SZA, Avril Lavigne and more: all the action from Sunday at Glastonbury 2024

After a truly incredible few days, the end of Glastonbury 2024 is near - following Coldplay’s career-spanning set on the Pyramid Stage last night - but not before another day filled to the brim with music and art.

During the fest’s final stretch, punters are set to be treated to a series of firsts (Pyramid headliner SZA, emo-pop icon Avril Lavigne and the Legends Slot’s Shania Twain are all making their Worthy Farm debut), as well as a litany of old favourites - The National, Two Door Cinema Club, James Blake, we’re looking at you - and we’ll be bringing you all of Sunday’s best moments. So grab your leopard print cowboy hat and join us down the front…

Catch up with our day reports from Friday and Saturday here! 

7pm: Avril Lavigne draws massive crowd for her hugely-anticipated first visit to Glastonbury

Tell any grizzled old school Glasto goer that Avril Lavigne would draw one of the biggest crowds of the weekend for her first visit to Worthy Farm, and they’d probably scoff in your face, but they clearly wouldn’t appreciate the sheer unadulterated glee that her Other Stage set brings fans this evening. Taking place after Shania’s huge Legends Slot, you get the feeling that most of the same crowd have trudged to the other side of the site in order to catch a glimpse of the emo-pop queen (an error in terms of billing, absolutely), but when she launches into technicolour hit ‘Girlfriend’, it proves worth the hike, as the outstretched crowd burst into giddy life alongside her. It’s unsurprisingly her older offerings that incite most chaos, with people screaming along to every word of ‘Complicated’ and ‘I’m With You’ whilst perched on shoulders, but the vast, tightly-packed nature of the crowd - the field is so full that people can’t get in or out - verges on uncomfortable for chunks of the performance. Needless to say, her closing gambit of ‘Sk8r Boi’ provides the set’s pinnacle, with fans’ adrenaline palpable til its last moments. That the song finishes at the exact moment England equalise in their Euros knock out match and word starts to spread (with a crowd-wide rendition of ‘Hey Jude’ following, in dedication to goalscorer Jude Bellingham) feels even more ridiculous, adding an extra layer to the dizzying high of the past hour.

6.45pm: Janelle Monáe dazzles with wild stage show at the Pyramid

6pm: Shania Twain takes on the Legends Slot in style

When Glastonbury booked Shania Twain, they couldn’t have predicted the current country resurgence that’s elevated the set from simply this year’s Legends Slot into something surprisingly timely. Accordingly, the crowd is massive; looking slick but backed by staging done out as the Twain Town Saloon, the star is also equal parts cheesy nostalgia and still current. As is the way with many Legends Slot bookings over the years, the majority of the crowd’s energy is focussed on a couple of massive hits rather than a real knowledge of Twain’s back catalogue. She starts with ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ and ends with ‘Man, I Feel Like A Woman’, with only a mid set ‘Still The One’ and ‘Come On Over’ really connecting with the peripheries. Yet with a set like this it’s about the atmosphere rather than an intimate awareness of the artist’s nuances, and as a sea of cowboy hats waggle gamely in the air, Shania’s done enough to cement her status in Glasto legend.

Two years on and one debut album release later, Rachel Chinouriri’s return to Glastonbury is enough to make even the hardiest of attendees a little misty-eyed today. Taking to the Other Stage in the post-lunchtime spot, her mix of excitement and nerves is clear from the off but the crowd are entirely behind her, with an early showing of ‘The Hills’ sounding glorious. It’s her rendition of ‘Robbed’ - dedicated both to her late niece who originally inspired the song, and those currently suffering in Gaza - that’s most stunning today, though, with Rachel herself welling up at the sheer emotion of the whole thing. It’s one of those perfectly candid moments that could only happen at Glasto, with the singer declaring that the crowd are helping to make her dreams come true. Never mind the headliners with their production and fireworks, it’s these kinds of moments that make this festival so special.