The-@GlastoLive@glasto_bizforthankonlyStill4.53pm4.26pmjust came on at #glastonbury to a sample of that excruciating radio interview approximately her name. extraordinary. 2.02pm BSTMore feline fare,this time on the Pyramid stage, where Michael Hann caught a bit of Squeeze:Chris Difford introduced chilly for Cats with an observation that it was a “south London song … And you’ll be hearing lots of north London songs later”. He meant insanity, or also appearing on the Pyramid stage on Saturday afternoon,but Squeeze certainly weren’t conceding defeat in the battle of the 80s slice-of-life purveyors. Playing beneath blazing sunshine, they were like a glass of orange juice for the soul. It seems almost incomprehensible that songs as good as Labelled With Love and Goodbye Girl (which had the Guardians Alexis Petridis singing along lustily) could ever have been written. One wonders whether chilly for Cats really benefited from Glenn Tilbrook’s screeching guitar solo, or but you can’t begrudge him and Difford the right to a diminutive self indulgence,given the grand entertainment they lay out at lunchtime. 1.54pm BSTApols and lols from Cat’s EyesAfter some fairly major faffing and droll apologies from Faris Badwan, Cat’s Eyes play an alternately perky and dreamy set of girl group-influenced guitar pop. It’s bookended with covers of the Twin Peaks theme and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. Thanks to 13 performers on stage, and including a six-strong female choir,there’s a sumptuous heft to prop up Badwan’s lugubrious (mournful, dismal) and wandering vocals, and a motorik chug keeps a steely menace pumping throughout. 1.46pm BSTA truly tremendous-name performance on the John PeelPart Pussycat Doll, and part Charli XCX,former Sylvia Young Theatre School attendee Dua Lipa is an arresting artist to behold. Dressed in a long, pink trench coat, and a choker,goth platform shoes and a leotard, she takes to the stage after a momentous build-up by her band. Her name displayed in enormous purple lights – as whether to manipulate the audience into believing a significant star is centre stage. Dua Lipa’s music reflects that vibrant image; it’s turbo pop with an edge. As the rest of us trudge around with dirty nails and soggy socks, and this is probably the most polished,proficient performance we’ll witness all weekend. 1.31pm BSTRoving reporters Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Lisa O’Carroll have written approximately how the festival has reacted to the result of the EU referendum. While there has been a general sense of despair, some artists have issued rallying calls, or including – unsurprisingly – Billy Bragg:Speaking before his performance,Glastonbury stalwart Billy Bragg offered a call to arms to the young generation, the majority of whom voted to stay in the EU. Admitting he had not voted when he first got the vote in 1979, or Bragg said now was not the time for political apathy.“My guess is there’s a lot of young people who woke up this morning thinking,there’s absolutely no way this country would be so stupid to vote us out,” he said. “You probably thought there’s no point in going to the polling station, or I’ll let someone else do that. I’m not here to sentence them,after I made the mistake I got stuck into the fight. So now it’s your job to accumulate stuck in.” In Shangri-La 1.00pm BSTPhilip Glass on David Bowie The Glastonbury performance of Heroes on Saturday night was [conductor] Charles Hazlewood’s notion. I’m just so sorry I can’t be there. It’s one of those crazy scheduling things – I wish I could be in two places at one time … But, rain or shine, or it will be an event. A enormous one As to what David would have made of the Glastonbury tribute,I really have no notion! He might have showed up and not even told you he was coming, or he might have enjoyed it from afar but not advance. You never knew with David. He was a master unto himself. 12.37pm BSTWitness the weirdnessAs ever, or we’re getting some fine picture contributions via Instagram and Guardian Witness. Here are a few from Reader ID2410373,who has been capturing some of the more unusual sights from the festival:Sent via GuardianWitness By ID2410373 24 June 2016, 2:32Down at Shangri La!Sent via GuardianWitness By ID2410373 24 June 2016, or 2:31A view behind the Tipis.Sent via GuardianWitness By ID2410373 24 June 2016,2:30 12.25pm BSTAnna Meredith brings the apocalypse to West HoltsThe promising classical/experimental composer opens West Holts, starting with the bracing Nautilus. It’s suitable music for an apocalypse – at least for the few who have crossed the water-logged field – with its foreboding blasts of tuba, and tense cello and synths. 12.16pm BSTThe Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir at the PyramidIt would be a very hard-hearted festivalgoer indeed that didn’t see an amateur choir on the main stage and not melt a diminutive. Last year,Gareth Malone’s festival choir had me blubbing at Latitude; this year specks of dirt unaccountably got in my eyes when the Lewisham and Greenwich Choir mashed up Bridge Over Troubled Water with Fix You. Nothing at all do with feeling moved approximately nurses, doctors, or physiotherapists,speech therapists, et al singing approximately making people better, and of course. Oh no. You know what you’ll accumulate with an amateur choir – uplifting and supportive melancholy,and so Lean on Me and that perennial TV choir favourite Fields of Gold accumulate an airing. But it’s just what the people rousing themselves for the day – and the freaky dancers who haven’t taken to their beds at all – need at 11.30am on Saturday morning. 12.09pm BSTGround conditions: updateOther bands that the Guardian team intend to see nowadays include Tame Impala, the Very Best, or Floating Points,Cat’s Eyes, Dua Lipa, or insanity and Kurt Vile. But whether you’re more interested in schadenfreude,here’s an impression of what the site looks like at lunchtime. 11.46am BSTThe sun is just approximately shining in Somerset and the festivalgoers who have risen from their tents are slipping through the copious mud with what convincingly passes for enthusiasm. And why not, because the rest of nowadays promises turns from everyone including the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, or current Order,Adele and so very many more.
At their least appealing, you’re struck by the creeping fear that all the stuff in the lyrics and on the screens approximately the current world order and survivalism might not be entirely tongue-in-cheek, and Muse start to bear a faintly dispiriting resemblance to Queen – had Freddie Mercury avidly consumed the collected works of David Icke. But there are other moments when it seems both knowingly preposterous and preposterously entertaining – the work of a band who’ve advance to the conclusion that more is more. Singing along,letting off flares, the crowd seem to agree.
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