Glastonbury 2023: Top moments
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters perform on Pyramid stage
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters, performed as The Churnups, on the Pyramid Stage on day 3 of the Glastonbury festival
Notting Hill Carnival comes to Glastonbury
Performers from the Notting Hill Carnival danced on Day 2 of the Glastonbury festival.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe receives a standing ovation at women’s panel discussion
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe reacts after a warm welcome as she joins a panel discussing women’s rights and Iran in the left field tent on Day 3 of Glastonbury Festival 2023.
Rapper Stormzy in the audience
Stormzy walked from backstage into the public area ahead of a performance by Aitch on the Pyramid Stage on Day 4 of Glastonbury Festival 2023.
Wizkid's performance
When Nigerian singer and afrobeats legend Wizkid was announced as a Friday-night headliner, there was no doubt he would put on one hell of a show. He was the key highlight of Friday, with an all-hits-no-misses, steamroller of a set, featuring fire-heavy production that was so good it went viral.
Lana Del Ray's bittersweet performance
The biggest shock of Saturday night came during Lana Del Rey’s performance. After coming on stage half an hour late, her set was cut short well before it reached its conclusion. Fans missed out on beloved tracks like “Summertime Sadness”. Del Rey was seen begging festival staff, on her knees, to allow her to finish. She led a crowd sing-along as her set got taken down around her.
Song Covers by Lizzo
It’s a classic Glastonbury move for artists to perform song covers of their favourite singers. Rick Astley and the Blossoms did a set of Smiths covers—a joyful hour of sing-along hits, with Astley grinning like he was living his teenage dream; Rina Sawayama did Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff”; and the crowd went wild for Mel C’s version of Rui Da Silva’s “Touch Me.” Elsewhere, Aitch did “Wonderwall” and Lizzo, rather unexpectedly, performed a take on Coldplay’s “Yellow”.
Alex Turner's accent
Alex said “I Think That You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, but the only thing the crowd could talk about during Arctic Monkeys’s Pyramid set was Alex Turner’s strange, affected speaking voice between songs which made it sound like he was putting on an American accent. Why was he only speaking in two- to three-word phrases? At one point he ended a song with only: “Effective,” long pause, “very effective.”
Elton John
Elton John's life has not been easy at all. The rock star had suffered from different addictions and disorders, and among many one of them was his eating disorder. "I was cocaine-addicted. I was an alcoholic. I had a sexual addiction. I was bulimic for six years," John told The Mirror in 2019. "It was all through being paranoid about my weight but not able to stop eating. So in the end I’d gorge, then make myself sick."
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