The Zutons warm up for Glastonbury with soulful new single ‘Pauline’

Paloma Faith made the Pyramid Stage her own and paid tribute to Amy Winehouse with a ‘Back To Black’ cover at Glastonbury 2024.Faith’s Glastonbury set ran from 13:45 to 14:45 this afternoon (June 30), between performances from Seasick Steve and Shania Twain.Faith began with her cover of Cass Elliott’s ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ before saying, “We love you Amy, you’re here in spirit,” and launching into Winehouse’s 2007 hit.After Faith performed ‘Bad Woman’, the second single from her latest album The ‘Glorification of Sadness’, released in February, she gave an emphatic speech in which she dedicated the song to single mums: “I know it’s hard, I’m doing it!” she said, bemoaning that girls are told, “Be a good girl, always behave’, [because] it’s not right.

The Housemartins legend Paul Heaton onstage at Glastonbury 2024 – watch footage below.During his set at the Pyramid Stage yesterday (June 28), Heaton was joined by Downey, who later took to X/Twitter to express her gratitude.“I just played the Pyramid Stage ✨

Glastonbury 2024’s first full day of performances (Friday, June 28) is at an end – from the likes of Damon Albarn and Kevin Parker making guest appearances to SEVENTEEN’s historic performance, here are the day’s biggest headlines.Early in the day, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker stoked rumours he’d appear on stage with Dua Lipa – whose latest album ‘Radical Optimism’ he had many production credits on – when he confirmed a surprise DJ set at Silver Hayes’ Firmly Rooted Soundsystem at 1am.Metal trio – and NME Cover stars – Voice of Baceprot became the first Indonesian band to play at Glastonbury, kicking off the day’s entertainment at the Woodsies stage. Read NME’s interview with Voice of Baceprot about the milestone – and why they initially thought Glastonbury was “out of reach”.Pledis boyband SEVENTEEN made history as the first K-pop group to perform at Glastonbury, giving the Pyramid stage a jubilant, colourful set.

Fontaines D.C. have closed out the Park Stage on Friday night at Glastonbury 2024 – here’s what they played.The Dublin band performed to a packed Park Stage, as throngs of festival-goers crowded around the stage to see the last performance of the night.

Dua Lipa and Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker have performed together at Glastonbury 2024 – watch footage of the performance below.Relatively early into her Pyramid Stage-closing performance on Friday (June 28), the pop singer brought out her Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – with whom she collaborated for her latest album ‘Radical Optimism’. Together, they performed Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’.Watch footage of the collab below.DUA LIPA E KEVIN PARKER CANTANDO THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER PQP Q COISA PERFEITA pic.twitter.com/XlZJdjn5NS— lipe (@dualivie) June 28, 2024Prior to the collaboration, she performed songs like ‘Training Season’, ‘One Kiss’, ‘Illusion’, ‘Break My Heart’, ‘Levitating’ and ‘These Walls’ among others.The first day of Glastonbury 2024 has been an action-packed affair: boyband SEVENTEEN made history as the first K-pop group to grace the Pyramid Stage, while Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers played Glastonbury for the second year in a row this afternoon, moving up to the Park Stage from the Crows Nest and Acoustic Stage.Elsewhere, Paul Heaton and Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) had a mini Housemartins reunion, as they performed the 1986 hit ‘Happy Hour’ during Heaton’s Pyramid Stage set.

A Scots singing sensation has continued her upward trajectory after taking to the iconic pyramid stage at Glastonbury this weekend alongside a British music legend.

Beck was joined by an orchestra to perform his 2002 track ‘Paper Tiger’ on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Check it out below.In this cinematic version, the track — which comes from his 2002 album ‘Sea Change’ — takes on a new, melodramatic atmosphere.

Paul Heaton and Norman Cook have reunited to perform a Housemanrtins classic at Glastonbury 2024.It’s relatively early into day one of Glastonbury 2024, but Paul Heaton might have already set up one of the biggest moments of the weekend. During his set at the Pyramid Stage today (June 28), Heaton surprised punters in attendance by bringing out his former Housemartins bandmate Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) to perform their 1986 hit ‘Happy Hour’.Watch fan-shot footage and see reactions to the mini reunion below.Paul Heaton on the Pyramid Stage with Norman Cook on Guitars!It’s Happy Hour!#PaulHeaton#riannedowney #normancook #glastonbury2024 pic.twitter.com/SQW5UmHFvs— Jonathan Boyers (@jmboyers) June 28, 2024Is it too early to say that Norman Cook joining Paul Heaton for "Happy Hour" is the moment of the weekend?I'm calling it anyway.— Alex McLaughlan (@alexmclaughlan) June 28, 2024Just watching The Paul Heaton set on the Glastonbury main stage.

Glastonbury festival is back for another year, taking place in Somerset between June 26 and June 30. Some 200,000 attendees will descend on Worthy Farm to see a selection of the world's best music artists.

Glastonbury Festival returns to Worthy Farm this weekend, welcoming artists like Coldplay, SZA and Avril Lavigne to one of the world’s most legendary music festivals.Ticket holders have been flooding the gates since yesterday morning, ready for a full weekend of music, atmosphere and hopefully good weather.But for those who didn’t manage to secure tickets to the annual event, or for anyone who just wants to catch a bit of the action from home without having to get their waterproofs on, the festival will be available to watch on mainstream TV.You’ll be able to watch the festival highlights and headliner sets live on BBC One, Two and Four, alongside short special features about some of the artists and their road to Glastonbury.On Friday (June 28), coverage begins on BBC Four at 7:30pm with the Sugababes. Later on you’ll be able to catch the IDLES set at 10:15pm, unless you’ve already switched over to BBC One for the headliner set from Dua Lipa, starting at 10pm.Saturday’s coverage kicks off at 5pm on BBC Two, and flicking between channels will mean you can catch The Last Dinner Party’s set at 7pm and Keane at 8pm on BBC Four, before switching over to BBC One for Coldplay at 10pm.

Paul Heaton has looked back on his first-ever festival experience, and described what it was like to perform at Glastonbury before The Housemartins had their huge breakthrough with 1986 single ‘Happy Hour’.The frontman spoke to The Glastonbury Free Press following the gates opening for the 2024 edition yesterday (June 26). In the interview, he reflected on what it was like to perform at the Worthy Park site at the start of his career, and named the newer artists he would enlist for his dream festival line-up.“The Housemartins did Glastonbury back in 1986.

On the latest episode of BBC's Escape to the Country, house-hunter Susan was visibly moved to tears after viewing her dream home.

Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris are the epitome of couple goals while attending the American Ballet Theatre’s premiere of Woolf Works on Tuesday night (June 25) at The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center Gala in New York City.

Kelly Bensimon is calling things off with Scott Litner days before they were supposed to say “I do.”

Kim Gordon has dropped a discordant new single, ‘ECRP’, to coincide with a run of dates starting tonight (June 25).Following on from her trap-inspired album ‘The Collective’ earlier this year, Gordon’s new one-off single is a noisy, experimental affair that speaks of “rumours of free speech” and “ashes on the nightstand”.The video, meanwhile, was directed by Gordon’s daughter Coco Gordon Moore and features various shots of New York street scenes.Check out ‘ECRP’ below.Gordon plays London’s Koko tonight, kicking off a European tour, and will head to Birmingham for a gig at the O2 Institute2. The tour also includes various festival appearances at the likes of Glastonbury, Open’er and Roskilde.In a four-star review of ‘The Collective’, NME wrote: “Here the 70-year-old balances her less than commercial sensibilities with crunchily on-trend production and relatable lyrics about rotten capitalism and fragile masculinity – if these sound like themes she explored during Sonic Youth’s ‘90s heyday, it only goes to show how little has changed.”“It’s notable, though, how contemporary her distorted art-punk sounds, given the ongoing grunge resurgence and the fact that Olivia Rodrigo’s taking The Breeders on tour this year.

Loose Women star Denise Welch caught up with fellow ex-soap star Patsy Palmer for a sun-soaked beach day in California.The 66-year-old former Coronation Street actress met up with EastEnders' Patsy, 52, during her getaway to LA. In a video shared on Instagram, TV personality Denise can be seen sunbathing, socialising, and taking pictures with the flame-haired star. Patsy moved to Malibu 10 years ago with her husband Richard Merkell and their children Fenton, 24, Emilia, 22, and Bertie, 13, after leaving behind her role as Bianca in Albert Square.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor It’s New York City, 1989. Susan Seidelman is in the delivery room, in labor with her son.

Amy Winehouse, Amy – will be pleased to hear he’s returning to the genre soon with a new project.Kapadia is known for his forensic, archive-heavy films about global stars including racing driver Ayrton Senna, Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona and Winehouse, but he has veered away from that approach recently. His latest show about tennis superstar Roger Federer’s final days before retirement uses precious little archive material, and when he has reverted to type it has been for streaming series such as Disney+’s Camden and 1971: The Year That Changed Everything on Apple TV+.

Paul Heaton has announced his new Ian Broudie-produced album ‘The Mighty Several’ and has shared a new single ‘Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper’.‘The Mighty Several’ is set for release on October 11 – which is available for pre-order here – and follows his 2022 LP ‘N.K-pop‘ with Jacqui Abbott. The Housemartins and Beautiful South legend’s upcoming album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in Salford and was produced by Broudie of the Lightning Seeds.The album is comprised of 12 tracks, with some featuring special guests such as Rianne Downey (Heaton’s regular live vocalist), Yvonne Shelton and Danny Muldoon. The featured artists are all pictured alongside Heaton on the album’s artwork.

It looks like Katy Perry has reunited with Dr. Luke and several other past collaborators for her upcoming new album.