The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

riday morning at Glastonbury underlines that the old cliche about the festival having something for everybody is only a cliche because it’s true. Your options range from the beatific to the profoundly challenging . From the dependable – a sharp-suited Squeeze on the Pyramid stage, offering up one of the late 70s most beloved run of hits – to a largely unknown quantity.

Given the amount of pop-country currently occupying the singles chart, it feels oddly timely that Shania Twain – whose steroidal brand of pop-country broke big, as she reminds us, 27 years ago – is in the legends slot. The crowd is enormous: if there’s a crippling global shortage of pink cowboy hats, it’s pretty obvious where the finger should be pointed.

Towards the end of her set, SZA informs the audience that she was “so nervous to be here”. You can understand why. Judging by the fans who assembled at her O2 Arena gig last year, her core audience are teenage girls, not Glastonbury’s main demographic: if you believed what you read on social media following the announcement of her headlining slot, a significant proportion of Glastonbury goers had simply never heard of her.

It concludes with her performing 20something, during which she causes a degree of screamy bedlam by descending to the barrier at the front of the stage.

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