffirm it. A true showman, frontman Grian Chatten – wearing his usual Pogues T-shirt – throws his arms upwards to summon a cheer. The Dublin-formed group have landed a tough time slot, clashing with Diana Ross in the Legends Slot over on the Pyramid. It’s testament to their fearsome reputation as a live act that they’ve attracted such a huge crowd.

Now three albums deep, the five-piece have been at the forefront of the recent rock resurgence. They’ve also stubbornly resisted categorisation, instead defining themselves by Chatten’s sharp, observational lyrics and their intense, driving instrumentation.They throw out a few numbers from their 2019 debut, Dogrel, along with the sonically moodier, yet lyrically hopeful tracks of follow-up A Hero’s Death. Usually an unflinchingly cool collective, they can’t help but grin as mosh pits broil up in front of them. At the cue of “Jackie Down the Line”, a sea of sticky bodies bash into one another. Fontaines won’t be dying a death any time soon.

In case you missed it, this is what happened at George Ezra’s secret set...

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:45 , Annabel Nugent

The rumours turned out to be true. This afternoon, George Ezra took the John Peel tent by surprise(ish).

It was a predictably crowded affair but Mark Beaumont managed to get within listening distance of Gold Rush Kid. Here’s what you missed...

George Ezra gave beachside BBQ vibes at his not-so secret Glastonbury set – review

Diana Ross review – Sunday Legends slot

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:35 , Mark Beaumont

★★★☆☆

Come back Paul McCartney’s voice, all is forgiven. In the weekend’s grand parade of Sixties hitmakers, Diana Ross’s pipes are most definitely the rustier. “There’s a great power in determination,” she wisely imparts, speaking of her struggles to make her Thank You tour and this Legends slot appearance happen, but also of her great epiglottal strain.

The Queen of Motown might appear from the wings in a flume of bubbles to a fanfare of “I’m Coming Out” – looking like she’s materialised direct from a dimension populated by glamorous snowflake people – but at times, over the coming 75 minutes, she sounds as though she’s doing disco karaoke after four heavy nights at Shangri-La. “Chain Reaction”, in particular, is flatter than a landslide hitting Ian Brown’s house.

The effect is a set that’s as much a 100,000-strong support group as celebratory sing-along. There’s still a magical frisson to being in the presence of such a supernaturally famous and universally beloved pop icon, and Glastonbury’s perm-wigged masses are not letting this one get away without a fight. They help carry her initial rush of Supremes hits – “Baby Love”, “Stop! In The Name of Love” and “You Can’t Hurry Love” – which are chucked away early like a Legends slot death-wish. They even will on Ross’s failed attempt to start a singalong coda to gentle soul ballad “I’m Still Waiting”. The star and her songs get all the love; the performance itself is of secondary concern.

Until, that is, Ross commits the cardinal Legends slot sin and plugs her new album Thank You too hard to the watching wallets at home. “Tomorrow” is lively disco fare and the title track a marvellous throwback to her Seventies disco soul period, but the last thing we’re here for is a sales pitch, no matter how sweet. The tropical modern pop of “If the World Just Danced” suggests that all of our problems might be solved with a vigorous conga. Presumably down Club ExxonMobile.

From there it takes a cry of “I feel 47!” midway through a fabulous “Upside Down”, with the front-row security doing their customary dance routine, and her Dolly Parton country pop moment “Ease on Down the Road” to claw the set back, despite a frankly awful “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”. It’s something of a shame that Ross feels that songs like “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “I Will Survive” are her go-to showstoppers, tracks she’s had hits with but doesn’t entirely own. “I Will Survive” even gets segued into “Billie Jean” and DJ Khaled’s “All I Do is Win”. But by now the crowd are singing for themselves, just happy to have such a ravishing ringleader.

Highlights from Saturday at Worthy Farm

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:30 , Annabel Nugent

Here’s our low-down on the highlights from yesterday night. From Paul McCartney’s very, very special guests to Olivia Rodrigo joining forces with Lily Allen over Roe v Wade, “eventful” doesn’t quite cover it.

The biggest highlights from Saturday at Glastonbury 2022

Cowboy hats at the ready – it’s time for Kacey Musgraves!

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:15 , Annabel Nugent

Now up on Other Stage is country pop icon Kacey Musgraves...!

Aww – Elbow singer Guy Garvey has “Jack’s Dad” sewn onto the back of his jacket

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:11 , Annabel Nugent

Elbow are delighting fans with their set on the Pyramid Stage! Yes the music’s great and all – but did anyone else see Guy Garvey has his son’s name sewn onto his jacket?

Elbow are transcendent on the Pyramid Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:02 , Roisin O'Connor

It’s Guy Garvey and the gang! The Brummie wonderboys are Glastonbury favourites, having serenaded revellers at Worthy Farm on a number of occasions. Garvey has just removed his jacket (I imagine it’s hot on the Pyramid Stage), but before he did, I noticed it has “Jack’s Dad” sewn onto the back – Jack is the name of his young son with actor Rachael Stirling.

As ever, Elbow have brought out the big guns, including a string section, backing dancers and the full band. Garvey, the closest you’ll ever see to a talking bear, is in a particularly affectionate mood, announcing that Glastonbury is “the place where love was invented”. Then he gets everyone to chant “love” out ahead of a rendition of the slow-burning “Kindling”.

This is gonna be a good one, lads.

Aussie pub rock band Amyl and the Sniffers are tearing up the John Peel Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 18:00 , Annabel Nugent

Aussie rock band Amyl and the Sniffers are delivering a brilliantly rambunctious set over at the John Peel Stage with frontwoman Amy Taylor decked out in gold.

She’s whipping up the crowd as she bounces across the stage and dances with security guards.

Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar makes his Glastonbury debut tonight!

Sunday 26 June 2022 17:44 , Annabel Nugent

This evening will see Kendrick Lamar make his Glastonbury debut following the release of his critically acclaimed, and highly anticipated album Mr Morale & the Big Steppers. Check out our five-star review of the record ahead of tonight’s set below...

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale and the Big Steppers is a tender, delicate opus – review

George Ezra – John Peel Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 17:15 , Mark Beaumont

★★★☆☆

“I asked them, ‘can it not be completely secret? Can we tell them at some point?’,” George Ezra tells a crowd stretching several football-pitch lengths outside the John Peel tent.

Secret? Until the Avalon stage makes a big deal of having booked The Joshua Trees, there can’t be a more obvious secret set than Gold Rush Kid on the John Peel Stage. His official announcement a few hours ago was a bit like a governmental press release declaring Brexit rubbish – the Ezra-ites have been camping out all morning for a set of sun-kissed Sunday vibes that, considering the crush, is about as laid-back as the only sunny lockdown bank holiday on Bournemouth beach.

Ezra – an unpretentious and genuinely endearing purveyor of vaguely soulful and tropical Radio 2 pleasantness – nonetheless makes the entire field, inside and out, feel part of his beach-side barbecue of song. “Cassy O” is a hearty country pop jig, “Listen to the Man” the softest of soft reggae and “Hold My Girl” a stirring glower ballad. The shimmer of “Barcelona” sounds like Hertford flesh sizzling gently in the Catalonian sun, while “Green Green Grass” even comes with a story of stumbling across a funeral party in St Lucia, so close is Ezra to becoming the soft pop Judith Chalmers.

The much anticipated party really kicks off with “Paradise” and the crowd groove gently through the closing third, relishing the steel drum carnival that breaks out during “Blame it on Me” – otherwise a less corny Mumford & Sons – and probably breaking records for mass yodelling on “Budapest”.

“Shotgun”, dedicated to the people under rocks on Mars who “didn’t get the memo” about Ezra’s appearance, sends us drifting cheerily off towards Diana Ross feeling, a little smugly, like someones.

Diana Ross fans defend singer after viewers complain she’s ‘off-key’ during Glastonbury set

Sunday 26 June 2022 17:06 , Roisin O'Connor

How dare they???

Diana Ross fans defend singer after viewers complain Glastonbury set is ‘off-key’

DhakaBrakha review – Pyramid Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 17:01 , Roisin O'Connor

DhakaBrakha – Pyramid Stage

Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha started life as a theatre project, rooted in an avant-garde scene that was burgeoning in Kyiv until Putin’s war put it on indefinite pause. For years, the band have served as representatives of their nation’s music and culture, typically ending shows chanting: “Stop Putin! No war!” Today, they’ve brought their anti-war message to the world’s biggest festival, in triumphant and defiant form.

Visually striking, they step out on to the Pyramid Stage, resplendent in towering black lamb’s wool hats, crimson beads and other finery. The crowd – themselves festooned in yellow and blue facepaint, floral headdresses and Ukrainian flags – cheer back at them.

Despite their traditional folk heritage, DhakaBrakha are as contemporary as they come. The whole experience is a riotous explosion of colour; hypnotic harmonies blend seamlessly with African rhythms and heavy percussive bass lines. Never losing sight of their political message, the band show footage of the destruction Russia’s war has wreaked on their homeland during the performance. As they reach their exhilarating climax, the words “Arm Ukraine now” shine out behind them. A reminder for us all of the unifying power of this festival.

As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in his pre-recorded message broadcast on the Other Stage on Friday morning: “Glastonbury is the greatest concentration of freedom these days and I ask you to share this feeling with everyone whose freedom is under attack.”

Today, on the Pyramid stage DhakaBrakha did exactly that. ★★★☆☆

George Ezra review

Sunday 26 June 2022 16:46 , Roisin O'Connor

George Ezra gave beachside BBQ vibes at his not-so secret Glastonbury set – review

Sunday 26 June 2022 16:27 , Roisin O'Connor

Me when the invite says ‘dress casual’

Diana Ross performs a joyous set on the Pyramid Stage in her Legends Slot

Sunday 26 June 2022 16:19 , Roisin O'Connor

Diana Ross and her wonderful choir and backing band are absolutely killing it on the Pyramid Stage right now, with Ross in one of the best outfits Glastonbury has ever seen.

Herbie Hancock review – Pyramid Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 16:16 , Ben Bryant

Herbie Hancock – Pyramid Stage

Proving that not every 80-something at Glastonbury needs to look like they might dissolve in the rain, jazz-fusion legend Herbie Hancock takes the stage on Sunday afternoon, with a performance so joyful and effortless it’s as welcome as a burst of sunshine.

The largely reclining Pyramid stage crowd, fanned by a cool breeze, stretches up to the tent line for the veteran virtuoso. Today, Hancock and his band stay away from his electronic-leaning Eighties material, choosing instead to lean into jazz-funk numbers such as “Actual Proof”, from 1974 album Thrust.

A glimpse of “Chameleon”, from classic album Headhunters is folded in early on, the distinctive popping bass collapsing into a series of extended solos. “Footprints” is dedicated to Hancock’s friend, 88-year-old saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who also co-founded the Seventies jazz-fusion band Weather Report.

“Cantaloupe Island”, with its rolling piano chords and sparky trumpet line, comes next, ahead of set closer “Chameleon” – the whole track this time – for which Hancock takes on a dazzling keytar solo that ripples right across the field. It’s going to be a great Sunday. ★★★★☆

Sunday 26 June 2022 15:30 , Louis Chilton

Who’s excited for Kendrick?

There’s much said for both Eilish and McCartney’s sets – a talented young artist near the start of her career, and the veteran of veterans four times her age – but the stage seems set for K-dot to make this a great one.

He’s one of the world’s foremost musical artists, at the peak of his powers.

Could be electrifying. Don’t miss out:

What day and time will Kendrick Lamar perform at Glastonbury?

Paul McCartney’s Johnny Depp video draws mixed reactions

Sunday 26 June 2022 15:22 , Roisin O'Connor

While the majority seemed overwhelmed by Paul McCartney’s headline gig on the Pyramid Stage last night, there has been some criticism aimed at the fact that he wheeled out the video for “My Valentine”, which features Hollywood star Johnny Depp.

McCartney had been including the video in his tour in the US ahead of Glastonbury, but many people on social media have expressed their discomfort at seeing Depp on a giant screen at Worthy Farm.

In a comment piece for The Independent, my colleague Harriet Williamson writes:

“McCartney’s use of the Depp video can only be interpreted as a public declaration of support. It’s a shame, but not unexpected. Men back up their friends, even in cases where their mate lost a UK libel case about being described as a “wife beater” – the abuse allegations were deemed “substantially true” by the Royal Courts of Justice in London.”

Read the full article here:

Opinion: Springsteen, Grohl, Lennon and… Depp. What was Paul McCartney thinking?

Sunday 26 June 2022 15:15 , Louis Chilton

Normally I find all the “Paul is dead” conspiracy-mongering to be in pretty poor taste, but this gave me a chuckle...

Sunday 26 June 2022 15:00 , Louis Chilton

Looking pretty gorgeous over in Worthy Farm... was all that talk of thunderstorms just fear-mongering?

(Sorry if I’ve just jinxed it)

Herbie Hancock jams on the Pyramid Stage

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:51 , Roisin O'Connor

Hello! It’s me! Yes, I’m back for the final day, Day 5 at Glastonbury Festival, bringing you more witty commentary and reaction to what’s going down at Worthy Farm. Right now, that means being green with envy at the thousands of people getting to boogie with Herbie Hancock on the Pyramid Stage right now. What a perfect set for such a glorious summer day!

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:45 , Louis Chilton

Before the festival started, The Independent ranked the best Glastonbury performances in history.

We might have to make a few major amendments after this weekend...

The 22 greatest Glastonbury performances ever

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:40 , Louis Chilton

For anyone who’s just joining us, here’s a little rundown of what happened at the festival yesterday.

It was a special day for festival-goers, capped by a truly special performance from Paul McCartney.

GOAT?

The biggest highlights from Saturday at Glastonbury 2022

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:28 , Louis Chilton

Our critic Mark Beaumont has managed to get within hearing distance of the rammed John Peel tent for George Ezra’s not-so surprise set. It was uncertain if the Gold Rush Kid would make it, given he came down with laryngitis earlier this week, but apparently he bounced back in time for a visit to Worthy Farm.

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:15 , Louis Chilton

Pretty stunning backdrop from Ukrainian folk band Dakhabrakha, don’t you think?

They were performing on the Pyramid Stage a short while ago.

Sunday 26 June 2022 14:00 , Louis Chilton

Sports Team, playing the 12.15pm slot at the John Peel Stage, draw in a huge crowd, their post-punk giving CPR to those (the band included) who were down at Block9 and Shangri-la till the early hours. It’s a set full of energy, as is typically, with frontman Alex Rice a ball of charisma. Their new album is out in August. Expect big things.

Sunday 26 June 2022 13:40 , Louis Chilton

Jack White’s been confirmed for a secret set this evening – and George Ezra is starting a surprise set of his own in about half an hour.

Read more about the secret sets here...

Glastonbury secret sets 2022: Rumours and how find out who will play

Sunday 26 June 2022 13:21 , Louis Chilton

Statement from a BBC spokesperson re: the edited iPlayer version of Olivia Rodrigo’s set yesterday:

“The decision to edit this section of the performance was made solely because of the strong language used throughout.

“There were no other factors involved in this decision.”

Should pretty much put the matter to bed.

Sunday 26 June 2022 13:00 , Louis Chilton

I don’t really think Paul McCartney had anything to answer for after last night.

But nonetheless, some Wings-averse misanthropes have complained about the setlist, and Piers Morgan – who else? – has taken it upon himself to defend the Beatles icon.

Full story...

Piers Morgan defends Paul McCartney after Glastonbury set criticism

Sunday 26 June 2022 12:40 , Louis Chilton

Some nice and innocuous celeb sightings for you...

Patrick Smith, The Independent’s culture editor, says he clocked Jessie Buckley “throwing shapes” last night at the Park backstage bar, and saw the Haim sisters dancing low with Alexa Chung. Mel C was there too.

In the Rabbit Hole, people were apparently “clustering” around Noel Gallagher, while Sienna Miller was chatting away in hospitality behind the Pyramid Stage.

Sunday 26 June 2022 12:20 , Louis Chilton

Charming little anecdote from Ben Bryant, who’s on site at Worthy Farm:

Ashlee, who runs a lost property office on site, has been telling me about some of the items that have been turned in over the weekend.

Among the most surprising was a single ten pound note (as yet unclaimed).

She has also taken receipt – and she has promised me she is not making this up – of a live tortoise.

“And we found its owner!” she says excitedly.

Sunday 26 June 2022 12:00 , Louis Chilton

That said, if you want to find out more about stage times, you can see our article below.

Or, if you want the full cahuna, visit the Glasto website itself.

Glastonbury 2022 full lineup and set times by day

Sunday 26 June 2022 11:42 , Louis Chilton

Thought this might be useful... a rundown of stage times for the Pyramid today...

Can’t do this for every stage, I’m afraid – there’s too dang many!

Sunday 26 June 2022 11:21 , Louis Chilton

Another nice little pic from Worthy Farm this morning.

Wonder if the rolling hangovers might be starting to take a toll...

Sunday 26 June 2022 11:06 , Louis Chilton

Seems like thousands of people have walked away from McCartney’s set last night calling it the best gig they’ve ever seen.

I’m not sure Jess Phillips MP is one of them...

Sunday 26 June 2022 10:40 , Louis Chilton

More on the confusion surrounding BBC iPlayer’s broadcast of Olivia Rodrigo’s set yesterday.

Viewers were left confused after iPlayer omitted a protest song by Rodrigo and Lily Allen from its highlights coverage.

The clip was, however, uploaded to YouTube on the official BBC account.

Glastonbury fans confused as BBC iPlayer omits Olivia Rodrigo’s Roe v Wade moment

Click here to read the full blog on The Independent's website