Glastonbury Festival 2024: Dua Lipa takes to Pyramid Stage as Friday night headliner

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Dua Lipa as opening night headliner of Glastonbury 2024. Credit: PA Images

Pop star Dua Lipa is the first headliner of Glastonbury Festival 2024, as she takes to the Pyramid Stage on Friday evening (28 June).

The 28-year-old told the crowd: “I can’t believe this, I’ve dreamed about this my whole life.

“And I can’t believe I’m right up here, right here, with you guys, I am so happy to be here with you guys tonight.”

The British-Albanian singer opened with Training Season, a track from her Radical Optimism album which was released in May.

During her performance, the audience could be heard singing loudly along to the words of her 2018 track One Kiss with Calvin Harris, and the song that “changed my life” Be The One.

The pop star stood on the barrier separating the crowd from the stage as the audience helped her sing parts of the song.

The headline set also saw her bring out surprise guest Kevin Parker from Tame Impala, performing The Less I Know The Better from the group’s repertoire.

Parker appeared to have problems with his microphone, which Dua Lipa laughed off.

For the first time ever, the Glastonbury set was broadcast outside the UK via a BBC livestream. Credit: PA Images

Dua Lipa, who took home the Brit Award for best pop act in March, treated revellers to a selection of her hit songs, including Illusion and Break My Heart.

It comes after Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said the pop star was “born” to headline the festival.

Speaking to Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2, Eavis said: "She’s a proper festivalgoer, she comes every year and… you can really tell whether someone really gets the festival and loves it."

Dua Lipa last played at Glastonbury in 2017, in an afternoon slot at the Woodsies tent.

Dua Lipa performing on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. Credit: Yui Mok/PA

Later in the set, Dua Lipa asked for the house lights to be turned on so she could see the audience.

“This is a massive dream come true for me, I have written this moment down, I’ve wished for it, I’ve dreamt.

"I’ve worked so hard in the hopes that maybe one day I’ll get to do it and I can’t believe I’m here, it feels so good to be up here with you guys.

“You know when I wrote it down, I was very specific, I said I really wanted to headline the Pyramid Stage on a Friday night because then I knew I could party for the next two days in the best place on Earth.

“I’m so grateful, little me would just be beside herself right now," she said.

Fireworks after Dua Lipa's performance. Credit: PA Images

Dua Lipa - Setlist - Friday 28 June

  • Training Season

  • One Kiss (Calvin Harris cover)

  • Illusion

  • Break My Heart

  • Levitating

  • These Walls

  • Be the One

  • The Less I Know the Better (with Kevin Parker from Tame Impala)

  • Falling Forever (live debut)

  • Love Again

  • Pretty Please (dance remix)

  • Hallucinate

  • New Rules (with elements of GLUE by Bicep, Levitating and Dance the Night)

  • Electricity (Silk City and Dua Lipa cover)

  • Cold Heart (Elton John cover, sings in crowd)

  • Happy For You

Encore

  • Physical

  • Don't Start Now (with dance break)

  • Houdini (with Kevin Parker)