Unlike big U.S. festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo, the Glastonbury Festival in England is a real hot bed for performances by veteran artists.
Along with the pre-headliner spot on Sunday night, which has hosted such greats in the past as Tom Jones, Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton, there are also veterans peppered throughout the days at the various stages around the festival grounds.
The Flaming Lips saluted David Bowie with their cover of his Space Oddity along with three songs from their 2006 album At War With the Mystics and two each from The Soft Bulletin (1999), Yoshimmi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) and their latest Oczy Mlody (2017).
The set liist:
Main Set
Race for the Prize (from The Soft Bulletin, 1999)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 (from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)
There Should Be Unicorns (from Oczy Mlody, 2017)
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung (from At War With the Mystics, 2006)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) (from At War With the Mystics, 2006)
How?? (from Oczy Mlody, 2017)
Space Oddity (single, 2016)
The W.A.N.D. (from At War With the Mystics, 2006)
A Spoonful Weighs a Ton (from The Soft Bulletin, 1999)
Encore
She Don’t Use Jelly (from Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, 1993)
Do You Realize?? (from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)
The Pretenders, who played the Isle of Wight festival just three weekends ago, hit the stage with a career spanning set that included two songs from their debut album (Pretenders, 1979) and four from Pretenders II (1981). The show opened with two tracks from their latest album, 2016’s Alone, before they dropped back to a heavily 80’s and 90’s set.
The set list:
Alone (from Alone, 2016)
Gotta Wait (from Alone, 2016)
Message of Love (from Pretenders II, 1981)
Don’t Get Me Wrong (from Get Close, 1986)
Hymn to Her (from Get Close, 1986)
Kid (from Pretenders II, 1981)
Brass in Pocket (from Pretenders II, 1981)
Night in My Veins (from Last of the Independents, 1994)
Stop Your Sobbing (from Pretenders, 1979)
Boots of Chinese Plastic (from Break Up the Concrete, 2008)
I’ll Stand by You (from Last of the Independents, 1994)
Back on the Chain Gang (from Learning to Crawl, 1984)
Mystery Achievement (from Pretenders, 1979)
The Wait (from Pretenders II, 1981)
Middle of the Road (from Learning to Crawl, 1984)
Radiohead closed the second day of the festival with a set heavy in their twenty year old album OK Computer, with seven of the twelve tracks from that album. Over the rest of the 25 song set, they managed to touch on eight other albums, playing at least one song from all of their studio releases.
The set list:
Main Set
Daydreaming (from A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016)
Lucky (from OK Computer, 1997)
Ful Stop (from A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016)
Airbag (from OK Computer, 1997)
15 Step (from In Rainbows, 2007)
Myxomatosis (from Hail to the Thief, 2003)
Exit Music (for a Film) (from OK Computer, 1997)
Pyramid Song (from Amnesiac, 2001)
Everything in Its Right Place (from Kid A, 2000)
Let Down (from OK Computer, 1997)
Bloom (from The King of Limbs, 2011)
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (from In Rainbows, 2007)
Idioteque (from Kid A, 2000)
You and Whose Army? (from Amnesiac, 2001)
There There (from Hail to the Thief, 2003)
Bodysnatchers (from In Rainbows, 2007)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (from The Bends, 1995)
Encore 1
No Surprises (from OK Computer, 1997)
Nude (from In Rainbows, 2007)
2 + 2 = 5 (from Hail to the Thief, 2003)
Paranoid Android (from OK Computer, 1997)
Fake Plastic Trees (from The Bends, 1995)
Encore 2
Lotus Flower (from The King of Limbs, 2011)
Creep (from Pablo Honey, 1993)
Karma Police (from OK Computer, 1997)
