Glastonbury Festival 2009
Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2009Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£175 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 150,000
Last updated: Tue 2nd Jun 2009
White Lies draw the first big draw of the day on the soggy Other stage. Disappoint they did not. In the space of just 8 months they have gone from being the new kids on the indie block supporting the seemingly old already indie darlings Glasvegas on their first major tour, yet a glance in this month's music press will see full page ads for their own forthcoming, almost, arena headlining tour.
This is their first of three gigs the band are doing at the festival this weekend & even the sun shows us its first glimpse of the day which puts a smile on everyone's faces, even with the depressing sarcastic lyrics about death being todays soundtrack by White Lies.
Opening up with 'To Lose My Life' gets a rapturous reception & already a large number of the crowd are singing the words back at the band, which they genuinely look stunned by. Say Goodbye To The Fairground sounds great too with the crowd joining in with the chorus.
Harry McVeigh then tells us "We've learned this song not just for you, but also for The Boss!" As the band gets into an ambitious cover version of 'Dancing in the Dark' with their bass heavy sound is really good & different to the original, which they pull off with ease to the hugely gathered other stage audience.
'Unfinished Business', 'Fifty On Our Foreheads' & 'The Price of Love' follow rapidly. Final song 'Death' literally has the crowd willing to do anything McVeigh tells them & manages to get the majority of the crowd clapping along.
The new indie darlings??? Yup but White Lies are surely to become main stream fodder, watch out for a Pyramid slot next year.
review by: Gary Stafford
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