Thundercat: Talking about timelessness, in a digital world, nothing compares to the live performance. Getting up there is like drinking espresso Thundercat You will feel that energy to the tips of your toes. I’ve actually got a clip of me singing Matthew and Son in 1967. I watched Dolly Parton do the legends slot with the LED machine turned off and light in her hair, but I’m not Dolly! So I’ve done something special with animations. Islam: I understand that looking at a grey-haired guy with a beard may not be that attractive, so I’ve gone deep into visuals. For the TikTok generation, everything is new, so when you’re able to pull from different eras, it’s going to be magical. Thundercat: People know your music and who you are. Composite: Carlos G/The1point8 Aminah Yusuf
It’s beautiful and incorporates all the things I love: funk and jazz and inventiveness. I must tell you, man – I love your music. I was always disappointed that people sat down when my music came on, but I’ve learned that festivals are a different experience, a different audience.
Yusuf Islam: There’s gonna be, what, 70,000, 80,000 people in the Pyramid field? I was aware of Glastonbury in the 70s and 80s when it was ramping up, but also scared of it, because it’s so huge. Getting up there is like drinking espresso. Thundercat: Remember that scene from Game of Thrones where the guy is crawling through the bodies? That’s what Glastonbury is like. Yusuf Islam, AKA Cat Stevens, is making his festival debut at 74, sharing the Pyramid stage’s hallowed legends slot with Blondie, who will follow him. The genre-blurring US bass wizard Thundercat made his Glastonbury debut in 2017. Hill: I can’t wait! ‘It’s like Game of Thrones’: Thundercat and Yusuf/Cat Stevens It’s like the biggest cuddle you could ever have, then you end up at the Stone Circle watching the sunrise with everyone playing bongos. Of all the festivals, it’s the one where people aren’t going to see individual acts, they’re going to see Glastonbury. I really wanna see NYC Downlow, where some of my drag performers are on.Ĭook: Everybody has to wear a moustache on the way in! Communing over music is so powerful and Glastonbury epitomises that. So to see some of that coming back and be part of the plethora of music at Glastonbury is going to be really something.
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Hill: My generation missed out on loads of stuff from the 80s and 90s, like the M25 illegal raves, free parties, trance music. Not only did everyone around me believe that Paul McCartney had a phone on the piano and I was texting him what songs to play, but I was starting to believe it as well.īecky Hill and Fatboy Slim. This went on all night with different songs. When Paul McCartney headlined, someone said: “Wouldn’t it be great if he played Live and Let Die next?” Macca was my neighbour and I’d seen his show, so I knew that song was next, but I said I’d text and ask him to play it. People did the Twin Peaks “dwarf dance” backwards! Or playing the Miniscule of Sound, the world’s smallest nightclub. My favourite Glastonbury moments are things like being so high that I decided to play a vinyl record backwards. On the more “rabbit hole” stages, I might be dressed as the Pink Panther or taking my clothes off. I want to show people how a female live singer can become a real dance music experience, with massive smileys on stage.Ĭook: Glastonbury is very visual.
I’m a huge drum’n’basshead electro, dubstep, house. My music taste is cooler than some of the dance music I’ve done. I’ve spent the price of a house on the show, so I’m very excited. I was arguing with my manager about whether to do Eurovision – I didn’t want to get “nul points” and ruin my career – when the call came to do Glastonbury. I’ve played countless times since, sometimes five or six shows across the weekend.īecky Hill: I went with Rudimental when I was 19, but I had tonsillitis and spent most of the festival sleeping, so I’m counting this year as my first. It opened us to a whole different audience. Norman Cook: When I played with the Housemartins on the Pyramid stage, we thought everyone would have beards and throw mud, but it wasn’t like that.
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