Glastonbury 2017

As if platinum record sales and rave reviews hadn’t already piled on enough early pressure for the follow-up to Pure Heroine, New Zealand’s Ella Yelich-O’Connor was then branded “the future of music,” by the late, great David Bowie. Still, she’s held her nerve on Melodrama, documenting an adolescence under the spotlight with striking candour, while offering up massive melodies. Hear ‘Green Light’, ‘Royals’ and the rest on Friday night.

If you’re looking for an excuse for a bleary-eyed singalong while arm in arm with all your pals, The National’s Friday night set on the Pyramid Stage is the one. ‘England’, ‘Fake Empire’, ‘I Need My Girl’ – the Brooklyn-based band have more than enough melancholic classics to soften the hardest of hearts, plus they’ll be previewing material from their much-anticipated seventh album, Sleep Well Beast. Be there and be amongst the first to hear it.

The last time grime-trailblazer Wiley was scheduled to play Glastonbury – back in 2013 – he lasted approximately an hour on the water-logged site before cancelling his set and embarking on a Twitter tirade that culminated in the words, “F**k them and their farm.” Thankfully, the UK’s greatest MC has had a change of heart and will be returning to the Other Stage on Saturday to perform highlights from January’s superb LP, Godfather. You'd be mad to miss him.