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When Glastonbury revealed Coldplay would headline the festival for a fifth time, the news was greeted with predictable groans from some quarters. It makes being a superfan feel very lonely, says Jonathan Margolis. But… are there signs that Coldplay have suddenly become cool?

Coldplay will round off Saturday night on the Pyramid Stage. They are scheduled to play from 9:45-11:45pm on 29 June.

Coldplay’s performance will clash with Disclosure on the Other Stage, Jessie Ware on the West Holts stage and Gossip on the Woodsies stage.

If you weren’t lucky enough to get tickets to Glastonbury (or you just hate camping) you can still watch Coldplay’s performance from home. The BBC will be covering the festival across TV channels, iPlayer, and BBC sounds.

Some festival-goers have been left outraged at the price of drinks at this year’s festival.

Pints of beer cost up to £7 while soft drinks and fruit juices cost up to £6. Aperol spritz cocktails are priced at £12.50 and bottles of Prosecco are selling at £43.

One person on Twitter/X wrote, “£2.50 for a can of water is criminal”, while another added, “We need to stop this nonsense of Aperol Spritz at £12.50!! It’s not only in Glasto, everywhere in UK it has crazy prices for no reason, in Italy it’s like £5!”

The Grammy and Brit winner has earned widespread acclaim for her two studio albums ‘CTRL’ and ‘SOS’ – yet, based on the confusion sparked when she was announced as a Glastonbury headliner this year, many still don’t know her name. Here’s why you should absolutely dive into her work, writes Kate Solomon

Glastonbury’s Sunday Legends slot is one of the most prestigious sets in music. Every year, the seasoned pro of choice takes to the Pyramid Stage to unleash a thrilling performance of their biggest hits, often spanning decades.

For the perfect Legends Slot headliner, the artist needs to be known to the majority of Glastonbury-goers while also having that cultural heft beyond one or two recognisable songs.

It’s the home for long-established and beloved artists who are still going strong. But where did it all begin?

From Dolly Parton to Kylie Minogue and Shirley Bassey, the Sunday Legends slot at Glastonbury sets the stage for some of the biggest and best moments at the iconic festival

Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has responded to questions about when the next fallow year will take place, while also revealing which artist she would love to headline the storied music festival.

Glastonbury co-organiser answered some of the most-asked questions about the music festival

A 40-minute blast of pure, undiluted zeitgeist. A gigantic crowd stretching away over hill and vale. A generation’s prejudices and expectations overturned like a flick of dust off the shoulder. A setlist chiselled into quicksilver by Zeus and carried to the stage by a choir of winged roadies. Or maybe just the Dalai Lama, blowing out the candles on a birthday cake.

These are just a few of the reasons why a gig playing out on the hallowed grounds of Worthy Farm might go down in Glastonbury folklore – one of those iconic moments that don’t just make the weekend, but mark out the evolution of pop culture. Glastonbury is where musical history is made and cultural colossi are crowned on a near-annual basis.

Ahead of the festival’s return to Worthy Farm, Mark Beaumont picks some of Glastonbury’s greatest ever music moments

Twenty years ago, the Manchester band headlined Worthy Farm for the second and last time. Mark Beaumont looks back at the ill-fated show, which has gone down in history as one of their worst, and argues that it marked the beginning of the end for Liam and Noel Gallagher’s Britpop dream

First-time Glastonbury-goer five-year-old Elske spoke with BBC Breakfast from Worthy Farms on Wednesday (June 26).

Confessing that she had a boyfriend, the young girl, who turns six on Thursday, told BBC’s Colin Paterson that her father jokingly threatened that he would lock her boyfriend in a tower.

Elske then pivoted to add that her grandfather has a scorpion, a praying mantis and a lot of other bugs.

“This has gone very strange now,” Paterson responded. “Your grandad had a scorpion?”

“We’re in Glastonbury, so it is strange,” Elske’s mother added, with Patterson saying: “I was expecting strange interviews. I wasn’t expecting my strangest interview to be from someone who is one day off being six years old.”