Glastonbury 2010: Friday - Pyramid Roundup
Could there be a better opener for Glastonbury 2010? Rolf Harris is a Pyramid Stage veteran and was Number 1 in January 1970, the year the festival began. So he peels out the hits (Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sun Arise, Two Little Boys), the crowd sings "There's only one Rolfie Harris", and the didgeridoo temporarily drowns out the vuvuzelas.
Twenty-six years after his father, Fela, headlined, Femi Kuti is on fiery form. His dancers' vibrating rumps will now be seared into many minds, but his message (stop Aids, end injustice) is perfect for Glastonbury - his dad would be proud.
Corinne Bailey Rae brings jazz to this summer's day. The biggest cheers are for Like A Star and Put Your Records On, but the highlight is a blissful take on the Family Stone's Que Sera Sera. DH
Willie Nelson, 77 and not a bit collagen-enhanced, probably broke the Glastonbury velocity record, with 29 songs delivered in his hour. Yet he still seems to take his time over every bitter-sad note of Funny How Time Slips Away, Night Life and Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, while his guitar throws in the strangest cross-beats and jazz inprovs ever heard from a kind-of country singer. Nelson moves fast, but the memory lingers.
Quite a leap from a band powered by a single snare drum slapped with brushes to breastbone-shaking, earthquaking Snoop Dogg. But through scuzzy Gin And Juice, the more recent romantically rude and soppy Beautiful and Sensual Seduction, and Tinie Tempah's stage-grabbing guest spot with his own hit Pass Out, everybody put their hands together, jumped up and down and, when asked What's My Name?, hollered "Snoop Doggy Dogg" -- even though it isn't now, strictly speaking. PS
"Two years ago we were a bunch of knuckleheads who didn't even know to bring wellies," says a visibly moved Ezra Koenig as he addresses a packed Pyramid crowd, none of whom are in need of waterproof footwear, but who are all dancing to Vampire Weekend's blend of sparky riffs and sweet choruses. The New York indie rockers have established themselves as firm festival favourites over the past few years, and tonight's meticulously honed set only serves to cement that status.
Enter Dizzee Rascal. Expectations are high, and the man who made this field his own in 2009 is greeted like a returning king. Despite a patchy start, his set soon transforms into an irresistible party mix, with the likes of Dance Wiv Me, Smells Like Teen Spirit/Stand Up Tall, a Florence-featuring You Got the Dirtee Love and a suitably nutty Bonkers all reconfirming The Rascal as one of Glastonbury's finest.
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1:25 PM | 26/06/2010
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