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With Glastonbury off this year, join us to watch the screening Adele’s Pyramid stage triumph on BBC Two
9.26pm BST
It’s worth remembering that Adele was at the absolute top of her game at this point. This headline slot was in addition to a 121-show world tour across 2016 and 2017, taking in Europe, north America, Australia and New Zealand. Earlier in the year she’d played six nights at London’s O2; she played the same number of shows at each of New York’s Madison Square Garden and LA’s Staples Center later in 2016. She rounded the whole thing off with four sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium. The last two were cancelled due to her vocal cords finally giving way after voicing more heartbreak than every Netflix teen romcom put together, but she still has the record attendance for a gig there, at 98,000.
9.17pm BST
Faaaaackinell! Thanks for joining me to rewatch Adele’s magnificently sweary, affecting, and – for a gig to 150,000-odd people – intimate Glastonbury performance from 2016.
With the festival off this year, we’re liveblogging along with each of the vintage headline sets being shown on BBC Two. Yesterday we had Beyoncé; tomorrow we’ll have David Bowie. And tonight, it’s the Londoner who brought something a Pyramid headliner hadn’t really brought before: power balladry, albeit of a very English kind. She kicks off at 9.30pm, running til 11.05pm. Continue reading...