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5 must-see Glastonbury performances to watch on Saturday

To mark what would have been the Glastonbury weekend the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is bringing you The Glastonbury Experience featuring over 100 archive performances available to watch on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer or listen to on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds and a dedicated channel showing nothing but great performances from the Glastonbury archives from Thursday 25th to Monday 29th June.

You can get planning your Glastonbury viewing with our handy schedule but to get you started we've picked out a handful of artists appearing today who are not to be missed.

It's Saturday of Glastonbury weekend and after classic sets from Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and more on Thursday, Beyoncé and Jay-Z on Friday, there's still plenty more to come.

Here are our picks for Saturday's action...

Dave (2019)

2019 was a landmark year for Dave. He took home the Mercury Prize for his brilliant album Psychodrama and ventured into the acting world by starring in the Netflix revival of Top Boy. It came after an equally fruitful 2018, which saw the Streatham MC make history by reaching No.1 in the UK charts with Funky Friday, UK rap's first chart-topping track. You'd have expected that scorcher of a song to be the highlight of Dave's 2019 Glastonbury set, but that actually came during Thiago Silva and Dave's heartwarming team up with a fan from the crowd, subsequently and forever known as 'Alex From Glasto'.

  • Watch Dave's Glastonbury 2019 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 2pm

Oasis (1994)

When people think of Glastonbury in the 90s, one image that commonly pops to mind is Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams hanging out backstage in 1995. But it was actually the year before, in 1994, when Liam's Britpop heroes Oasis delivered a lesser-seen highlight from the decade. Their very first appearance at Worthy Farm (they would return to headline the next year), it was a true "I was there" Glasto moment as the then still relatively under-the-radar Gallagher brothers and their band (only two singles in and prior to releasing Definitely Maybe) performed with sheer hunger and urgency.

  • Watch Oasis' Glastonbury 1994 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 4.30pm

Lorde (2017)

When New Zealand star Lorde burst onto the scene back in 2013, her music was marked by its slow-building sparseness: downtempo, brooding and slowly enthralling. With her second album 2017's Melodrama though, she truly came into her own as a pop performer, a gripping, euphoric and kaleidoscopic record. At Glastonbury 2017, Lorde brought this newfound dynamism, performing an ambitious stage show that included a huge glass box full of backing dancers.

  • Watch Lorde's Glastonbury 2017 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 5.30pm

Adele (2016)

Addressing criticism that she was "too boring" to headline Glastonbury, Adele didn't mince her words in the build-up to her 2016 headline set, telling fans prior to the big gig: "I'm actually more excited than I was now, because all those rock and punk fans have been having a moan that I'm doing it and I'm like, 'You're going to get dragged along by your wife, so just deal with it...' To be honest, those people moaning about it, I've probably been more times than them anyway, so shut up." With world-class ballads and a warm, sparkling stage presence, Adele left no doubt that she was right at home on the Pyramid Stage - a true pop titan of our time.

  • Watch Adele's Glastonbury 2016 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 9.30pm

Coldplay (2016)

Following Adele as the closing Pyramid Stage headliners in 2016 was no mean task, but if anyone could do it, it was always going to be Coldplay, who are pretty much Glastonbury veterans by this point. It was their fourth time headlining but Chris Martin and co were by no means resting on their laurels - offering up all the hits and surprising us with duets with both Barry Gibb and Michael Eavis to boot.

  • Watch Coldplay's Glastonbury 2016 set on the Glastonbury iPlayer Channel from 11.30pm