This afternoon (Sunday, 29th June) saw The 1975 perform on The Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, their biggest show at the festival to date.
After playing a secret set on Thursday (25th June) in the Williams Green Tent, today’s mid-afternoon slot saw the Manchester quartet conquer the legendary stage with ease, bringing hits from their critically acclaimed debut album to an army of adoring fans.
“This is an amazing experience for us, you don’t understand what it’s like to start off out there and then come up here to play, it’s weird” said frontman Matty Healy with humility in his voice, after an opening rendition of ‘The City’ which saw him lead a camera around the stage.
Moving around frantically throughout, the 50 minute set saw the group enjoy themselves to no end, the floppy-haired frontman repeatedly drinking from a bottle of red wine and delving into the crowd to take selfies with audience members, whilst the rest of the group remained on-stage.
Effortlessly giving each track a stadium sized-atmosphere amidst slick transitions, the likes of ‘Heart Out’, ‘Settle Down’ and the emotionally founded ‘Robbers’ resonated well with the crowd, as the band proved they are made of so much more than the singles which brought them most of their fans.
Ending with a triple threat of ‘Girls’, ‘Chocolate’, and breakthrough single ‘Sex’, The 1975 easily showed that they can make the biggest stages in the world feel like home with ease, a trend which will no doubt keep them in good stead for the future.
Tonight will see Kasabian close this year’s festival with a headline slot on The Pyramid Stage, with Dolly Parton, Ed Sheeran and Massive Attack also scheduled to perform at Worthy Farm later tonight.
Stay tuned to Gigwise for all the news and updates from Glastonbury’s final day.
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