In the last week between 21st to 25th June Glastonbury Festival 2023, The event brought together many artists from across the United Kingdom in an era of great music and outstanding performances. Check out four highlights of the festival below.
4 moments from Glastonbury 2023
1) Lana Del Rey A Cappella
Saturday, June 24 Show Headlines Lana Del Rey The singer faced a delay of 30 minutes before finally entering the stage. According to GuardianThe artist apologized to the audience and his justification was that his “hair takes a long time to grow out”.
Faced with the delay, Del Rey warned that her show would be in danger of being shut down before the power cut, and asked the public, when that happened, to continue with the presentation. Audience reaction was positive when his microphone was cut off an hour after the show.
She does this for her fans. i will love you forever lana pic.twitter.com/FCAGz8OZ6B
— JB ✧˖*°࿐ (@LDRPRINT) 24 June 2023
Without a microphone or screen, Lana encourages her audience to begin an a cappella version of her hit “Video Games,” to which the singer responds in a massive chorus. Another moment on the main stage at Glastonbury was when she walked barefoot into the audience and began an a cappella version of “Summertime Sadness”, her hit from the album “Born to Die” (2012).
2) Rina Swayama criticizes Matt Healy in 1975
Last Saturday’s charm too (24), Rina Saweyama His single “STFU!” from the album “SAWAYAMA” released in April 2020. Before starting they performed 13 songs in their setlist and received attention. The singer, born in Japan and who moved to the United Kingdom when she was still a child, sent a message criticizing the musician Matt HealyTill 1975
“I wrote this (song) because I was tired of these microaggressions. It goes to a white guy who watches ‘Ghetto Gaggers’ and makes fun of Asians on a podcast. He also owns My Masters (the original recording of the song). I’m fed up),” said Swayamma, who is signed to Dirty Hit Records, founded by her 1975 manager.
Rina Saweyama is calling Matty Healy at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/cBE5rWWtFt
— PopBase (@PopBase) 24 June 2023
Their conversation on the podcast references Healy’s controversial comments during his appearance on “The Adam Friedland Show”, in which he made bigoted comments about the rapper’s ethnicity. Ice Spice and Asian People. The pending issue has since been dropped.
3) ‘The Churnups’
The name of a band that doesn’t exist has appeared on the Glastonbury Festival line-up. allure called Brainstormwas headlined on the Pyramid Stage, which was headlined with big headliners such as Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses, Elton John, Lizzo, Royal Blood, Lil Nas X, Lewis Capaldi and others.
It turned out that the group in question was Foo Fighters, who appeared on stage as a “reprise”. “You knew it was all of us, didn’t you? We’re not good at secrets.” Dave Grohl, singer, onstage (via NME). The band themselves also posted a photo of themselves in the middle of Glastonbury with a flag bearing the words: “Shake It On”, referring to the fictitious name.
The show featured the band’s biggest hits, starting with “All My Life” followed by “Learn to Fly”, new singles “Rescue”, “The Pretender”, “My Hero”, “Best of You” and ” finished.” forever”
4) Elton John’s last UK show
At the age of 76, Elton John His “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour”, a sequence of farewell concerts for the singer, continues. The headliner at Glastonbury Festival 2023 on Sunday (25), the musician was tipped to perform in the United Kingdom for the last time.
“I never thought I’d play Glastonbury, but here I am. It’s a very special and emotional night for me as this might be my last show in England, Great Britain. I better play nice and entertain them”, the singer commented at the time (via BBC).
The special show included great personalities on stage, such as London Community Gospel Choir, Jacob Lusk, stephen sanchez, brandon flowers by The Killers and Rina Saweyama, Another highlight of the night was his tribute George Michael (1963–2016), before their partnership “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”
He gives that form to a picture of his friend, the beloved George Michael, on what would have been his 60th birthday.#Elton John #glastonbury #glastonbury2023 pic.twitter.com/58C3Mih0Nq
—Eddie Burfi (@EddieBurfi) 25 June 2023
“It’s a very special day today, I wonder how I’m going to take it. One of Britain’s most prolific singers and songwriters was George Michael. He was my friend, an inspiration and today he would be 60 years old, so I want to dedicate this song to his memory and all the songs he left for us, which are so beautiful. This one’s for you, George,” Elton John announced.
Her performance, in addition to an estimated 120,000 people at the festival, attracted an audience of 7.3 million who watched her show via the BBC, the largest audience ever for a Glastonbury Festival show.
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