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Wet Leg: Moisturizer review – Doritos, Davina McCall and dumb fun from British indie’s big breakout band

After winning multiple Grammys and Brits, the Isle of Wight band explore love and sexuality on their second LP – but there’s still room for some barbed put-downs

Billie Eilish review – pop’s sharpest commentator plays with fame’s power dynamics

There’s nowhere for Eilish to hide as she balances intimacy and spectacle, filming her screaming fans as she paces a stage akin to a boxing ring

Stevie Wonder review – a riotously joyful celebration

The 75-year-old is in ageless voice and playful mood throughout a performance of as many of his greatest hits as can fit back-to-back in two and a half hours

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne: Back to the Beginning review – all-star farewell to the gods of metal is epic and emotional

The biggest names in rock, from Metallica to Slayer, came to pay tribute to the men who created their entire genre – and even in old age, Sabbath’s sound has bludgeoning force

Oasis review – a shameless trip back to the 90s for Britpop’s loudest, greatest songs

This is playlist Oasis, with their later fallow years ignored almost completely – and that makes for a ferociously powerful set to an utterly adoring crowd

Kesha: . (Period) review – a smart, funny return to her hedonistic hot-mess persona

After a long legal battle, the pop star’s sixth album harks back to her 2010s era, with a buffet of pop styles and only rare hints of her highly-publicised trauma

Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury review – full of bile and brilliance, this is easily the weekend’s best big set

With a genuinely surprise appearance from the Cure’s Robert Smith and a magnificent theatricality to her lovelorn songs, Rodrigo totally steals the entire festival

Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury review – pop’s most reliable band bring the party to the Pyramid

While you might quibble that Chic’s set has become more reliable than revolutionary, you can’t argue with the effects of the greatest pop music ever made on the crowd

Doechii at Glastonbury review – an education in rap from the greatest teacher in the game

Theatrical, flirtatious and athletic, this debut UK festival performance from the US MC is unrelentingly brilliant

Neil Young at Glastonbury review – ragged glory from a noisemaker who never treads the easy path

Still adhering to his own bizarre internal logic as he approaches 80, Young is crowd-pleasing one minute, wilfully odd the next – and you wouldn’t want it any other way

Alanis Morissette at Glastonbury review – spectacular sundown set by a unique feminist artist

The Canadian singer’s pared-down set showcases an undiminished vocal talent and life-affirming energy

Lorde at Glastonbury review – new album playthrough is bold but a little foolhardy

Lorde resembles Patti Smith as she introduces her entire new album, Virgin, but the lack of well-known hits lets the energy drop

Lorde: Virgin review – chaos, carnality and compulsions meet cataclysmic choruses

After her last album embraced switching off, the musician returns to pop’s fray to revel in the mess of late-20s angst with a strikingly unsettled sound

Diana Ross review – glittering Motown royalty still sounds supreme

Accompanied by the Hallé Orchestra, the 81-year-old singer’s voice shines during this relentless blast through the hits

Lana Del Rey review – mid-century melodrama as mindblowing stadium spectacle

The US singer-songwriter graduates to the UK’s biggest venues with a theatrical show to match, featuring a house on fire, Allen Ginsberg recitals and some very real tears

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