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The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top
From K-poppers Seventeen to performance artist Marina Abramović, via Cyndi Lauper and Little Simz, it was one of the most diverse editions yet. But the real fireworks came with a band who have taken things to another level
Between songs, she reminisces about her friendship with legendary drag queen and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, complains about the weather (“it’s bloody fucking cold here – I just flew in from Miami”), and demonstrates how she achieved a curious bubbling sound that appeared on her 1973 cover of George Harrison’s I Dig Love: not, as was commonly supposed, by smoking a bong, but by gargling. At the other extreme, LCD Soundsystem offer a kinetic, party-starting burst of hits – All My Friends, Dance Yrself Clean, an extended version of Losing My Edge that interpolates snatches of tracks by artists the lyrics reference, among them Daft Punk and Yazoo. There is definitely a hint of contrivance about the whole enterprise, but Abigail Morris is a genuinely charismatic frontwoman; their rampage-through-the-dressing-up-box image leaves them looking fantastic, a riot of bustiers, empire-line frocks and leg-of-mutton sleeves, a striking alternative to a world of “relatable” pop stars and drearily prosaic alt-rock bands with songs that are uniformly great.
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