Nashville fans flock to Bonnaroo weekend
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival kicked off another year down the road in Manchester, Tennessee, yesterday with performances from Music Row mainstay Luke Combs and the hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse.
What's next: Other performers still to come this weekend include Olivia Rodrigo, Vampire Weekend and Avril Lavigne.
Zoom in: Weather conditions in Manchester are expected to be steamy and stormy through Sunday.
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Olivia Rodrigo leaves Glastonbury on a high
Glastonbury saved the best 'til last, with a triumphant set by American star Olivia Rodrigo to close the festival's Pyramid Stage. After the artifice and intensity of previous headliners The 1975 and Neil Young, the 22-year-old stomped her way through a series of crisp, punk-pop anthems and heartfelt ballads about the injustices of young love. She charmed her English fans by professing her love for Marks and Spencers' Colin The Caterpillar sweets; and won over Glastonbury veterans by duetting with The Cure's Robert Smith ("perhaps the best songwriter to come out of England"). "Glastonbury's been my dream festival forever and I can't believe today's the day," she beamed. The set was a crowning moment for the singer, who only released her first single, Drivers License, five years ago. A desperate cry of loneliness, the ballad broke Spotify streaming records in just 24 hours. Then it broke them again. Seven days later, it entered the UK and the US charts at number one, instantly catapulting the singer from Disney actress to fully-fledged pop star. Drivers License cast her as "the sad piano girl" in the public imagination - but she quickly deconstructed that image with a flurry of dynamic, guitar-heavy pop anthems that built on the templates established by Joan Jett, Alanis Morisette and Avril Lavigne. It was those sounds that opened her Glastonbury set, with the crunchy riffs of Obsessed, a self-mocking song about her jealousy; and the semi-autobiographical Diary Of A Homeschooled Girl. Dressed in a white lace corset and knee-high bovver boots, she high-kicked across the stage, whipping the crowd into a frenzy. "How are we doing tonight Glastonbury," she screamed. "I don't think I've ever seen so many people in my life. "Guys, it's the last night of the festival. Are you ready to have some fun?" She undercut the question slightly by launching into Drivers License - but watching the army of young fans holler those lyrics back at her, there was a communal sense of catharsis, at least. The rest of the set balanced her competing impulses: rock chick, singer-songwriter, rabble rouser, strident feminist, heartfelt balladeer. But above all else, she's a music fan. Her decision to duet with Glastonbury veteran Robert Smith, rather than a pop contemporary like Harry Styles or Lorde, flowed directly from her love of 80s British pop. As they played The Cure classics Friday I'm in Love and Just Like Heaven, Rodrigo kept glancing over at Smith, beaming from ear to ear, like she couldn't believe her luck. She added little harmonies to the songs, embellishing without being disrespectful – and Smith seemed to be just as enamoured with Rodrigo as she was with him, watching the rest of her set from the wings of the Pyramid Stage. "He's the nicest, most wonderful man ever and I'm so honoured to play with him tonight," she gushed. That guilelessness worked in her favour. For the audience, it often felt like watching your cool older sister (or your precocious young daughter) up on stage, rather than some untouchable pop star. What's more, Rodrigo needed none of the usual pop star props. There was no choreography. Until the encore, there was only one costume. All she required were the songs and her pin-sharp, all-female band. She charmed the audience even more as she introduced the new wavey So American – a song about the inside jokes she shared with an English boyfriend. "I love England so much," she said. "I love how nobody judges you for having a pint at noon. I love English sweets, all the sweets from M&S, Colin the Caterpillar specifically. "True story: I have had three sticky toffee puddings since coming to Glastonbury. And as luck would have it, I love English boys." England loved her right back, saving their biggest reaction for her encore – a headlong rush through Brutal, All American Bitch, Good 4 U and Get Him Back. She left the stage under a downpour of fireworks, as inflatable balls bounced around the audience and our ears rang with feedback. It was, hands down, the best (and best-attended) headline set of the weekend. Olivia Rodrigo had understood the brief: Bring the hits. Make it unique. And make it personal. Perhaps she'd learned that from Jarvis Cocker, whom she'd watched from her boyfriend's shoulders on Saturday. "To enjoy Glastonbury, you have to submit to it," he advised. Rodrigo channeled that spirit innately. She's welcome back any time. Earlier on Sunday, The Selecter opened up the final day of music on the Pyramid Stage, with an energetic set of punchy ska anthems. Singer Pauline Black, a former NHS worker, dedicated Frontline to her colleagues, saying we'd thank them when we needed their help for "all those knees and all those hips in the not-so-distant future". And the crowd carried her through the band's biggest hit, On The Radio, as her voice cracked on the trilling high notes. "As you can tell, my voice is hurting," she explained. "Are you going to help me?" They didn't need asking twice. Celeste took our breath away with a grungier, angrier sound than the floaty jazz-soul of her debut. The singer, who won the BBC's Sound Of 2020, has taken five years to follow up her chart topping album, Not Your Muse, but told the audience "everything happens when it's supposed to". On the basis of Everyday - an excoriating, paranoid track built around Death In Vegas's 1999 dance hit Dirge - the new material has been worth the wait. Also previewing new material was London soul-pop singer Joy Crookes. 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Pop star Olivia Rodrigo brought out The Cure frontman Robert Smith to perform his band's songs Friday I'm In Love and Just Like Heaven during her Glastonbury Festival headline set. As the 66-year-old indie-goth star arrived on stage on Sunday night, Rodrigo said: 'Glastonbury, would you please welcome Robert Smith, give him a big welcome, come on.' Smith wore a sparkly black shirt and eye shadow, and played a black acoustic guitar as he traded vocals with Rodrigo on the two tracks. At the end of Just Like Heaven, the pair hugged, before Rodrigo said 'give it up for Robert Smith you guys', adding she was 'so honoured to play with him tonight'. The 22-year-old started her set with Obsessed from 2023's Guts album as fireworks exploded around her. The singer shouted 'Glastonbury, what a f****** party' as she performed the song bathed in purple light and wearing a white dress and black boots, playing a cherry red guitar. Towards the end of her set, the Californian singer swapped her white dress for a T-shirt which read 'you know all the words to Just Like Heaven, or do you?', along with a sparkly pair of shorts featuring the Union flag as she played Brutal. The Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl, one of Rodrigo's best known songs, prompted pogoing from the Worthy Farm crowd, as the singer bounced around singing the song's 'it's social suicide' chorus. As she went to perform at a piano, Rodrigo said: 'How are we doing tonight Glastonbury? I don't think I've ever seen so many people in my life. 'Guys, it's the last night of the festival. Are you ready to have some fun?' She then performed another of her best known songs in Driver's Licence, as parents in the crowd lifted their children on to their shoulders. At one point in the set, Rodrigo had the majority of the crowd hoisting their phone lights above their heads and swaying from side to side. Good 4 U saw white balloons thrown into the energetic crowd, before she finished with Get Him Back! sitting on scaffolding and singing the song through a loudhailer, before shouting 'good night' as fireworks exploded around her. Earlier in the day, Sir Rod Stewart was joined by a trio of veteran superstars during a rousing performance in the tea-time legends slot. He played alongside his former Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood, Simply Red's Mick Hucknall and Scottish singer Lulu. He was also joined by the festival's founder, Sir Michael Eavis, who was wheeled on to the stage by his daughter, organiser Emily Eavis. Hucknall, 65, was welcomed on stage for a rendition of Simply Red hit If You Don't Know Me By Now. Rolling back the years, Sir Rod then performed the Faces' 1971 hit Stay With Me while Rolling Stones star Wood, 78, played guitar. Lulu then made her entrance, wearing an all-white ensemble, to sing Hot Legs alongside Sir Rod and Wood. Bagpipes had signalled the arrival of Sir Rod, who kicked off his afternoon performance with his 1981 single, Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me). 'I'm here, enjoy yourselves ladies and gentleman please, music brings us together, we need music,' he told the crowd. The 80-year-old, who recently cancelled a series of shows while recovering from flu, wore flared trousers, a white shirt and a black jacket, before changing into a green suit. He played songs including Some Guys Have All The Luck, Forever Young, The First Cut Is The Deepest, and Maggie May, which he performed from a runway jutting out into the crowd. Ukrainian flags were shown on a screen behind Sir Rod, who said: 'There's been a lot about the Middle East recently, quite rightly so, but I want to draw your attention to Ukraine in the next song, it's called the Love Train.' The singer also sang I'd Rather Go Blind, which he first performed in the 1970s with the Faces, which he said he had learned from late Fleetwood Mac singer Christine McVie, who the song was dedicated to. During Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? Sir Rod's backing singers kicked footballs into the crowd in reference to the singer's famous Top Of The Pops appearance in 1971. Sir Rod donned a captain's hat to finish with Sailing, while his dancers wore the shirt of Celtic FC, while the back of his own shirt featured the team's name.
