It’s the first big day at Glastonbury 2024 – we take you on a visual tour from Thursday evening to Friday night, including Seventeen, Marina Abramović’s silence for CND and Dua Lipa’s headline performance on the Pyramid
A couple embrace during the seven-minute silence held by performance artist Marina Abramović at Pyramid stage. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian
lastonbury 2024 woke up gradually over the course of a baking hot Wednesday and cooler Thursday, as hundreds of thousands of people slowly fed into the site. And come Thursday evening, the view across the site from up above the Park was as glorious as ever.View image in fullscreenBy Thursday evening, in the absence of any stage-performing action, the bars all across the site were full to bursting. Arcadia was tuning up with its new dragonfly, which has replaced the ageing fire-breathing Spider.
David Levene had backstage access to Marina Abramović’s art piece on the Pyramid stage, where she dressed as a giant CND sign and managed to get the audience to be almost entirely silent for seven minutes.Who says film is dead? Stormzy goes analogue at the Other stage and nonchalantly pops in a new roll of film to snap the crowd for D-Block Europe.
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