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Glastonbury live: Friday night with Dua Lipa, LCD Soundsystem, Idles and more – live


The festival’s biggest stages are opening today and the sun is almost shining – join us as we review sets and look towards sets from LCD Soundsystem and more

Rick Williams has also written this nuanced profile of the troubled life of ska pioneer Don Drummond – a founding member of the Skatalites, who celebrate their 60th anniversary at Glastonbury this weekend. The cover of today’s Film & Music is an excellent interview by Elle Hunt with the Last Dinner Party, who everyone thinks are going to steal this year’s “Glastonbury moment” – as Wet Leg did in 2022 – when they play the Other stage tomorrow afternoon. Our reviewers have been dispatched out into the field – after varying degrees of late Thursday bedtimes – and their takes on the day’s acts from Lynks to Squeeze, LCD Soundsystem to Dua Lipa, will start arriving in due course.

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