Jack Burgess
BBC News Live reporter

If you're waiting for Sir Elton John, the Rocketman is set to land on the Pyramid Stage at 21:00 BST for the final UK show of his farewell tour.

We're also expecting Queens of the Stone Age to start on the Other Stage at 21:45, Alt-J to take to the Park Stage at 21:15, Rudimental to hit the West Holts Stage at 21:45 and many, many more elsewhere.

Stick with us as we bring you the latest updates from Elton's set and the rest of Glastonbury.

A Twitter account, external that informs festival-goers about who’s playing secret slots has warned that it's getting "very busy at the Pyramid" ahead of Sir Elton John's set.

"Word is stewards and security are expecting a [Rolling] Stones-sized crowd and are going to institute a one-way system.

"Please respect staff and listen to their instructions - they’re doing it to keep you safe," the account tweeted.

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It was an early alarm for some of Sir Elton John's biggest fans.

Gregg Rathbone from Coventry was first in line to make sure he got the best spot on the farm for Elton's final UK performance of his farewell tour. He managed it by arriving at the Pyramid Stage at 4am this morning.

Gregg says he's had five hours' sleep over the past few days but he's hoping adrenaline will get him through to see what will no doubt be an emotional performance.

He's one of several people wearing the same bedazzled baseball outfit that Elton originally donned at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in 1975.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

US rapper Lil Nas X made quite the arrival in a gladiatorial outfit with added flares.

He said he was "happy" to be back having performed his record-busting viral hit Old Town Road, alongside Miley Cyrus and her dad Billy Ray, here in 2019.

The song became the longest-running number one in US chart history.

He's just gone off stage and returned, with his entourage, singing it topless on a giant prop horse and now all hell has broken loose.

The track then ended with snippet of Dick Dale's Misirlou (or Black Eyed Peas for younger readers) then into a bit of Nirvana.

It's a breathless genre-straddlng party, complete with lots of twerking.

It's also reminded me, I must go to the gym this week.

US rapper Lil Nas X's massive hit Montero (Call Me By Your Name) was one of the first tracks he played.

The song topped the charts in the US and UK and was the star's second number one after Old Town Road, the country-rap crossover that spent a record 19 weeks at the top of the US chart in 2019.

Laura Gozzi
BBC News Live reporter

Lil Nas X has arrived, accompanied by a dozen dancers and a giant puppet snake.

"It's my first time here since 2019!," the rapper says.

He and all the dancers deserve our sincere admiration for wearing fur knee-high boots in the sweltering heat.

Rapper Lil Nas X is arriving on the main stage now!

He's the penultimate act on the Pyramid Stage for this year - followed by Sir Elton John in about an hour.

OK, things are revving up nicely.

Whether you're on site, at home or in the pub you should've had your teas by now.

We'd suggest that you settle in for one of the following over the next few hours.

• Lil Nas X at the Pyramid Stage - now
• Barrington Levy at the West Hols Stage - also now
• Editors at the Woodsies Stage - you guessed it, now
• Thundercat at the Park Sage - 19.45 BST
• The War on Drugs at the Other Stage - 19.45

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

Spurred on by the breakout success of their YouTube series Sunday Lunch, punk icon Toyah Wilcox and her husband Robert Fripp, of King Crimson fame, have just played their first ever Glastonbury festival.

The only problem was, they were booked to play the acoustic stage, and their set revolves around covers of heavy metal classics like Metallica’s Enter Sandman and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid.

“There was such a serenity until we went on,” laughs Toyah. “We've got three guitarists. I've come from punk rock. It was a big sound.”

The singer says she enjoys tackling those testosterone-fuelled rock classics without flipping the gender of the lyrics.

“I have a masculine soul, I admit it. I've never felt lady-like at all. So to sing songs that are written by powerful men, and to sing them in the male gender, I find very empowering,” Toyah says.

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

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There's a fun-looking daytime rave going on on the Other Stage right now.

Becky Hill's stage backdrop, like her outfit is adorned in smiley faces.

She's just a happy person, that's all that that represents; nothing more.

Backed by a string section and choir, she's racing through a setlist packed with big, bouncing beats and bass-lines, like her number one hit Gecko (Overdrive) and Crazy What Love Can Do - her collab with David Guetta and Ella Henderson.

Even a slight pause to fix an, ahem, "wardrobe malfunction" cannot stop the party.

"I love dance music, it runs through my veins," she declared.

The singer recently revealed she had put her wedding plans on hold, external in order to focus on her music career this summer and the Glasto crowd seem delighted that she did.

Not sure what her partner thinks, mind.

She's now belting out a cover of Candi Staton's You've Got the Love, which she dedicated to the "black queer community" that first came up with the house music genre in Chicago in the early 1980s.

More now from The Bristol Reggae Orchestra and Windrush Choir, who were asked to open the Pyramid Stage this morning - to mark the 75th anniversary of the first Windrush generation passengers arriving in Britain from the Caribbean.

Gena Rose, who sings in the choir, says it was "just magical; we'll never forget it" and adds "it was "mind-blowing" to be invited.

"It was the best moment ever; just absolutely amazing, over-the-Moon excited," she says.

"The people were actually chanting for more; that's the best possible response you can get.

"I was living my best life; living and loving it and soaking it in," Gena says.

Jack Burgess
BBC News Live reporter

Wow, crowds are being treated to yet another amazing day at Glastonbury.

So far we've had Blondie rocking the Pyramid Stage, Cat Stevens/Yusuf gracing the coveted legends slot, Sophie Ellis-Bextor lighting up the main stage early on, the Nova Twins shaking up the Other Stage and Gwenno charming the Park Stage.

There's still loads to come, with headliner Sir Elton John set to take the main stage from 21:00 BST.

Stick with us as we bring you all the latest from the festival as crowds build up to seeing the Rocketman himself later.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent at Glastonbury

Heart of Glass into Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, into Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen?

This is just a god-tier performance by Blondie.

Jack Burgess
BBC News Live reporter

...everyone surely must recognise this song, also from Blondie's 1978 Parallel Lines album.

The crowd are in full voice singing the Heart of Glass chorus back at Debbie Harry in the Glastonbury sun.

"La, da, da, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la."

Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

Blondie's Debbie Harry dedicated their power ballad Maria to "all you girls who wanna be girls" and, with a nod to the trans community, "all you boys who wanna be a girl... anyone who wants to be a girl".

She seems to be loving it out there, now in a silver sparkly hooded top, and the crowd are loving her and her band back.

The "Woo-ooh wo-oh" refrain of Heart of Glass is now ringing out around the farm, amidst a sea of hands waving rhythmically. The track outro segued into instrumentals of Donna Summer's I Feel Love and The Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen (a nod to their new bass player perhaps?) - to the joy of the crowd.

This is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on on a Sunday afternoon.

Former Playboy bunny Harry founded Blondie in New York, in 1974, alongside guitarist Chris Stein, and together they went on to become one of the best-loved acts of the post-punk era.

Keith Adams
BBC News

Dexter Fletcher, film director of the Elton John biopic, Rocketman, was spotted enjoying Blondie in the midst of the Pyramid Stage throng.

Is he looking forward to Elton?

“I’ve seen Elton many times but I think tonight is going to be one for the history books," he says.

"If he doesn’t do something amazing then I’ll be shocked. It’s going to be brilliant,” Dexter adds.

Keith Adams
Reporting from Glastonbury

Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, delivered a set of meditative chamber pop to an appreciative crowd.

“I’d like you to join me in a secular service,” she said before launching into an organ-led God Turned Me Into a Flower, with visuals provided by filmmaker Adam Curtis.

Dressed in an elegant ivory dress with a floaty cape that caught the breeze just like her insidious melodies - she tossed flowers over her shoulder, to be caught by her bride-to-be fans.

A highlight was Everyday, a bouncy Beatles and Beach Boys-invoking number that drew sunshine smiles on the faces of all those around me.

Anthony Ward
reporting from Glastonbury

A source who works at the back of the Pyramid Stage near the VIP area says that Dua Lipa is already inside, as well as the actor Rami Malek.

They also say that Stormzy was wearing a performer’s wristband but hasn’t performed... yet.

We've had some of music's biggest names play Glastonbury this weekend - and there's more: Blondie is on the Pyramid stage now and will be followed by Sir Elton John later this evening.

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