Glastonbury Festival 2024 live updates: Lineup, schedule, BBC stream and Dua Lipa latest

Here we go, the 13-member band Seventeen making history as the first ever K-pop act to play Glastonbury Festival. It seems wild, given K-pop’s enduring popularity for at least the past five years, but there you go.

Seventeen are certainly not letting the opportunity go to waste. This looks set to be a masterclass in entertainment, featuring jaw-dropping precision in the choreography and plenty of bops to dance along to. Although the audience looks a bit thin?

“I’ve wanted to play that stage for my whole life, it’s been the dream… so when that moment is realised, it’s almost supernatural,” Olivia Dean tells the BBC from Glastonbury.

Dean said it was amazing to see “so many women” on the Glastonbury lineup this year: “It helps you imagine it, when you see people like you.”

“I loved seeing Adele,” she said. “I remember seeing Stormzy and feeling like, I’m watching history.”

Bit of info for you here in case you’re not familiar with the next act on the Pyramid Stage, K-pop stars Seventeen.

On the Pyramid Stage, Olivia Dean delivers a performance brimming with charisma and confidence. Her debut album, Messy, shortlisted for a Mercury, is all about self-discovery in the wake of a break up.

Hers is a big sound, powered by soulful, sonorous voice that can skip merrily through the octaves. Live, it’s a joy to witness, with cymbals, drums, saxophones, trumpets and super-slick choreography all adding ballast to a supremely polished performance, which also sees her well up as she pays tribute to her grandmother, who was part of the Windrush generation and moved to the UK when she was 18.

The Grammy and Brit winner has earned widespread acclaim for her two studio albums ‘CTRL’ and ‘SOS’ – yet, based on the confusion sparked when she was announced as a Glastonbury headliner this year, many still don’t know her name. Here’s why you should absolutely dive into her work, writes Kate Solomon

This is the first time that Glastonbury Festival will have two female headliners, as Dua Lipa will be joined by SZA.

“I feel so lucky to be a part of that shift,” she told the BBC. “it’s important to have more female headliners. We’ve just got to keep applying the pressure and making that change happen.”

She said trying to invite the audience onstage for an encore of “Blow Your Mind (Mwah)”, like she did during her last Glastonbury performance, might be tricky this time around: “It might be tight. But I’ve got to figure out a way to make 150,000 people feel like they’re in a small little nightclub.

“That’s the goal, and if there’s one place to do it, it’s gotta be Glasto.”

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has defended the festival’s line-up amid criticism of there being a lack of rock bands as pop star Dua Lipa prepares to headline Friday’s music.

This year’s event sees headline performances from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and American R&B singer SZA, while country star Shania Twain will play the coveted Legends slot.

“I think the line-up reflects what’s happening in the music world at the moment – there aren’t a lot of new rock acts to choose from if I’m honest,” Eavis said.

“Hopefully that will emerge again, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead… and that was great but music changes all the time and right now this is where we’re at.”