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Glastonbury 2024, the Sunday round-up: from Shania Twain to SZA

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Once more, for a final day on Worthy Farm, here’s the final of our daily round-ups from Glastonbury: Britain’s biggest festival.

Early-doors singalongs

There aren’t many benefits to playing at 11.15am on Sunday morning, but found one as they started the day off on the Other stage. The bars weren’t open yet, which meant charismatic frontman Dave McCabe praised the gradually swelling crowd for clapping in time – something that gets more loose later in the day as the ciders kick in. The Liverpool-born band put on a surprisingly emotional set: despite a raucous festival sound and a hits-heavy first album, they hadn’t played in 16 years, mostly due to various interpersonal issues – something McCabe coyly referred to. Having pulled it together for a return, they were visibly made up. Their penultimate tune, Valerie, is

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