Chief music critic Neil McCormick rounds up his best moments from Friday...
A Glastonbury star is born CMAT’s star-making set had the entire Pyramid hillside doing what must be the world’s biggest ever two-step shuffle. Her band dress like a pound shop ABBA to perform witty pop culture ditties like a country rock Pulp fronted by Ireland’s answer to Chappel Roan. It was glorious entertainment from a performer who knows what she’s got and seized her moment to show the rest of the world.
Lewis Capaldi brings the emotion In 2023, the Scottish singer-songwriter was unable to finish his Glastonbury set, due to his Tourette’s syndrome leading to outbreaks of tics and vocal problems. He took time off to deal with health issues, but returned unannounced to complete his set. Capaldi was clearly emotional, the huge crowd that gathered for his comeback set at the Pyramid gave him the warmest of Glastonbury welcomes, and it was smiles, tears and singing all round.
The skyscraper and sandpaper voice remains intact, and his by-the-numbers ballads hit all the right spots. The Search is over Vintage Merseybeat band The Searchers drew what looked like the oldest audience in Glastonbury for their last ever show. The 1960’s hitmakers were once promoted as “the second best group in Liverpool” (you can guess the first).
They may have largely been forgotten by a younger generation who still revere the Beatles, but they ended a formidable career spanning seven decades with a set of c.
