Olivia Rodrigo welcomed The Treatment frontman Robert Smith onto the Pyramid Stage as she wrapped up a politically charged Glastonbury Pageant on Sunday evening.
The “deja vu” singer obliged with all the fan favorites from her final two albums, Bitter and Guts, together with “good 4 u,” “jealousy, jealousy” and “traitor.”
“Holy fucking shit,” the U.S. star mentioned from the fest’s iconic major stage, the place 1000’s stood to see her carry out. “I don’t assume I’ve ever seen so many individuals in my life.”
She introduced out Smith — “the best songwriter to come back out of England” — practically halfway into the set. The pair performed “Friday I’m in Love” and “Simply Like Heaven” collectively.
A candy second occurred when Rodrigo devoted the tune “so american” to Brit boyfriend and actor Louis Partridge, who was watching from backstage. “I fucking love England,” she started. “I like the tradition. I like how no person judges you for having a pint at midday. I like English sweets — I’ve had three sticky toffee puddings since I arrived.”
“I additionally actually love English boys,” she continued. “I wrote this subsequent music once I was falling in love with this boy from London and as we had been attending to know one another, we had been discovering all of those cross-cultural variations. I’d make enjoyable of him for consuming a jacket potato with beans within it. He would make enjoyable of me for announcing issues very American — like Glaston-berry — so I took all of our little inside jokes and I made a music on that.”
The annual occasion, which kicked off Wednesday with a 250,000-plus-person attendance, is the crowning jewel of music festivals. Lorde made a shock appearance on Friday as her new album Virgin was born, and Charli xcx thrilled Brat followers Saturday evening. However this yr, issues typically obtained political onstage.
Pageant organizers launched a press release Sunday after rap duo Bob Vylan chanted “loss of life to the IDF” (the Israel Protection Forces) throughout their set on the West Holts stage on Saturday.
“Their chants very a lot crossed a line, and we’re urgently reminding everybody concerned within the manufacturing of the pageant that there is no such thing as a place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech, or incitement to violence,” wrote Emily Eavis, daughter of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis.
Elsewhere, Irish rap trio Kneecap additionally took to the stage to voice their pro-Palestine views and used the platform to criticize the U.Okay. and U.S. governments, in addition to the U.S. media.
The band, the topics of Wealthy Peppiatt’s print-the-legend biopic Kneecap, additionally thanked the Eavis household for permitting them to play regardless of pushback from U.Okay. politicians, together with Tradition Secretary Lisa Nandy. “An enormous thanks to the Eavis household,” they mentioned. “The stress that that household was below they usually stood sturdy. Truthful play to them.”
In line with The 1975’s Matty Healy (the band was the primary to headline Friday evening), viewers watching the BBC’s reside Glastonbury protection at house may need been “upset” by the “lack of politics on this present.”
He mentioned Friday: “I need you to realize it’s a aware choice. … We don’t need our legacy to be politics; we wish our [message] to be love and friendship.” Shortly after, screens flanking the band as they performed “Love It If We Made It” displayed, amongst others, clips of KKK rituals, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, the struggle in Gaza, Kanye West, police brutality within the U.S., 9/11 and London’s Grenfell Tower burning down.