Glastonbury 2024: Here’s what Coldplay played for record-breaking headline set

29 June, 2024

Coldplay perform at Glastonbury 2024.

Coldplay have just played their record-breaking fifth headlining performance at Glastonbury – here’s what went down.

Not wasting a single second, Chris Martin and co. gave the fans exactly what they wanted, starting off the show with crowd favourite ‘Yellow’, before transitioning to ‘Higher Power’ and ‘Adventure of a Lifetime’ afterward.

The band then brought out Victoria Canal to perform ‘Paradise’. Canal had previously revealed in a chat with NME that she once posted an April Fool’s Day Rolling Stone magazine cover she’d made in college, which displayed the text “Victoria Canal wows Chris Martin”. The spoof picture was spotted by a connection of Martin’s, and Canal did indeed ‘wow’ the Coldplay frontman when he heard her music, eventually helping her to get signed to Parlophone.

After performing ‘Viva La Vida’ with the Bolton String Orchestra, Coldplay brought out Little Simz – who had just smashed the Pyramid Stage prior to their closing set – to perform a new, unreleased song ‘We Pray’. You can see footage of their collaboration below.

Later on in the show, Coldplay performed their BTS collab, ‘My Universe’. While the K-pop band weren’t physically present, Martin gave them a shout-out, before projections of the South Korean act were displayed on the tip of the Pyramid Stage. You can find more info on that performance here.

They also performed ‘Humankind’ and ‘Fix You’ with Michael J. Fox.

Coldplay’s Glastonbury 2024 setlist was:

‘Yellow’
‘Higher Power’
‘Adventure of a Lifetime’
‘Paradise’ ft. Victoria Canal
‘The Scientist’
‘Clocks’
‘Hymn For The Weekend’
‘Charlie Brown’
‘Viva La Vida’
‘We Pray’ ft. Little Simz
‘Arabesque’ ft. Femi Kuti
‘Violet Hill’
‘Infinity Sign’
‘Something Like This’
‘My Universe’ ft. projections of BTS
‘A Sky Full Of Stars’
‘Sparks’
‘Humankind’ ft. Michael J. Fox and previous guests
‘Fix You’ ft. Michael J. Fox
‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’

Still set to come this weekend are performances from SZA, Shania Twain, Janelle Monae, The National, Two Door Cinema Club, Avril Lavigne, Justice, Nia Archives, James Blake, Alvvays, Romy and more.

Camila Cabello’s chaotic set scored a three-star rating, while Dua Lipa’s Friday headlining performance earned her four-stars. IDLES and Fontaines D.C nabbed perfect five-star ratings as did the festival’s first K-pop performers SEVENTEEN.

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