Dan has his sights set on record-breaking run at Glastonbury

AN 18-year-old Derbyshire student who played six sets at last year’s Glastonbury Festival has been invited back for a third year running.

- By GEORGE PALMER-SOADY

Dan Ottewell first played the festival when he was eight, performing on a small stage as part of a kids band that had been set up by a school friend’s parents.

That was 2015, and he said visiting the festival for the first time “didn’t blow his mind, but rather nuked it”.

Eight years later, in 2023, Dan made his first proper debut at Worthy Farm.

The musician, from Ashbourne, was invited back last year to initially perform five sets, becoming the first solo artist under 18 to be invited two years in a row in the festival's history. On top of this, he managed to squeeze in another performance, leaving the festival having played six shows across different stages.