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Matty Healy smokes a cigarette and drinks a pint of Guinness before calling himself his generation's 'best songwriter' as he takes to the stage for The 1975's Glastonbury headliner set
The band topped the bill on the Pyramid Stage for the first day of the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Frontman Matty, 36, is famous for his provocative stage presence.
The Cheshire-formed band, backed with a saxophone, opened with Happiness from 2022's Being Funny In A Foreign Language, with Matty wearing a black leather jacket, white t-shirt and blue jeans, with a pint of stout in his hand on the Pyramid Stage. Made up of four school friends, the group, comprised of singer Matty, bassist Ross MacDonald, guitarist Adam Hann and drummer George Daniel, were headlining the festival for the first time. Love Me, the lead single from 2016's I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It, prompts the first sing-a-long from the crowd, with Healy pushing guitarist Hann to the front, announcing: 'Ladies and gentleman, in 2025 with zero irony, a guitar solo.'
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