Wolf Alice review, Glastonbury 2022: Rock band call on their reserves after almost missing Pyramid Stage set
The IndependentSign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The north London quartet very nearly didn’t make it to Worthy Farm, though: their flight from LAX was cancelled yesterday after a bomb scare, prompting Rowsell to tweet, “Has anyone got a private jet in LA?” Luckily, they managed to get a flight to Seattle, then on to London. “Smile”, with its crunching guitars and Rowsell’s almost rap-like delivery, is the defibrillator to rouse the crowd from a mid-afternoon lull. There’s room, too, for the claustrophobic “Silk”, in which Rowsell tells us “my loving kills me slowly”, and “The Last Man on Earth”, during which Rowsell sits at the front of the stage, again flexing those vocals over twinkling pianos. As they finish with a startlingly beautiful rendition of “Don’t Delete the Kisses”, from their second album Visions of a Life, it’s clear that the future of guitar music is in safe hands.
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