Wolf Alice issue update on Glastonbury Festival performance as band stranded in US

Nicki Minaj appeared to take a swipe at Kanye West as she performed at the 2022 Essence Festival on Friday.

Many artists who took to the stage at last weekend’s Glastonbury Festival have seen a huge uplift on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week and a boost to their catalogue’s sales and streams, according to new data.

Glastonbury Festival returned to Worthy Farm this weekend – scroll down to see what the festival looked like in three minutes.The festival ran from June 22-26 and was the first to be held since 2019 after Glastonbury’s 2020 and 2021 editions were both cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.After the festival, organiser Emily Eavis shared a statement in which she called Glastonbury 2022 “surely the best one yet” and hailed “a remarkable feat by all artists and crew.”Glastonbury 2022 was headlined by Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, with a legends’ slot from Diana Ross and notable performances by Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo and more.See all the highlights inside three minutes below.Reviewing Glastonbury 2022, NME wrote: “The festival is all about unity, and sometimes you find it in unexpected places. Sleaford Mods’ scabrous, sweary take on post-punk might initially sound solo antagonistic, but frontman Jason Williamson regularly punctuates the set by sweetly checking the audience are still enjoying themselves.“The band stand atop a wave of post-punk coursing through the bill: Yard Act stake their claim for Glasto greatness at William’s Green and IDLES make a surprise appearance at the BBC Introducing Stage, tearing through their near-seminal debut album ‘Brutalism’ in full.”Many artists at the festival also took the opportunity to address the US Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

While it's nothing new, and we're certainly not complaining, Harry Styles' name is inescapable right now. Not content with scoring ten weeks atop the Official Singles Chart with As It Was, claiming the year's first Official Charts Double as Harry's House simultaneously nabbed Number 1, making moves in the beauty business with Pleasing and starring in upcoming movie Don't Worry Darling with girlfriend Olivia Wilde, the One Direction star's now treating fans across Europe to Love On Tour.

Binky Felstead has shared an update on her baby boy Wolfie after calling 999 and rushing him to hospital over a "bad reaction" to hummus.The 32 year old's son, who she shares with her other half Max Darton, worried paramedics that he wouldn't be able to breathe after he went into anaphylactic shock. Former Made In Chelsea star Binky, whose dog had been hit by a "vile" van driver just days before, has now taken to her Instagram feed to share a series of happy snaps of her one year old before thanking her 1.4million followers for their well wishes and advice.

Phoebe Bridgers joined The Jesus and Mary Chain onstage to perform ‘Just Like Honey’ during the band’s Friday (June 24) set at this year’s Glastonbury festival.Bridgers, who played her own Glasto set right before JAMC at the John Peel Stage, supplied backing vocals for the rock legends, letting singer Jim Reid lead the performance. The appreciative crowd allowed the song to play almost uninterrupted before applauding the band and Bridgers as Reid thanked her at the end of the song.Watch Bridgers join The Jesus And Mary Chain to perform ‘Just Like Honey’ below.Bridgers made headlines for her maiden Glastonbury set, where she denounced the recent decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v.

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Olivia Rodrigo made a statement at her first Glastonbury festival on Saturday as she brought out surprise guest, Lily Allen, to sing her 2009 hit "F--- You" song, and dedicated the anthem to the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v Wade just the day before.  Rodrigo, 19, introduced "incredible songwriter and artist" Allen to the stage and said: "Today is a very, very special day.This is actually my first Glastonbury, and I’m sharing the stage with Lily which is the biggest dream come true ever. But I’m also equally as heartbroken over what happened in America yesterday." The decision made by SCOTUS on Friday effectively ended recognition of a constitutional right to abortion which has been in place since 1973, and gives individual states the power to allow, limit or ban the healthcare practice altogether.  "The Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v Wade which is a law that ensures a woman's right to a safe abortion, another basic human right," Rodrigo said to the thousands of fans watching her first performance at the massive outdoor show.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOlivia Rodrigo used her set at England’s Glastonbury Festival to slam the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

Greta Thunberg took to the stage at the Glastonbury Festival today and warned the huge crowd of a 'climate and ecological emergency'. The 19-year-old environment activist from Sweden delivered a speech from the Pyramid Stage to rapturous applause.

Phoebe Bridgers took over the Glastonbury Festival tonight (June 24) with some powerful words for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPhoebe Bridgers, who has been outspoken about the battle over abortion rights since news of Roe v. Wade’s impending overturn by the Supreme Court was first leaked earlier this year, made no bones about her feelings during her set at the Glastonbury festival in England on Friday.“In all honesty, [the festival is] like super surreal and fun, but I’m having like the shittiest day,” she told the crowd. “Are there any Americans here? What wants to say ‘Fuck the Supreme Court’ on three?,” she shouted before leading a chant of “Fuck the Supreme Court!” She concluded: “Fuck that shit.

As festival-goers gather at Glastonbury to enjoy one of the UK's biggest festivals, many will unfortunately be missing out.

Mark Sutherland Glastonbury Festival — the biggest live music event in Europe — gets into full swing today, for the first time since 2019.There will be 200,000 people on site in Somerset, in the west of England, watching thousands of performances across 93 different stages, including headliners Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, and Diana Ross in the highly prized Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot.And yet, somehow, Glastonbury is even bigger than those numbers suggest. First held in 1970 – when 1,500 hippies got free milk in exchange for their £1 entrance fee – the festival has developed into a national and international institution, as much a part of the traditional British summer as Wimbledon.

Wolf Alice have touched down in Heathrow Airport ahead of their scheduled performance at Glastonbury Festival this evening (June 24).The band shared a short Instagram Story from inside of an airplane with Heathrow Airport tagged as a location this morning.

Insane Clown Posse have shared an update on rapper Violent J’s health following his recent hospitalisation.Writing on social media, the duo said Violent J’s hospitalisation followed “shortness of breath” and “went to the emergency room expecting there was an issue with his AFib”.Insane Clown Posse then revealed that the rapper – who suffered heart failure last year – is “perfectly fine and healthy” although he was diagnosed with pneumonia.Read the duo’s full statement below.pic.twitter.com/fBPyDsKS3m— Insane Clown Posse (@icp) June 23, 2022“Have no fear, he’s currently doing really well, and his doctors said he should be able to go home in the next two or three days,” Insane Clown Posse continued, adding: “Sometimes it just takes a little pneumonia to remind you to slow down and enjoy the little things”.Violent J’s hospitalisation has also forced the postponement of Insane Clown Posse’s upcoming EP, ‘Pug Ugly The Stink Bug’. The project has yet to receive a new release date.At the duo’s annual Gathering Of The Juggalos event in August last year, Violent J announced that they would be embarking on a farewell tour this year due to his health issues.“We’re gonna do the United States, and then we’re gonna go to Europe, Canada and Australia.

Glastonbury festival-goers “may need to take shelter if they can” as thunderstorms are set to sweep across much of southern England, a Met Office meteorologist has warned. Music lovers will be swapping sun cream for umbrellas at Worthy Farm as the weather is set to turn from “wall-to-wall sunshine” and high temperatures on Thursday morning to “heavy thundery downpours” in the afternoon.The Met Office issued a yellow thunderstorm warning stretching from Sheffield in the North, across the South East and down to Bath in the South West, meaning Glastonbury revellers could be caught in torrential downpours in Somerset.

“misery” for people heading to Glastonbury Festival today (June 23), it seems travel has been largely unaffected by rail strikes.Passengers have been urged to avoid all but essential travel this week due to industrial action being carried out by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) with only five of the eleven trains that normally run between London Paddington and Castle Cary, near Glastonbury, in operation today.However, it seems that most punters took the advice of operator Great Western Railway and travelled yesterday (June 22) or will be heading down tomorrow (June 23).According to the BBC, a specially-constructed holding pen at Paddington Station designed to cope with large numbers of potential passengers had just 25 people in it shortly before the departure of the first train to Castle Cary this morning.