Good afternoon and welcome to our live protection of the last day at Glastonbury. With temperature levels above 30C, and with substantial names lined up for this afternoon and tonight, things are truly warming up.
To the worry of sun baked celebration goers — and to the prospective pleasure of individuals seeing at home — a thunderstorm is threatening to strike Glastonbury this afternoon. No matter: there is still plenty worth getting soaked for. Elton John makes sure to take out all the stops, and with Paul McCartney identified here, there and all over around the celebration, will he be making a look?
There is a double whammy in the Sunday afternoon legends slot: Yusuf/Cat Stevens making all of us feel warm and mellow with Peace Train and Moonshadow, prior to Blondie struck us with the enduring cool of Heart of Glass, Rapture and other punk, disco and rap dispatches from late 70s New York.
Sightings of Sir Paul McCartney, 81, have actually triggered speculation that may make a look on the phase
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Elsewhere, the amazing Weyes Blood stumbles upon like a wicked variation of Karen Carpenter, Cat Burns is progressively appearing like a pop balladeer to provide Adele a run for her money, and disco-soul legend Candi Staton’s set at West Holts will certainly get all of us singing Young Hearts Run Free as the sun decreases. Hang therein, everybody. The Glastonbury party/endurance test remains in the last lap.
Princess Beatrice, 2nd left, is identified with her partner Edo Mapelli Mozzi, far right, welcoming good friends with a hug near the hospitality location
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Andrew Garfield makes a look at the Pyramid Stage to enjoy Cat Stevens
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Love the farm, leave no trace, visitors advised
Everywhere you enter Glastonbury there are posters urging music fans not to treat the farmland like a toilet. A substantial portion of the 200,000 in presence takes no notification (Will Humphries and Charlie Parker compose).
Music-fans who proclaim to like Worthy Farm, the home and dairy farm of Michael and Emily Eavis, the celebration organisers, are consistently urinating in the hedgerows, spitting tooth paste out on the outdoor camping premises and cleaning with hair shampoo under drinking water taps next the river and streams that stream through the website.
The celebration runs a popular “Love The Farm, Leave No Trace” campaign throughout the website with posters, videos on the cinemas in between acts and with messaging in the celebration program and website.
Revellers have actually been advised to regard Worthy Farm and leave the location as they discovered it
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They have actually likewise supplied more than 2,000 long drop toilet seats, 2,000ft of male urinals, 4 websites of female urinals and 1,200 garden compost bathrooms along with handicapped bathrooms.
An annoyed Glastonbury steward was seen getting ravers as they urinated through a fence by the IIcon phase in the early hours of the early morning.
The middle-aged dreadlocked celebration employee yelled at them, “you can see the sign right above you! F***ing stop!” prior to pulling them back by their clothing.
Crowds flock to the phase for the last day
The scale of Glastonbury never ever stops working to astonish
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Crowds crammed in to enjoy Lewis Capaldi regardless of the heat
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Revellers maximized any staying space to declare an area for their camping tents
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Cat Stevens evaluation: a victory
Cat Stevens, Pyramid Stage
★★★★★
What a discovery: Cat Stevens was an emphasize of the whole Glastonbury weekend. “From nervously going up to the microphone of a little folk club in Soho to playing the incredible Pyramid Stage, what a journey,” said Cat Stevens, who likewise ended up being Yusuf Islam along that journey. He was noticeably overwhelmed by the reaction thoughtful, questing tunes from his early Seventies height like The Wind and Moonshadow got, carried out with the very same special of expression and singing fragility he initially brought them to the world with. It was, specifically for those people whose moms and dads played albums like Teaser and the Firecat all the time, extremely moving.
Cat Stevens provided an impassioned efficiency of Peace Train on the Pyramid Stage
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“Here’s one about this earth and how we continually mistreat it,” he said of the pioneering demonstration tune Where Do The Children Play. It assisted that he had such a good band, however truly it had to do with the depth of tunes that, though from half a years, Cat/Yusuf sang like he composed them the other day. “Lock all the leaders up in London Zoo,” he recommended as a remedy to war, prior to an impassioned Peace Train. It was a victory.
Elton John’s finest 25 tunes ranked
The Elton John “Dodger Stadium” outfit influenced by his 1975 trip was a clear favourite amongst revellers
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These Elton John fans left fellow revellers seeing double
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Fans have gone all out to mark the end of Elton John‘s yellow brick road set
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Here we go – goodbye, finally, to the yellow brick road set that has travelled all over the world as Elton John says a long, long farewell. This is his last UK gig. His first was 1970, a year after the moon landing. An era ends and expect tears – not least from the performer who, rather incongruously, has to go and play in Zurich the week after. Poor man – what a comedown, but expect this night to pack most of the hits you love. To celebrate, I have put together my top 25 songs by the singer with, perhaps, a controversial choice for number one and absolutely no sign of Crocodile Rock.
Read Elton John’s finest 25 tunes ranked
The 3 style people are simple to area
There are 3 kinds of individuals on the last day of Glastonbury. Those who are prepared to go home, those who demonstrably are not – and the VIPs. You can inform each people apart by what they are using (composes Hannah Rogers).
The very first group are using clothing that carefully resemble their ‘real world’ clothing. That’s most likely simply shorts and a tee shirt, I’d bet, in this weather condition – maybe a water resistant for that possible shower and reassuring dark glasses to conceal behind. These individuals are tired, you see – so really, really worn out – and wish to use something comfy to see them through the last hours, which they’re not counting down, they assure, however they are delighted for a hot shower and their own beds. In reality, they have most likely already loaded their bags. Post Elton, they will be gone.
Sienna Miller and her fellow shiny posse members are spottable merely for the reality that they look so tidy
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The 2nd clan – the hardcore partyers – are still using their sequins from last night. They have actually not been to bed and they do not mean to go now. Lycra; outfits; shine; wigs. The celebration isn’t over till the Eavis family says it is – and they have actually saved their most OTT attire ‘til last.
Some revellers couldn’t take the heat and began to evacuate early
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Revellers in the 3rd classification – the shiny posse – are spottable merely for the reality that they look so tidy. So do the certainly branded clothing they might or might not be being paid to use. Lily James, Billie Piper, Gemma Chan and Dominic West were on website this weekend using Barbour waxed coats and wellies; Poppy Delevigne looked difficult attractive on Friday in an intense crochet mini gown and glossy black Hunter boots. Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams and India Amarteifio, of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story popularity, were hauling around Coach purses. Those cost £450.
Only Stormzy mixed in with the crowd, in as much as he can. He was roaming around the other day using a white vest, intense shorts and an accessory normally scheduled for hen dos: large, heart formed white sunglassses. Fabulous.
Gwenno evaluation: The crowd didn’t understand what she was singing, however it didn’t matter
Gwenno, Park Stage★★★★☆
A best midday Sunday minute was supplied by Gwenno; a vocalist who not just has the perfect voice for dreamlike country rock with mild psychedelic overtones, however likewise sings in Welsh and Cornish (Will Hodgkinson composes). Given that roughly 85 individuals are proficient in the latter language there was no opportunity of understanding what she was raving the majority of the time, however it didn’t matter: this was music abundant in tune, consistency and environment.
The crowds seeing Gwenno had no opportunity of understanding what she was raving the majority of the time
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‘This is about a land that time forgot,’ she said (in English) of one tune, and although there was no opportunity of capturing its title it rolled in addition to peaceful strength. There was a tune about the threats of ignoring human requirements in the rush to develop AI – in Cornish – and another about a god of cheese. Perhaps that summarized the appeal of Gwenno’s technique. She’s keeping the conservation of the old methods a quick altering world. It might be a difficulty on a par with that of King Cnut, however somebody’s got to do it and Gwenno did it in design.
Weyes Blood require to the Park Stage
Last year, The Sunday Times Culture area provided Weyes Blood’s And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow their gong for Album of the Year (Jonathan Dean composes).
The LA citizen is a sort of Joni Mitchell for the digital age; a bit enthusiastic, a lot negative, with a spacious voice that has actually resulted in invites on tunes by The Killers, Lana Del Rey and John Cale. Her mid afternoon slot outside on the Park Stage is not perfect – she has a late night sort of feel – however the tunes will, ideally, make her some brand-new fans, going by.
When I talked to her in 2015, I was pleased to see a number of our readers listening to her for the very first time and being as connected in as I was.
Read The Sunday Times’s roundup of the very best albums of 2022
