As the festival entered its final day, Guardian photographer David Levene was up in a cherry picker to catch the crowds as they partied into the night in Shangri-La in the south-east corner of the site.
The hugely imaginative space is like a vast open-air art gallery, presenting satirical, anti-authoritarian, anticapitalist visual art alongside high-energy DJ sets and punkish live shows – set amid repurposed buses, Tube trains and more.
England’s progress in the Euros feels a world away here at Glastonbury, but there were plenty of fans on site determined to watch the game and show their support for the lads.
![Portrait of George Fox and Gilly Makepeace before Shania Twain’s concert and the football match. George bought a Vodafone sim to watch the game in case he doesn’t find “a pub”.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e30850f9a1e38e618b7b30495e1c2337666c8830/0_0_6000_4000/master/6000.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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George Fox and Gilly Makepeace before Shania Twain’s concert and the football match. George bought a Vodafone sim to watch the game ‘in case he doesn’t find a pub’.
Paloma Faith was third up on the Pyramid stage, just after lunchtime.
![Paloma Faith on Pyramid stage.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/121032c22da89447d08f1e5ea8b654c0e95a7e24/0_0_6275_4183/master/6275.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Paloma Faith on the Pyramid stage. Photographs by Jonny Weeks
![Paloma Faith on Pyramid stage.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ff29cc5d3a24d5bf1d225a50ca3df49e32690c81/0_0_5550_3700/master/5550.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
Shania Twain brought country and camp, and was the biggest draw of the afternoon on the Pyramid stage.
![Shania Twain on the Pyramid Stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/305b9bbb377d2574ad1106beb027764f1b870143/0_0_5392_3592/master/5392.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Shania Twain on the Pyramid Stage. Photograph by Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi
But amid all the quality music, the football understandably continued to be a distraction for many festival goers.
![Lorraine and Shaw watching football while listening to Avril Lavigne.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1769e33e4d9db17db77298081dcba8d69b1136df/0_0_6000_4000/master/6000.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Lorraine and Shaw watching football while listening to Avril Lavigne at the Other stage.
Later on, David Levene was granted exclusive stage access to photograph Burna Boy’s Pyramid stage show.
![Burna Boy speaks with his mum just before he goes out on stage at the Pyramid stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8feff7983e2caff0294c55c8cdee6b67ba20a41a/498_272_6875_4646/master/6875.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Burna Boy speaks with his mum just before he goes out on stage at the Pyramid stage.
![Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be02bb654604e5399074952fa013dea23017febd/0_0_7373_4918/master/7373.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
![Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5ed92eafe6157d80699afe1d8d47ab814f46938a/933_128_4788_4790/master/4788.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
![Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92afcbe2b2e656b2561ea51a6f0e82b6798017a4/60_294_2528_2529/master/2528.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
Our photographer Alecsandra found a position high up the hill facing the Pyramid stage, and met fans waiting for SZA’s festival-closing performance.
![Aron and Arneil](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/23c4dacf8f2691c5400bffe7bf0d15af7c42741c/167_171_1881_1195/master/1881.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Aron and Arneil at the Pyramid stage for SZA.
![Natasha Mutungi and Dimenji Adesanya](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a600454db64294ee5e72ffe8148e5f7886c56e13/48_32_1552_1034/master/1552.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Natasha Mutungi and Dimenji Adesanya
![Fans waiting at the Pyramid stage for SZA - Lucia](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/42a20fa44fd998e74e36cf8fa49b52c4849e8f94/327_0_1066_1066/master/1066.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
![Lucia and friend](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e980bd2d9f1bb2365a66cfb8c75e83bd3a8fb215/1688_118_5278_5278/master/5278.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Lucia in pink with friend.
![Mum Charlotte, dad Stefan, with Corey and Clea](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f948ddecf05a2134972db920cd7a7af02126e226/78_39_1886_1327/master/1886.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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Charlotte and Stefan, with Corey and Clea at SZA.
Another Guardian photographer, Jonny Weeks, was over at the Other stage photographing the final performance there: the National.
![The National at Other stage.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d51310c994c91bd6bcfa1a7ec37eb02fd9d8e540/0_0_6661_4441/master/6661.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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The National at the Other stage, with frontman Matt Berninger getting up close to fans at the front.
![The National gets up close with the fans](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fc42706fd297f65ebec2d511852ba565b3444474/0_0_6720_4480/master/6720.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
And finally, SZA closed out three nights of magnificently high-production Pyramid stage action, with a fantasia blending natural and technological imagery, a half-toppled tree – and a fair bit of twerking.
![SZA on the Pyramid](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f1f36f9adcfb8118d9115d08b8e87ef89763c80f/0_0_6000_4000/master/6000.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
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SZA performing on the Pyramid. stage. Photographs by Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi
![The End. Finale from SZA at the Pyramid stage](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5548c58c71f333d61c8dd9e47fc9df6351601aad/0_0_3460_2305/master/3460.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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The End: SZA’s finale on the Pyramid stage