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The ultimate Glastonbury playlist: from Olivia Rodrigo to Yungblud via Macca and Diana Ross-David Bennun-Entertainment – Metro
Here’s our pick of this year’s epic Worthy Farm line-up.
Catch Olivia Rodrigo on The Other Stage on Saturday (Picture: Mat Hayward/Getty Images)
Just as no festival is quite so wide and wild a playground as Glastonbury, so none ever offers a line-up quite so musically diverse – not just across the headliners, where an octogenarian ex-Beatle can share the limelight with a genius rapper, but down the bill and across the stages, where every genre that currently feeds into both mainstream and leftfield pop is liable to be represented
Whether you want cosmic jazz, drum & bass, classic rock, upstart pop, Americana, contemporary soul, or – more likely – all of them over the course of weekend, Glastonbury will see you right.
Some of them will be almost unavoidable. Others, you’ll have to go looking for. But it’ll be worth it. Here’s just a taster – a mere 160 minutes’ worth – of the acts you’ll find there.
Wings: Junior’s Farm
Paul McCartney with a hugely underrated banger about rocking out on a farm, you say? Got to, really.
Olivia Rodrigo: Brutal
The new girl on the big-time block channels Elvis Costello and new wave energy on this corker from debut album Sour.
St Vincent: Live The Dream
What if Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, only female – and even weirder and better?
Kendrick Lamar will take to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday (Picture: Antony Jones/Getty Images for Spotify)
Kendrick Lamar: Auntie Diaries
Rap’s outstanding artist takes on homophobia with characteristic nuance, insight and self-reflection.
Khruangbin: B-Side
If the whole festival were condensed into a single band, it would surely be something like this global new-agey chillout party dub-funk outfit.
The Avalanches: Interstellar Love
A highlight of their gorgeous, warm-hearted, radiant album We Will Always Love You, featuring fellow Glasto act Leon Bridges.
Diana Ross is making her Glastonbury debut (Picture: Rick Kern/Getty Images)
Diana Ross: No One Gets The Prize
Think you know all of Miss Ross’s disco delights? Even deeper cuts like this one are glorious.
Joy Crookes: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
Typically stylish retro-modern neo-soul from this remarkably assured young London singer-songwriter.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Go Your Way
Raise the Roof, the duo’s second album together, is a subtle, poignant, atmospheric pleasure, and you can hear why here.
Yungblud can be seen on the John Peel Stage on Saturday (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
Yungblud: Strawberry Lipstick
Yungblud is the pop star we need right now, a fizzy sherbert amphetamine grenade bursting with joy, unruly energy and mischief.
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