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Manic Street Preachers at Glastonbury 2014 review – a perfectly judged set

Twenty years after their notorious festival debut, a set brimming with big hits confirmed the Manics' status as crowd-pleasers, writes Gwilym Mumford

Jack White at Glastonbury 2014 review – crunching rock becomes self-indulgent racket

White starts with an onslaught of sound, but his set loses focus as song after song dissolves into an extended jam, writes Rebecca Nicholson

Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2014 review – melodic and savage

Guitar rock's new hope attack indie music with ferociousness, producing sweet-toothed tunes doused in acidic bitterness, writes Mark Beaumont

Fat White Family at Glastonbury 2014 review – carefree caterwauling

Their devil-may-care attitude masks a talent for doom-laden rock'n'roll dirge-mongering, writes Lanre Bakare

Lana Del Rey at Glastonbury 2014 review – a kohl-smudged dose of summertime sadness

Lana and her band seem to be trying to conjure the thunder in a sonically stunning but visually static set, writes Kate Hutchinson

MIA at Glastonbury 2014 review – a hyperactive headline slot strikes gold

The singer seamlessly melds pop, reggae, EDM and a Tamil T-shirt protest in a crowd-delighting turn on the West Holts stage, writes Lanre Bakare

Skrillex at Glastonbury 2014 review – an intergalactic rave bombardment

With a Jedi starfighter of a stage set, and a barrage of sub-bass-mangled tunes, Skrillex made his bid to claim the electronic-music throne

Arcade Fire at Glastonbury 2014 review – born headliners slay the Pyramid stage

Win Butler and co have matured since 2007 and delight the masses with a set full of sequins and showmanship, writes Alexis Petridis

Paolo Nutini at Glastonbury 2014 review – emotion overload, even for loved-up couples

The voice belongs to a man who's studied the Motown greats, but Paolo Nutini's soul-survivor act rings rather hollow

Elbow at Glastonbury 2014 review – Garvey sings the soundtrack to sunset

Indie's old-timers greet Glastonbury open-armed, swelling from festival hold music into a far greater, less formulaic prospect

Tune-Yards at Glastonbury 2014 review – Haitian rhythms and siren noises

Merrill Garbus puts on a colourful show, but her music is better suited to more intimate venues than fields, writes Tim Jonze

Lily Allen at Glastonbury 2014 review – proper pop show by a proper pop star

Despite a set curtailed by the weather, Lily Allen's potty mouth and pop-star firepower added up to an irresistible show

Rudimental at Glastonbury 2014 review – headline-act swagger in the mid-afternoon

Just when a lack of big-name guest stars looked like being the sole letdown of a swaggering Rudimental set, on came Ed Sheeran

Jungle at Glastonbury 2014 review – attention-grabbing futurist soul

If their laser-honed indie R&B felt too precise, Jungle showed enough invention and energy to get a massive crowd moving, writes Gwilym Mumford

Blondie at Glastonbury 2014 review – a cheery anticlimax

Blondie are still a souped-up monster truck of a band – even if the air-horn has gone a bit wheezy, writes Mark Beaumont

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