Glastonbury 2025 live: Latest updates as Olivia Rodrigo and The Prodigy close festival

Young’s idea of a special guest is Hank Williams’s guitar, while his pyrotechnics are strictly of the fretboard variety and generally aimed into a circle of bandmates, writes Mark Beaumont.

“We never thought we’d be playing these songs again to anybody,” says Felix White as the reformed Maccabees make a long-wished-for and highly emotional return to Avalon.

It’s like no time has passed; they pile into “Latchmere”, “X-Ray” and “Precious Time” with every gigawatt of their formative electricity still pulsing, and return to headline status just as the febrile atmospherics of “No Kind Words” and “Pelican” become the alt-rock standard.

A celebratory night is capped by Florence Welch’s appearance for “Dog Days are Over”, but The Maccabees’ dog days might just have arrived.

In a post on social media on Saturday, Avon and Somerset Police said: “We are aware of the comments made by acts on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury Festival this afternoon.