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Glastonbury revellers opted for unusual methods to keep their cool amid 26C heat on Saturday – using cans of water for makeshift showers and some even stripping off completely.
The penultimate day of Glastonbury saw festivalgoers basking in the sun ahead of performances by Guns N’Roses, , – and even Ed Miliband.
US rockers Guns N’ Roses will headline Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage on Saturday evening, marking their debut performance at the world-famous festival.
Never Going to Give You Up singer Rick Astley took to the stage to perform a Harry Styles cover of As It Was, before showing off some chart-topping hits and new music.
Festivalgoers have so far been spared wet weather, with the festival conditions to remain dry on Saturday with ‘plenty of sunshine developing this afternoon’ and temperatures of up to 26C, according to the Met Office.
Glastonbury revellers opted for unusual methods to keep their cool amid 26C heat on Saturday
The penultimate day of Glastonbury saw festivalgoers basking in the sun
Sunday is set to be ‘warm and largely dry, with sunny spells’ for most of the day at the festival, web page held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset.
There is an ‘increasing risk of a shower’ on Sunday afternoon – the final day of the festival – but the temperatures are still expected to reach 25C.
Taking to the drums to play AC/DC’s Highway To Hell, Astley told the audience: ‘When I was a kid, my first experience of being in a band was playing the drums.
‘I’ve had many dreams in my life.One of my dreams has been to perform at Glastonbury – that dream has come true today.
‘Maybe even possibly bigger, which I don’t know how it possibly could, is for me to play drums to the first record that I learned to play the drums to.
‘I was a 15-year-old kid in my dad’s greenhouse, and I played this album to death, I broke this record learning the drums to it.Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join in, this is AC/DC.’
Revellers opted for many different ways to keep cool amid the soaring temperatures, with one man even stripping off completely as Tilda Swinton performed with Max Richter.
Bucket hats, sunglasses and parasols were spotted aplenty in the crowds getting ready to enjoy another day of live music and entertainment.
One man even stripped off completely as Tilda Swinton performed with Max Richter
A person wears a mask at the Pyramid Stage – but added a bucket hat to keep his cool
The fields of Glastonbury looked scorched and dry in the extreme heat
Bucket hats, sunglasses and parasols were spotted aplenty in the crowds getting ready to enjoy another day of live music and entertainment
Never Going to Give You Up singer Rick Astley took to the stage to perform a Harry Styles cover of As It Was
Ice creams and cool drinks were high in demand as people began to form long queues
Some people were forced to sit down as respite from the sun, with one man opted for an umbrella hat
Tucking in! A Flake 99 was exactly what people needed on a hot June day
Singer Raye, 25, performed in front of crowds on Saturday afternoon
Glastonbury will see temperatures of 26C today as the country enjoys a heatwave
The ice cream vans were also high in demand and queues were lengthy for cold drinks, as some partygoers were forced to sit down as a break from the sun.
Labour’s shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband quoted Martin Luther King as he joined a debate on political action to tackle climate change at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Miliband joined a panel in a talk called One Minute To Midnight: Can Politics Deliver On Climate Action?’ and was met with cheers as he was introduced to a packed Left Field tent at Worthy Farm.
He listed several points on how politics can help climate action, adding: ‘you’ve got to tell the truth’ in politics, a comment which was met with further cheers.
He continued: ‘Martin Luther King said ‘I have a dream’ not ‘I have a nightmare’.
‘And, look, we’ve got to talk about the truth about the nightmare.’
Tilda Swinton treated the crowds of Glastonbury to an unexpected spoken word performance alongside composer Max Richter.
The Oscar-winning actress, 62, took to the Park Stage at midday on Saturday with Richter and his musicians, billed as their first performance since the release of their collaboration The Blue Notebooks, which was released in 2004.
Tilda Swinton wore a light-blue suit as she treated the crowds of Glastonbury to an unexpected spoken word performance
She was joined by Richter and his musicians, billed as their first performance since the release of their collaboration The Blue Notebooks, which was released in 2004
Revellers at Glastonbury try to hide away from the extreme heat as a hot weather warning was issued by the MET office
One woman was dressed as a sunflower – which also doubled up as a sunhat
They took up every inch available of shade on the ground, with the sunny spots noticeably more sparse
Blazing: It looked as though the lucky crowds were going to avoid any rain in the afternoon
A woman shelters from the sun at the entrance to the Glastonbury-on-Sea area
The project was the second album by the German-born British classical instrumentalist Richter and takes its name from Franz Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks, a collection of the author’s diaries first published in 1953.
Across the album, Swinton read from these books along with extracts of poetry by Czeslaw Milosz.
Opening Saturday’s performance at Glastonbury alongside actress Swinton, Richter told the crowd: ‘Good morning, it’s amazing that so many of you got out of bed this morning really.
‘It’s great to be here, really great to be here.It’s my first time playing here and it’s just an honour to be opening up this stage today,’ he added.
‘So we’re going to play for you a piece called The Blue Notebooks which was written in 2003. It’s kind of a protest record.
‘It’s in response to what was happening in politics around the build-up to the Iraq war where politics was turning into a branch of fantasy literature and I was really struck with doubt about what was happening.
‘And I thought about Kafka, who’s the patron saint of doubt, and I thought about making a piece which expressed everything, and so we recorded this piece in 2003.
‘Please welcome this amazing band, and please welcome Tilda Swinton, who’s going to read for us.’
It comes after the Arctic Monkeys closed out a packed day of music at Worthy Farm on Friday, which saw surprise appearances from Foo Fighters, Hozier and actress .
However the rock band – fronted by – were slammed by fans for a ‘mediocre’ and ‘boring’ set, as they were accused of slowing down their smash hits.
A festivalgoer with a fan watching modern classical instrumentalist Max Richter on the Park Stage
Shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband takes part in the One Minute To Midnight: Can Politics Deliver On Climate Action? debate
Crowds gather to watch Max Richter and his modern classical instrumental performance
A carnival samba band parades through the festival site, putting on a very colourful display
Festivalgoers John and Katherine (no surname given) with their daughter Juliette, aged eight
The weather was so warm that people put their towels out to dry on a washing line
Mini umbrellas were all the rage – and were particularly useful to help the party animals look at their phone screens amid the blazing sun
Here, one member of the audience managed to match her bright orange parasol to her shorts
One savvy audience member managed to use a rare spot of shade to his advantage
Festivalgoers queue for refreshments – with a queue for iced coffee much in demand
The fourth day of the festival will host more film screenings, theatre and circus performances, as well as an event by Stormzy’s publishing imprint Merky Books, titled Demystifying Publishing.
Festival-goers were blessed with warm and dry weather on Friday with temperatures reaching a high of 28.1C around 3pm.
A spokesperson from the Met Office told the PA news agency that despite a cloudy start to Saturday, temperatures would stay high.
Meteorologist Ellie Wilson said: ‘There will be a cloudy start for the morning, with potentially a light spot of rain.
‘It will turn much brighter in the afternoon, with prolonged periods of sunshine.Temperatures will reach around 25C or 26C and it will feel quite warm, humid and muggy.’
Guns N’ Roses original line-up of Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan will headline the mainstage on Saturday – after reuniting in 2015 – where they are expected to play a number of their classic songs including Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Welcome To The Jungle.
Other acts scheduled to perform include Lana Del Rey, Christine and The Queens, Rina Sawayama, Loyle Carner and Mahalia.
Scottish superstar Lewis Capaldi and Lizzo will both take to the main stage ahead of Guns N’ Roses.
A boy got a handy lift on his father’s shoulders as he donned a gigantic pair of yellow wings
Crowds arrive to watch Rick Astley perform on the Pyramid Stage
But the excitement was clearly too much for some – as one map opted to have a nap instead
An ecstatic crowd enjoyed Rick Astley’s classic hits as well as a selection of new music
A superfan waits for Rick Astley and dons face paint for her hero
A security staff member gives water to members of the crowd as they wait for Rick Astley
Labour’s shadow climate secretary Ed Miliband quoted Martin Luther King as he joined a debate on political action
People walking through the Glastonbury festival between acts and on their way to find refreshment
Tilda Swinton performs with Max Richter on the Park Stage on Day 4 of Glastonbury
The penultimate day of Glastonbury will see festivalgoers enjoy 26C heat ahead of more iconic acts
Litter pickers clean up the Woodsies area on the morning of day four at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton
Festivalgoers began to emerge late morning after an intense Friday night
The morning after the night before: Temperatures made it too hot to sleep with the tents shut
Improvised showering in front of the Pyramid stage, using a water can to rinse and cool down from the sun
A festivalgoer takes some refreshment on day 4 of the Glastonbury festival in the village of Pilton
It comes after Capaldi cancelled all upcoming commitments earlier this month, ahead of Glastonbury, to allow himself time to ‘rest and recover’.
In a post on Instagram he apologised to his fans, explaining that he had been ‘struggling’ after a busy few months.
Surprise sets will also come from rock band The Pretenders – who are due to perform from 7.45pm at The Park Stage – and Rick Astley.
Friday’s entertainment was closed out by Arctic Monkeys who shut down previous concerns that they would not be able to perform, after announcing that frontman Alex Turner had acute laryngitis.
The Sheffield rockers delivered a smash selection of songs, despite minimal crowd interaction from Turner, revisiting their chart-topping back catalogue as well as tracks from their 2022 release The Car.