Glastonbury 2024 live: Coldplay as headliner on the Pyramid Stage, setlist, surprise guests and BBC stream

It is less than an hour until Chris Martin and Co. enter the Pyramid Stage and headline the Glastonbury program for the fifth time – a historic event.

This seems like the ideal moment to share Mark Beaumont’s passionate defense of the band:

I mean, she could have headlined this year. A Mercury Prize, top 10 albums, Brit Awards… Little Simz is at her best and everyone knows it. Huge crowd for her on the Pyramid Stage and YES, I know everyone wants to see bloody Coldplay but PJ Harvey and LCD Soundsystem didn’t pull in as many people as Dua Lipa yesterday. She’s phenomenal, a bursting force of nature full of ambition. I adore her, can you tell?

They may be singing “Oh Jeremy Corbyn” as they party out in the fields, writes Ryan Coogan, but are these festival-goers actually taking those progressive values ​​home with them?

Glastonbury 2024 viewers falsely accuse Dua Lipa of mimicking her headlining performance following a problem with the BBC broadcast.

When Dua Lipa sang songs like “Training Season,” “New Rules,” and “Levitating,” many viewers watching her from their couches at home accused the singer of imitating her singing—an accusation that was firmly denied.

“I could be wrong but it looks like Dua Lipa is pantomiming at #Glastonbury and this just sounds too perfect to be live,” complained one viewer on X/Twitter, with another adding: “Dua Lipa – either pantomiming or the sound mix is ​​all wrong. It just sounds wrong.”

After Marina Abramovich’s seven-minute silence, the final stage of the rock artist’s Bowie-like revolution reaches its haunting conclusion, writes Mark Beaumont