Glastonbury 2016: Adele takes over main stage (and the internet. And the world) in emotional headline set

Adele headlined the main stage at Glastonbury tonight (June 25) and it was epic, for the most part. 

It was a HECTIC set, complete with burping, poo-talk and someone getting carried out on a stretcher. Not your average Adele gig then.

She opened her set with 'Hello' and it quickly became hard to hear the singer over the crowd singing it back. Her nerves got the better of her, so with a quick explanation of "I don't know what to say to you yet", the Tottenham songstress launched into a thoroughly up tempo 'Rumour Has It' from her second album, quickly following up with 'Love Me Again'  and 'One and Only'.

It took four songs before Adele finally broke her silence - and from then on she didn't shut up really. Not that we're complaining. 

"Oh my God. Oh my God. Hi," she said. "This is the best f**king moment of my whole life. Oh my God. Look at you. Can you put the lights on [the audience] more? I want to see them.

"Glastonbury means the world to me. I've always wanted to do this my whole life - I've just been too scared." 

And then, proving that she still held onto her great sense of humour despite her fear, she added: "I bet you 50 quid I fall over at some time tonight."

Spoiler alert: she didn't.  

After a low key rendition of 'Water under the Bridge', Adele took to talking again.

"You don't mind if I talk lots do you?" she asked. "I've been here a lot of times. I've lost myself a lot of times here. I've had some of the best times of my life here on a Saturday night here at Glastonbury.

"Hopefully you're all drunk and off your faces - my set will go better then."

Next, Adele launched into an EPIC performance of her Bond theme 'Skyfall', admitting that she turned down Bond themes before agreeing to this one, and afterwards revealed to the audience that she had been watching other artists perform from her home the day before. 

"I watched Muse last night at home with a Chinese takeaway," she said. "They're so amazing it's insane." 

'Hometown Glory' was next, followed by a stripped down version of 'Don't You Remember' from 21. 

The set hit a few snags, most notably when a producer came on stage to stop the concert and ask the audience to form a path to help a seriously ill member of the audience receive medical attention, and another when Adele had to restart a rendition of 25 track 'River Lea' because she was out of breath.

"I'd rather sing better for you. I'm sorry," she said. 

Adele started her performance of 'River Lea' at Glastonbury again because she was "a bit out of breath"

But it was definitely worth the wait when a confident Adele launched into another song that made her, 'Rolling in the Deep,' and subsequently raised the tempo. 

Next up was her Bob Dylan cover of 'Make you Feel my Love', which she dedicated to her Grandad. Before starting, she asked the crowd to lift their mobiles in the air and we have to say the pictures from the BBC are truly astounding. 

With emotions running high, Adele invited a tearful Brazilian fan called Maria onstage, took a selfie with her and then BURPED IN HER FACE, blaming it on a 'dirty burger' in an only-Adele-could-get-away-with-this-and-still-be-totally-charming-like fashion.

Next up, the songstress performed her hit track 'Set Fire to the Rain', which left the crowd chanting "we want more". And more they got.

After a minute of silence, a video of a very young Adele performing her only other Glastonbury performance back in 2007 appeared on stage, before the headliner came back on stage for a performance of 'When We Were Young'. 

"This is by far the best moment of my life so far," she said at the end of the song. "I didn't want to come on and now I don't want to go off.

"If anyone ever remembers me in years to come, this will be the song they do," she continued, wishing the audience "the best time ever" this weekend before launching into her final and totally emotional ballad 'Someone Like You'.

But really. There's no one quite like Adele. 

Adele's Glastonbury setlist was as follows:

1. Hello
2. Rumour Has It
3. I'll Be Waiting
4. One and Only
5. Water Under the Bridge
6. Skyfall
7. Hometown Glory
8. Don't You Remember
9. Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
10. River Lea
11. Rolling in the Deep
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. Set Fire to the Rain

Encore:

1. When We Were Young
2. Someone Like You

Glastonbury comes to a close tomorrow with performances from Years & Years, Ellie Goulding and Catfish and the Bottlemen, before Coldplay play the final headline gig on the Pyramid Stage.