Dua Lipa wants to turn this year's Glastonbury into a nightclub
At the time, it was the biggest crowd she'd ever played to. People spilled out of the tent into the surrounding fields.

Straight after the performance, she bounced off the stage into an interview with the BBC.

But as she sat down, she winced.

“I’ve done myself an injury," she confessed. "I mashed my tailbone.”

It was an aggravation of an old injury, caused by the whiplash intensity of her dancing.

“I was doing all sorts of crazy stuff and when I got off stage, I could barely walk,” she admitted.

Despite the pain, she was ecstatic. The gig felt like "a massive step up”.At that point, Dua Lipa was not yet Dua Lipa: The globe-conquering, Brit Award-winning, pandemic-soundtracking, Barbie-starring purveyor of glossy disco pop.

But one month later, she released the pastel-hued video for New Rules, and her career changed overnight.

A number one in the UK, and her first hit in the US, the song's message of female solidarity propelled her into main pop-girl territory, after years of hustling behind the scenes.The song clocked up its three-billionth play on YouTube this January – just as Dua started ramping up the campaign for her highly anticipated third album, Radical Optimism.

It’s a record that sees her navigating life after a major break-up, and establishing new New Rules to break a pattern of dating wrong ‘uns.

“Before, I would see a red flag and be like, ‘Oh, how beautiful’,” she laughs.

“It could be anything: One sly, demeaning comment that you brush off… and then you realise it's a pattern.

“I’ve learned to not kid myself.”