Over 150,000 people were at this year's Glastonbury festival
to see some of the best bands on the music scene at the moment
including the following.
LILY ALLEN - With her bouncy, confident ska-pop she
couldn't have entered the stage at a better time for the weather-beaten
crowd. She bounds on stage, hoodie up, cider in hand, with
a huge smile on her face. She performed a wonderful cover
of Blondie's Heart Of Glass, before guests Lynval Golding
and Terry Hall of The Specials joined her for their hit Gangsters.She
closed her set with Alfie, a song of sisterly exasperation
set to the pomp of a circus theme tune. "Silly dancing
please!" she demands, to which thousands of poncho wearing
people oblige.The 22-year-old was clearly having the time
of her life and was keen to impart her mood on the crowd.
Performance included the following tracks,
'Everything's Just Wonderful'
'Littlest Things'
'Smile'
'Heart Of Glass'
KASBIAN – Are a great festival band
from the start of the set they made the crowd stand up and
pay attention with a video screen in the background adding
to the effect of the tunes. From Shoot the Runner through
to Processed Beats, Kasabian are the consummate festival band
Performance included the following tracks,
'Reason Is Treason'
'Cutt Off'
'Me Plus One'
'Empire'
'ID'
'Last Trip (In Flight)'
'Processed Beats'
'The Doberman'
'Club Foot'
'Stuntman'
'LSF'
PAUL WELLER - The Modfather played hits
spanning from Style Council to The Jam to Wild Wood, he had
the Pyramid Stage rocking with a definitive hits set. Other
than the loyal fans few people realise how many great songs
Weller has produced.
Performance included the following tracks,
'Peacock Suit'
'Into Tomorrow'
'Science'
'From The Floorboards Up'
'Paint The Smile'
'Thick As Thieves'
'Above The Clouds'
'I Wanna Make It Alright'
'Come On/Let's Go'
'Wild Wood'
'Running On The Spot'
'Porcelain Gods'/'I Walk On Gilded Splinters'
'The Changingman'
'Town Called Malice'
ARCTIC MONKEYS – The band kick started
their set with ‘The Sun Goes Down’ then launched
staight into ‘Brianstorm’ and ‘Still Take
You Home’. Alex Turner and the bands performance more
than made up for the sound problems with the main stage that
seemed to be heightened when they came on. It takes a certain
kind of band to move every member of the audience at the main
stage but they had everyone on their feet,the band were as
tight as ever with an amazing, light show like blankets of
white light there is no doubt that the Monkeys can headline
the biggest festival in the world without breaking sweat.
They finished the set with “A Certain Romance”.
Performance included the following tracks,
'When The Sun Goes Down'
'Brianstorm'
'Still Take You Home'
'Dancing Shoes'
'From The Ritz To The Rubble'
'Teddy Picker'
'This House Is A Circus'
'Fake Tales Of San Francisco'
'Balaclava'
'Temptation Greets You Like A Naughty Friend'
'Old Yellow Bricks'
'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
'If You Were There, Beware'
'Fluorescent Adolescent'
'Mardy Bum'
'Do Me A Favour'
'Leave Before The Lights Come On'
'The View From The Afternoon'
'Diamonds Are Forever'
'505'
'A Certain Romance'
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Opening with "You
Stole The Sun" the band must have been cursing the fact
that it was actually a nice afternoon compared to the conditions
before hand so the track lost the sense of irony. Halfway
through their set the left the stage worried about people
getting crushed at the front of the audience. The band performed
a great version of "Motorcycle Emptiness" in the
middle of the set and then stepped up a gear towards the end
of their set with. "You Love Us" "Everything
Must Go" and "If You Tolerate This."
And what better track to finish on than "A Design for
Life".
Performance included the following tracks,
'You Stole The Sun From My Heart'
'Faster'
'You're Love Alone Is Not Enough'
'Everything Must Go'
'From Despair To Where'
'Autumnsong'
'Ocean Spray'
'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next'
'La Tristesse Durera'
'Imperial Bodybags'
'Motown Junk'
'A Design For Life'
AMY WINEHOUSE - After torrential downpours
and rivers of mud, Amy’s performance on the Pyramid
stage brought out the sun on the first day of Glastonbury
as if by magic, the clouds parted. She kicked of the set with
Addicted, the only song on her album Back To Black not inspired
by her now-husband Blake Fielder-Civil (inspired instead by
her love of smoking weed).
She belted out a soaring cover of the Sam Cooke classic Cupid
- and directed it at her husband as he looked on from the
wings. There were massive cheers from the mud-caked fans as
they sang along and danced to Amy's hits Rehab and Back To
Black.
Performance included the following tracks,
Addicted
Monkey Man
Cupid
Valerie
You Know I'm No Good
Rehab,
KAISER CHIEFS - Devout fans made their way
through the mud with their inflatable dinosaurs to watch a
monster performance. In 2005 frontman Ricky Wilson famously
crowd surfed on a "Kaisersaurus" . There was no
repeat show but within a couple of songs he was down amid
the crowd. The performance kicked off with the rousing Everyday
I Love You Less And Less, The crowd really got in the mood
when Ricky told them: "Make a noise if you don't care
about the mud" that was enough for the fans to change
the chorus to the hit Ruby to "muddy, muddy, muddy, muddy".
Tracks The Angry Mob, Take My Temperature and Na Na Na Naa
followed and the set ended with Oh My God. The Kaiser’s
performance drew one of the biggest attendances seen over
the festival's three days.
Performance included the following tracks,
'Heat Dies Down'
'Everything Is Average Nowadys'
'Na Na Na Naa'
'Ruby'
'I Can Do It Without You'
'Modern Way'
'Learnt My Lesson Well'
'Highroyds'
'The Angry Mob'
'Thank You Very Much'
'I Predict A Riot'
'Take My Temperature'
'Retirement'
'Oh My God',
THE KILLERS - Brandon Flowers arriving on
the pyramid stage on Saturday night in a glittery silver suit,
with fireworks roaring into the sky and antlers attached to
the keyboard, you new that this was going to be something
special. And it was the Las Vegas rockers put on a great show
and managed to uphold their 'oomph' from start to finish.
While they experimented with a cover of Joy Division's Shadowplay,
the highlight came with Brandon's version of the Andy Williams
classic Can't Take My Eyes Off You. Against a pyrotechnic
display The Killers played some of their biggest hits, like
"All These Things That I've Done" and "Smile
Like You Mean It". It was the glitz and sense of occasion
as well as the tightness of performance that made this performance
so memorable.
Performance included the following tracks,
'Sam's Town'
'Interlude'
'When You Were Young'
'Bones'
'Somebody Told Me'
'Smile Like You Mean It'
'Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine'
'Uncle Johnny'
'This River Is Wild'
'Read My Mind'
'On Top'
'Bling (Confessions Of A King)'
'Glamorous Indie Rock And Roll'
'Mr Brightside'
'My List'
'Too Good To Be True'
'Shadowplay'
'For Reasons Unknown'
'All These Things That I've Done'
THE WHO - Headlining their first Glastonbury
gave a master class performance, it is now more than 40 years
since they started out and they still have the energy of their
early days, and now how to hold a vast, tired and wet crowd
in the palm of the hands. The Who's rendition of My Generation
contained not even a trace of irony, and their final song
before the encore pause was the classic Won’t Get Fooled
Again. When the band returned, they played a five-song medley
from their classic Tommy album, starting off with Pinball
Wizard. It was a suitably epic conclusion from one of the
greatest rock bands of a generation.
Performance included the following tracks,
'The Seeker'
'Anyway Anyhow Anywhere'
'Fragments'
'Who Are You
'Behind Blue Eyes'
'Baba O'Riley'
'Relay'
'You Better You Bet'
'My Generation'
'Won't Get Fooled Again
'The Kids Are Alright'
'Pinball Wizard'
'Amazing Journey/Sparks'
'See Me Feel Me'
'Listening To You'
'Tea And Theatre'
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Chemical Tom and
Chemical Ed where all but invisible on the darkened stage
but the show they put on was of epic proportions.Opening with
Galvanize the first single from the album Push the Button
they real know how to get a crowd going with robot armies
marched towards us from a distant vanishing point and don’t
forget the freak’ee clown. Laser beams overhead, creating
a totally surreal atmosphere of sound and imagery. Tracks
from their new album became instant classics along with "Out
of Control" with Primal Scream's "Don't Fight It
Feel It" it was a fitting end to a great weekend of music.
CHEMICAL BROTHERS -
'Galvanize'
'Burst Generator'
'Do It Again'
'Get Yourself High'
'Hey Boy Hey Girl'
'All Rights Reversed'
'Out If Control'
'Don't Fight Control'
'Temptation'
'Star Guitar'
'Surface To Air'
'Under The Influence'
'Saturate'
'Believe'
'Wiard/ Acid Children'
'Golden path'
Glastonbury top 10 winners in increased sales after
the event according to HMV are
1 The Killers – Sam's Town (135
per cent)
2 Editors – The Back Room (104 per cent)
3 Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob (102 per cent)
4 Dame Shirley Bassey – This is My Life, Greatest Hits
(79 per cent)
5 Iggy Pop and the Stooges – The Weirdness (77 per cent)
6 Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (74 per cent)
7 Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (66 per cent)
8 CSS – Cansei de ser Sexy (49 per cent)
9 Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare (36 per
cent)
10 Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future (31 per cent)
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