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Lana Del Rey live at Glastonbury: pure, messy, unfiltered melodrama

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Lana Del Rey has turned a blind eye to Glastonbury’s ‘do not pack’ list. Clenching a disposable vape in her hand – the devices are banned across the site due to their single-use nature – the LA-based artist is psyching herself up to break into rousing ballad ‘Bartender’, anxiously tapping her acrylic nails against the grand piano behind her.

As a sumptuous arrangement swells into life, she attempts to sneakily slot the vape pen into her mic stand, grinning all the while.

Here stands an artist indulging her impish side, even if at a slight remove.Given her outsized impact on modern pop, the gravity of Del Rey’s appearance on The Other Stage tonight feels palpable.

Her UK shows over the past decade have been painfully rare: before her 2019 performance at Latitude Festival, she has sporadically played one-off headline gigs at Liverpool Arena and London’s O2 Academy Brixton, and last appeared at Glastonbury in 2014.

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