Glastonbury 2023 got off to a rocking start as Arctic Monkeys headlined the UK's biggest music festival for a third time
They performed on the Pyramid Stage, with frontman Alex Turner hailing the band's return to Worthy Farm with a set of new and classic hits
Foo Fighters earlier appeared on the same stage as mystery act the ChurnUps, the band's first time at the festival since headlining in 2017
Carly Rae Jepsen, Texas, Hozier, CHVRCHES, Hot Chip, Wizkid and Kelis were among the other performers on Friday
More than 200,000 people have descended on the farm in Somerset for this year's festival
Over the rest of the weekend Guns N' Roses, Elton John, Lizzo, Lil Nas X and Lewis Capaldi are on - plus many more music legends
If you're in the UK, you can watch all the highlights on our Glastonbury Channel live - just tap the 'play' button at the top of this page
Anthony Ward
Reporting from Glastonbury
Dale Vince, the founder of energy supplier Ecotricity, says he last visited Glastonbury 30 years ago.
He is speaking tomorrow, in place of Ed Miliband. The former Labour leader was due to appear on the Leftfield stage for a debate on climate action.
Vince tells me he's looking forward to The Pretenders, Blondie and Chemical Brothers.
This year's Glastonbury festival weekend is off to a rocking start as thousands of festival-goers party in the summer sun.
Mystery act the ChurnUps were revealed as Foo Fighters to the delight of crowds and Worthy Farm's visitors have also been entertained by Texas, Gabriels, Flo and many more music acts from around the world.
Here's some highlights from the day so far:
Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury
Image source, EPAMore than 200,000 people are attending this year's festival
Fred Again…has drawn a huge crowd to The Other Stage. So huge that he can hardly comprehend it.
“Can you believe this is real life?” he asks. “What is going on?”
Like his music, the set is full of heart, sampling snippets of speech and fragments of songs that he’s found on the internet and weaving them into a larger narrative about human frailty and our need for connection (over, and I can’t emphasise this enough, a banging dance beat).
It’s an astonishing technical spectacle, because he remixes the songs live, triggering vocal samples, synth loops, drumbeats and even video clips from a keypad, layering new sounds onto one another and building songs from scratch in front of you.
His fingers are a constant blur. “I haven’t breathed for, like, nine hours,” he says after a captivating, semi-improvised version of Jungle.
Earlier tonight, Rock duo Royal Blood opened their set on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage with a performance of Out Of The Black.
The band's drummer, Ben Thatcher, wore a black Arctic Monkeys vest, in a nod to the headliners who are up next on the mainstage.
"Glastonbury how are you doing? We're Royal Blood," singer Mike Kerr said as they launched into Come On Over.
Kerr stirred controversy at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May, after he swore at the crowd in Dundee.
He called them "pathetic" for not knowing who the group were, and berated them for not being fans of rock music.
Over at the Woodsies Stage, Irish musician Hozier said it was a "joy" to be performing a secret set at Glastonbury this year.
"I couldn't tell you what a joy it is to be doing this little slot, this little secret slot - thank you so much for being here," he told crowds.
"Are you feeling good? You look good, you look well."
Marita Moloney
Live reporter
Phew, what a start to Glastonbury weekend 2023.
From the Master Musicians of Joujouka kicking things off with music from the Ahl Srif mountains of Morocco, to Carly Rae Jepsen delighting revellers with Call Me Maybe, there's been something for everyone so far at this year's festival.
The excitement built throughout the day, with pop singer Maisie Peters, dancehall-inflected rapper Stefflon Don and Scottish rock band Texas all performing before Foo Fighters arrived on the Pyramid Stage for their not so surprising but epic performance.
There's still loads to come, with headliners Arctic Monkeys due on stage in about 90 minutes. We'll be here until the sun has long set over Worthy Farm tonight, so keep rocking along with us.
Image source, PA MediaWe've been bringing you all the latest from Foo Fighters' set at Glastonbury, but you can find a thorough review of the band's performance from our music correspondent Mark Savage here.
Glastonbury is for everyone, including the deaf community.
For the first time, the BBC is streaming Pyramid Stage performances live in British Sign Language on BBC iPlayer making the coverage more accessible than ever.
On Twitter, there was much praise for the expressive sign language interpreters during the Foo Fighters' performance.
One tweeted: "The sign language on #Glastonbury23 for the Foo Fighters is amazing."
Another tweeted: "I could watch this all night."
You can find British Sign Language coverage of Glastonbury on BBC iPlayer and also at the top of this page.
Emma Elgee
Reporting from Glastonbury
Image source, Great Western RailwayFoo Fighters front man Dave Grohl took public transport to surprise music fans at Glastonbury.
Great Western Railway confirmed the singer and 40 others boarded the 11:00 train from London Paddington.
The group, which including Grohl's entourage as well as his family and friends, got off at Bath Spa where mini-buses were waiting to take them to the festival.
He posed with one GWR staff member Brendan Cropper who was lucky enough to be working today.
A short while ago, we saw Foo Fighters take to Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage in one of the most highly-anticipated performances of the festival.
Here's some pictures from their set:
Image source, PA MediaAfter all his running and dancing around, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl turned to desperate measures to try cool himself down
Image source, PA MediaFoo Fighters had been listed on Glastonbury's line up as the ChurnUps in a bid to keep their performance a surprise, but a massive crowd still flocked to the stage after speculation that they would appear
Image source, PA MediaThe band played some of their greatest hits, such as Best of You, Learn To Fly, and My Hero
Lauren Turner
Reporting from Glastonbury
Lucy Rider, from Leeds, was watching Foo Fighters perform a little earlier.
"I last saw them in 2017 and tonight they could have played for twice the amount of time - but the emotional impact was incredible and it’s clear how much Dave Grohl loves his fans, his band and performing," she tells me.
“The mystery around the ChurnUps and the fact they weren’t one of the main headliners this weekend suggests he really wanted to play the festival this year.
“While they weren’t a headliner, they were a real highlight.”
Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesScottish collective Young Fathers will be one to watch
It may still be warm at 19:30 BST these days in large parts of the UK, but hang on in there, because it’s about to get even hotter over at the West Holts Stage from 20:30.
That’s because 2014 Mercury Prize-winners Young Fathers are no doubt set to rip through an energetic and frenzied set of tracks from their acclaimed, joyous new album, Heavy Heavy.
Kelis’s milkshake will bring everyone back to the same yard afterwards, at 22:15, which could help to cool things down a bit.
Friday has been full of surprises already and now Hozier has been revealed as the act appearing on the Woodsies Stage at 19:35.
Elsewhere, it’s no secret that Scottish electro outfit Chvrches are playing on the Other Stage right now, followed by Fred Again.
Oh and in case you were wondering, Royal Blood are the band charged with directly following the Foo Fighters' surprise set on the Pyramid Stage from 20:15. Gulp!
Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury
Image source, PA MediaI feel bad for the bands that have to follow Foo Fighters (did Alex Turner really have a cough this week, or was he just nervous?!)
They only played for 60 minutes but it was a masterclass in giving the audience what they wanted. We got all the hits: Best Of You, The Pretender, Learn To Fly, and even a few bars of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage.
The highlight was a slow, stripped-back rendition of My Hero - which felt like an unspoken tribute to Taylor Hawkins, even more than Everlong, which he dedicated to his old brother in arms, telling the crowd to sing it loud.
And he ended with a promise: “If you come back, we’ll come back.” It’s a deal.
Alexander Howick
Reporting from Glastonbury
Image source, Katie TullyKatie Tully and her daughter, Zélie
At four and a half months, Zélie Tully could be the youngest Foo Fighters fan in the audience.
Zélie's mother Katie attended Glastonbury last year while seven weeks pregnant, and has returned to bring her to her first Foo Fighters gig.
Keith Adams
Reporting from Glastonbury
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has dedicated song Everlong to drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died in March last year.
Grohl called on the crowd to sing it "loud".
Daniel Rosney
Culture reporter at Glastonbury
Not everyone was straight to the front for Foo Fighters on the Pyramid Stage. Some of the security staff on the main stage are resting in make shift hammocks underneath the rigging.
They work long hours, often facing the sun, and have an important job keeping the crowds safe. There are a few hammocks rocking to the music, some hands in the air pretending to drum but there are those with ear plugs who are (somehow) managing a nap.
The frontman of the ChurnUps, aka Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl has just brought his daughter Violet on stage to sing Show Me How with him.
Grohl says the song, from the band's latest album But Here We Are, was was written for his mother.
Victoria Bourne
Reporting from Glastonbury
Image source, PA MediaDave Grohl’s just exclaimed that the Foo Fighters aren’t good at keeping secrets, stating that the crowd knew they were the ChurnUps.
There is a sea of people as far as the eye can see in front of the Pyramid Stage watching Foo Fighters. People have climbed on food trucks to get a good vantage point.
Grohl’s not wrong, it wasn’t a surprise to many here.
It’s been a hot topic all day and just before they came on stage people could be heard discussing how they thought it would be the band.
Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury
The crowd at the Pyramid Stage is rammed. There’s barely room to jump around as the band rip through Learn To Fly and recent single Rescued in quick succession.
“We’ve only got one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can,” says Grohl. I’d happily let them shorten Royal Blood’s set so this can continue…
Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury
Image source, PA MediaGlastonbury’s worst-kept secret is confirmed: The ChurnUps are the Foo Fighters. Or the Foo Fighters are The ChurnUps. One or the other.
Dave Grohl strolls on stage to a squall of feedback, with a teasing look of expectation that dares the crowd to scream louder before he launches into the opening chords of All My Life.
It’s hard to imagine the emotions he’s experiencing. When Foo Fighters last played here in 2017, it was with drummer Taylor Hawkins, who tragically died last year.
Grohl’s first public appearance after that was as Paul McCartney’s special guest during his headline slot last year. He’s a performer who never gives less than his all.
But even by his own standards, he’s like a man possessed tonight. The riffs are harder, the screams are more visceral.
He’s drenched in sweat within the first minute. Obviously, they’re not the same band they were. Not better or worse. Just different.
New drummer Josh Freese is more muscular than Hawkins, whose playing always had a lyrical flow of its own. An impressive bit of double kick-drum action during All My Life immediately shows how he’ll evolve the band’s live sound (Grohl played drums on their latest album, But Here We Are).