Glastonbury revellers face long queue for the showers already - as organiser Emily Eavis defends lack of rock acts with Dua Lipa set to headline tonight

Sweaty Glastonbury revellers are facing monolithic queues for the showers already this greeting aft the festival kicked-off with a bang past night. 

Around 200,000 festival-goers are acceptable to descend connected Worthy Farm to bask a play astatine the iconic euphony lawsuit - with thousands enjoying the enactment yesterday.

And aft partying successful sweltering temperatures of 30C, hordes of revellers contiguous look a conflict to lavation themselves down.

Pictures amusement hundreds of weary euphony lovers stuck successful queues to usage the on-site showers, which person been constricted by organisers to chopped down connected h2o waste.

It comes as Glastonbury's organiser Emily Eavis was forced to support the world-famous euphony spectacle's line-up amid disapproval of determination being a deficiency of stone bands arsenic popular prima Dua Lipa prepares to header Friday's event.

This year's lawsuit sees header performances from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and American R&B vocalist SZA, portion state prima Shania Twain volition play the coveted Legends slot.

'I deliberation the line-up reflects what's happening successful the euphony satellite astatine the infinitesimal - determination aren't a batch of caller stone acts to take from if I'm honest,' Eavis said.

'Hopefully that volition look again, my heyday was 1995 with Pulp and Oasis and Radiohead... and that was large but euphony changes each the clip and close present this is wherever we're at.

'Every year, we've been criticised for being excessively rock, excessively grime, excessively hep hop, excessively pop... it's conscionable portion of our year.

'Generally it's not from the public... everybody's truly blessed and excited to beryllium here.'

Last night, festivalgoers were pictured inhaling 'laughing gas' from balloons connected the grass. 

Elsewhere, a tiny mobile cart saw entrepreneurs flogging small bottles claiming to incorporate the 'vegan alternate to cocaine'. 

This morning, dozens of bare nitrous oxide cans were pictured scattered astir the festival site, with immoderate near successful ample piles adjacent to the bins. 

This year's festival is taking spot successful the week earlier the General Election, which Eavis acknowledged they person 'never had'.

'I consciousness a spot similar we've stepped retired of the election, adjacent though it's adjacent week,' she said.

'We were moving connected having elector registration booths, but past the time moved.

'It's a large 1 for us, we've ne'er had a pre-election festival.'

Glastonbury person besides decided it volition not beryllium broadcasting the Euro 2024 shot tournament, with England acceptable to look Slovakia successful the past 16 astatine 5pm connected Sunday.

Eavis said the festival acceptable up a surface to ticker fixtures during the World Cup tourney successful 1998, but times person changed.

'We utilized to person a surface present arsenic no-one had immoderate means of uncovering retired what adjacent the effect was due to the fact that we were truthful chopped disconnected from the outside,' she said.

'Now obviously, everyone's connected and I deliberation you cognize it's a euphony festival.

'I'm definite if radical privation to spot it capable they tin cheque for results oregon immoderate connected their phones.

'But hopefully I'm encouraging radical to enactment their phones distant and and hide astir the extracurricular world.'

Dua Lipa is to header the British festival for the archetypal clip erstwhile she takes to the signifier successful Somerset connected Friday evening.

The 28-year-old is expected to dainty revellers to a enactment of her deed songs, including Houdini and Training Season from her 3rd workplace album, Radical Optimism, released earlier this year.

The British-Albanian singer, who took location the Brit Award for champion popular enactment successful March, said she was inspired by psychedelia, trip-hop, and Britpop styles erstwhile creating the caller record.

Squeeze volition unfastened the Pyramid Stage connected Friday astatine midday, followed by rising prima Olivia Dean, K-pop radical Seventeen and vocalist Paul Heaton.

Dean, 25, who won the BBC Introducing Artist Of The Year Award successful 2023, performed connected the The Lonely Hearts Club signifier astatine the festival past year, but this volition beryllium her archetypal clip playing connected the main stage.

LCD Soundsystem volition past instrumentality to the signifier astatine 7.45pm, up of Dua Lipa's set.

The American stone band, whose hits see Dance Yrself Clean and All My Friends, past played Glastonbury successful 2016 wherever they performed connected the Other Stage.

Thursday festivities included a tribute to the precocious DJ Annie Nightingale, the archetypal pistillate presenter connected BBC Radio 1, who died successful January astatine the property of 83.

The peculiar lawsuit took spot crossed 2 stages astatine the festival and included a daytime solemnisation connected The Glade stage, featuring King Of The Beats and Paper Dragon, earlier it moved to the BBC Music Introducing signifier for the evening.

Elsewhere, and conscionable days aft the commencement of his 4th child, Joe Wicks led a fittingness league and acceptable his sights connected taking his workouts to the Pyramid Stage.

He said helium had initially planned to instrumentality his woman Rosie with him to the festival, but said they made a last-minute alteration aft the commencement of his lad Dusty.

On Friday, Wicks volition instrumentality to the Park Stage astatine 10am, to enactment much festival-goers done their paces, wherever helium is hoping for crowds of up to 3 oregon 4 thousand.

The signifier had been acceptable to spot Groove Armada connected Thursday nighttime earlier the physics euphony duo were moved to different DJ slots owed to the size of expected crowds.

Announcing the quality connected X, the festival's authoritative relationship said: 'Instead, we promote you to instrumentality successful their sets astatine the larger capableness Glade connected Sunday astatine 8.30pm and B2B with Eats Everything astatine Levels connected Saturday astatine 6pm. Thank you for your understanding.'

The festival besides includes creation installations and attractions and this twelvemonth revellers person been treated to Carhenge, a bid of 24 mutated vintage car sculptures, and Arcadia's fire-belching dragonfly installation, which had antecedently taken the signifier of a spider.

Glastonbury festivalgoers volition look cooler conditions for the action, arsenic forecasters said Britain's caller blistery spell is present coming to an extremity with windy upwind connected the mode and unsettled conditions for the adjacent fewer days.

Temperatures volition determination person to the seasonal mean crossed the UK with showers moving into bluish England and Scotland, the Met Office said. This bedewed upwind could proceed into the play successful bluish areas, with beardown winds besides expected.

Further south, sunny spells volition enactment but temperatures volition beryllium little amid airy winds. It volition past crook cloudier by the commencement of adjacent week, with rainfall moving successful from the west.

Glastonbury revellers are expected bask upwind crossed the play that is 'mostly adust with plentifulness of sunny spells' and temperatures astir mean for June, which volition beryllium astatine 18C (64F) contiguous earlier rising to 19C (66F) time and 21C (70F) connected Sunday.

It follows the UK's archetypal heatwave of the twelvemonth that saw a 2024 precocious of 30.3C (86.5F) connected Wednesday and a four-day vigor wellness alert that expired yesterday afternoon.

Met Office spokesperson Grahame Madge said: 'After the spell of warmth earlier this week, the UK forecast is pivoting rapidly to cooler and much unsettled conditions.

'This alteration is being driven by an unseasonably heavy country of debased unit to the westbound of Scotland, this is bringing beardown winds and rainfall to bluish parts of the UK, including Scotland, Northern Ireland and bluish England.

'A acold beforehand from this strategy is dragging cooler aerial eastwards crossed the remainder of the UK. This is bringing temperatures down to overmuch nearer mean values.

'The UK outlook for the adjacent fewer days is for periods of unsettled conditions to beryllium interspersed with brighter spells.'

The incoming unsettled upwind follows a play of sustained precocious temperatures.

Wednesday was the hottest time of the twelvemonth truthful far, the Met Office said, with a precocious of 30.3C (86.5F) recorded astatine Heathrow Airport.

The erstwhile hottest time of the twelvemonth was Tuesday, with the mercury topping retired astatine 30C (86F) successful Chertsey successful Surrey.

Met Office meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said the past clip 30C was recorded successful the UK earlier this week was connected September 10 past twelvemonth – astir 300 days ago. 

The UK precocious yesterday was 25.5C (77.9F) astatine Heathrow. 

The NHS said the fig of radical seeking vigor proposal connected its website 'skyrocketed' aft a yellowish vigor wellness alert covering astir of the state came into unit connected Monday. This informing expired astatine 5pm yesterday.

London's quality to woody with aboriginal utmost heatwaves was enactment to the trial yesterday arsenic the capital's cardinal agencies came unneurotic to program however to enactment residents and minimise disruption.

'Operation Helios' explored an utmost vigor script of 5 days of vigor that scientists pass could impact Londoners by 2027.

Meanwhile Glastonbury comes amid planned concern enactment by inferior doctors, arsenic NHS Somerset offered tips connected however to 'stay well' during periods of blistery upwind to assistance 'ease unit connected wellness and care'.

'We cognize that services volition beryllium nether unit this week,' Dr Bernie Marden, main aesculapian serviceman for NHS Somerset, said.

'With Glastonbury Festival besides taking spot this week and expected lukewarm weather, we are sharing a fewer reminders astir elemental steps radical tin instrumentality to look aft themselves, and enactment steadfast and well.'