Sugababes have packed out the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury (Picture: PA Wire)
Glastonbury 2024 is officially underway, and 00s pop icons Sugababes have drawn crowds so big that some festival goers couldn’t even access the stage.
Dua Lipa headlines the Pyramid Stage on Friday with Coldplay and SZA to follow this weekend, but before that there’s a whole host of other acts playing across Worthy Farm.
And one of those acts, Sugababes, might have just played to the biggest crowd the West Holts Stage has ever seen – it’s so big, in fact, that superfans have been turned away to avoid overcrowding.
The 00s pop legends, who are back as Sugababes in their original line-up for the first time in 20 years, have drawn such a massive audience that some festival goers have been unable to watch them.
Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, and Siobhan Donaghy got back together as Sugababes after years of legal battles over the group’s name – and thousands turned out to celebrate their big return.
After their set, Glastonbury attendees have demanded that the pop trio – who scored six UK number ones – are given the coveted Legends slot for Glastonbury 2025.
Massive queues to see the Sugababes knock back the rum and punch at here ð https://t.co/idTkT8QLnw pic.twitter.com/UTwidHBl6X
— Metro (@MetroUK) June 28, 2024
Bit of a crowd gathering for The Sugababes at West Holts KG pic.twitter.com/J3EGtZXqY6
— Glastonbury Live (@GlastoLive) June 28, 2024
On X, @MrDiscoPop said: ‘Once again, my ambitions to see Sugababes at Glastonbury have been thwarted. It’s one-in and one-out at West Holts right now, and the queue is huge. They should do the Legend slot next year.’
Elsewhere in the crowd, @MrWayneyB reported: ‘The Sugababes crowd at West Holts is humungous! Like absolutely packed out. I’ve not seen a crowd that size on that stage since Janelle Monae headlined it in 2019.’
The size of the crowd came as a welcome surprise to Keisha, who said: ‘We were backstage asking management, “Are people there?” We wasn’t sure, so thank you so much for coming out.’
Theyâve closed the entire area around the West Holts stage because of the amount of people who want to see Sugababes. Same happened for their Avalon stage set in 2022. It really needs to be more widely acknowledged that theyâre one of the toppermost adored groups of their era.
— Pete Paphides (@petepaphides) June 28, 2024
Crowds to see Sugababes were so big that people were turned away (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
People were forced to watch hundreds of yards away from the West Holts Stage (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
The Glastonbury Live team, who are roaming the festival site throughout the weekend, took a picture from over 100 yards away from the stage, showing the sea of people who flocked to see the Push the Button singers.
In response to the picture, @GlastoGrandad01 said: ‘[Glastonbury organisers] totally underestimated how popular this set would be. Needed to be on [the …read more
Source:: Metro
