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The headliners for the 2024 edition of the Glastonbury music festival have been announced, and the names include Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA. The British music festival is set to return to Somerset’s Worthy Farm on June 26, and will go on to June 30. Lipa will make her Pyramid Stage debut as the festival’s headliner. A day later, the British rock band Coldplay will make their first Pyramid Stage appearance since 2016. Little Simz is expected to make a return to Glastonbury to play the slot before…

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, director Ridley Scott, singer Leona Lewis and Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis were among those recognized by King Charles’ 2024 New Year Honours list. Clarke will receive a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) not for her acting but for her charitable work: The actress, who survived two brain hemorrhages, established the SameYou foundation with her mother, to help those suffering with the same condition. Clarke called the New Year honor “wonderful awareness building…

"I’ve heard of curfews before. But I didn’t know they actually turned the lights off," the singer told the Sunday Times Back in June, Lana Del Rey hit the stage at Glastonbury 30 minutes after her scheduled start time. She told the audience that her headlining performance was delayed because her hair took so long to do. Regardless of the reasoning, the festival cut power to her set when the clock struck midnight. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, the singer opened up about being in the…

I gave up drinking a year ago and, for me, there seemed like no better place to spend my sober anniversary than Glastonbury. I last came in 2011. I think the main difference this time will be that I actually remember the festival.After going sober, I promised myself I wouldn’t change the things that I enjoy – and one of those is music. Alcohol hurt my life and my mind for a long time and I was determined that, after I gave it up, it wouldn’t take all the things I love with it.WednesdayI arrive at 6pm, later than I would…

You might believe we’re fresh from the biggest music festival in the world, what with more than 200,000 people having assembled in some fields in Somerset. We’re not.Actually, Glastonbury is pretty much a minnow compared to the biggest music festival in the world. Soundstorm, held each December, attracts more than triple the Glastonbury crowd, but you don’t hear the headliners wanging on about what a life-changing experience it was. You don’t hear them mention it at all, to be honest. I only heard of it earlier this year,…

Thursday night at Glastonbury was pure brown joy. South Asians at the festival’s Lonely Hearts Club stage exchanged knowing looks of shock and elation as Sbtrkt closed his set with a track rarely heard outside Spotify playlists: Jai Paul’s Str8 Outta Mumbai. The crowd had barely settled from the high energy tablas when London-based south Asian DJ Jyoty took the stage with banger after banger: a highlight was hearing British Asian pop star Jay Sean, as well as an Afrobeats mix of classic Hindi hit Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein…

Glastonbury “moments” do not typically involve silence. On Saturday night, Lewis Capaldi changed that. There were no surprise guests, no wild costumes, nor any clever covers. At times towards the end of his Pyramid stage set, Capaldi himself wasn’t even singing. But the silence was filled – by the sound of a hundred thousand people coming together to sing the words for him.If you didn’t see the set, Capaldi – who has spoken previously about having Tourette syndrome and anxiety – had problems with his voice throughout and…

Sir Elton John ‘knew Dua Lipa wouldn’t be at his farewell Glastonbury show’(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz/Instagram) Sir Elton John has reportedly said he knew Dua Lipa would be absent from his Glastonbury show. The ‘Rocket Man’ singer, 76, played his last ever show in Britain to close the festival at Worthy Farm, Somerset, on Sunday (25.06.23) night, and instead of turning up as expected, 27-year-old Dua posted pictures of her having a dinner party while millions of fans watched the gig on TV and at the event. As Dua…

Glastonbury 2023 has been and gone with an incredible weekend of music at Worthy Farm. The UK’s biggest music festival welcomed over 200,000 people to its fields to see iconic sets from the Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Lizzo, and Lil Nas X, to name a few. And, on Sunday night, the famous Pyramid stage closed with the last ever live performance of Elton John on his home turf - historic. If you were lucky enough to be at Glastonbury 2023 this weekend or watched the live sets at home and are feeling blue, we’ve compiled a…

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