Annabel Rackham
BBC Culture reporter at Glastonbury

Ezra Collective are providing the perfect soundtrack to a hazy Saturday evening. So far their performance on the Other Stage has included a beautiful tribute to the late Angie Stone, with a jazz version of her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You.

There’s also been special guest performances from Kojey Radical and last night’s headliner Loyle Carner.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

The Red Arrows just did a fly past as Pulp got to the climax of Common People.

How did they do that?!

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

With Pulp apparently running out of time, Jarvis dispenses with formalities and goes straight into Common People.

We all know the words. It’s only the bouncing up and down that stops us from getting them out.

It's good news for the 200,000 Glastonbury attendees from BBC Weather - the sun is here to stay.

Watch the full forecast below.

Noor Nanji
Reporting from Glastonbury

Last year, I was here to witness Glastonbury’s first dedicated south Asian stage. It was brown, loud and full of joy.

This year - another first, with a Bollywood queer night taking place tonight in the festival’s Shangri-la field.

Queen South Asian artists have played at the festival before, but this is the first time there’s been a whole takeover by artists for several hours. Ryan Lanji, who will be kicking things off with a set at 11pm, tells me he has “goosebumps” thinking about what’s about to happen.

“I used to wear my mum’s saris and dance around my bedroom, now I’m playing at this massive festival,” he says.

“So much of this is in our culture, from the Kama sutra to Bollywood itself. We’re showing everyone what being queer and south Asian is all about.” So what can people expect?

“Think Madonna, Kylie, 90s Bollywood, house, and techno all the same time,” he adds.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

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“Hi, my name is Jarvis, hello,” says pop’s most angular frontman.

“This is Pulp. Sorry to the people who were expecting Patchwork. Did you know it was us?” The crowd responds “yes”, with one collective eye-roll.

“How?” Cocker drawls. He then reveals the first two songs.

Sorted For E's & Wizz and Disco 2000 were first played when Pulp headlined the Pyramid Stage in 1995.

“You could say those songs were born at Glastonbury.”

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

Pulp previously headlined Glastonbury in 1995, stepping in at the last minute, after The Stone Roses pulled out. Cocker later revealed "it was the most nervous I've ever been in my life".

"But then Robbie from Take That came and wished us luck," he told Vox magazine.

"Robbie read us some of his poetry. I was dubious at first, because sometimes poetry can be embarrassing, but it was really good."

The rumours were true: Britpop icons Pulp are the mystery band listed under the Patchwork slot.

You can watch their Pyramid Stage set live by clicking on the Watch & listen tab at the top of this page.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

A group of people in plastic raincoats have just come onto the Pyramid Stage to the sound of pre-recorded applause.

“Oh no,” says someone in the audience next to me.

“If Robbie Williams comes out, no. I’m leaving.”

It's almost time for what we've been waiting for - the big reveal of who is Saturday's surprise slot.

The area outside the Pyramid Stage is starting to fill up...

Annabel Rackham
BBC Culture reporter at Glastonbury

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Somewhere at Worthy Farm, Skepta is scrambling together a setlist after it was announced he would be stepping in for American rockers Deftones, who were forced to cancel their Other Stage performance due to “illness in the band”.

Skepta, who is a multi-talented grime MC, rapper and DJ will have a wealth of skills to fall back on as he looks to warm up the crowd ahead of Charli XCX’s headline performance.

He says in a statement: “Let’s go!!! No crew, no production but am ready to shut Glastonbury down. Victory lap time. Pre-Big Smoke 2025!”

The 42-year-old Tottenham-born artist was on-site to DJ on one of the dance stages yesterday evening, but will probably be glad to have stuck around.

Perhaps he could entertain crowds with his latest hit Victory Lap - an epic collaboration with producer Fred Again.

Charlotte Gallagher
Reporting from Glastonbury

The BBC didn’t live stream Kneecap’s set - but someone did.

A TikTok user called Helen who was at Glastonbury broadcast the entire performance.

Over a million people were watching at one point - a screenshot of the broadcast posted online showed it had 1.1 million likes.

Dean Poolman
Executive producer, BBC Radio Somerset

Sitting high on the festival site is a stage dedicated to The Clash frontman.

Strummerville is run by Lucinda Tait, the widow of Joe Strummer, and she’s been talking to the BBC’s Inside Glastonbury series on BBC Sounds about the couple’s relationship with the festival.

She told presenters Andy Bennett and Mel Everett that the couple first attended the festival in the 1990s with their children, and that Joe always "championed the festival", setting up a campfire backstage each year for a "meeting of minds".

In the episode, Lucinda recalls one year when Joe didn’t return home for five days after Glastonbury finished because he was having such a good time. Eventually she went back to Worthy Farm and told him it was time to come home.

She says his response was "do you know what darling, I’ve just seen a man stir his cup of soup with a dreadlock, I’m coming home".

This year, the stage has already seen performances from the likes of Olivia Dean and Tom Walker.

The rumour mill has been in overdrive over which act will appear in the 18:15 Pyramid Stage slot. So far, a band operating under the fake name "Patchwork" is listed on the schedule.

Haim, Mumford and Sons and even Oasis have been mentioned, but after social media sightings have spotted gear linked to Britpop heroes Pulp...

... We're inclined to say the gaping hole in the Sheffield band's tour schedule could now be filled.

Keyboard player Candida Doyle told 6 Music last week that they’d been turned down by the festival. “We wanted to [play] but they weren’t interested,” she told Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

Kneecap's Mo Chara points out the number of Palestinian flags in the audience, observing "that’s going to give the BBC editor a headache".

The band then make an impassioned speech about the war in Gaza, accusing Israel of starving and killing innocent Palestinians.

It’s a statement they’ve made consistently at gigs and on social media over the last year. As often, they end the speech with a chorus of "free, free Palestine".

Before they play Harrow Road, Kneecap voice support for Palestine Action, a protest group that the UK government intends to proscribe under anti-terror laws, after activists broke into an RAF base.

For the second time, this prompts the band to start a chant against UK prime minister Keir Starmer, as they criticise the country’s sale of arms to Israel.

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Annabel Rackham
BBC Culture reporter at Glastonbury

Elsewhere at the festival, we've been talking to DJ and producer Solomun.

He's been a party circuit stalwart for decades but says he is “very honoured” to finally play the festival.

Solomun is squeezing in a headline set at Arcadia this evening before flying back to Ibiza for his summer residency.

He says there is a “100%” different level of preparation compared to his other shows.

“This is the beauty of the festival, you have to get out of your comfort zone more than usual. You have to be much more prepared, you can’t play the same stuff,” he adds.

Annabel Rackham
BBC Culture reporter at Glastonbury

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JADE arrived as a bona fide solo star on Saturday afternoon as she stormed through a set of tracks including Midnight Cowboy and Fantasy, which are set to feature on her debut album.

The 32-year-old didn’t disappoint the Little Mix fanbase though - with tracks such as Sweet Melody and Touch bringing the biggest cheers from the Woodsies audience.

Her 17 years of pop music experience was evident throughout the polished performance, but her individual personality shone throughout.

A cover of Madonna’s Frozen showcased her incredible vocal range, whilst a chaotic on-stage duet with Confidence Man proved she was able to stray away from the choreographed dances for a couple of minutes to have some fun with the crowd.

She closed her set with Angel of My Dreams - a perfect finale to a very memorable set.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

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"Has anyone been watching the news anyway?" says DJ Provai, before leading the audience in a chant of "free Mo Chara".

Móglai Bap reminds the audience that Mo Chara is still facing what he calls a “trumped up terrorism charge”, after being accused of displaying a flag by the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a concert last November - a charge he denies.

“It’s not the first time there was a miscarriage of justice for an Irish person in the British justice system,” he says.

The band thank the Eavis family, who organise Glastonbury, for not cancelling their show this afternoon, despite pressure from politicians and the music industry.

“The pressure that that family was under and they stood strong,” says Mo Chara. “Fair play to them.”

“We had the prime minster of your country say he didn’t want us to play,” he says - then starting an anti-Keir Starmer chant.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

For the first three songs, Kneecap are concentrating more on getting the crowd bouncing than making any political statements.

They open with Better Way To Live and Sick In The Head, pacing the stage and jumping on monitors.

During the third track, Sniffer Dogs, Mo and Móglai encourage the creation of a massive mosh pit at the front of the audience.

People push back, forming a huge circular pit, and all chaos breaks loose.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

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A montage of news audio about Kneecap introduces the band on stage.

We hear politicians, pundits and Sharon Osbourne speak against their appearance, followed by the sound of BBC reporter Lizo Mzimba saying, "it is now confirmed that Kneecap will play Glastonbury," from a news bulletin earlier this year.

A huge cheer rings out at the announcement, and the band take to the stage.