Lauren Turner
Reporting from Glastonbury

Just before the ChurnUps, who we now know are Foo Fighters, arrived on the Pyramid Stage, there was a minute's silence for the victims of the Nottingham stabbing a few weeks ago.

The crowd was asked to stop for a moment to remember Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates. John Lennon’s song Imagine was then played after the silence.

After much speculation over who mystery band the ChurnUps are, Foo Fighters have just taken to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage to the rapturous cheers of eagerly waiting fans.

Our reporters are there and will be bringing you the latest on the performance, and you can also watch it live by clicking the Play button at the top of this page.

Katie Razzall
Culture editor at Glastonbury

I've just bumped into Jess and James Robson from Dover, who got married a couple of weeks ago and have come to Glastonbury on their honeymoon.

It’s their fourth time at the festival.

More than 200,000 people are attending this year's Glastonbury festival - and among them is 24-year-old Lily Gordon Brown - who has been given a list of artists to see by her dad Nick who can't go this year.

Nick told BBC Radio 5 Live he’s living vicariously through his daughter.

“I took Lily to Glastonbury about 10 years ago when the Rolling Stones headlined, I thought it was mind blowing, then I went last year," he said.

“She's well-seasoned in festivals...she goes with her mate now though,”" he said.

Lily said she "loved" her dad's list of recommendations.

"I’ll only see half of his acts as I’ll want to see my own acts, but it felt really nice to have his wells of knowledge," she added.

We're going to pivot away from the action on stage now for a moment, for a tour through the Glastonbury site with the BBC's Andy Howard.

From £24,000 luxury accommodation to long drop toilets and thousands of miles of cables, Glastonbury is taking place across 100 stages on around 1,000 acres of land.

Here's the G to Y of Glastonbury, and everything in between:

Daniel Rosney
Culture reporter at Glastonbury

Away from some of the big hitters on site I’ve come to see The Lottery Winners play the Avalon stage.

Why? Because they’re from my hometown of Leigh, Greater Manchester, and aside from radio presenter Shaun Keaveny, they’re probably the biggest thing to ever come from there.

The band recently got a number one album - the first time anyone from Leigh has achieved that. “This doesn’t happen to people like us,” frontman Thom says as he walks on stage.

I first saw them around 15 years ago play a pub back home to a couple of tables and now they’ve got hundreds of fans chanting “number one”.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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What’s rock without some rule-breaking? Last summer, Stone’s frontman Finlay Power got into trouble at Leeds festival after breaking a rule about crowd-surfing. Video from the festival shows him being carried on a wave of hands, his camouflage trousers flung high above the crowd.

When they went to play Reading the next day, word had already spread. Security said their set would be pulled if they repeated the antics. They did it anyway.

“I got told don’t jump into the crowd, and I thought how do I make this video go viral? So I stage-dived straight away… And it worked!” he laughs.

The band are promising a similar level of carnage when they play the BBC Introducing Stage around now.

“We call it beautiful chaos,” says drummer Alex Smith.

“Post-apocalyptic Scally rock,” adds Power.

After Glastonbury, the band have an even bigger gig in their sights – supporting Bruce Springsteen in London’s Hyde Park.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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Sharleen Spiteri is tearing up the Pyramid Stage, with a new raspiness to her voice that adds a touch of grit to Texas’s melodic rock songs.

As she draws the set to a close, she mentions that several interviewers today have asked why Texas are playing the Pyramid stage in 2023 after a gap of 24 years.

“I can only say Emily Eavis is a massive supporter of female musicians. Not because she’s ticking a box to have us on these stages. She’s putting us on these stages because she thinks we’re [expletive] amazing.”

With a huge roar from the crowd, she brings the show to a close with a warm-hearted singalong to Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds.

Meanwhile, the crowd at the Pyramid Stage is swelling to capacity after the Foo Fighters strongly hinted they’ll be next on stage. Only an hour to go…

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

There’s a mystery act on the bill for the Pyramid Stage at 18:15 tonight. They’re listed as ChurnUps, a band with no social media footprint or music available on major streaming services.

Already, the rumour mill has gone into overdrive, with three former headliners among the strongest candidates: Blur, Pulp and Foo Fighters.

The latter are the most likely candidates. Not only have they teased their appearance on social media in the last few moments, but Dave Grohl also posted a tweet earlier this month saying the band were looking forward to “churning up” fans’ emotions as they go back on tour this summer.

Glastonbury has remained tight-lipped.

“So, who are the ChurnUps?” I texted the festivals’ head of press a couple of weeks ago, using all of my journalistic cunning to trick him into giving an answer.

“The ChurnUps,” he replied. The ChurnUps. With a capital U.”

So, unless I spot a tour bus with the Foo Fighters’ logo in the backstage area, we’ll have to wait until Churn O’Clock to find out for certain.

In the last few moments, the Foo Fighters have tweeted a picture of Glastonbury.

It seems to be a wink and a nod towards speculation they would be performing tonight under the name The ChurnUps.

We'll bring you more on these rumours shortly.

Keith Adams
Reporting from Glastonbury

Louis Cole and his Big Band of dancing skeletons has just wowed the West Holts stage with a set of virtuoso jazz/dance/funk.

He jumped between keyboards and drums in a pair of trousers made of plastic leaves while his horn section took solos to the delight of a dedicated crowd of fans.

They included the fake-moustachioed Oscar Lyons of New Zealand, Marilou Darrius from France and Seni Chanopai - annoyed to miss Louis Cole in London but thrilled to find out he was on this year’s Glasto bill.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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Maisie Peters is having a moment: earlier this morning, she released her second album, The Good Witch.

Then, at lunchtime, she made her debut on the Pyramid Stage.

“It’s been a very surreal morning, watching all my fans listen to the album,” she says. “It’s weird having it exist for everyone else."

Inspired by Greek mythology, the record is her "twisted version" of a break-up album.

Taking that concept to its logical conclusion, she has penned a lyric that should be framed and hung in the British Museum: “Baby, I’m the Iliad, of course you couldn’t read me.”

The 23-year-old is just as confident on stage, bounding around as if she’s powered by an inner space hopper, and sharing the secrets behind her songs.

The vastness of the Glastonbury crowd isn’t daunting, she explains, because she was invited to play dozens of dates on Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour last summer. “I’ve already done big, I’m not gonna lie, Glastonbury!” she laughs.

The first of today's performances kicked off before noon, and the crowds at Glastonbury have been treated to a veritable feast of musical acts since then.

Here's a snippet of who's already taken to the stage:

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Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

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“I only really know one of her songs,” said the woman next to me as Carly Rae Jepsen stepped on stage.

It only took 20 minutes to get to that song - Call Me Maybe - and Jepsen knew what was about to happen.

“We only have one rule, and that’s we never sing this song alone,” she beamed.

Cue the loudest singalong I’ve heard so far this year. By the end of the song, Carly was climbing down the scaffolding, and making her way to the barriers where people simply bellowed the track into her face.

Those who stuck around will have discovered there’s more to Jensen than her signature song. She floated through the sun-kissed vibes of Western Wind, and danced coquettishly to the burnished disco beats of Too Much.

“In case it isn’t obvious, I really, really, really like you,” she laughed, cueing up the song of the same name.

The feeling was mutual.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

Glastonbury has made a lot of noise about achieving gender equality in its line-ups over the past decade – a seemingly simple task, complicated by the fact that only 20% of the artists signed to a UK record label are women.

Despite that, when this year’s first festival poster came out, there was a pretty even split between male and female artists - except for the headliners, all three of whom were white men.

Emily Eavis, who books the main stages with her husband Nick, says it caused a “bit of an outcry”, but the festival did have a female headliner who pulled out at the last minute (Eavis doesn’t say so, but everyone thinks it was Taylor Swift).

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Booking headliners isn’t as straightforward as you think, she told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour: “People are like, what about Beyonce? Oh, I hadn't thought of that!"

It’s about timings, fitting into their tours, or acts already being bound by exclusive deals, she says.

But Eavis claims the presence of so many women means the festival can “nurture” future headliners, like Billie Eilish last year.

And next year? Two female headliners are already booked, she says.

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Love was in the air earlier today as two Glastonbury fans sealed their marriage at the festival.

The festival is a special place for Stuart Beauchamp, 49, and his wife Anna Stevens, 44, from Birmingham, as they have attended Glastonbury for the last nine years.

The couple took part in a handfasting ceremony, where their wrists were tied together to declare their commitment.

The happy couple got married four weeks ago, but decided to seal their marriage with the ancient ceremony.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

It’s 24 years since Texas last played the Pyramid stage, and singer Sharleen Spiteri says getting asked back was “such a shock”.

“I’ve got to be honest, when I walk out in front of that audience I don’t know if I might just burst out into tears. I never thought I’d have the chance to play twice in my lifetime, so I feel pretty damn happy.”

So what does she remember about her first experience in 1999?

“Not much, I’ll be really honest with you,” she laughs.

“The thing I remember most was meeting Joe Strummer, who came back to say hi. He’d heard that for many years I’d thought the lyrics to Rock The Casbah were, ‘Sharleen don’t like it’.

"But that was just my childhood fantasy. And I still have that fantasy as a grown woman!

“But for me, that was a big deal.”

Paul Glynn
Entertainment reporter

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If you’ve just joined us, first of all welcome.

Whether you’re at Worthy Farm reading this on your phone (how’s that battery looking?) or tuning in to the action from somewhere else via the BBC iPlayer, here’s a quick look at some of this afternoon’s highlights.

Firstly you can catch the second half of Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepson’s set on the Other Stage right now, if you’re quick, or head over to the Pyramid Stage where Sharleen Spiteri will soon be rollng back the years with Scottish pop-rockers Texas.

Jepson will be followed by the popular London hip-hop duo Krept & Konan at 17.15 BST, before the West Holts Stage plays host to one of the acts of the year, the much-hyped and theatrical R&B/soul band Gabriels, at 17.30 BST.

There’s been much speculation about who on earth The ChurnUps are, as they’re listed to play the Pyramid Stage at 18.15. We don’t know for sure, but the smart money seems to be on the Foo Fighters.

If that’s true it could give fans of fellow indie rock band the Courteeners a bit of an issue, as they’re starting their set at the newly renamed Woodsies stage just beforehand. FOMO galore.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

Singer-songwriter Ben Howard was the first person to play one of the main stages this year, with an early morning, blissed-out set on the Other stage.

He walked on stage to gentle washes of guitar and smudges of technicolour graphics, playing his recent single Walking Backwards – a low-key protest song about resisting the pressure to conform.

It’s taken from his recent album Is It? which was written as the star tried to make sense of life after suffering two mini-strokes last year.

By the end of the performance, he was visibly moved, offering a heartfelt and lingering “thank you” to the audience.

“It was really special out there,” he told me after he stepped off stage. “There’s something in the air, isn’t there? Everyone’s having a great time, early doors. It’s magic.”

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