Dua Lipa hits all the right notes at Glastonbury

“I’ve written this moment down and wished for it and dreamt it and worked so hard,” she told the crowd.

She recalled one of her first gigs, playing to 10 people who “only came because we offered them free drinks” – and seemed overawed by how much that audience had grown.

Almost 100,000 people watched the set, with fans stretching all the way back to Rowmead, an area that used to be reserved for campers, but which has been opened up in 2024 to allow bigger crowds to the Pyramid Stage.

“It’s a lot, innit? A lot to take in,” Lipa said.

“Little me would just be beside herself right now.”

It was a tiny moment of vulnerability in an armour-plated set. No song was left unpolished, no vocal left unharmonised, no hair left untossed. Dua hit every mark with the precision of someone who’d been building towards this moment for years.

But if that makes it sound clinical and sterile, it wasn’t the case.

Take, for example, the moment she rushed down to the barriers to get the crowd singing along to her early hit Be The One.

It wasn’t entirely spontaneous – in fact it riffed on a moment she pulled off at her last Glastonbury performance in 2017 – but the joy on the star’s face as she climbed the fences and sang face to face with her fans was genuine.