Glastonbury 2023 – latest: Elton John says thank-you to festival audience after farewell UK performance

Rick Astley has just finished up a crowd-pleasing set over at the Pyramid Stage, with his 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” proving to be the ultimate antidote to this sweltering weather.

With just under six hour to go until Elton John’s headline show, whispers are rife about who will be joining the musician on stage...

Adam White on The Chicks:

“Absolutely massive set by The Chicks over on the Pyramid Stage just then – lovely mix of Nineties classives like ‘Wide Open Spaces’ and modern hits like the glitchy, atmospheric ‘March March’.

“A cover of Beyonce’s ‘Daddy Lessons’ massively popped off, but for me the highlight was frontwoman Natalie Maines belting out ‘Ready to Run’ at the front of the stage with a silver-frosted mohawk. I may have ascended.”

Looking very likely that Rina Sawayama will be one of the guest to feature during Elton’s set later.

Courtesy of an overheard mic check...

People think Aitch just leaked the new Manchester United 2023/24 football kit during his Glastonbury appearance yesterday.

Either that or it’s a very convincing knock-off...

For the last time!

Here’s a full rundown of all the performers and stage times coming today.

Fatigue may be setting in at Worthy Farm, but there are still bangers left to come...

Four stars for Sophie Ellis-Bextor from Adam White.

“There is a specific kind of performer whose ability to bring the house down at Glastonbury tends to come as a shock to those watching – they tend to be women, they tend to lean towards pop (or at least dabble in it), and they tend to never have achieved the kind of international stardom their litany of recognisable bangers probably deserved. Case in point: Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

“‘This is pretty flipping exciting,’ she says at the top of her set, very much embodying your favourite primary school art teacher — who also moonlights as a pop behemoth. ‘Can you feel my sequinned-leotard, excited-mother energy?’ she asks. It’s a question that sums up the following set: one that is cosy and gentle when it’s not bopping.”

Read the full review here:

One of the spicier moments from yesterday’s sets.

Rina Sawayama appeared to call out The 1975’s Matty Healy on stage.

While introducing the song “STFU!” on the festival’s Woodsies stage, the 32-year-old Japanese-British artist made reference to Healy’s recent racism controversy, as well as his self-admitted pornography habits.

Crouching on the floor, Sawayama said: “Tonight, this goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers, and mocks Asian people on a podcast... he also owns my masters... I’ve had enough.”

From Kate Hutchinson: “Sophie Ellis Bextor is absolutely killing it on the main stage, bringing the kitchen disco to the Pyramid in a shimmy-shake of gold glittery tassels and huge disco-pop bangers.”

Full review from Adam White coming imminently...