The second day of music at Glastonbury 2013 is in full swing, with Azealia Banks, The 1975 and Drenge already having performed.
The Rolling Stones have taken to the Pyramid Stage to headline the second night of Glastonbury 2013.
“Take speed! Take ecstasy!” said Bobby Gillespie before Primal Scream played Loaded on the Pyramid Stage. After opening with ‘2013’, the lead single from their most recent album ‘More Light’, they played a crowd-pleasing version of 2006 single ‘Country Girl’. Five of their 11 song set came from ‘More Light’, but elsewhere they dipped into their varied back catalogue playing straightforward rock’n’roll like ‘Rocks’ as well as a pounding version of ‘XTRMNTR’ single ‘Swastika Eyes’. In a surprise move, the band were joined onstage towards the end of their set by LA sisters Haim, who provided backing harmonies on the final three ‘It’s Alright, It’s Okay’, ‘Rocks’ and ‘Come Together’.
Drawing a massive crowd to the Other Stage, most of Northern Ireland’s Two Door Cinema Club sported suits and ties for their triumphant Glastonbury return. “It hasn’t rained yet, it’s amazing! It’s a wonderful day,” said frontman Alex Trimble before ‘Wake Up’, which was followed by ‘Come Back Home’. The band were watched from the crowd by Noel Gallagher and his wife Sarah MacDonald. “This is a beautiful sight, you know?” added Trimble after a raucous ‘I Can Talk’
“Glastonbury!” said Johnny Marr after playing The Smiths’ Stop Me If
You Think That You’ve Heard This One Before and celebrating the
festival’s “blue skies” before playing ‘Upstarts’. The former Smiths,
Modest Mouse and The Cribs guitarist also played ‘Bigmouth Strikes
Again’ by his old Morrissey fronted act as well ‘How Soon Is Now?’ and ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ alongside a host of his own
solo material.
Alabama Shakes bright a soulful, blissed-out vibe to the Other Stage today, where their Glastonbury debut was well-received by large crowd baking in the early-evening sun.
Beginning with ‘Rise to the Sun’, before leading into ‘Hang Loose’ and ‘Hold On’, frontwoman Brittany Howard paid tribute to the audience, telling them it was “[An honour] to be here. It’s such a big deal, and I want to thank y’all for that.” The hour-long set was heavy with material from the band’s 2012 debut ‘Boys & Girls’, including ‘Heartbreaker’ and ‘Best Mine’, although there was also room for a new track, ‘I’ll Still Ain’t Got What I Want’.
Arriving onto the Sonic stage in the dance Silver Hayes field 15 minutes late, AlunaGeorge got the packed out tent dancing to the likes of ‘Just A Touch’ and ‘You Know You’ Like It whilst a huge cheer greeted ‘Attracting Flies’. It’s been a busy weekend for Aluna Francis – she sang her hit ‘White Noise’ with both Dizzee Rascal and original collaborators Disclosure yesterday (June 28).
Ben Howard drew one of the weekend’s biggest crowds to the Pyramid Stage. An audience which stretched back as far as the eye could see heard tracks from the Brit Award winner’s debut album ‘Every Kingdom’, including ‘The Wolves’ and ‘Only Love’, downing an entire beer before performing the hit single ‘Keep Your Head Up’.
Haim played a secret set at the BBC Introducing stage today (Saturday).
The performance followed yesterday’s early slot on the Pyramid Stage where bassist Este was taken ill. Back on form today, she joked that she’d like to sell her wellies due to good weather and played drums and tambourine on a small stripped back set of tracks from their EP ‘Forever’ and their forthcoming debut album.
Noah and the Whale opened up their late afternoon Other Stage set with the title track of their new album, ‘Heart of Nowhere’, with frontman Charlie Fink singing Anna Calvi’s part on the track. The sharply-dressed band’s afternoon performance also saw them complimenting the crowd, with Urby Whale of the band telling the audience “you look immaculate!”. “We’re gonna do a song that really suits today,” said Fink before an emotional rendition of ‘Blue Skies’.
The Strypes drew a large crowd for their 4pm slot in the John Peel tent, with many festival-goers keen to check out the much buzzed-about Irish teenagers for themselves. Opening with ‘Mystery Man’, frontman Ross Farrelly stomped angrily around the stage, glowering at the audience behind an ever-present pair of sunglasses. The band’s half hour set also made room for live favourites like ‘You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover’, new single ‘Hometown Girls’ and their cover of Nick Lowe’s ‘Heart of the City’, which were all enthusiastically received.
At 3pm, Azealia Banks took to the Other Stage to play a 45-minute long party set, which included ‘212’, ‘Jumanji’, ‘Luxury’ and ‘1991’ – which she said was her favourite song in her career “thus far”. Dressed in a flamboyant spiked green bikini outfit, Banks announced that this was her first ever time at Glastonbury. “I’m having an amazing-mazing-mazing time,” she said. Banks was accompanied by two dancers who were wearing equally flamboyant spiked costumes.
Despite rumours of The National, David Bowie and Daft Punk it was US alt-pop act MS MRwho took to the stage in the John Peel tent to fill the mystery 2pm slot. The duo ran through the majority of their debut album including set highlight ‘Fantasy’.
Earlier on The 1975 had kicked off the music on The Other Stage. The hotly tipped indie-poppers came on at 12.45pm, playing a string of tracks from their forthcoming self-titled debut, which is due for release in September. “Just look at all these people,” frontman Matthew Healy told the crowd. “We kind of feel a bit overwhelmed playing here…please dance to this,” he added before launching into their breakout hit and summer anthem ‘Chocolate’. “We’ve never done anything like this before so thank you for being so supportive,” he said later before set closer ‘You’.
Meanwhile, Jagwar Ma started a dance party in a packed out John Peel tent. Producer and songwriter Jono Ma (who recovered from an illness just in time for their European festival dates) and vocalist Gabriel Winterfield played songs from debut album ‘Howlin’ and thanked “the sun god” for bringing the good weather as temperatures around the site hit a sunny 17C.
On the Pyramid Stage, Billy Bragg covered The Rolling Stones’ ‘Dead Flowers’ after announcing what an honour it was to be playing the same stage as the legendary band. The singer-songwriter’s set also included a special version of Bragg and Wilco’s Woody Guthrie re-imagining ‘California Stars’, which was re-angled as ‘Glastonbury Stars’.
Sheffield-based rock duo Drenge drew an impressive crowd to their first ever Glastonbury set. Playing at the new William’s Green stage a little after noon, the band put in a performance which included tracks ‘Dogmeat’, ‘I Wanna Break You In Half’ and ‘People In Love Make Me Feel Sick’, which singer/guitarist Eoin Loveless playfully described as “a love song”.
Later today, The Rolling Stones will make their debut appearance at Worthy Farm for a headline set on the Pyramid Stage. Up against The Stones are electronic duo Fuck Buttons, who will headline The Park Stage, Chase and Status on the Other Stage, Hurts on the John Peel Stage and Public Enemy at West Holts.
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