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Coldplay’s record return lights up Pyramid at a Glastonbury of melodrama


Festival opens its arms with more diversity but rock royalty gets the crowd bouncing

Greeting the tardy sunshine on the Other Stage, brother-and-sister rave-pop duo Confidence Man are a non-stop glee machine, filleting the history of dance music for all the fun bits. Having not released an album in seven years, they might have seemed like a risky choice to precede Dua Lipa but their mountingly intense set proves irresistible to all ages and All My Friends, their galloping anthem of regret and reunion, makes for a transcendent sunset soundtrack. Within the first hour they’ve pelted the vast crowd with fireworks, balloons, lasers, pyro, a Femi Kuti collaboration and half a dozen of the most-streamed songs in the world, while LED wristbands make the field sparkle like a city.

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