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Thanks for sticking around – we’re off to see Adele, see if the much-rumoured Lady Gaga appearance becomes a reality, and make eyes at Lady Leshurr’s backing dancers. Kicking off at 7pm will be Tim Jonze’s liveblog of the evening’s action. See you then!
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Mø: party on the Peel stage
Forget the Theatre stage: all the drama is taking place at Mø’s John Peel party. An unrelenting barrage of dance moves, fist-clenching and general limb-trashing sets the tone for Glastonbury’s Saturday night. While the slower bits of the set feel a little bulbous and billowy, the Danish punk turned Scandipop superstar’s uptempo songs are totally club-ready. She ends her set on the Major Lazer track Lean On – the most-streamed song ever on Spotify – which she co-wrote, before crowdsurfing, hands still pumping the air, the audience carrying her towards a truly triumphant finish.
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They call it Madness
Very much a set of two halves from the Nutty Boys on the Pyramid stage. Though they open with Embarrassment, and follow it with The Prince, then throw in My Girl and Wings of a Dove, there’s a lot of less familiar material. That run ends when guitarist Chris “Chrissy Boy” Foreman performs a bizarre karaoke version of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell. After that, it’s hit after hit after hit, and the crowd are getting as nutty as they can. given the fact they can’t move their feet. They encore with a version of David Bowie’s Kooks, and finish with It Must Be Love, as perfect a moment as you could wish for.
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Kurt Vile: mud fan on the Park stage
KURT VILE
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Paradoxically industrious US slacker Kurt Vile has been bringing his jams to The Park. Kate Hutchinson was there:
Here is the world’s most chipper festival act, Kurt Vile, bringing smiles and stage banter that would put Vince Staples to shame. Just kidding. His hair hangs over his eyes as he announces “I think I prefer mud” in that distinctive, wonderfully sneery drawl of his, and launches into his morose outlaw banjo blues. Luckily his guitar playing, all spangly and twangly grunge Americana, is the real draw here.
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Jagwar Ma at the Park stage
Guardian contributor Hannah J Davies went to see Aussie trio Jagwar Ma:
With their swirling synth hooks and shimmy-ready basslines, the Aussie trio had crowds floating off to another dimension at the already laidback-as-harem-pants location of the Park stage. Expect even more ephemeral grooves later on as Tame Impala carry on the psych rock rollercoaster.
Last night’s legends
People who played on Friday night have been showing off on social meeja about how many people came to see them, beginning with Disclosure:
Ed Miliband chats Brexit
Lisa O’Carroll went down to the Green Futures to see Ed Miliband speak:
Ed Miliband has said Jeremy Corbyn is not to blame for the failed Remain campaign.
He said the referendum result reflected deafness in Westminster to problems outside London and a wider discontent about jobs and housing.
“I don’t think we should blame Jeremy Corbyn for the seismic earthquake,” he said at the Speakers forum.
The task ahead was to focus beyond party politics and the future of the country, he told a small crowd in a muddy arena. “Part of the problem is that Westminster has been talking to itself too much,” he said.
He added that Labour’s political vision for a post-Brexit Britain is “not there yet” and called on the left to regroup to build that.
“Our task is to come up with that vision and to use this opportunity to recognise what’s driven this decision,” he said.
Miliband is the only senior Labour figure to appear at Glastonbury after both Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell pulled out of scheduled panel discussions.
Miliband said the exit vote reflected years of pent-up “legitimate grievances” about jobs, housing as well as immigration. “This is a moment when many people are feeling fear but, in my view, we have got to accept the vote and then shape it [the future] around progressive causes,” he said.
He also called on David Cameron to ratify the Paris climate change agreement as his last act in office.
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Example + Tom Odell: lads on tour
Also incoming is dance music everyman Example, who is getting stuck into some croissants en route:
Tom Odell is up soon on the Other stage meanwhile, and looks ready to open up a circle pit, drink some kitten blood on stage, etc:
Geoff Barrow: ‘the racists won’
Coming up in a bit on the William’s Green stage are BEAK>, aka Geoff Barrow from Portishead’s other band. Reckon there’ll be a good chance of some anti-Brexit bants, judging by his Twitter:
Ok let's put it this way....
— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) June 24, 2016
The Racists won.
— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) June 24, 2016
It’s actually quite hard to tell there’s been a sea change in the European sociopolitical climate – Glastonbury actually feels more like its own nation state operating independently of the rest of Somerset, as if founded by some cider-quaffing libertarian.
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So #fashion it Hurts
Hey gang – Ben Beaumont-Thomas here, manning the liveblog for the next couple of hours. Harriet Gibsone just went to go see handsome clotheshorses Hurts on the Other stage.
It takes a bold soul to wear a white suit at this year’s Glastonbury – and certainly Hurts frontman Theo fancies himself as music’s most sophisticated maverick. Backed by a euphoric gospel choir, the group’s insanely pompous synth pop seems better placed in Eurovision rather than a muddy field in Somerset. Ending the set by chucking out a bunch of white roses to the audience, the show, full of songs that give an illusion of grandeur but never quite deliver, is absurdly earnest and self-aggrandising the point that it’s actually, almost, enjoyable.
To these ears they seem less like a band and more an extended experiment in testing the endurance of a major label, but that’s just me.
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Future of the Left Field
Sure, Glasto may be full of fun and nonsense and celebrities in expensive wellies but the Left Field tent has been holding up the serious end as usual this weekend and fuelling the fire of political debate. Corbyn may not be pulling on his pac-a-mac and appearing himself anymore, but his supporters are still out in force.
Lisa O’Carroll reports on today’s big talking points as she awaits Ed Miliband’s arrival at the Green Futures field.
If Glastonbury can be seen as a straw pool for the under 25s, then support for Jeremy Corbyn is undimmed by the referendum result.
The mere mention of his name in the the Left Field tent, home of political discussions at the festival, raised an enormous cheer on Saturday lunchtime.
Another enormous cheer rang out when Clive Lewis, MP for Norfolk South, who was one of the first to support Corbyn took a shot at the Blairites in the party.
“I’m not going to stand back and hand my party back to the neoliberals who got us here in the first place.”
“They are not the future of the party, you are the future of the party,” he told the crowd urging them to join the party and ensure a “progressive Brexit”.
“I do not want to take my party back. I want to take it forward,” he added.
Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato went further calling for both the Labour party and Conservative Party to “split” into the opposing sides exposed during the referendum.
She warned that the Tories had “no domestic mandate” as those supporting the left and the right had voted for Brexit.
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The Last Shadow muppets
If you were wondering how Alex Turner and Miles Kane are planning to warm up for their Glasto set on the Pyramid tonight then, guys, WORRY NO LONGER. Here’s what they told the Telegraph earlier today:
“I usually go to sleep,” said Turner, while bandmate Kane said, “I’ll be listening to a northern soul compilation in me undies.”
Funny – the former is exactly what I do to listen to their music. Zing!
Hello, is it me you’re looking for?
Anyone seen Adele yet? She was last spotted at Glasto’s local Tesco yesterday. Whereabouts now unknown. We were hoping we’d see her trudging through the sludge backstage, eating halloumi and drinking a Brothers’ cider by now.
#adelewatch
Adele was spotted at Tesco, Glastonbury an hour ago!
— AdeleNow (@AdeleNowuk) June 24, 2016
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Hungry like the Wolf Alice
GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2016 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 25, 2016 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Redferns) Photograph: Samir Hussein/Redferns
The Hann is deep in the Pyramid stage being blasted by the future of British rock. Which sort of sounds like the 90s. It’s Wolf Alice!
Over on the Pyramid stage, Wolf Alice have drawn a big, big crowd, to the delight of singer Ellie Rowsell, who says it makes up for missing out on an emerging bands spot five years ago. Their blend of post-grunge and shoegaze (with a spot of baggy on Friend) is about as fashionably unfashionable as you can get and the reception proves it.
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Brush your teeth – and more Lady Leshurr Glasto tips
Yesterday may have been unofficially dubbed ‘grime day’ for its lad-heavy bustling bill of UK MCs over at Sonic and Skepta’s Pyramid set. But today it’s the turn of the queen of grime, Lady Leshurr, to show why rap’s crown is hers. BBT caught her show over at the Park Stage…
Birmingham’s pint-sized master of scorn generates a rapturous reception with her punchline rap bangers, and should probably be given a set on the comedy stage to add to her three shows across the weekend. Her withering Queen Speech freestyles, with their fixation on personal hygiene – see the cult anthem Brush Your Teeth – get a hilarious new resonance at a mud-filled Glasto.
And if anyone’s feeling particularly groggy this morning, she has more motivational help and Glasto guidance where that came from.
No matter how you spend your day today.........just #ThinkBig and #MakeItCount!
— QUEEN (@LadyLeshurr) June 25, 2016
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Meanwhile, later tonight…
The Glasto team – OK fine, just me – are already thinking about what Saturday’s biggest after dark party will be. My money is on Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker from Tame Impala’s mysterious musical bromance in the depths of Shangri-La’s hellscape. It’s hard to know what to expect really but, by the looks of this marvellous flyer, my money’s on lo-fi hipster karaoke where Parker sings a 26-minute version of Uptown Funk and DJ Ronson keeps pulling up rewinds of Elephant. Here’s hoping for a Lady Gaga cameo, too.
Up, up and Janeway
From Senegal to Alabama, Michael “The Hann” Hann has found the “sensual growls” of St Paul and the Broken Bones over on the Park stage …
Another of a new wave of classic soul revivalists, Alabama’s St Paul and the Broken Bones have a secret weapon: Paul Janeway. Their singer, portly and fresh-faced in grey suit and pink gingham shirt, looks like an office junior whose daily highlight is the posting of the staff canteen menu. But boy can he sing. He doesn’t look like a deep soul testifier, but he sounds like one: a sensual growl and a startling falsetto help him rouse a sleepy crowd. Fine stuff, though if you want to see the best classic soul revivalists around right now, have a look at the mighty Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, on the Park stage on Sunday afternoon.
In lieu of a live photo where you cannot see their faces, here is a picture of them in front of Stonehenge instead.
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The Pyramid stage takes a trip to Senegal
Caspar Llewellyn Smith has been blissing out to Baaba Maal in the main arena. Unofficial reports say that Glasto will start bottling the Baaba hangover cure for 2017.
It’s hard to credit that Baaba Maal is now 62, but the Senegalese singer remains in wonderful vocal nick and – initially mining an acoustic vein – effortlessly transports the Pyramid crowd to his patch of the world. There’s also an appearance from the Very Best – playing at West Holts themselves later – and their souped up vibes from the warm heart of Africa beautifully soothe any lingering (or developing) hangovers.
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K-Hutch here on the Glasto live blog until 4pm. Let’s roll!
So @dualipa just came on at #glastonbury to a sample of that excruciating radio interview about her name. AMAZING.
— Alice BevertonPalmer (@alicebeepea) June 25, 2016
Following on from the Dua Lipa review below: one festivalgoer said she pulled a Jay-Z at Glasto 2008 and came on stage to a clip from – and I don’t think I’m exaggerating here – the disastrous Beats 1 radio interview she recently endured with host Ebro Darden. He spent most of it trying to get his head around where her parents’ native Albania was; she spent most of it cringing inside out, no doubt. Relive it here.
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Squeezing out the hits
More feline fare, this time on the Pyramid stage, where Michael Hann caught a bit of Squeeze:
Chris Difford introduced Cool for Cats with an observation that it was a “south London song … And you’ll be hearing lots of north London songs later”. He meant Madness, also appearing on the Pyramid stage on Saturday afternoon, but Squeeze certainly weren’t conceding defeat in the battle of the 80s slice-of-life purveyors. Playing beneath blazing sunshine, they were like a glass of orange juice for the soul. It seems almost incomprehensible that songs as good as Labelled With Love and Goodbye Girl (which had the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis singing along lustily) could ever have been written. One wonders if Cool for Cats really benefited from Glenn Tilbrook’s screeching guitar solo, but you can’t begrudge him and Difford the right to a little self indulgence, given the grand entertainment they lay out at lunchtime.
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Apols and lols from Cat’s Eyes
Ben Beaumont-Thomas trekked to the Park stage to take in the duo that makes Jarvis Cocker laugh and has this early report:
After some fairly major faffing and droll apologies from Faris Badwan, Cat’s Eyes play an alternately perky and dreamy set of girl group-influenced guitar pop. It’s bookended with covers of the Twin Peaks theme and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Thanks to 13 performers on stage, including a six-strong female choir, there’s a sumptuous heft to prop up Badwan’s lugubrious and wandering vocals, and a motorik chug keeps a steely menace pumping throughout.
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A truly big-name performance on the John Peel
Harriet “Hazza” Gibsone has been to see Dua Lipa at the John Peel stage and had a ball by the sounds of things:
Part Pussycat Doll, part Charli XCX, former Sylvia Young Theatre School attendee Dua Lipa is an arresting artist to behold. Dressed in a long, pink trench coat, a choker, goth platform shoes and a leotard, she takes to the stage after a momentous build-up by her band. Her name displayed in huge purple lights – as if to manipulate the audience into believing a significant star is centre stage. Dua Lipa’s music reflects that vibrant image; it’s turbo pop with an edge. As the rest of us trudge around with dirty nails and soggy socks, this is probably the most polished, proficient performance we’ll witness all weekend.
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‘Get stuck in’ – the political mood at Glasto
Roving reporters Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Lisa O’Carroll have written about how the festival has reacted to the result of the EU referendum. While there has been a general sense of despair, some artists have issued rallying calls, including – unsurprisingly – Billy Bragg:
Speaking before his performance, Glastonbury stalwart Billy Bragg offered a call to arms to the young generation, the majority of whom voted to stay in the EU. Admitting he had not voted when he first got the vote in 1979, Bragg said now was not the time for political apathy.
“My guess is there’s a lot of young people who woke up this morning thinking, there’s absolutely no way this country would be so stupid to vote us out,” he said. “You probably thought there’s no point in going to the polling station, I’ll let someone else do that. I’m not here to condemn them, after I made the mistake I got stuck into the fight. So now it’s your job to get stuck in.”
While Jeremy Corbyn was forced to cancel his performance at the festival, we’ve been told Ed Miliband is making his way to Glastonbury. He’s due to appear with Adele on the Pyramid stage at Speaker’s Forum at 4pm.
Meanwhile, Caspar Llewellyn Smith captured a tasty bit of protest on Instagram:
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Philip Glass on David Bowie
Glastonbury 2016 has been full of heartfelt remembrance, from Jo Cox to Prince. Tonight, meanwhile, has a spectacular tribute to a man who was inextricably tied to Worthy Farm: David Bowie. The Park stage will host a performance of Philip Glass’s Heroes Symphony, the American composer’s orchestral take on the Thin White Duke’s seminal album. Glass spoke to the Guardian about tonight’s performance and the enigma that was Bowie:
The Glastonbury performance of Heroes on Saturday night was [conductor] Charles Hazlewood’s idea. I’m just so sorry I can’t be there. It’s one of those crazy scheduling things – I wish I could be in two places at one time … But, rain or shine, it will be an event. A huge one … As to what David would have made of the Glastonbury tribute, I really have no idea! He might have showed up and not even told you he was coming, or he might have enjoyed it from afar but not come. You never knew with David. He was a master unto himself.
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Witness the weirdness
As ever, we’re getting some fine picture contributions via Instagram and Guardian Witness. Here are a few from Reader ID2410373, who has been capturing some of the more unusual sights from the festival:
Shots anyone?
Down at Shangri La!
Tipis and tents
A view behind the Tipis.
Please send us your own best shots, either via Guardian Witness or by using the #guardianglasto hashtag on Instagram.
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Anna Meredith brings the apocalypse to West Holts
Afternoon all! Gwilym here, taking over from Caspar as day two continues. Here’s one of those live reviews we promised earlier. Kate Hutchinson has waded through a tonne of mud to catch Anna Meredith, and these are her observations:
The promising classical/experimental composer opens West Holts, starting with the bracing Nautilus. It’s suitable music for an apocalypse – at least for the few who have crossed the water-logged field – with its foreboding blasts of tuba, tense cello and synths.
For more on Meredith’s curious classical-pop crossover, here’s a Guardian interview with her from earlier this year.
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The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir at the Pyramid
Our Michael Hann has been to the Pyramid for the first act of the day:
It would be a very hard-hearted festivalgoer indeed that didn’t see an amateur choir on the main stage and not melt a little. Last year, Gareth Malone’s festival choir had me blubbing at Latitude; this year specks of dirt unaccountably got in my eyes when the Lewisham and Greenwich Choir mashed up Bridge Over Troubled Water with Fix You. Nothing at all do with feeling moved about nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, speech therapists, et al singing about making people better, of course. Oh no. You know what you’ll get with an amateur choir – uplifting and supportive melancholy, and so Lean on Me and that perennial TV choir favourite Fields of Gold get an airing. But it’s just what the people rousing themselves for the day – and the freaky dancers who haven’t taken to their beds at all – need at 11.30am on Saturday morning.
A note about Pyramid stage conditions: the front of stage is surprisingly good, perhaps thanks to tens of thousands of people treading it hard yesterday, and perhaps because enough straw has been put down there to keep a herd of buffalo warm for three winters.
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Ground conditions: update
Other bands that the Guardian team intend to see today include Tame Impala, the Very Best, Floating Points, Cat’s Eyes, Dua Lipa, Madness and Kurt Vile. But if you’re more interested in schadenfreude, here’s an impression of what the site looks like at lunchtime.
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Welcome back to Worthy Farm
The sun is just about shining in Somerset and the festivalgoers who have risen from their tents are slipping through the copious mud with what convincingly passes for enthusiasm. And why not, because the rest of today promises turns from everyone including the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, New Order, Adele and so very many more.
Yesterday brought a headline appearance from Muse, which our critic Alexis Petridis (full thing here) seemed to rather enjoy.
At their least appealing, you’re struck by the creeping fear that all the stuff in the lyrics and on the screens about the new world order and survivalism might not be entirely tongue-in-cheek, and Muse start to bear a faintly dispiriting resemblance to Queen – had Freddie Mercury avidly consumed the collected works of David Icke. But there are other moments when it seems both knowingly preposterous and preposterously entertaining – the work of a band who’ve come to the conclusion that more is more. Singing along, letting off flares, the crowd seem to agree.
There’s plenty more Friday band action rounded up here. In the wee hours, meanwhile, NYC Downlow – in the Bloc 9 area – saw a surprise appearance from Róisín Murphy and a tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting by Roger Sanchez. “We will not stand for discrimination, we will not stand for alienation,” the DJ said.
We will unite all hands across this country, that country, my country, your country, every country on this planet, every race, creed, sexuality and religion... we are all human and we all deserve to love and respect each other.
Our photographer David Levene was tickled, meanwhile, that the NYC set seems this year to have paid tribute to him.
Earlier outside the same venue, Hop Chip played a DJ set devoted to Prince, which climaxed with the all-time killer combination of I Wanna Be Your Lover and Controversy. My bleary colleague Ben is standing beside me nursing a carrot smoothie and says it was “religious”. Indeed.
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