Arctic Monkeys shut Glastonbury first night time after Foo Fighters shock slot
The Sheffield rockers stored the group ready some time earlier than making their entrance however had been welcomed with an enormous ovation as they opened with Sculptures Of Anything Goes.
Their efficiency had been known as into query earlier this week once they introduced frontman Alex Turner had acute laryngitis.
But Turner appeared match and properly as he triumphantly raised the mic stand above his head at one stage, earlier than launching straight into an lively rendition of Brianstorm.
Their set was one other spotlight on a day when the Foo Fighters had been lastly unveiled because the pageant;s secret act and performed a storming one hour set.
Frontman Dave Grohl admitted the band “weren’t good at secrets” as they took to the primary stage within the heavily-trailed shock present.
Rumours began days in the past when a spot on the invoice was held for an unknown band known as The Churnups they usually confirmed an hour earlier than the slot when the US rockers posted an a photograph of flags throughout the pageant crowd, one with the phrase Churn It Up brandished throughout it, and tagged the submit #Glastonbury 2023.
The group opened with All My Life to uproarious applause within the crowd.
Dave Grohl
/ Getty ImagesGrohl launched his band members earlier than bringing his daughter Violet on stage and telling the viewers she was his “favourite singer in the world”.
“This is a song we wrote for my mother, Violet’s grandmother, it’s called Show Me How and it goes like this,” he mentioned.
He additionally made particular point out to drummer Josh Freese, who he mentioned was “the man who helped us to be here today”, following the dying of Taylor Hawkins final 12 months.
The Glastonbury crowd
/ PAFinishing The Pretender, Grohl admitted the band was “not good at secrets”.
“You guys knew it was us this whole time, you knew it,” he mentioned.
“We’re not good at secrets.
“Well, it’s nice to see your faces again, it’s been a long time. This is another beautiful day, another beautiful audience.”
Launching into My Hero, Grohl requested followers to sing alongside, prompting the thousands-strong crowd to belt out the refrain.
Grohl advised the group “we gotta keep going, we can’t stop” as Foo Fighters continued to storm via their setlist.
Launching into their hit track The Pretender, he added: “Last time we played here was 2017… I don’t know how many of y’all were there that time?
“We sang this live, let’s do it again.”
They additionally teased the group with a brief instrumental part made up of bits of hit songs from bands together with Metallica and Black Sabbath.
“We only have one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can,” Grohl advised the crowds.
He devoted the efficiency of Everlong to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“Well it’s nice to be here for 58 mins and 30 seconds,” he mentioned, because the band ready to shut their shock set. “We often play this one as our technique to say goodbye as a result of we by no means prefer to say goodbye as a result of I determine that if you happen to guys come again we’ll come again quickly.
“But I already know we’re coming again for a complete f****** tour however I wish to thank each certainly one of you for sticking round for the final 28 years.
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He added: “I would like to dedicate this song to the Mr Taylor Hawkins.
“So let’s sing this one loud, we’re missing Taylor.”
He earlier advised crowds: “You’ve got a long night head of you you know that right there’s a whole other rock show.”
“We could do this all f****** night you know what I’m saying.”
The third day of the pageant additionally hosted movie screenings, theatre and circus performances and a debate titled Solidarity With Iran which included British-Iranian charity employee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was imprisoned there for six years.
Saturday night time will see US rockers Guns N’ Roses headline, after the unique line-up of Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan reunited in 2015.
Sir Elton John, 76, will shut the pageant on Sunday night time for what has been billed as the ultimate UK present of his mammoth farewell tour.
Eavis revealed she has needed to guide the Rocket Man celebrity for years however felt it was one thing that will “never ever happen”.
“Then I wrote him a letter, it was probably September or October last year, and it was like a really cool autumn morning and I sat thinking ‘What’s my dream?’ I’ve got to try and get him,” she added in an interview to Radio 2.“So I wrote this letter and so lucky that he called up and just said, ‘I’m so up for this’. And I was like, ‘what?’ I can’t believe it.”